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Ignorance is Bliss

November 17th, 2008 · No Comments

I’m miserable.
Or so I’ve been told, at least.

Sharing their misery
John Wallace
It is tragic that there are people who apparently have no hope and are so hollow inside that they will spend huge amounts of money to spread their misery to others (”Atheist group spreads word on billboards,” Nov. 12). I guess it makes them feel [...]

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Tags: Miscellaneous · Religious Nuts · Separation of Church and State

Retards for Palin

October 31st, 2008 · No Comments

Q. What Broomfield, CO resident has no fucking idea what he’s talking about? Answer: Charles W. Wooten.
From the Rocky Mountain News’ Letters to the Editor, we get this parade of ignorance:

Palin better qualified than Obama, Biden
Charles W. Wooten, Broomfield
Questions regarding the national security of the United States and the foreign policy expertise of Republican vice [...]

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Tags: Belief · Flickr · Politics · Religious Fiction

It’s Pronounced “Impaled”

September 2nd, 2008 · 1 Comment

Usually, the letters to the editor in the Rocky Mountain News are of a relatively vapid quality. And then, on occasion, we get crap like this:

Nightmare for Dems
Jim Schwartz, Centennial
The Democrats’ worst presidential election nightmare has occurred: They have been im-Palin-ed with John McCain’s vice presidential choice.

What the fuck?
Who on the Rocky’s editorial staff thinks [...]

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Tags: Miscellaneous

The Declaration, the “Creator,” and “Nature’s God”

July 10th, 2008 · No Comments

Previously I took some time to look at the Declaration of Independence and its status as a legal, binding document for America. In briefly addressing Jefferson’s use of “the Creator” and “Nature’s God” in the Declaration, I wrote this:

Yet the Declaration’s language of “Nature’s God” and the “Creator”—tenuously religious terms of 18th Century Deists, skeptical [...]

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Tags: Politics