He helped the poor without one government program. He healed the sick without a government health care system. He feed the hungry without food stamps. And everywhere He went, it turned into a rally, attracting large crowds, and giving them hope, encouragement and inspiration.
For three years He was unemployed, and never collected an unemployment check. Nevertheless, he completed all the work He needed to get done. He didn’t travel by private jet. He walked and sailed, and sometimes traveled on a donkey.
But they made Him walk when He was arrested and taken to jail, and no, He was not read any Miranda Rights. He was arrested for just being who He was and doing nothing wrong. And when they tried Him in court, He never said a mumbling word.
He didn’t have a lawyer, nor did He care about who judged Him. His judge was a higher power.
The liberal court found Him guilty of false offences and sentenced Him to death, all because He changed the hearts and minds of men with an army of 12.
Okay now this is getting ridiculous!
He fed the hungry without food stamps? There were NO food stamps! And if we could all make food multiply through a magic trick, we would not need food stamps either!
Jesus did not get a check, but he DID rely on offerings provided by those who came to hear him preach. How is that not considered charity?
And the idea that Jesus was tried and found guilty by a "liberal" court is the stupidest claim of them all.
Jesus WAS the liberal, condemned to death by the religious establishment and put to death by their Roman occupiers, ie the military complex.
Jesus Christ is the best part of what has become the giant money making enterprise called Christianity. At the very least these revisionist bastards should just let Jesus be Jesus.
In other words the Jesus who threw the moneylenders out of the temple, who cared for the sick and indigent, who preached love and acceptance, and who died doing what he believed was right for humanity.
You know, like you would expect from any good liberal socialist.
Herman Cain has just demonstrated that he knows even less about Christianity than he does about how to fix the economy. Which considering how stupid his 9-9-9 plan is, almost defies belief.
LOL
ReplyDeleteJesus also might be a fictional character!
Really . . . .Cain is an insufferable idiot. Why do these conservative nut jobs keep polluting the atmosphere with their crap?
ReplyDeleteYes, and then Jesus said, "It is easier for a camel to walk through the eye of a needle than for a poor man to enter the gates of Heaven."
ReplyDeleteOh, wait. Sorry, my bad, it was the opposite - those are the odds he gave for a RICH man.
As for "liberals" killing Jesus, well, it was just a matter of time before they started revising the Bible to suit their monstrous ends, wasn't it? I mean, they're so far out of the realm of reality at this point in their quest for power, they'll say anything. But just as a little reminder to Herman Cain: it was the Pharisees who insisted on Jesus being crucified. You know, the ones that the Bible describes as "lovers of money."
Well, I will say this about the conservative RedState commenters on that post from Cain: a good deal of them recoiled at it. The general consensus was that Cain should not try to fit Jesus into a political party, and a few even said the post was outright blasphemous.
ReplyDeleteCain forgot to mention Judas was a great Conservative Capitalist for selling Christ. This guy truly lives up to his name. I would suggest all those with the name of ABLE, to stay the hell away from him.
ReplyDeleteMe thinks Herb is smoking crack.
ReplyDeleteI have to agree that Jesus as described by most religious beliefs resembles more a liberal than a conservative and the establishment that convicted him more like the rethuglicans.
It is just pure fantasy that they think themselves Christ like especially when you look at their acions toward fellow human beings.
whhhaaattt? I thought the Juice killed Jeebus! Damn it, Gryphen, now I don't know WHO to hate! (tho, I must say, I'm starting to suspect I could eventually learn to dislike this Herb Cain fellow rather enthusiastically.)
ReplyDeleteOK, I did not click the link because reading Red State gives me hives, but did Herb really write or say that verbatim?
ReplyDeleteI think Herb just jumped the shark.
Jesus, a conservative? That's a good one.
I have a friend who is studying to become a Catholic priest. He describes Jesus as a Communist and thinks that a lot of so-called conservatives have Jesus all wrong.
ReplyDeleteOn top of that: Yes, Jesus fed some poor people without a government program. Yet a lot of conservatives in this country seem to have no interest whatsoever in helping out anybody else.
Whenever I hear a conservative say "The private sector and the faith-based sector should do charity", I always think: Nobody is stopping you.
It would be nice if the real Christians would go after all of these mouthy, big-ego fake Christians. Oh yeah, I forgot. They are too busy feeding the poor in their communities, helping families, building community, and praying quietly.
