Faith is the first and most important concept for all Christians. Jesus said, “without faith you couldn’t believe any of this stuff, because none of it makes any sense.” There is no way a person could believe that a virgin was impregnated by an angel, gave birth to a man who was also God, performed miracles, and rose from the dead without faith. Faith allows us to ignore conflicting passages in the Bible and believe things that make no sense at all, thus it is a requirement for all followers of Jesus.

And the videos on all the techniques page, with Jesus slapping and kicking people in the nuts, are hilarious.  Awesome!

Xe most definitely needs to be flushed down the toilet. Read the testimony of John Doe 1 and John Doe 2 if you have any doubts. What the hell is the Obama administration doing keeping Blackwater/Xe lunatics on the payroll?!?!? Courtesy of US taxpayers, they’re getting another 20 million dollars to continue on their crusade in Iraq. From The Nation:

Mr. Prince intentionally deployed to Iraq certain men who shared his vision of Christian supremacy, knowing and wanting these men to take every available opportunity to murder Iraqis. Many of these men used call signs based on the Knights of the Templar, the warriors who fought the Crusades.

In The Nations follow up article we hear that at least some in government are pissed about this:

“These contracts with Blackwater need to stop,” says Representative Jan Schakowsky, an Illinois Democrat and a member of the House Select Committee on Intelligence. “There’s already enough evidence of gross misconduct and serious additional allegations against the company and its owner to negate any possibility that this company should have a presence in Iraq, Afghanistan or any conflict zone–or any contract with the US government.”

There are plenty of bloggers talking about the Obama administration continuing to support Xe, but where is the mainstream media in all this? I guess they’re too busy with the likes of Michael Jackson and Jon and Kate…

Nancy Pelosi

I’m starting a new category today called Flush It Down!  After reading this article on the democrat’s horrible plan to have the “rich” pay for the health care of everyone else, I thought it would be appropriate to have a category for things and ideas that should be “flushed down the toilet”.

I do want to provide a disclaimer first though: Just because I’m bashing the democrats doesn’t mean I think the republicans would be a better choice.  60% of republicans believe that humans were created in their present form by god…10,000 years ago!  Granted, 38% of democrats believe the same thing, which is appalling.  But that’s a pretty big difference.  The republican war on science is downright scary.  It’s news when one of them is actually for science.  They want to  teach creationism in schools, ban stem cell research, etc.  That alone should be enough to stop any reasonable person from voting republican…if military, environmental, and economic polices are not enough.

(If you haven’t read The God Delusion yet, get it now.)

It’s no wonder that religious fundamentalists and uneducated people are more likely to vote republican, whereas the higher your education is the less likely you are to be religious and the more likely you are to vote for a democrat.

With that out of the way though, we can move back to the idiot democrats.  This new plan to “tax the rich” an additional 1% for anyone making over $280,000 (even more if you make over 400K, and even more still if you make over 800K) is not only unfair, it’s also a slap in the face.  These bastards need to quit spending tax payer money on vacations and cut a whole lot of pork before they decide to slap extra taxes on people who earn more than others.  Let’s flush all this down the toilet and move to a flat tax for all.  Below a certain amount of income you pay no taxes, then there’s a flat tax rate that everyone pays.  It would be fair, people making more money would pay more taxes, and you wouldn’t get penalized for doing better than average.