the pledge is unconstitutional!

“AM I ON CANDID CAMERA?”

“oh.

so you're a lab tech for a pharm. R&D company or something ?”

“I'm an underpaid Research A$$ for a Company.”

“I'm sorry, I misspoke. I should have asked why did god wait 10,000 years to make his religion dominate?

He let all of these heathens worship other gods for centuries, then put a stop to it?

Nope, no way. Religion is made up by man to lay rules down, pure and simple.”

“they recently discovered that cancer is hereditary in white mice...”

“i'm an overpaid TT consultant :)”

“Then you must make more, can I get in on the action?”

“sure, you just have to post a little bit more often - not alot, just a tiny bit more.”

“I'll get on it....soon.....I hope..”

“laqtis, God is spirit. In the reference to being created in His image, it is not in the physical sense, but in the sense that we know right from wrong, good from evil, and can reason and make choices and choose our own destiny. He gave us responsbility and authority and the ability to create and destroy. Genesis says that God created man in "His" own image, male and "female" He created them. If we were just talking physical, how can God create both man and woman in "His" physical likeness? God is omnipotence, omnipresence, and omniscience. That would be tough to be if He was 6' feet tall and had two arms, two legs, two eyes, and had to take a piss every couple hours.”

“You guys haven't proved that God does/doesn't exist YET?

What a bunch of slackers.”

“".....choose our own destiny..."

Cool, what do we need the goddewd for?”

“The Babel Fish proves God does not exist. Everyone knows that.”

“don't panic.”

“Unless you forgot your towel.”

“What the wook is the Babel Fish?”

“A Babel fish is a highly improbable biological universal translator. It appears as a "small, yellow and leechlike" fish. When a Babel fish is inserted into the ear canal it allows the 'wearer' to "instantly understand anything said... in any form of language."

This proves Gods nonexistence

God:"I refuse to prove that I exist," says God, "for proof denies faith, and without faith I am nothing."

"But," says Man, "the Babel fish is a dead giveaway isn't it? It could not have evolved by chance. It proves that you exist, and so therefore, by your own arguments, you don't. Q.E.D.."

"Oh dear," says God, "I hadn't thought of that," and promptly vanishes in a puff of logic.

"Oh, that was easy," says Man, and for an encore goes on to prove that black is white and gets himself killed on the next zebra”

“Buck - Here's one of the major flaws in your religion:

Your wrong. That's not the way I see it. I see your God talking about creating a being that was just like him in every way; he was lonely and wanted someone to talk to and something to do.


Now, seeing that this is the way I see it, you cannot prove me wrong. What ever it means to me is what it is and that's it. If I get enough people to agree with the way I see it, I form a church and bam, I have a flock to tend.

This religion is boarderline genius, as it can be a thousand different way to a million different people. There are a set of rules, through both convents, that govern your life, but after that, there is nothing else concrete about it. Just stories to promote the moral rules to keep people in line.

Once you get beyond the smoke and haze of organized religion, you will noticed that ALL religions are there for a couple of main reasons, one being keeping the general population in line. That's one of the main reason Humans came up with the concept. The other is to explain the unexplainable, due to a lack of scientific explaination.

I don't mean, or want to for that matter, piss on amyone's religion. I would just like to see people start evolving past this unimportant part of our civilization. It has promoted too many bad things in time; cause more hassles than it's solved.”

“I always say "one nation, under Buddha..."”

“Ha!


Geez, Marko... I think the Magnet Dude was waiting for ya that time, LOL --

6 minute response time....”

“Rehnquist lashes out against bashers of `judicial activists'

By David G. Savage Tribune Newspapers: Los Angeles Times

Ailing Chief Justice William Rehnquist said in a report released Saturday that judges must be protected from political threats, including from conservative Republicans who maintain that "judicial activists" should be impeached and removed from office.

"The Constitution protects judicial independence not to benefit judges, but to promote the rule of law: Judges are expected to administer the law fairly, without regard to public reaction," the chief justice, whose future on the bench is subject to wide speculation, said in his year-end report on the federal courts.

The public, the news media and politicians certainly are free to criticize judges, Rehnquist said, but politicians cross the line when they try to punish or impeach those making rulings they do not agree with.
[...]
Since 2000, when Republicans took control of the White House and both houses of Congress, many conservative critics have focused their ire on "judicial activists" on the bench.

In his report, the chief justice did not name names but instead spoke of his concern for the "mounting criticism of judges for engaging in what is often referred to as `judicial activism."'
[...]
"A judge's judicial acts may not serve as a basis for impeachment. Any other rule would destroy judicial independence," Rehnquist said. "Instead of trying to apply the law fairly, regardless of public opinion, judges would be concerned about inflaming any group that might be able to muster the votes in Congress to impeach and convict them."
[...]
"The appellate process provides a remedy" for those who believe a judge has erred, he said.

And over time, the public can change the courts, he said, by electing presidents and senators who reflect their views.
[...]”

“Damn, that's a good statement. The fact that it is coming from Rehnquist adds something to it.”

“It won't stop the wingnuts though.”

“Hey, if judges should be protected from political threat, can't politicians be protected from judicial threat? They're both balancing powers in this act called Democracy. If politicians, who represent the people of America, can't complain about ridiculous activist judges, then why is a judge complaining about the ridiculous politicians? Anyway, I hafta fart. *poof*”

“QED”