I AM (the actual real God)

While obvious on one level, the powerful simplicity illuminated by this article is capable of building a single, compelling message against Republicons whose agenda is so fraught with multiple atrocities, that a one message response becomes obscured.

Successful opposition needs to be unified opposition. But Blue voters legitimately have many crucial causes to champion. Focus on any one tends to reduce focus on others. The resentments fracture us. Pain and calamity respond poorly to any necessary level of patience we can ill afford. Those resentments break our unity, and then Republicons win elections. Democratic “messaging” is dissected and found lacking.

The multiple imperative issues raised by Republicon goals are so divisive, they successfully divide opposition to them, as each and every theme is so crucially necessary to oppose. And then political pundits tell Democrats that they can’t just run on not being Republicons, and yet Republicons at this point represent every stance that Democrats must oppose, and Republicons hold more power.

It may turn out that every divisive Republicon agenda can in fact be resisted under one unified banner.

A core Republicon motif in ascendancy right now: Racism. Xenophobia. Hatred and fear given justification. Intolerance asking for tolerance. Republicon hypocrisy fear mongering about Democratic “identity politics” as divisive, to mask the central division of Republicon supported white Christian male dominance against everyone else. The confounding strangeness that this is an agenda furthered by conservative women and even conservative Latinos, blacks, Jews, non-heterosexuals, and others, for various convoluted reasons.

But then, there is this:

White supremacy – an inherent supremacy of whites – is a lie.

Inherent male supremacy is a lie.

And who knows – not faithfully believes, but knows, what is truth, or not, about any religion…but Christian political dominion in this country is a lie. That is especially true for the minority, upstart, wealthy, amoral, bastardized political-religiosity of Evangelical Christians.

Then there is the constant core of Republicon agenda: money. Wealth consolidated in the hands of the few. Republicon attacks on the grounds of “class warfare,” as if the obscenely, incomprehensibly wealthy are suffering when others object. Republicon manipulation of dark money and invisible, privacy-protected donors. “Corporations are people too,” with, coincidentally, millions of resources beyond those citizens who indisputably are people. People who have not achieved some certain level of wealth as undeserving of retirement other than death, or undeserving of healthcare, shelter, food, water, justice, freedom, and habitable specks of territory on the planet.

But then, there is this:

Wealth as the only human “value” is a lie.

Owners, shareholders, and employers deserving hundreds of thousands, and millions, and billions, more in remuneration than all the workers who do the work, that too is a lie.

Of course, a central prop of Republicons, conservative media, is built on foundations of crass manipulations and lies.

In a society with laws against murder, “manslaughter,” and wrongful death, it is a lie to allow anyone to own and carry guns without reasonable regulation and restrictions.

In our system of law and justice, it is a lie to allow private entities to incarcerate others to make profits running privatized prisons. “Law and order” enforcing injustices based on poverty, or race, is inherently a lie.

Climate change denial is a lie.

The pattern should be evident. The message opposing Republicon agendas and the party itself can become evident too. No one wants to be the fools who get lied to. It is always simply a matter of reaching that understanding that causes hard feelings about that situation. How much more powerful those feelings, when the understanding reached about those lies is true – when it is understanding based on truth?

There is no one outside the Republicon Party who has not noted their lies and their attacks on truth, which have culminated with trump in the White House. And trump in the White House, as well as his entire administration, have exponentially increased not just the lies, but also the indifference to any credibility. The Republicons attack even the foundations of our human search for truth, such as education, and science, and Newt Gingrich’s and Mitch McConnell’s rejection of debate and discussion.

Humans want truth. If they can’t find it, they’ll make it up, and yet despite the damage done by Republicons, most people in this country do believe in the idea of truth itself.

Already, as with HR 1, there is Democratic messaging in favor of justice, and ethical government, and against corruption, against tainting and suppressing fair and open elections.

But as a Christian my self, I have no problem with your beliefs. But I do as that you either attack all religions equally or at the least, stop using the Christianity tag. That would be all. God bless you and have a wonderful day.

No.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Whataboutism

https://rationalwiki.org/wiki/Whataboutism

Why on Earth would you think that I should be expected to post about all religions “equally”? Do you expect to see equal distribution and representation of all religions on TV? So why is it you expect it to be different when it comes to criticism?

I guess you don’t believe in the Ten Commandments, then. Or the Creation story. Adam and Eve - gone. Original Sin - buhbye. Which unravels the entire premise of Jesus, and thus Xtianity itself. It’s funny how unaware you are about what people from your religion do, given that Old Testament creation mythology is regularly proposed to be taught alongside legitimate scientific study like physics, evolution and chemistry. And it’s trotted out to justify bigotry like opposing marriage equality. Like, all the time.

The Old Testament is still a core component of Xtianity. If you ignore it, you ignore its foundation. Real good Xtianing there. But are you completely unaware that the Old Testament also underpins both Judaism and Islam? Do you or do you not want the criticism spread around to other religions? Because you’re being super-inconsistent here.

Have you ever even actually read the bible. I mean, cover to cover, every page? Or are you just following along with someone else’s idea of what it’s all about? Do you even know what’s inside it? Because more than 50% of Xtians have not read their own book.

