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With tears in his eyes, President Clinton told a roomful of clerics this morning that he had sinned, speaking just hours before the world was presented a painstaking account by prosecutors of when, where and how.
Addressing an annual prayer breakfast at the White House, Mr. Clinton drew on the New Testament, the Yom Kippur liturgy and Ernest Hemingway as he made his most abject confession yet of personal failure, while declaring that he would defend and redeem his Presidency.
‘’I don’t think there is a fancy way to say that I have sinned,’’ he admitted softly, saying that after resisting expressions of contrition he had reached ‘’the rock-bottom truth of where I am.’’
Forgiveness is so important to Bill. And Hillary.
#30 – Primo investigative journalism there Bobbo… You blew the lid right of JulieB’s faux Biblical scholastics…
Of course, it doesn’t change that she’s generally right.
Of course the Bible is a BS hack job of various superstitious writings, all co-opted from older but equally absurd legends and myths, bound together by power hungry men to use as a tool to pacify the masses…
…and of course after being mistranslated over and over through the years by czars and kings and other assorted tyrants, we’ve settled on the King James version, which bears no resemblance at all to the original text… but must, somehow, have served King Jame’s political needs at the time.
Yes folks… if you have a high school diploma and can score at least 65% on a basic logic test, you should know that religion is bunk and religious texts are bunk.
The notion of there being some sort of supernatural entity is, in my view, also bunk, but whether or not there is something akin to a god with some ancilatory connection to the natural universe is an argument that has nothing to do with religion. Religion is about political control. Spirituality is about personal comfort.
Now, its easy to be duped by religion and thus easy to be religious. Not all religious people are bad. In fact, many religious people don’t even believe in a god… they just aren’t aware that they don’t yet.
JulieB uses the word religionist, which seems to me to be politically loaded and full of agenda, and I am in fact quite sympathetic… but it isn’t accurate.
There probably aren’t a lot of evil Quakers or Unitarians. The typical Methodist isn’t out to erase rock and roll from our cultural history. Bhuddists aren’t lining up outside planned parenthood centers shouting hateful epitaphs at 15 year old girls.
It’s hard to separate the religious people who in fact do revel in and dream of an Old Testament end to our world, and who push their anti-culture agendas on us from the majority of the faithful, be they Christian, Muslim, Jew, whatever, because the silence of the majority is deafening.
People of faith… You need to publicly, vocally, frequently, reverently, denounce those who have co-opted your faith to drive wedges into the mainstream. These people aren’t God’s chosen… They are simply God’s Bullies, and they are philistines and archaic in a 21st Century world. They will drag us down into a muddy reliving of the Dark Ages and bring famine, war, and poverty along with it.
Anyway… religion ain’t all cupcakes and creampuffs. The history of religion follows pretty close with the histories of things like tyranny, murder, hate, war, and the like. This isn’t disputable.
Sure, a zealot can toss out BS about Stalin and Mao – but the reality is that their crimes were ideological and tyrannical. They were about political power, not religion. In fact, that I have ever discovered, no one has ever been murdered in the name of atheism.*
*this last line is obviously a troll… who is gonna fall for it?