ReplyDeleteI volunteer at a local food pantry/family resource center that was originally started by the Grace Good Shepherd Church. I am not a Christian, but I have a lot of contact with local churches through this organization (now under the auspices of Food For People). The local churches do SO much for us. They donate tons of food, clothing, etc., EVERY SINGLE MONTH. These are good people. I love them. I could care less that we don't share a common religion. "Herb" Cain is an idiot who wouldn't know a good Christian if one helped him out. If "Herb" came to one of our empowerment lunches, where we provide a nice free lunch and conversation with somebody who can help the community (last time it was our congressman's top aide), ol' "Herb" just might learn something about real people.
ReplyDeleteDown is up for these guys. He should have stuck to making shitty pizza.
ReplyDeleteNo Jesus didn't have health insurance, there was "No doctors or hospitals" what idiots, they just keep trying to top Sarah.
ReplyDeleteLong Ties to Koch Brothers Key to Cain's Campaign
ReplyDeleteRepublican presidential hopeful Herman Cain has cast himself as the outsider, the pizza magnate with real-world experience who will bring fresh ideas to the nation's capital. But Cain's economic ideas, support and organization have close ties to two billionaire brothers who bankroll right-leaning causes through their group Americans for Prosperity.
Cain's campaign manager and a number of aides have worked for Americans for Prosperity, or AFP, the advocacy group founded with support from billionaire brothers Charles and David Koch, which lobbies for lower taxes and less government regulation and spending. Cain credits a businessman who served on an AFP advisory board with helping devise his "9-9-9" plan to rewrite the nation's tax code. And his years of speaking at AFP events have given the businessman and radio host a network of loyal grassroots fans.
The once little-known businessman's political activities are getting fresh scrutiny these days since he soared to the top of some national polls.
AP
Herman Cain addresses the crowd in Bartlett,... View Full Caption
His links to the Koch brothers could undercut his outsider, non-political image among tea party fans who detest politics as usual and candidates connected with the party machine.
AFP tapped Cain as the public face of its "Prosperity Expansion Project," and he traveled the country in 2005 and 2006 speaking to activists who were starting state-based AFP chapters from Wisconsin to Virginia. Through his AFP work he met Mark Block, a longtime Wisconsin Republican operative hired to lead that state's AFP chapter in 2005 as he rebounded from an earlier campaign scandal that derailed his career.
Block and Cain sometimes traveled together as they built up AFP: Cain was the charismatic speaker preaching the ills of big government; Block was the operative helping with nuts and bolts.
When President Barack Obama's election helped spawn the tea party, Cain was positioned to take advantage. He became a draw at growing AFP-backed rallies, impressing activists with a mix of humor and hard-hitting rhetoric against Obama's stimulus, health care and budget policies.
Block is now Cain's campaign manager. Other aides who had done AFP work were also brought on board.
Cain's spokeswoman Ellen Carmichael, who recently left the campaign, was an AFP coordinator in Louisiana. His campaign's outside law firm is representing AFP in a case challenging Wisconsin campaign finance regulations. At least six other current and former paid employees and consultants for Cain's campaign have worked for AFP in various capacities.
And Cain has credited Rich Lowrie, a Cleveland businessman who served on AFP's board of advisors from 2005 to 2008, with being a key economic adviser and with helping to develop his plan to cut the corporate tax rate to 9 percent, impose a national sales tax of 9 percent and set a flat income tax rate of 9 percent
"He's got a national network now that perhaps he wouldn't have had 15 or 20 years ago because of his work with AFP," said Republican Party of Wisconsin Vice Chair Brian Schimming, who has introduced Cain at events in Wisconsin. "For a presidential candidate, that's obviously helpful to have."
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http://abcnews.go.com/Politics/wireStory/extensive-ties-powerful-koch-group-boost-cain-14746710?singlePage=true
Jesus must be livid, like he was when he drove the money changers from the back of the temple.
ReplyDelete“I don’t believe racism in this country today holds anybody back in a big way,” he told CNN recently. Had he contended too many African Americans use racism as an excuse for failure to succeed and even failure to try, Cain would have gotten no grief from me; I’ve made that argument often.
ReplyDeleteBut what he said was that racism is no longer a factor. He surely warmed the hearts of his conservative fellow travelers who swear blacks have the same opportunity to succeed as whites if they’d only get off their lazy so-and-sos and do it.
It is a claim spectacularly at odds with reality, given that African-American unemployment runs twice that of whites, given that the Agriculture Department admits to systematically discriminating against black farmers, given documentation of a “justice” system engaged in the mass incarceration of young black men.