By the way, this is what it says about slavery in the New Testament:

Colossians 3:22

Slaves, obey your earthly masters in everything; and do it, not only when their eye is on you and to curry their favor, but with sincerity of heart and reverence for the Lord.

1 Peter 2:18

Slaves, in reverent fear of God submit yourselves to your masters, not only to those who are good and considerate, but also to those who are harsh.

This is what Jesus says in the New Testament (well, natch) about people deserving their ailments:

John 5:14

Later Jesus found him at the temple and said to him, “See, you are well again. Stop sinning or something worse may happen to you.”

This is what Jesus says about peace:

Matthew 10:34-36

Think not that I am come to send peace on earth: I came not to send peace, but a sword. For I am come to set a man at variance against his father, and the daughter against her mother, and the daughter in law against her mother in law. And a man’s foes shall be they of his own household.

And this is what Jesus says about the Old Testament (the old Jewish Law) still applying:

Matthew 5:17-18

Think not that I am come to destroy the law, or the prophets: I am not come to destroy, but to fulfil. For verily I say unto you, Till heaven and earth pass, one jot or one tittle shall in no wise pass from the law, till all be fulfilled.

What special arrogance made you think it was okay to police a Tumblr tag? Just because its relevance was inconvenient to you? Somehow, you genuinely expected, not only that you were entitled to, but that I would just comply. Wow. As far as I can tell, I was in the tag long before your account ever existed, so quite frankly, I’d really prefer it if you got out of my tag, honey. You trespassing.

Of course, you could always pray for me to stop. Do that, and let’s see what happens.

Which day was that? Oh, and which god? Zeus, wasn’t it? Or Ba’al? No, Quetzalcoatl, it was Quetzalcoatl.

1. Proof of God: The Law of Cause and Effect. This law of science states that every cause has its effect and every effect has its cause. This law is the basis of all science. As such, this law bears a relationship to the origin of the heavens and the earth. In fact, scientists agree that the universe has not existed forever, that it had a beginning at some point in time. The theory of relativity, which is almost universally accepted among scientists, has certain implications for this Law of Cause and Effect. One is that the universe, defined as time, space, matter, and physical energy had a beginning, that it is not eternal. And it is through Einstein’s equations that scientists can trace the development of the universe back to its very origin, back to what is called the “singularity event” when it actually came into being. Science has proven that the universe really did have a beginning. This means that if the universe had a starting point in history, then it obviously began to exist, and it must have a cause for its existence. Therefore, if the universe needs a cause for its coming into being, then that cause must be beyond the universe—which is time, space, matter, and physical energy. That cause must be something similar to what Christians call “God.” Even Richard Dawkins, probably the most prominent proponent for atheism in our time, admitted in a TIME magazine article that “there could be something incredibly grand and incomprehensible and beyond our present understanding.” Yes, and that is God!

https://www.gotquestions.org/proof-of-God.html

https://rationalwiki.org/wiki/Argument_from_first_cause

You haven’t even demonstrated that a cause is necessary. You also made a composite fallacy, assuming that what applies to the individual applies to the collective. Every individual human has a mother and father. That doesn’t mean a football team itself has a mother and father.

So, what caused your god? And if you say it doesn’t need a cause, then neither does the universe. Special Pleading gets you nowhere, except to Intellectual Dishonesty Jail.

Quoting a nonsense science-illiterate Creationist site is not proof. It’s just proof you’re gullible. Why not find a legitimate scientific resource, say a Natural History Museum or a Physics Institute, that supports your hypothesis.

It also doesn’t get to your god. It also supports a Universe-Creating Machine by the Trans-Universal Aliens. And the Flying Spaghetti Monster (SBUH). You don’t get to just slot one of humanity’s “god” myths in to fill the space.

That cause must be something similar to what Christians call “God.”

You’re supposed to be trying to prove the existence of a god in the first place - you can’t use the assumption of a god to prove the existence of one. How on Earth did they manage to identify the properties of this supposed unknown force - specifically, being “similar” - without access to that force? That’s irrational and fallacious. It literally just loops back around and asserts a god must exist because a god exists.

You can’t prove a god by argument, because that argument doesn’t reveal the properties of any solution, only a possible one - which competes with thousands of other possible ones, as well as “none.” We know, for example, via Quantum Mechanics - the same Scientific Theory that enables us to produce computers - that mass can come from nothing, because 1 + (-1) = 0 and quantum states are not static.

The only proof is by evidence. If your god is “true,” then why won’t you supply the evidence, instead of popping out easily debunked apologetics? Is it because there is none?

So, again, no.

I’m so sick of the Christian right illiterate, trying to convince me that the American government was founded by devout Christians so we should adhere to Christian values.

This argument is so fucking stupid it makes the hair on the back of my neck stand up. So let’s make this clear in two debates.

Let’s assume just for one second that it’s true. That they were Christians and that they founded America, and the Constitution on Christian values.

