tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31383424.post4091418406304041185..comments2024-02-23T15:59:49.280-07:00Comments on Mobile Kodgers: THE KING OF KODGERS CONFRONTS A PREACHERRandyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02908010960752449161noreply@blogger.comBlogger11125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31383424.post-84722069619605067812011-06-27T08:52:42.595-06:002011-06-27T08:52:42.595-06:00Randy - I appreciate what you are doing. We grew ...Randy - I appreciate what you are doing. We grew up Catholic and questioning the priest was a horrible thing to do. Once I told my mom that I wasn't comfortable in chuch and she told me that my sins made me feel that way. It was horribly confusing when I was young. When I became an adult and left the church I rec'd anger from family for my decision. I wasn't telling anyone else how to Live I just couldn't reconcile the fancy ornate church I was attending always preaching about how much more money we needed to contribute but it seemed like the money wasn't spent on helping the less fortunate but helping beautify, decorate, etc... This was just my experience. I know others suffered much worse bc of their beliefs and/or fear to not question authority. I am happy to see someone who questions and encourages others to question as well. Thank you.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31383424.post-10637607262702928222011-06-22T18:36:20.238-06:002011-06-22T18:36:20.238-06:00Amen brother.Amen brother.Jim Bhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/18357131291645626398noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31383424.post-76502764190269961482010-06-03T10:57:48.958-06:002010-06-03T10:57:48.958-06:00Thanks Don for your input. I'd sure like to h...Thanks Don for your input. I'd sure like to hear you answer this question: Does ethics grow out of human experience or is it revealed by God? Does "Holy Book" ethics sometimes offend you (sharia law for example) <br /> Re: the chip on my soldier: I fight this battle because I know how--think it is important--and enjoy myself doing it. Religion is collapsing--we humanist are winning. In a few generations religious nuts will be as distasteful to mainstream society as smoking is becoming. Hope you will read Sam Harris' little book (Letter to a Christian Nation) and comment again.Randyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02908010960752449161noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31383424.post-74498319155256134802010-06-03T02:18:44.149-06:002010-06-03T02:18:44.149-06:00Hey, stumbled upon your blog as I'm researchin...Hey, stumbled upon your blog as I'm researching the necessary information to decide whether to live in a trailer or some other alternative, non-mortgage-based dwelling. It's a good resource and I appreciate your posts :-)<br /><br />I felt compelled to comment on this post...<br /><br />I think your disgust isn't so much with religion as it is with people of a different opinion than yours and their ability to have those opinions enacted into law, thus pissing you off. It is simply happenstance that Christian ethics and beliefs have a prominence in the Americas. It could have been Satanism, Islam, or what have you had other circumstances occurred. It could be the religion of the "Great Spirit" had the original inhabitants of these lands prevailed over Europeans. Regardless, each would certainly have wielded the same power and desires to enact their beliefs into law. That is human nature at work in forming a society. In fact, it appears the religion of Randy (what you believe), is what you would like to see enacted into law :-) That's no surprise of course. We all have a vision of how others should behave and think...pretty much the same way we do lol!<br /><br />Unfortunately Randy, each of us can get as pissed off as we want, but if in the minority, we will have to choose between living a life with a chip on our shoulder or simply living our life. In most cases, it has nothing even to do with whether we are in a minority but rather the whims of a pocket full of politicians.<br /><br />So leave the poor preachers alone and remove your chip my friend. You and your blood pressure will be better for it :-)Don Westhttp://idleminutes.comnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31383424.post-2286664664729122932009-07-20T11:45:16.396-06:002009-07-20T11:45:16.396-06:00"Believe and Be Damned" in spades! Brav..."Believe and Be Damned" in spades! Bravo!Joycehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04250254016904370933noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31383424.post-50719367657521121072009-03-29T11:39:00.000-06:002009-03-29T11:39:00.000-06:00Teach me! Show me specifically where you disagree...Teach me! Show me specifically where you disagree. Note that my fiercest attack is against fundamentalist who believe they have access to certainty--and consequently become a pain in the ass to the rest of the world. I have little quarell with spiritual folks like Sam Keene. I'm recommending his book: Hymns to an unknown God to you. Feel free to e-mail me your reading recommendation to me. Currently I'm reading The Shack by Young. (clever and destructive bullshit)Randyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02908010960752449161noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31383424.post-87753288676593035752009-03-29T08:46:00.000-06:002009-03-29T08:46:00.000-06:00You gotta lot to learn Randy.You gotta lot to learn Randy.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31383424.post-15573124602678976082008-09-09T10:29:00.000-06:002008-09-09T10:29:00.000-06:00Why not leave them alone? Because without oppositi...Why not leave them alone? Because without opposition they will take away a woman's right to choose, they will put creationism in the science class, prayer in the schools, remove books from the Library, discriminate against homosexuals, brainwash children and do their damndest to make America into a theocracy. They once did exactly that in Europe.Randyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02908010960752449161noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31383424.post-14795182739498300482008-09-08T15:39:00.000-06:002008-09-08T15:39:00.000-06:00Are you "absolutely sure" of the evils of religion...Are you "absolutely sure" of the evils of religion? <BR/>Are you agreeing with Chris Hedges that "we should be intolerant of intolerance"?<BR/>My world is full of ex Religious people of all sorts, who changed their minds, philosophies, and lives.<BR/>Why don't you let them go where they list; they don't infringe on my freedom...except through intolerance which I don't accept.<BR/>Only a "fundalmentalist" would rid the world of fools i.e.evils, or think he/she could.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31383424.post-40192961633622991042008-09-06T13:51:00.000-06:002008-09-06T13:51:00.000-06:00Randy replies: I focus on religion because that's...Randy replies: I focus on religion because that's the devil I know best and because it's the greatest evil plaguing mankind. A world full of cowardly people with no TOLERANCE FOR AMBIGUITY and who cannot face the anxieties of death, guilt and meaninglessness, hurry to embrace pseudo certainties and in doing so diminish themselves and impose great cruelty on the world.<BR/> Tell us more about the evils you see.Randyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02908010960752449161noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31383424.post-62390516470643981702008-09-05T21:06:00.000-06:002008-09-05T21:06:00.000-06:00I don't disagree with your hit list. But why is it...I don't disagree with your hit list. But why is it so short? Why doesn't it target all the secular versions of thinly-disguised holiness, the most blatant and pukey of which is the Church of the Holy Green? <BR/><BR/>Why doesn't it mention the Church of What's Happenin' Now? Or the worship of the State (replacing the Caesar worship of olden times), of Socialism (the Meek shall Inherit the Earth, etc.)<BR/><BR/>Your deification of Women's Issues could be seen as a post-Sixties version of Marx's holy proletariat. Yes, the oppressed Feminariat, you have nothing to lose but your chains.<BR/><BR/>You pick on easy prey. (oops, bad pun.)Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com