The American Citizens Message to The Pope: Shut the Fuck Up.

Pope tells Nancy Pelosi life must be protected

VATICAN CITY – Pope Benedict XVI received Nancy Pelosi, one of the most prominent abortion rights politicians in America, and told her Wednesday that Catholic politicians have a duty to protect life “at all stages of its development.” The U.S. House speaker, a Catholic, was the first top Democrat to meet with Benedict since the election of Barack Obama, who won a majority of the U.S. Catholic vote despite differences with the Vatican on abortion.

Here is the link for the rest of the article.

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20090219/ap_on_re_eu/eu_vatican_us_pelosi

Let me see if I understand this. The leader of the Catholic Church tells one of the most prominent political leaders in the United States, “politicians have a duty to protect life “at all stages of its development” an obvious anti abortion, or in politically correct speak, ”pro life” statement.

I don’t know where this pro life/pro choice language came from. My guess is that people favoring abortion try to soft sell and put a positive spin on killing babies by calling it pro choice, like choosing your favorite color or your favorite pizza, except you are choosing to kill your baby. Hey we can’t let such a major inconvenience like a baby interfere with your social schedule and your penchant for random, casual unprotected sex.

Back to the Pope/Pelosi bullshit.

The article states “Still, a number of bishops in the United States have questioned Pelosi’s stance on abortion, particularly her theological defense of her support for abortion rights.” Pelosi is pro abortion. She disagrees with the Pope on this issue and is not likely to change her mind.

The real issue here is the Popes statements that “Catholic politicians have a duty to protect life”.

Sorry, asshole.  American politicians have a sworn duty to do the biding of their constituents, not the fucking Pope. This flies in the face of the Constitutional principle of separation of church and state. Religion has long been trying to poke holes in this principle in order to gain some control over the United States government.

For example this gem from the late king of religious assholes, Jerry Falwell: “The idea that religion and politics don’t mix was invented by the Devil to keep Christians from running their own country.”– Rev Jerry Falwell, Sermon, July 4, 1976.

So, Jerry, which “Christians” are you talking about? Catholics. Mormons, Jehovah’s Witnesses? Of course not. The Christians to which Jerry refers to are his brand of Christians. He has publically berated all the above religions. He also said this:

“Billy Graham is the chief servant of Satan.” It’s no secret that Falwell and Billy did not see eye to eye. So to Falwell, Christians are his brand of Christian, which seems pretty narrow. But the real scary quote is this :.”
– Rev Jerry Falwell, quoted Freethought Today, December, 1999, cited by Anthony T. Podestra of People for the American Way in, Dietz and Holden, Satiricon, p 44; quoted from Steve Benson “Latter-Day Saint To Latter-Day Ain’t”; commemorating the “Tell It Like It Is” Freethought In Media Award, presented on November 5, 1999, by the Freedom From Religion Foundation; excerpted by PAM.

What an asshole. I have a question Jerry, who died and put you in charge? Oh, yea, you said no questions. Ah, but who cares what you think because you don’t think as you are already dead. So by now the rest of you body has no doubt turned to shit like your brain when you were living.

So, referring to Falwell’s quote about “no questions”, what exactly does that mean? It means if Falwell is leading you, you better not question him. Falwell is dead, but there are many more fanatical Christian fuck heads who would love to have as much influence on the United States Government as possible and think like falwell.

“Hey, shut up. Give me all your money. I’m going to fuck your wife..and your daughter…and your son….and your dog. You object??? Good Christians, like slaves and soldiers, ask no questions!!! You’re not a good Christian!!!”

The religious asshole parade continues. This asshole, Todd DuBord, senior pastor at Lake Almanor Community Church said this: “I used to believe in ‘a wall of separation between Church and State,’” DuBord wrote in a compilation of his research prepared for his website. “After researching the religion and politics of Thomas Jefferson in the Library of Congress, I now understand that barrier was a gate Jefferson would often pass through.”

The complete article is here:

http://www.worldnetdaily.com/news/article.asp?ARTICLE_ID=54349

DuBord is, of course full of shit. Jefferson, the politician, on several occasions used government support and funds for religious initiative. However, Jefferson was clearly a supporter of the separation of church and state. Giving religion a few Government Dollars didn’t mean Jefferson flipped on the separation issue. DuBord is a moron.

