>>>Since I have already been identified as deluded by Satan and his minions ( does this flying monkey look familiar?) I may as well go all in.
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>>>I think those who haven't rubbed up against Christian fundamentalists a lot and only encounter them when Michele Bachman's head spins around or in wading through Rick's glossolalia about the End Times might not have an appreciation of just how deep batshit crazy goes. Internet to the rescue.
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>>>Had to share this. Remember, these people get as many votes as you do.
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>>>http://www.answersingenesis.org/articles/am/v1/n1/world-born-4004-bc
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>>>By the way, these folks think Pat Robertson is some kind of crazy liberal because he has been duped by Satan into believing the billions of years thing.
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>>>Good website. One of thousands. Get into serious End Time Prophecy ( google a bit ) and there is stuff that makes this look like Scientific American.
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>>>Put on your tinfoil hat and enjoy. I'm frankly tired of hanging back in the face of crazy.
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>>We might wake up one day to find out that this is all a dream and that we really live in hell. There is no such thing as time. To be crazy is the norm. Malcontents seek the truth but there is no truth other than what you accept. Hate everyone not willing to accept your beliefs. Be intolerant that anyone else has a worthy opinion just as invalid as your own.
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>>There was a television evangelist who professed that the world began 4004 bc. He explained that time was non linear and therefore the date was correct. How do we know that time did not begin two or three generations ago? Who knows if Abraham Lincoln really existed?
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>>I guess that there are some things we learn to embrace. Then there are those who demand that you regurgitate his/her beliefs. If you do not then they will “convert” you, for they are on a mission from God. Gee, that sounds like the Blues Brothers! :)
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>>In life we cannot take things too seriously. At least we should enjoy the ride. If a “real American” cannot agree with you then you might be called a Satanist, Communist or Terrorist. I like to avoid “real American’s”, as I have had too many dealings with them all over the country. The problem is that California attracts the wackos from other states and they are all around me. The advantage is that I no longer have to travel over the United States to find “interesting people”, who are deranged and attempting to save the world from all who are evil.
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>>Keep up the good work Charles. It helps to have a smile on your face.
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>I learned very young that there are a lot of nut jobs out there. I usually find them amusing. The problem is critical masses of them tend to be movements. Again, often harmless, at least to others.
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>But then I read The True Believer, a book I have been recommending and giving to people for 50 years.
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> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_True_Believer
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>It is not at all uncommon for those who need a flag, a guru or ism to follow to switch between them with the same or even increased fervor. Delusion is fungible. The giving up the of mind and the will is comforting and soothes confusion ... especially if you buy into a teaching that your confusion and your questioning has been planted by The Enemy, the Great Deceiver, or The Others.
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>Then the pogroms begin, Riefenstahl's camera rolls at Nuremburg, they light the bonfire of the vanities and the square fills with robots waving a little red book.
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>Intellectual Germans never took the funny little Austrian seriously, until they did.
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>I might wish our society had a little more decency, a greater respect for individual responsibility, a greater sense of wonder, and lot more compassion ... but I don't really wish it had more faith.

Faith is something Americans can believe in. It is all about the individual and does not take anyone else into consideration. Why it is all about me! :)

My God is the true God. Your god is a false god! I have heard many such statements form "true believers". :)