If our political age says anything: any step of human progress is open to renewed debate and possible repeal. I am expecting child labor laws, slavery, and the wheel to be back on the table any day now. And if we no longer have tables then the middle of our communal fire pit.
A few picked cherries would amount to more than the content of your brain, with all respect due. I think Jesus existed. If he's somehow paying any attention at all to you, which is highly unlikely, he would be appalled. In my humble opinion.
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Any kind of attention Cruz gets that isn't about his tax plan is probably good news for him. http://www.vox.com/2015/12/8/9866726/ted-cruz-electability
That is downright feudal right there, no matter what else is in his tax plan. That is totally regressive -- it's peasants versus castle-dwellers. "Watch out" indeed.
btw, I love how strict constitutionalists such as Ted Cruz will stomp all over the Constitution when it is politically convenient...
You're right, I did fail to mention the part about his tax plan that would bankrupt the federal government, good call.
Everyone on this board is armed with the fact that you are an idiot. Did you ever figure out what "per Capita" meant or are you still struggling.
Good thing VOX is completely incorrect. Next time at least try to link to an actual piece of journalism, not this trash.
Nice try. Has the hate really swelled your brain that badly. States rights? Or did I miss something that gave the federal government that power?
Heh. Well, Deckard, my friend… …in the interests of being nice (even here, where such decorum is mostly frowned upon and seldom effective or beneficial)…. …I’ll say that I think Jesus of Nazareth would have been a pretty nice guy to hang out with, all things being equal. He kind of understood that people were people, by and large, and in spite of themselves, they often were really doing their best to be good people. The problem, as Jesus would often say and infer, was just exactly what constituted “good” in the minds of most people. My mother had me read the entire King James Bible (from Genesis to Revelation) when I was about 13 years old. It was one of the ways she stumbled upon to sate my hunger for knowledge, and curb my disposition toward a lot of tactless (but often correct) …”fact-checking”…is what I guess it would be called today…. From time to time, I would ask my mother a question or two about something I’d read…but instead of giving me the factory answer, often she would ask me what I thought about what I’d read. She was making sure I’d notice context as much as anything else, even if she never said it. And to be perfectly honest about it, she expected me to know some things that she did not because I was getting more of a formal education than she had ever been afforded, and respected that more than just about anything. …the biggest thing I remember asking her once was why Jesus’ birthday was in December. I told her I learned in science (probably from some blamed, God-less, worthless liberal teacher) that according to some star charts, the “Star of Bethlehem” Jesus was born under was the planet Jupiter under what astrologers call a heliacal rising…(and can read a little about it here). …long story short…this event probably happened between April 16, 6 B.C. and December 19, 6 B.C…and Jesus would have been at least a few months (if not a year or more) old, by the time he may have been visited by “…wise men from the east…” (who were possibly Islamic, of all things)… …and Jesus was probably older than his canonical 33 years by as much as 8 years…which would have made him very close to an elderly man for his time. Greco-Roman calendars are great for that sort of timekeeping short-hand… Not that any of those things matter (or SHOULD matter), if you’re looking to legitimize anything about “religion” or “faith” through historical and factual lenses…but see, that’s the problem…the thought that history and myth are reconcilable…particularly for anything ascribed to antiquity. That's probably the greater, more insidious danger I find with someone like Ken Ham (who is an educated man)...trying to somehow make time and space fit his beliefs...I mean, even that new Disney movie gives a better explanation of why there might have been people walking around with dinosaurs than his "museum" does.... She never answered me, by the way...but she did ask me..."...well boy, if all that is true...do it matter any to what you believe?.." It’s pretty easy to “cherry-pick” what you want or expect to be true when your notions of truth are preconceived. And in the case of Jesus of Nazareth, and who or what gets to “cherry-pick” what he said or did…well… …I’ve been told by Christian religious authorities on several occasions (Pastors, Reverends, Bishops…you name it) that all reference or intent of God’s plan for mankind’s “salvation”…from Genesis to Revelation…point specifically to Jesus…not simply what he said…but what he did and how he did things (making allowances, of course, for your own personal tolerance for supernatural miracles)... …the shine-on is the miracles, of course…indicative of the same types of litmus tests we ascribe to even today, to legitimize the claims of social and human equity of treatment and regard…and most Christians will tell you today...right now…that God’s “blessings” are directly tied to material wealth and possession… …somehow ret-conning or co-opting the very things Jesus said would not grant anyone “salvation”…turning a message of peace into one of conflict…or a message of aspiring hope into one of compartmentalization… …and thinking all that is o.k. because you have some sort of insider knowledge of how the whole thing is supposed to work. Jesus made mention of something like that in the Gospel of Mark (if anybody’s interested in reading and not cherry-picking any of it)...chapter 10, verses 38-41, if memory serves… …or, if you’re more interested in the Cliff’s Notes: Jesus’ disciples told him about some dude wandering around casting out demons and healing people in Jesus’ name, but he wasn’t part of their group. Jesus told them not to worry about it: if the guy was doing the work, he didn’t need a pedigree. Harkens right back to the Torah, making room for people who lived lives God approved of without any kosher traditionalism hanging over their necks (“God-fearers”, I believe my Jewish brothers call those folks)… I only mention the Gospel of Mark by name because it’s historically the oldest of the four canonical Gospels (written about A.D. 75, at the earliest)…and makes no mention of a “virgin birth” or miraculous ascension into Heaven by Jesus after his death…the linchpins to Jesus’ “divinity” (and Christian belief in him as pre-existant Son of God) like the other subsequent gospels do... …but the persistent idea is that what’s supposed to be important (to Christians) is how Jesus lived…and not how he died or whether or not there was a divine purpose in his dying or anything that gives us a reason or excuse to look the other way or down our noses at somebody else. I guess cherry-picking’s not so hard for anybody to do…but calling dibs on the fields or pastures is pretty lame…