Back to the Pope’s statement, Pelosi’s visit and actions and statements from The Senator from Pennsylvania, Rick Santorum. Santorum is an unapologetic, vocal, active supporter of the Catholic Church and has stated many times that a person should be influenced by his religious beliefs, even politicians and they should vote accordingly.

Again, I say a politician serves his constituents not the Pope, Falwell, Billy Graham, Osama Bin Laden, or any other person or organization. Santorum should be impeached for violating his oath of office.

Why am I yammering on about this? Because religion needs to stay the hell out of the United States Government. Government is secular and needs to stay that way. Look what happened when the Catholics had their turn at influencing governments. They gave us the Crusades and several inquisitions as well as the normal every day oppression and exploitation of the populace.

What do you think Falwell DeBord or any of the other shit heads would do if they got the backing of the Government. The exact same shit.

Personally, I believe abortion is wrong, but as a practical matter, I don’t give a shit. In the past 30 years or so there have been over 40 million abortions performed in the United States alone. Think about that for a moment. People assume that abortions are performed only on lower income woman but in fact the practice is spread across the entire economic spectrum. They may not have economic status and means in common, but the one thing they do have in common is that all these kids were unwanted.

So, had they been born, what impact would 40 million angry, psychologically maladjusted people between the ages of 1 and 30 have on the economy and the social fabric of our society? Would these people be productive? Not likely. They would, as a group be an economic drain. Boy, that would play well in today’s economy. In fact the peasant economic problems would have happened 10 years ago. We’d still be in the shit today.

I don’t know about you but I wouldn’t want 40 million maladjusted psychopaths roaming the country side and lurking in our cities, mugging, murdering and stealing.

Think about this when you protest abortions, holding up signs of these cute little babies. Hitler was a cute little baby too.

Who knows? Maybe that girl you talked out of an abortion will actually have the kid, likely fail miserably as a parent and in 16 years or so the kid will rob your house and steal your big screen. Or better, yet break into the Vatican and steal the Pope’s fish hat. Who dresses that guy anyway? Did Jesus wear a hat like that? It does have a fish on it by the way. At least one of them does.

And by the way, the 16 year old mother that you, the Bible thumping busy body (as in mind your own fucking business) talked out of the abortion turned out not able to handle raising a kid. Now she is a drug dependant crack whore has six cranked out 3 or 4 more bundles of joy, all charter members of the FFA, Future Felons of America.

Religion fucks up everything it touches.

Faith and Mickey Mouse

From Reuters, December 19, 1996:

“Hundreds flock to Virgin apparition on office tower”

CLEARWATER, Florida (Reuter) – Hundreds of people converged on Clearwater Wednesday to see what they believe is a vision of the Virgin Mary on an office building.

“God is giving us a sign,” said Sister Martin, a nun of the Order of Saint Anne in Bangalore, India.

“The image, two floors high, first emerged last Thursday on the tinted windows of a finance company office. It glows and shimmers, turning from green to blue, to red, and there is a distinct outline of a head, a hooded robe and most of a torso.”

“Skeptics say it is caused by the sun reflecting off water left by sprinklers. But others believe it is a true miracle.”

“God is telling us it is time to change our ways,” said Sister Christian of the same order. “(It) looks exactly like all the paintings of the Blessed Mother

And we also have this from CBS News, April 20, 2005:

“Faithful See Image Of Virgin Mary “

“Stain On Wall Of Chicago Underpass Believed To Be Image Of Mary”

CHICAGO, April 20, 2005

“A steady stream of the faithful and the curious, many carrying flowers and candles, have flocked to an expressway underpass for a view of a yellow and white stain on a concrete wall that some believe is an image of the Virgin Mary”.

“Police have patrolled the emergency turnoff area under the Kennedy Expressway since Monday as hundreds of people have walked down to see the image and the growing memorial of flowers and candles that surround it. Beside the image is an artist’s rendering of the Virgin Mary embracing Pope John Paul II in a pose some see echoed in the stain.”

“We believe it’s a miracle,” said Elbia Tello, 42. “We have faith, and we can see her face.”