But what made the claim truly bizarre is that two days later, Cain branded himself a victim of racism. Specifically, he said some black people are “racist” because they disagree with his politics. So blacks aren’t held back by racism, but Cain is?
Lord, give me strength.
He thus neatly encapsulates what has become an article of faith for many white conservatives; namely, that it is they, not black and brown people, who are the true victims of bigotry. Mind you, they have not a shred of a scrap of a scintilla of evidence to support this cockamamie idea, but they believe it anyway. And now they find support for their idiocy in this Negro from Atlanta.
One of the least-discussed impacts of the black experience in America is its emotional toll. African Americans were psychologically maimed by this country, the expression of which can still be seen in the visceral self-loathing that afflicts too many.
Meaning the black child who equates doing well in school with “acting white.” Meaning the famous black man who bleaches his skin. Meaning the famous black woman who rationalizes her use of a certain soul-killing racial epithet. Meaning Herman Cain.
In his diminution of African-American struggle, he comes across as a man profoundly at odds with the skin he’s in. He seems embarrassed he’s black.
For what it’s worth, I suspect black folks aren’t real happy about it, either.
http://www.miamiherald.com/2011/10/15/2455500/explaining-herman-cain.html
Herman Cain's 3-3-3 Plan For Healthcare Revealed
ReplyDeleteSaturday Night Live can't get enough of the race for the Republican presidential nomination, slamming the chaotic state of the field in the third sketch in as many weeks.
Herman Cain, played by Kenan Thompson, takes the starring role, explaining why his 9-9-9 plan is getting savaged from all sides, before offering a few more quick and easy 'solutions' to the nation's problems.
"I never thought that anyone would look at it... If America is looking for catchy, unworkable solutions to complicated problems, Herman Cain has the answer.
How we fight terrorism – my 5-5-5 plan. For every terrorist, America will send five planes, five soldiers, and five of those dogs that caught Osama bin Laden.
How do we fix healthcare — my 3-3-3 plan. Every time you get sick you get three pills, three days off, and three chicken-noodle soups."
Jason Sudeikis once again played an uncomfortable Mitt Romney, struggling with why the Republican party just doesn't like him. He compares himself to Forest Gump — waiting for Jenny to come home and die.
'Newt Gingrich' and 'Michele Bachmann' were shown locked in a closet, told that the last person standing would participate in the next debate. Bachmann begins to pummel Gingrich, as the camera cuts to 'Rick Santorum' at a gay bar.
The moderator summed it up best: "Join us for the next debate, when we basically turn into a season of Survivor where no one is ever voted off the island."
Watch the video below:
http://www.businessinsider.com/snl-presents-yet-another-gop-debate-and-herman-cains-3-3-3-plan-for-healthcare-2011-10
Which pizza box did he jump out of ?
ReplyDeleteJesus says, never buy anything from this man, he knows not what he speak!
Not super religious, but this is what pisses me off the most about Republicans who think they are true Christians. I don't need to read the bible to know what Jesus's message was, if you know Jesus in your heart you will do right in this world and create good, and Republicans are not doing right in this world. They are not serving Jesus's purpose, and in fact, they are undermining it. If anyone should be compared to Jesus, it's Obama and the liberals, you know, the ones who want equality for all. Just sayin'.
ReplyDeleteLike so many of these fake Christians.
ReplyDeleteRepublican policy and ideology stands in direct opposition to Christian teachings, more often than not.
I am tired of this Herman Cain. are his 15 minutes up yet?
These Christians really don't understand Christianity.
ReplyDeleteAbsolutely terrifying. This misinformed misanthrope is in the lead in the polls right now. What does that say about us as a nation? That at least a third of us are sick, sick fools.
ReplyDeleteI've always wondered exactly how it was that right wing consevatives embraced the King of the Liberals as their mascot...
ReplyDelete...but now I see it's just like everything else, they've twisted the meaning of everything to it's polar opposite.
I'd love to ask Cain (ironic name?) exactly why he thinks feeding, clothing and giving medical attention to the poor isn't the very definition of executing God's will? How is that not the very foundation of a "faith based government"?
It would almost make more sense to me for Atheists to be against that stuff!
This is what's most dangerous about Religion being exploited for political gain. Is it worth getting the conservative Christian vote by re-writing the story of Jesus in this warped manner?
