Clements is a national hero, and you're all treating him like a criminal!!

No I have never claimed that God is a demon Spider.

What I have said is that if I were to believe in the biblical scriptures I would have no choice but to believe that God is a demon.

And thus I reject those scriptures.

So that's not saying that God is a demon. It's actually saying the opposite.

Back when I was a teenager I'd been with married men. Now, at 43 I've gotten myself involved with a man who was in a relationship for 5 years & planned to marry another woman. I met him at work through a childhood friend & we hit it off & moved in together right off the bat. Innitially we just got together out of loneliness. Then it turned into more than we planned on. After 2 months of ignoring his fiance he finally called her tonight & broke it to her that he'd found another woman (me) & wanting to end it. He says I've been what he's wanted all his life. I see the pain he's going through & it's tearing me apart. I'm worried if things doesn't work out with us he'll always blame me for their breakup. He's traveling on the road for work & I've planned on uprooting & going on the road with him. He makes good money, treats me like a queen & I don't have to ask him for a thing. Right now him & my childhood friend are all living under the same roof. He's leaving in a week or so going back home to end it permantly & I'm worried she'll convince him to go back to her. Being the other woman isn't what I planned on but, it happened & now I'm afraid of losing him. He loves both of us & doesn't want to hurt her. But, he knows he can't have us both. Anyone with any experience with this type of relationship? I'm way over my head & don't know where this will end.

The Will County state's attorney indicated it would not appeal county Judge Daniel Rozak's sentence. The attorney's office issued a statement following the ruling:

“Given the serious nature of the crime and the evidence presented at trial, the State’s Attorney’s Office asked the judge for a prison sentence for Charles Clements. After presiding over the trial and hearing all the facts and circumstances, the judge determined that probation was an appropriate sentence. He is an excellent judge and we respect his decision.”

The judge told Clements the slaying wasn't about a dog urinating on a lawn, but "about your reaction ... to being yelled at, pushed and punched in the face by a 23-year-old man," the Tribune reported.

Having repeatedly earned University Park's lawn upkeep award, Clements often verbally harassed anyone who stepped near or on his precious grass, neighbors said.

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/40843342/ns/us_news-crime_and_courts

This is insane!

So, abolishing civil unions would create anarchy?

Thinking about this a little more...

Abolishing civil unions would solve the problem of allowing gays to marry as well as the few Mormons who want to practice polygamy. (I have no problem with them marrying....just thinking that it might be easier to eliminate marriage than to change it to allow for different kinds of unions).

However, I guess it really does come down to property issues and money and health insurance. And, those are no small issues. As a society we do benefit from having those rules in place and settlements already decided based on the marriage/divorce laws.

Well Kerry, here is the problem. CowboyGH is making a claim that isn't supported by scripture.

Now come on Cowboy, that's just crazy talk. How can someone know something about the Bible, if they have never read it? If Christianity were so self-evident that everyone knew it to be the truth, there wouldn't be nearly as many non-Christians. The simple fact is Christianity is much maligned and there is a great deal of misinformation about what we believe, which does make some people reject Christianity out of hand. There is also the background noise of thousands of religions out there to add to the confusion.

You are going to turn off a lot of people by telling them that they already know that Christianity is the truth, but are rejecting it.

As I stated earlier, why bother trying to convert people if God hates them? Why would jesus sacrifice his own life if he hates them?

Does it not say That there is no greater friendship than a man lay down his life for his friends? Jesus did that. When he died on the cross.

So let's see here, if you don't believe the bible, then you can't believe that God is love...and therefor did NOT die for anyone's sin. So then he really must hate us!

Abra states that he TRUST's God! Why trust someone who hate's you?

My goodness...

"Dark Ages" is used by laymen to describe the periods of time in which little was written and for which we lack historical records. Historians use "Early Middle Ages". Modern research into the so called "dark ages" of Europe show that people considered themselves free from religious control then and that there was no actual slowdown in the progress of society. The term "Dark Ages" was coined in the 1300s to describe a period of decline in Latin literature.