That was over two hundred years ago and we have disproved all of the historical claims of the Christian bible using Science, so it would stand to reason that our value system wouldn’t hinge on something proven to be false 200 years later. This is just like the church refusing to acknowledge that the earth rotates around the sun. What if everyone had abandoned science then and just agreed with what the Christians said?

The Founding fathers were very clear in the Constitution on the Separation of Church and State. This was not to protect the church this was to protect a secular government from being manipulated and overrun by the church as it had been before countless times throughout actual proven history.

Debate two. The Founding fathers were made up heavily of Masons and the Masonic religion isn’t Christian it’s deisim.

Many of the founding fathers were Masons who’s faith is clouded in mystery but is definitely not Christianity. So the morals and values of the United States were actually based on the Masons and Deism, Christianity was an afterthought or side note.

So listen up Republicans. Your voting and attitudes are bad for the country, bad for the planet, and bad for human existence as a whole. You believe that noting you do matters in the long run because your imaginary God is going to swoop out of the sky and whisk you away to heaven after you’ve destroyed everything.

All white men are racist then you must conclude that every single person on the planet is racist. In fact saying that every white man is racist….. is racist.

So let’s talk about it.

I’m a “white” man, actually to be precise if I trace my lineage I´m an Italian/German/Cherokee/African. Ya.. figure that shit out. And to be 100% clear I am not a racist.

I even look a little like a racist, I have a beard, live in Florida, stand with my shoulders back with my square chin high, but I’m not a racist. In fact if the fascist monsters come, I’ll be the first man on the front line in defiance with Americans of any color.

Skin is a ridiculous thing to base a relationship on. I might not like you because you deserve to be unliked, but I won’t form any opinion on you based on your skin tone.

I just read an article written by a black man that was about a white woman crossing to the other side of the street rather then walking closely to him and his group of friends. My very first reaction was, what a bitch. But as I read on the writers slant was so obviously racist itself that I started to picture a black woman walking into a group of skin head, neo Nazis. And the conclusion in my mind is that the woman may be a racist, we’ll never know, but more likely it wasn’t fear of skin color, as much as fear of racists.

Racists are fucking scary regardless of which race they come from and fear of people if they appear to be racist is self preservation and can’t or shouldn’t be used as an example of the other race being racist.

That said I think it’s a normal reaction when walking toward a group of people to evaluate your personal safety level. The white woman in the story may have crossed the road because it was a group of men regardless of color and she didn’t feel safe, we’ll never know.

I’m not a racist. But I’m not offended if you say I am, because I understand that you have fear. I’m not a racist and I’m not offended if you cross the road when you see me coming. I’m not a racist but I may cross the road if I see a group of teenage boys that look unsafe to me regardless of color, and that still doesn’t make me a racist.

Do I fully understand the struggle of a race other then white. No I don’t. I do have black and Hispanic, friends that are as close to me as family, and I learn from them, and I try to stand in their shoes, though their stories, and I see no human difference in us.

I’ve been really trying to see past your president and see you without the anger I feel for your party. It’s hard not to put this on you, really hard, because without you this hate, not just the country´s, but my own wouldn’t exist. But this is the conclusion I’ve come to.

You are weak people, afraid of everything. You are religious people who are too cowardly to face the real world without need of an imaginary friend to carry you. You are afraid of other races because you don’t have enough confidence in yourself to succeed in the face of competition. You are greedy people who are terrified of living without safety nets. You are gun owners, afraid that everyone wants to attack you, so you feel an enormous need to protect yourself. You are sad and afraid and like children who need a strong parent to console them.

So I get it. Cowards always react in irrational and often dangerous ways. You run and hide or lash out. Your fight or flight is always on.

I’m learning to pity you instead of hate you. I’m learning that to save you from yourselves, I must be the bigger man and invite you to shelter under my confidence.

You closed minded bed-welters believe you know what a Nazi is because you read a book, or some low-dollar professor at a community college taught you? What a joke.

When real Nazis show up, you liberal pukes will be the first to bow your heads. Quick to turn your neighbors over to them in order to save your own hide.

People like you are always the weak. You’re the bullies that cry to the teacher when the kids you’ve been bullying stand up to you and beat your ass. The first to shit their pants in a conflict.

You’d better think this through to its logical conclusion. Because you keep using this word, calling good folks that merely disagree with you politically a Nazi… your time is coming, and it might not turn out the way you believe it will turn out.

@freekentuckythinker

Conservatives on thee other hand don’t need to think outside of the box because they were never in the box. We embrace individuality because we are all individuals. That does not mean that we subscribe to perversions just in order to get noticed. We know how to have fun without destroying anyone else’s right to also have fun. We accept defeat because we have experienced defeat. We have not been coddled and protected from the real world.

You offer of being a daddy figure proves that you believe that you are right and everyone else is wrong. Not interested. We are conservatives, we come from real families where there is a mother and a father. We believe in a higher being because we admit that we are not perfect or infallible. We accept our short comings and try to improve.

We don’t count on the government to provide for us because we know that everything that is given free to one person was earned by another. We don’t scream about needing protection provided by police while simultaneously participating in marches calling for the murder of those same police. Yes we do have guns, yes we do believe it is a god given right to protect ourselves and yes we will kill you if you try to take them.