ReplyDeleteI'm apaalled and disgusted, and I'm not a Christian. I think he just shot himself in the foot with that statement, no true Christian would buy any of it ( and I'm not speaking for all followers of Christ) but interested on their take and any intelligent response they may have. Michelle and Rick probably won't touch it.
Off Topic, but I commend you on the graphics you choose for your posts. This reminds me of the Che Rivera propaganda photos. Great Work!
Enter the grammar and spelling yahoos in 3-2-1......
Cain got rich making America fat
ReplyDeleteThe Anti-Christ
ReplyDeleteRepublican presidential hopeful Herman Cain has cast himself as the outsider, the pizza magnate with real-world experience who will bring fresh ideas to the nation's capital. But Cain's economic ideas, support and organization have close ties to two billionaire brothers who bankroll right-leaning causes through their group Americans for Prosperity.
http://abcnews.go.com/Politics/wireStory/extensive-ties-powerful-koch-group-boost-cain-14746710
"No Jesus didn't have health insurance, there was "No doctors or hospitals" what idiots, they just keep trying to top Sarah."
ReplyDeleteYeah, but didn't he think it was a good thing to heal the sick when he could with the power he had? And without asking for pay, or what one's socio-economic status was.
These are Christians who want to be Jews. They long not for the gentle and understanding compassion of Jesus, but the smiting of the indifferent to humans Yahweh. Unless, of course, it is them and theirs that are the sinners. then it's all about the forgiveness part.
ReplyDeleteTo quote JCSuperstar: "Blind Fools" And "Get out!!!!"
About sums it up, doesn't it?
Herman Cain is the worst kind of house negro in the 20th century. he is truly a pawn of the scared conservatives to adversley affect the black vote and the borderline whites who could vote for the current President, As a black man I am ashamed we are of the same race. I would love to slap the shit out of him. If he thinks fish and bread is a balanced meal that enhances human growth and development, he is truly a knucklehead motherfucker. It is a shame the conservative republicans keep shoving one clown after another on the political scene at this very critical time in our country....OBAMA 2012
ReplyDeleteGandhi said it best . . . .
ReplyDelete"I like your Christ. I do not like your Christians. Your Christians are so unlike your Christ".
He conveniently forgot that Jesus also told his followers to pay their taxes without complaining. "Pay Ceasar's things to Ceasar" and all that...
ReplyDeleteGryphen was right: the old Herb Cain is the new $carah Paylin.
ReplyDeleteGotta keep gittin' more and more outrageouser to stay in the spotlight.
Fame whores, both of 'em.
The bible makes it clear that Jesus is GOD. Not just a man who walked the earth to do good. He said that He and His Father are One.
ReplyDeleteSaying that, it's incredible that some of the christian right in the GOP, like Herman Cain, would use the Person of Jesus Christ as a tool to make their point, for personal gain (votes). Jesus' real mission was to draw people to Him, He has the power to forgive sins and save souls from eternal damnation.
The use of a personal God that means everything to some - on the political or campaign stage - is deplorable. Would true Muslims use the name of Allah or Mohammad to justify what they were doing politically, to use the name as a pandering tool to get votes? No way. They have more reverence and fear than some christians do.
There is a real melt-down lately in the christian church, where it's now trendy to use Jesus to endorse their candidacy. They don't ask, they just assume He would. That's not what it's about. This stuff has been happening with power-hungry emperors and bishops and dictators for centuries. They wanted a state/church empire and used any means necessary to make it happen. And, of course, history proves what a mess that turned out to be. Seems some politicians want to repeat history.
Jesus was a community organizer
ReplyDeletePontius Pilot was a Governor
Cain, an NRA member, killed his brother, Able with an uzi submachinegun because "Some people need killing"
Well, someone had to fill the void Citizen Palin left in her wake.
Keep talking, Herbie! You and Sarah could do a lounge act
Oh wow! How can any real Christian not believe that Herman Cain is not going to hell.
ReplyDeleteO M Dog!!!!!!
ReplyDeleteI'm blown away!
Our President's speech on Dr King....... goosebumps! Chills! Inspiration!
This is one for the history books.
What a great time to be alive, this day is pivotal.
Go President Obama! Four more years!
Cain is the token black guy on the right. He is supposed to convey the message that a large number of them aren't racist.
ReplyDeleteThese Christians really don't understand Christianity.
ReplyDelete6:29 AM
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That's because churches got involved and produced christians.
Christians are VERY different than the church bi-product that I call christians. (Sometimes I call them a koalition of konservative kristians)
Christians are a product of the word of God. I believe they truly work for the betterment of human-kind.
christians (lower-case) are a product of the church.Their goal was/has been/always will be to first:
Collect and hide mass wealth for the church.
