I have to admit that if I walked into a store and saw someone not in uniform with an assault rifle strapped across his back, I would turn around and leave.
Our lives are in enough danger from ultra-right-wing stupidity without shopping with people who are carrying the types of weapons of war that are used in mass shootings on virtually a daily basis.
There are some American actor/entertainers who support Trump, but, as suggested here, there aren’t too many of them.
In a recent post, I wrote that the opinion of the woman at left has troubled me since I was three years old.
It’s worth noting that the history of religion and the study of theology take a completely different tack. For example, it was the life’s work of Thomas Aquinas to prove the existence of God using Aristotle’s logic alone.
A few centuries later, Rene Descartes came along and laid down five different proofs that God exists.
An old professor of mine, a Jesuit priest, taught a class at Georgetown University that’s required for incoming freshmen. It’s call “The Problem of God.”
I’ve always liked that, insofar as God does in fact pose a problem that all thinking people must solve for themselves.
There are people who promise investors 10% per annum with no risk. They’re called “liars.”
These people will be in prison soon, but not before they take in fabulous amounts of money from total idiots.
Unless I’m mistaken, Trump addressed this to black people, implying that their lives in America are so miserable that they have nothing to lose by voting for him.
As the meme suggests, however, we all have plenty to lose by electing a criminal sociopath.
I like the cut of this guy’s jib.
When my kids were young, I told them that they were going to spend a great deal of their lives working, so find something you love and get incredibly good at it.
If I were guessing, I would say that among America’s top military people, about 10% are Trump supporters. The most accomplished and well-educated folks in the service, the generals and the admirals, understand that Trump is a would-be authoritarian who has utter contempt for the U.S. Constitution.
Even at the bottom of the military pyramid, i.e., the enlisted men and women, the situation isn’t very different. These people can’t be too enamored of Trump’s calling them “suckers and losers,” pardoning convicted war criminals, etc.
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At left is what has troubled me about the belief in God since I was three years old.
I asked my mother, “How did all this stuff get here,” and she replied, “God made it.” When I asked in response, “Who made God?” she said, “Nobody knows.”
I told her that this was not going to work for me, and then, I guess, I asked her to tell me a bedtime story.
The idea that reason is inferior to belief in things for which there is no evidence has been abhorrent to me for as long as I can remember.
Funny cartoon, but only so if we can let go of the fact that the hats don’t cause the ignorance; it’s the ignorance that causes the hats.
It’s good to know that the medical community is putting up a fight against the anti-science crackpots in the Trump administration.