Sure there is. You see an old lady trying to cross the street, but you drive right by. You should have helped her. You are so caught up in your own problems that you aren't there to be a friend when a friend is down. You should have put your problems aside and helped your friend. etc etc etc

Of course you call Christianity and Judaism "absurd"...because James is a rebel! Ohhhh! Nobody has ever done that before.

So many words, so little thought put into them.

I am not responsible for the actions of anyone other than myself and my minor children. To hold me responsible for the actions of a man who died hundreds of years before I was born is illogical. Which goes to prove my point about "intellectual bankruptcy".

Calvin also burned Jews to death. Maybe...just maybe he was wrong? Do you think? Maybe?

This again? Really?

Christians make decisions every day. We frequently sin. That is a side effect of free will. We CHOOSE to believe in Jesus. We CHOOSE to try to obey his commandments. We CHOOSE what we do, we aren't puppets. Honestly, I think you guys are so intellectually bankrupt to post this kind of silly nonsense. It's absolutely shameful that adults will actually say these sorts of things. Those are the thoughts of an angry rebellious teenager, not an adult who has spent even a small amount of time thinking about religion. smh

Hi. I'm an atheist. And I have a vagina.

SURPRISE!

Free will and God go hand in hand.

It is in fact not a good idea for government to mandate insurance. This is not only piss-poor economics, it is bad ethics. Where does government get the authority for this mandate? It's not in the Federal or any State constitutions. The government certainly does not own us. Where does the money come from to pay for an insurance mandate? The government doesn't pay for it (the government is broke). This passes the burden on to average people.

Bastiat famously observed the "seen versus unseen" costs of government. This applies to everything the government does. In this case, we may "see" the cost of mandated insurance in terms of black and white, raw numbers. What we don't see (among many other things) is the misallocation of capital which could have been used for any number of more useful things. This leaves both society and every individual poorer in terms of both money and utilitarian objects and services. This misallocation ripples through the economy as well. With less capital in the form of savings, less interest is accrued and investment is diminished.

The "broken window" fallacy made famous by Bastiat applies here. In that famous allegory, the glazier with little work to do appeals to the authorities to break windows in order to give him more business. Thus, the authorities begin breaking windows. This makes the glazier gainfully employed and much wealthier, but the owners of the original windows have lost capital for no good reason.

The government can go around breaking proverbial windows with mandates and so forth, but this always comes at the expense of directly and indirectly affected individuals.

Also, "uber-libertarians" like myself (though I call myself a Voluntaryist in order to distance myself from other types of libertarians, mainstream or otherwise) don't advocate "a society of one". This is mostly an Objectivist/Randian theory (aka "Going Galt"). This is different than most stripes of libertarians, who usually argue the primacy of the individual as well as the usefulness of society to the extent that interactions between groups and individuals are voluntary. (we could not have any significant economy without society, after all)

I'm not against it, I'm against paying for it against my will...if i don't need it, why should i pay for it? it is just some bureaucrat with their get rich quick scheme.

God inflicted nothing. You forget we have free will and this world is self governing. Certain things happen because of other certain things, God doesn't make EVERYTHING happen. Yes it is because of God creating the world the things happen, so yeah I guess you could say God makes all things happen. But God does not literally make EVERYTHING happen, such as my car wrech and other tragedies that happen every day.

Remember, the garden of eden? God already tried to create us in a perfect world, man turned away from it, remember? God doesn't tempt anyone, the temptation isn't from God. Again, someone won't appreciate the good if they don't see the bad. They won't know what they have. Ying and yang my friend.

How quick you are to make assumptions. I've personally been dead, i've been in a 4.5 month coma, and have to live with the side effects that follow the rest of my life.

You put much credit to the life on this earth. Those people whom did not survive these episodes are blessed and lucky. They no longer have to feel any form of pain, sickness, or anything of such. What's so bad about that? No more emotional or physical pain. Again what's so bad about that?

Why do you wish to remain on this earth? Why do you love this earth so much? I personally would much rather just go to heaven to praise our father and not have to deal with sickness, death, pain emotion and or physical. I'd much rather spend my days with no worries and sharing great memories with God and my loved ones. But you can choose what best fits you bro, more power to you.