The same with power for the church.
Dis-empowering and minimizing anything female, pagan, not christian.
Co-opting the same as above.
Instilling fear into the followers to keep them believing in a bastardized, watered-down version of Christianity, without question.
...Oh and protecting and covering up for men of the cloth who sexually abuse (mostly)boys and mentally abuse all children.
Just MHO
Now you know why there was such a heated discussion around religion yesterday. Not only are people sick of door-to-door bible thumping (recruiting new members=new $$$) they are equally really, really sickened and disgusted by people who twist Christ's message into some perverted, depraved version of ideal government.
ReplyDeleteHe is right - there were no food stamps, or health care, or justice for the ordinary person. Instead people were bought and sold, imprisoned for any excuse, executed, starved, and died very young. That's the world Herman Cain wants - but that is not what Jesus Christ wanted or preached.
I predict a growing huge backlash soon against these fake, charlatan preacher/politicians. I guess Herman Cain thinks the days when slavery was legal is a hope and dream we should all pursue - after all, by his own words - he'd just gladly go to the back of the bus, to stay out of trouble!
Herman Cain - The Perfect Jackass
ReplyDeleteAnon@6:24 - you're right, they are undermining Jesus, God, and Christianity - turning young people off with their messages of hate, causing members to leave, and my hackles to rise if anyone even starts to bring up God and Jesus in a conversation. This didn't use to happen to me, but the last 10-15 years now - the message you hear is not about doing good, rather it's that if you are not "one of us" Jesus/God gives Christians the right to persecute and demonize you - a message of hate!
ReplyDeleteI wasted much time and effort in an argument about "things" with a Fox channel devotee, last night.
ReplyDeleteI forgot that they are all just waiting for the opportunity to use their history and religion revision talking points, like the ones Cain used for his latest travesty.
I brought up the move to try to exclude active duty soldiers from voting, given they tend to vote for Democrats. INSTANTLY the two of them cried in unison, "NO--its the other way around!!!"
(I guess that means our troops are actively working to keep conservatives from voting. Well, if so, I certainly support them on that action.)
I bring up how every sane economist in the world, finds Cain's "9 9 9" plan to be laughably inept.
"NOT ALL OF THEM!" (I can actually detect traces of the voice of Megyn Kelly at this point).
Hint for those inclined this way: claiming to be hopelessly devoted to every single Republican candidate, as the parade of imbeciles continues, means you lose all credibility.
To expound on the God-like qualities of Donald Trump, then Bachmann, then Perry, then this Cain idiot, only shows you to be a complete hand puppet of Koch Brother funded hypocrisy, and utter stupidity.
And no thinking person can possibly find your parroting of Fox channel propaganda, as anything other than that.
thanks, Angela!
ReplyDeleteangela said...
Gandhi said it best . . . .
"I like your Christ. I do not like your Christians. Your Christians are so unlike your Christ".
You can tell he's not a rill Christian as he has no fear of Hell as punishment for the blasphemy he's preachin.
ReplyDeleteWWJD indeed. Cain better rethink some of the crap coming out of his pie hole.
rock on 8:46 !
ReplyDeleteI predict a growing huge backlash soon against these fake, charlatan preacher/politicians. I guess Herman Cain thinks the days when slavery was legal is a hope and dream we should all pursue - after all, by his own words - he'd just gladly go to the back of the bus, to stay out of trouble!
Apparently, Herman Cain and his fellow fundamentalists have not read the Old Testament (Hebrew Bible), or for that matter, the Koran. According to the Adam and Eve story, which appears in the book of Genisis, Cain's namesake--and I submit, his direct ancestor--committed the first murder when he killed his brother, Abel. Cain thus symbolizes true evil, whereas Abel is the embodiment of goodness and morality.
ReplyDeletehttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cain_and_Abel
@4:24 No! Jesus is not a fictional character. He's a GOOD LIBERAL SOCIALIST, Uncle Gryph told you so! Now my homework assignment for today is to get some alcohol, find President Obama's speech on MLK, and DRINK every time he says GOD. Your homework assignment (any of you, should you chose to participate), is to find out who said, "It is fine to have a personal faith, but once you take it to the streets, or into politics, you are essentially opening yourself up to increased scrutiny and possible ridicule which you have to be willing to accept." So I'm going to get drunk and scrutinize and ridicule every politician, any of them, all of them, that invoke religious symbolism to sway me politically. So there.
