Reply to: Something to cheer me up

[hattra]

With all the recent bad news (terrorism, self styled atheists running rampant, the proliferation of pornographers and evildoers) I am always glad when good news drops into my inbox. Fantastic news

Only 4% of Indians are Christian? Not doing too well considering Christianity got to India before it got to Europe (approx 52 AD) in the shape of Saint Thomas, who if you recall, Chico, was personally acquinted with the Christ.

A bit presumptious to think that Billy Graham is going to do better, even with a liberal helping of pasta

[Dundeegeorge]

The best thing you can do

for the poor and downtrodden is to ensure that you're not one of them!
Freedom also means the freedom to starve.
Save yourself. No one else is going to and you can't save anyone else anyway. Those that will be clean, clean will they be.

[AlfredJPruffock]

Now this will cheer Chico up even further ...


How can a Christian nation ignore the compassionate teachings of Jesus?

"For I was hungry and you gave me food, I was thirsty and you gave me something to drink, I was a stranger and you welcomed me, I was naked and you gave me clothing, I was sick and you took care of me, I was in prison and you visited me.' Then the righteous will answer him, "Lord, when was it that we saw you hungry and gave you food, or thirsty and gave you something to drink? And when was it that we saw you a stranger and welcomed you, or naked and gave you clothing? And when was it that we saw you sick or in prison and visited you?' And the king will answer them,

"Truly I tell you, just as you did it to one of the least of these who are members of my family, you did it to me.'"





"The beauty of the dream vanished, and breathless horror and disgust filled my heart."
-- Mary Shelley's Victor Frankenstein

Accomplishing a logic-defying feat, the wealthiest nation in the world has "attained" the highest rate of homelessness amongst developed countries. 3.5 million human beings experience homelessness each year in the United States.

Almost a million are homeless every night .

In the most heavily militarized nation in the history of the human race, 30% of its homeless men are military veterans

What happened to "support the troops"? Obviously once military personnel return home, the slogan changes to "good riddance to bad rubbish".

Ready for some "shock and awe" on the home front? According to the National Mental Health Association, "on any given night, 1.2 million children are homeless" in the United States.

And what is one to make of a self-proclaimed Christian nation (overflowing with material resources) that allows such travesties of economic justice to persist?

How can a Christian nation ignore the compassionate teachings of Jesus?


Yes, it is morally and ethically abhorrent that there are indigent, starving, and homeless human beings in a society of people awash in a sea of wealth.

Yet it gets even uglier


It is true that since time immemorial, the wealthy and powerful of human society have exploited and preyed upon the poor and vulnerable. The tendency to abuse power is an inherent aspect of the shadow side of each human being.

A spiritually healthy human being acknowledges their shadow side and integrates it into their being, hence minimizing the shadow's destructive tendencies.

However, when repressed and denied, the shadow side of the human psyche often manifests itself in a variety of violent and malevolent ways. And throughout its history, social, economic, and political forces in the United States have served to nurture the growth of the collective national shadow into a loathsome monstrosity.

What feeds the beast?

Moral superiority has been a critical piece of the argument the United States has used to justify the genocide of the Native Americans, the enslavement of Black Americans, the support of numerous murderous dictators supporting US interests in developing nations, unwavering support for the Palestinian genocide, and the slaughter of millions of civilians in imperial wars waged under the pretext of fighting for freedom and human rights.

People in the United States are psychologically conditioned to believe that their nation is the salvation of humanity and to ignore or destroy evidence to the contrary.

Nearly endless streams of propaganda extolling the virtues of the United States enable large numbers of US Americans to support a ruthless empire because they believe it to be a benevolent superpower.

Aside from people suffering a serious deficit of conscience, those living in a nearly perpetual state of denial are virtually the only ones capable of pledging their loyalty to a nation with a predacious foreign policy and a morally bankrupt economic system.

How else would one explain the corporate media and the Empire's loyal adherents celebrating Congress' passage of the Military Commissions Act as a "victory"?

Even after viewing numerous explicit photos of the blatant torture committed by the United States military at Abu Ghraib, a frightening number of US citizens remain unperturbed by the fact that a man who would be fortunate to flirt with a score of 100 on an IQ test now has the power to define and authorize torture, to imprison virtually anyone as a "terrorist", and to negate Habeas Corpus.


Preserving the delusion

In a society that worships money, material success, youth, and beauty, homeless human beings are anathema on several levels. Ultimately, to preserve the delusion of the American Dream, those caught in the American Nightmare must be eliminated in some fashion.

The number of US homeless people relative to the number of the homeless in other developed countries exposes the brutality of the United States' "survival of the fittest" socioeconomic system.

Don't think about them. You could become one of them.

The very existence of these indigent vagabonds reminds US Americans how fleeting and unattainable the American Dream truly is.

Don't look at them. You could become one of them.

3.5 million deeply impoverished human beings forage in garbage dumpsters while heirs like the Waltons and the Mars hoard fortunes large enough to sustain hundreds of thousands of people.

Don't touch them. You could become one of them.

[Mordac]

never!!!! Just hope we win the league again in the scums back yeard! That was a good day!!! Well apart from the glass bottles the scum started tossing!!!

Brilliant idea of the police to keep us locked in for an hour so the scum could get pissed and tooled up wasn't it. Then they let us out and there wasn't a copper in sight, just several thousand angry bastards with bottles. No wonder it kicked off all over the place. It was a brilliant night when we finally made it back to Upper St.

[AlfredJPruffock]

Atheists running rampant and the proliferation of pornographers is good news. You can never have too many atheists or porn.

How very true, altough there is nothing in the scriptures that forbids Porn, so I guess its all a kind of gift from God, or from the atheist perpsective another random event in the universe.

[Dundeegeorge]

Ooh

If you can find it ...

bitch......

[sasguru]

Can I leave it and pick it up later, after I've finished the MET interview

If you can find it ...

[Dundeegeorge]

Well I'm in a bit of a hurry

Roll up! Roll up! Get youuurrrrr Brrraaain Washed 'ere!!

Can I leave it and pick it up later, after I've finished the MET interview

[Lucifer Box]

No, he's porn again.

It's the way I tell 'em!

[AtW]

Sounds like you are a porn believer xog.

[xoggoth]

Atheists running rampant and the proliferation of pornographers is good news. You can never have too many atheists or porn.

[sasguru]

Roll up! Roll up! Get youuurrrrr Brrraaain Washed 'ere!!

[AlfredJPruffock]

Oh, but the jamaican beach party is going to be dull this year!

But I can assure you that the Pope has offically abolished Limbo.

Should we applaud this move ?

There we have it, Limbo is now no longer in a state of Limbo.

Outrageous.

[Dundeegeorge]

Abolish limbo!

That the Vatican is going to aboish Limbo thus bringing Christian Theology into line with Islam.

1-2-3-4-5-6-7 All Good Children go to Heaven

Oh, but the jamaican beach party is going to be dull this year!

[n5gooner]

Finishing below Tott*nham. Well, ask a stupid question...

never!!!! Just hope we win the league again in the scums back yeard! That was a good day!!! Well apart from the glass bottles the scum started tossing!!!