[FairfieldLife] RE: We Have a Dumb Religion Problem -- Not a Political Problem

2013-11-09 Thread authfriend
From a NYTimes article entitled G.O.P. Weighs Limiting Clout of Right Wing: Leaders of the Republican establishment, alarmed by the emergence of far-right and often unpredictable Tea Party candidates, are pushing their party to rethink how it chooses nominees and advocating changes they say

[FairfieldLife] RE: We Have a Dumb Religion Problem -- Not a Political Problem

2013-11-09 Thread emptybill
Frank Schaeffer is the poster boy of the psychically traumatized fundamentalist. Like many converts from the saved believers, he carries his counter-theology (now Orthodox) into his political evaluations. In reality, his theology is an echo of his past evangelical fixations and this

[FairfieldLife] Re: We Have a Dumb Religion Problem -- Not a Political Problem

2013-11-09 Thread TurquoiseB
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, wrote: Sorry, forgot to use the Rich Text editor for this NYTimes link: http://www.nytimes.com/2013/11/07/us/politics/gop-weighs-limiting-clout-\ of-right-wing.html?ref=republicanparty

[FairfieldLife] RE: We Have a Dumb Religion Problem -- Not a Political Problem

2013-11-09 Thread emptybill
Fundies don't believe they have a right but rather an obligation to save us from ourselves. They love us so much that they want us to become like them. ---In fairfieldlife@yahoogroups.com, turquoiseb@... wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, wrote: Sorry, forgot to use the Rich

[FairfieldLife] RE: We Have a Dumb Religion Problem -- Not a Political Problem

2013-11-09 Thread emptybill
X-gens are just hired hands doing the work of the Lard. They are members of their own Union. They don't allow non-members to work on their jobs. If someone should try then their goons will rough 'em up. Commission” 1. (n.) A responsibility, often discharged as part of

[FairfieldLife] Re: We Have a Dumb Religion Problem -- Not a Political Problem

2013-11-09 Thread TurquoiseB
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, wrote: Fundies don't believe they have a right but rather an obligation to save us from ourselves. They love us so much that they want us to become like them. You can use the word fundies if you want; I'll stick with the word I used -- evangelists. And

[FairfieldLife] RE: We Have a Dumb Religion Problem -- Not a Political Problem

2013-11-09 Thread emptybill
Ego just means I. The only people I know without an I are Tralfamadorians. It was The Gospel From Outer Space, by Kilgore Trout http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kilgore_Trout. It was about a visitor from outer space... [who] made a serious study of Christianity

Re: [FairfieldLife] RE: We Have a Dumb Religion Problem -- Not a Political Problem

2013-11-09 Thread Bhairitu
So were you able to just drop the imagine into the rich text editor or did you convert it to a Base64 encoding and paste it in with the use HTML checked? On 11/09/2013 09:40 AM, emptyb...@yahoo.com wrote: Ego just means I. The only people I know without an I are Tralfamadorians. It was

[FairfieldLife] RE: We Have a Dumb Religion Problem -- Not a Political Problem

2013-11-09 Thread emptybill
I just dropped it into the rich text reply and then added the text underneath. All done in Firefox. ---In fairfieldlife@yahoogroups.com, noozguru@... wrote: So were you able to just drop the imagine into the rich text editor or did you convert it to a Base64 encoding and paste it in

Re: [FairfieldLife] RE: We Have a Dumb Religion Problem -- Not a Political Problem

2013-11-09 Thread Bhairitu
Thanks. That'll probably help some other folks who would like to insert a graphic without using a link. Rich text previously didn't allow that. On 11/09/2013 02:43 PM, emptyb...@yahoo.com wrote: I just dropped it into the rich text reply and then added the text underneath. All done in

[FairfieldLife] RE: We Have a Dumb Religion Problem -- Not a Political Problem

2013-11-09 Thread emptybill
Works with video also ... example is the Orthodox Prelates doing a Liturgy that I posted the other day. ---In fairfieldlife@yahoogroups.com, noozguru@... wrote: Thanks. That'll probably help some other folks who would like to insert a graphic without using a link. Rich text previously

[FairfieldLife] RE: We Have a Dumb Religion Problem -- Not a Political Problem

2013-11-09 Thread s3raphita
Re These days I like to tell religious folks that God is just a mathematical equation that runs the universe. All religion and spirituality does is supposedly align you with that equation to keep you out of harm's way.: This book - Mathematics Through the Eyes of Faith - isn't the type of

Re: [FairfieldLife] RE: We Have a Dumb Religion Problem -- Not a Political Problem

2013-11-09 Thread Bhairitu
Of course what I'm trying to do is getting to work from email. On 11/09/2013 03:48 PM, emptyb...@yahoo.com wrote: Works with video also ... example is the Orthodox Prelates doing a Liturgy that I posted the other day. ---In fairfieldlife@yahoogroups.com, noozguru@... wrote: Thanks.