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Oregon – 1 step forward & 2 steps back

Oregon is considering adding 2 items to the ballot this year.  1 is to allow non-heterosexual couples to marry, and the other is to allow bakers, florists, caterers, or any other business to discriminate against them under religious exemptions, in effect by stating that since their religious beliefs forbid gay & lesbian marriage, then they shouldn’t be forced to do business with them due to their religious beliefs.

If I were a retailer, couldn’t I use the same law to say that I don’t want gays & lesbians in my business?  If I were a developer or landlord, couldn’t I keep them out of my properties & neighborhoods?  And could a doctor refuse to treat them if they need emergency medical services?  What about keeping slaves, since the Bible, and therefore their religion condones slavery?  Acceptance of slavery is all over the Old Testaments & appears more than once in the New Testament as well.

If slavery is an antiquated Biblical idea that we’ve overcome, how about our negativity & discrimination toward gays & lesbians?

We can’t make laws to require everyone to come together as one in our society & care at least as much for each other as we do ourselves.  Besides being a hippie Utopian dream, we raise our young to be warlike, animalistic, reptilian-brained creatures who seem to have no compassion for anything but their own needs & desires, and we look at those ideas as being non-rewarding socialism unless we give it of our own volition in dribs & drabs of charity to make ourselves feel good, but we shouldn’t be making laws that continue to separate us from each other using standards applied unequally to segments within our society.  That is the definition of discrimination in a nutshell.

It’s hard to believe that in 2014, we’re still fighting that battle.  Besides, I’ve always said that gays & lesbians have the right to get married & be as miserable as the rest of us married people.

Losing my religion

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Most Gen-Xers know the song “Losing My Religion” by R.E.M., and many thought it actually had something to do with religion & an individual parting from it.  However, it’s merely an old Southern term for a person about to get really angry, but in this case, I’d like to use it literally . . .

To believe in things like ghosts, angels & divine miracles, you’d have to believe in an afterlife in which we flourish, or at least exist on some level other than as worm food or ashes, and I (and many other intelligent people) don’t believe this as it’s a totally ridiculous premise not backed by the facts as we know them, and to believe in something (to “have faith”) against known facts is foolish.

There’s absolutely no empirical evidence that an afterlife exists, which is why you have to have “faith” that it does contrary to all the known evidence & facts we have. If there were a God who was all-knowing and all-powerful, surely he (or she — I doubt it’s a woman as I’m not the first to point out that a woman all-mighty deity wouldn’t screw things up this badly) would not leave us guessing as to whether he (or she) exists and would let us know in no uncertain terms.

Of course, other than the fact that He hasn’t shown his cards to us ( or not yet as the faithful will say), you could argue we don’t know if there’s an afterlife or not, which would fall into the realm of Agnostics, who you might say are those that are too scared to admit that there is no afterlife and prefer to sit on the fence for various reasons (fear, doubt & theory all come to mind) rather than take a position and be Atheists.

Most people want to find a reason to blame things and not take responsibility for their own fate and pawn it off to some unknown deity who controls it, like if He (or She) exists, our alleged supreme being has time to deal with every picayune issue on this planet considering that we have many billions of galaxies full of many billions of planets out there, all of which he allegedly created, and keep in mind that some people don’t even believe the Earth is more than 6,000 years old!  

Religion is for the weak, the ignorant, and those who make money from it.

The part of Tim Tebow will be played tonight by Satan

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Tim Tebow is a loser and always has been a has-been. He’s the epitome of the Christian Right-Wingers whose holier-than-thou attitude is nothing more than wolf’s suit made of sheep’s wool.  The only reason people didn’t notice in college is because mediocrity can survive there, but once you get into the NFL with the adults, it’s a whole different game with different rules, as the Pat Sullivans and Ryan Leafs & Todd Marinovichs of the world found out, just like little Timmy found out.

If the guy was really a team player like he claims to be, he’d work on assuming a different role on the field, maybe as a gadget player, a slotback/pass option player, a tight end, whatever it takes to makes the squad & contribute positively, which he said he would do when he joined the Pats, but he says he only wants to play the 1 position he can’t play well — QB.  The guy is delusional — the rest of the league has already figured him out rather quickly & he was one of the worst passers ever, and the stats don’t lie.

He’s not nearly as good at fooling the NFL at QB as he is at fooling the religious right & snagging $50,000+ per speaking engagement. He invented “tebowing” as a marketing ploy — the guy is actually Satan in disguise — Tim is the character in the movie “The Dead Zone” who tries to become President & ends humanity by pushing the button while everyone’s drinking his Jim Jones-brand of Kool-Aid, but Christopher Walken (played by Nick Saban in this cerebral script treatment of mine) steps in & says “screw you, Tim Tebow, and Roll Tide, you MF-er”, and then Tim’s on the cover of TIME holding up a baby as a shield. That’s the real Tebow, and “only time will tell” as the band ASIA once sang decades ago.

What gets me is that the Jacksonville Jaguars owner isn’t smart enough to realize that hiring Tebow at QB couldn’t make things any worse than they already are for them (4-12 in 2013), and the attendance & resulting merch sales would go sky-high.

If Tebow is #2 on Olbermann’s World’s Worst list any night, then Shahid Khan, the stupid owner of the Jags, is #1 every night.