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Socialized medicine is the way to go!  Yay Socialism! 

Hillary is a better candidate than Trump. Trump is the most unfit candidate for president in the history of the country. Even worse that the worst of the worst, Jefferson Davis.

Cheney could have been worse, but of course not even Republicans could stand him.

Atheism is not a religion, it is not a cult. Atheists do not band together to win brownie points with God,m because they do not believe in God. In this country it is unwise to admit to being an atheist, and there are no advantages to admitting it anyway. But atheists do good works just like believers, they just do not put their name on them as atheists.

Atheists are rarely evangelical, They have no desire to convert anyone.
I find the cartoon The Atheist Pig amusing, as well as philosophical.

Many doctors are atheists and many hospitals are built by doctors.

And I am somehow banned from criticizing Mother Teresa? Is there a law against it?

How about you, Good Christian sirs? Have you taken your vow of poverty? Do you think you gain holiness as a result of suffering?

That is the topic, isn't it? Proposed:"Suffering is a good thing: people who suffer are greatly improved by suffering."

How about The Donald. He doesn't do a lot of suffering. He claims that he never has done anything to seek forgiveness for, either.

Being The Donald means never having to say you are sorry. Except rhetorically.

I have not taken any vow of poverty, and I see no virtue in poverty or suffering, If Mother Teresa (who was born with a name other than Teresa - the Albanian equivalent of Agnes- and was no one's mother)  received money to alleviate suffering and spent it on something else. then she was a fraud in my book.

As for Jesus, the information we have about him was secondhand at best. As I have said many times, he should have written his own gospel. I don't consider it possible for the Bible to be accurate, as it contradicts itself on many, many matters.

The Christian religion is a much heavier dose of Paul than  Jesus, and I have little respect for Paul. He was a publicist and was clearly more interested in publicity and winning converts than the truth.

The Jewish description of what a Messiah should be is very different from what the Christian religion says a messiah was.
The Jewish Messiah was a military leader who defeats the enemies of the Hebrews and then becomes king, A king like David, a mortal. That was clearly not what Jesus was.

The closest person  to being an actual  Messiah was Shimon Bar Kokhba, who actually drove the Romans out of Israel in 132 CE. He ruled until the Romans returned with a bigger army in 135, and was killed. After that, Jerusalem was destroyed and Jews were evicted. His name means "Son of the Star", He was reputedly a badass.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Simon_bar_Kokhba




Nowhere in the Jewish religion does any human become born as an actual son of God.

After the Samoans defeated the Japanese, there was al least one Hawaiian, and then came several Mongolians.
No Japanese had won the championship until 2016.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kotosh%C5%8Dgiku_Kazuhiro

The idea was that the most important person should be the BIGGEST person. This was a part of many Polynesian societies.
The Hawaiian royals ate for hours and had special servants that massaged their tummies so they could put away even more food.

Samoans have come to dominate Japanese Sumo wrestling. The Japanese Sumo purists tried to exclude them because they were not Japanese, but eventually they lost the battle. Now all the top Sumo wrestlers are Samoans. They are taller than Japanese, and therefore outweigh them. And in Sumo wrestling, weight is everything.

If I were a North Korean I would certainly not vote for Kim. But then again, it would make no difference.
The way Trump said this was the problem.

I do not think the USA needs its own Kim Jong Un.