So are we to believe that God is communicating with us via stains on a window and a concrete wall? The belief in the Virgin Mary is basically a Catholic belief, so is this validating Catholicism? If so, than is this saying all other Religions are false? After all, Pope Benedict XVI reasserted the universal primacy of the Roman Catholic Church, approving a document that says Orthodox churches were defective and that other Christian denominations were not true churches. I guess all you Baptist, Protestants, Jehovah’s Witnesses and other Christians got your collective faiths trumped by a stain. Somehow, I find that fitting.

This whole fiasco reminds me of when you were a kid and you laid down on the lawn and stared at the cloud. After a while they would take on the form of a ship, a dog, whatever you could imagine. Aside from the fact that there is no proof that Mary even existed, there is no doubt that the images in question look like renderings of the Virgin Mary. Since we have no photos of Mary, we only have artist’s conceptions of what she might have looked like, so the best we can say is that they resemble an artist conception. It’s a safe bet that if you looked at stains on windows and concrete all day you could find numerous images of people and things.

Random coincidental images that appear to look like an artist conception is really thin. But the really sad part is the reaction from thousands of people. These incidents illustrates several pertinent facts.

First, people will believe really unreasonable stuff, particularly if it supports their already existing faith. In the Bible, God spoke directly to many people. He supposedly perfomed or caused to be performed many miracles, witnessed by thousands. So now he has reduced his communication to stains on walls and windows?

When were we notified that he changed his methods? Oh yea, in the Bible, when it says that the real cool, very convincing miracles would cease. That’s real convenient.The Bible writers relate these fabulous, supernatural events, witnessed by thousands and we get stains. Why? Because there is not a shread of evidence that the events in the Bible actually happened. Perhaps there was a stain on a rock that looked like the Red Sea parting and someone ran with it. I can’t prove that happened and you can’t prove it didn’t.

Also, people will seize on these incidents as proof of their faith because it is the only thing resembling a fact and they are thirsting for any tangible proof of their faith, any “miracle”.

Religion is so short on facts, the faithful have to resort to “divine” random occurring stains to bolster their beliefs.

It’s sad when grown, intelligent normally reasonable people will seize on and venerate a stain. It’s past sad. It’s pathetic.

But the most apparent and perhaps the most significant fact of all is that people would be highly receptive to an appearance by God himself. The window and concrete stains were obvious random occurring phenomena, not a sign from God. The significant point is people’s reaction. The faithful have never seen substantial, factual proof of their faith and to many, here it was.

Where is God? Does this not prove that should God appear to the human race and speak a few words, he could stop a lot of suffering and answer a lot of burning questions that would put the question of his existence to rest? If he appeared every generation or so, life here on earth would be vastly different. We humans have short attention spans, so say every thirty years or so, God could put in an appearance. He could give us the basic rules to live by in one or two pages, not cryptically woven into a book that by its very nature invites thousands of interpretations. Certainly life would be much better. It would clear up a lot of questions.

“Sure I believe in God! I saw him in 1958 and than in 1988. Everyone believes in God”

I believe an awe inspiring appearance by the Creator would a good thing.

Still haven’t seen Him. It doesn’t prove or disprove his existence. I’m a Deist. I believe in intelligent design, call it God or whatever. It’s a conclusion I’ve come to from observing nature. Not everyone shares my view. I don’t have the answers, just questions. Apparently, the entity that has all the answers and who could easily settle all this controversy, prefers not to.

Those professing faith will seize on proof of their faith, no matter how thin, no matter how unreasonable, no matter how just plain silly. It’s really sad. Not because these people believe that a water stain on a window is a sign from God.

It’s sad because it isn’t a sign from God. These people are desperate for divine guidance and they get none.

Instead, their urge to believe gets manipulated and exploited by Organized Religion.

If naturally occurring images are God’s way of communicating with us than we might want to look into the religious significance of Mickey Mouse.

Disney collects and catalogs unusual natural occurrences of Mickey that appear on everything from a cow to a potato. In fact, there are far more documented instances of Mickey images than of The Virgin Mary. Maybe we ought to look into this Mickey thing.

Maybe we’re missing God’s real message.