ReplyDeleteHerman Cain: The Goal Of Liberals Is To Economically Destroy The United States
ReplyDeleteOn Meet the Press today, Herman Cain explained to David Gregory why he believes that liberals in the United States are invested in seeing the country fail and would do anything to see its destruction.
Cain argued that if the economic situation was to get any worse, “it would destroy our economic capability,” and from that the United States would have to look at making cuts in defense spending, which Cain seemed to imply were not on the table for him. Gregory asked the candidate to clarify if he truly meant liberals would be implicit in the destruction of America, rather than just pure mismanagement. Cain continued to stick by his comments, saying, “They do not believe in a stronger America, in my opinion.”
Watch the video below, courtesy of NBC News:
http://www.mediaite.com/tv/herman-cain-the-goal-of-liberals-is-to-economically-destroy-the-united-states/
Did he forget to mention that Jesus was GOD and that doing the things Cain talks about were MIRACLES?
ReplyDeleteHerman Cain, I knew Jesus Christ. And let me tell you - "You're no Jesus Christ."
Oh, and FWIW, the nuns would have bitch-slapped him for that shit.
Jesus was in fact an historical person. Whatever else he was remains open to discussion.
ReplyDeleteHerb realizes that Rome wasn't a democracy, right? Comparing our elected government to Rome...or our elected president to Caesar...is as off the mark as what he does with Jesus.
ReplyDeleteIf "Herb" came to one of our empowerment lunches, where we provide a nice free lunch and conversation with somebody who can help the community (last time it was our congressman's top aide), ol' "Herb" just might learn something about real people.
ReplyDelete5:54 AM
I wouldn't count on it. These guys are all for themselves. Everybody else be damned.
You know what: NOW I understand why the 'Christians' are so UNchristian! They think EXACTLY like that! I guess somewhere, someone, must have sent out that memo to all these - SOcalled 'Christians' - because this is NOT what *I* was taught in Sunday school and religion classes (yes, in Europe you actually have (had?) religion classes in public school where you studied the Bible as well as other religion' holy books!)!
ReplyDeleteWell herb got one thing correct, although for the wrong reason, Jesus did hang out with the less fortunate, like a hookers.
ReplyDeleteWhen repugbagggers are caught cahooting with the so-called undesirables they are only doing Jesus work.
Ok that will work.
What's next for this clown, defending slavery?
Anyone in close proximity to Mr 999 should be extremely careful with sharp objects or tacks as they may pop his inflated ego. I'm pretty sure one of the Rethugs has a hat pin in his pocket waiting for the critical moment when he goes too far for the 1,000th time.
ReplyDeleteThey tried a couple daffy dames with air under their hair and that didn't work. They roll out a slickly combed, drawling good-ol-boy Texas-sized asshat and that failed. So now they trot out what is their hopeful version of another minority type candidate and guess what, Cain's going to flame out too.
Now what? The only stereotype they have left might be a bald, Hispanic bisexual who doesn't wear magic underwear and attends synagogue but is secretly a Hare Krishna and currently dating Ann Coulter while working diligently to help establish the New World Order shouting his campaign slogan, 'Things go better with Koch'.
I predict that fewer and fewer Americans will see him as a viable candidate after he made this incredibly asinine and sacriligeous statement politicizing Jesus.
ReplyDeleteEvery time he opens his big, flapping mouth,he provides ammunition to anyone who doesn't see him as presidential material. First, he demonizes Democratic-voting blacks like me, then he claims the president has no part of the black experience, as if there aren't a variety of those. Now, he makes the comment about Jesus Christ, and I'm quite sure that has sealed his fate with many Americans. As far as I'm concerned,he is at the back of the bus in terms of common sense and common decency. He and Palin possess neither.
Now, his goofy 9-9-9 plan is exposed for the gimmick it is, and being panned by reputable economists on the indisputable grounds that it would harm the poor and middle class, while providing a bonanza for the wealthy. He just admitted on Meet The Press that this would be its effect.
We belong to a Congregational church. We (the church) helps run a homeless shelter. We give out lunches to anyone who needs one. We have a fund to provide emergency help to anyone who needs it. We do Habitat for Humanity. We stand for economic and social justice and peace. We are visible in our community for this as well as for promoting LGBT rights.Our pastors perform same sex marriages. We do not require any creed. I can't remember ever hearing about heaven or hell except as experienced here on earth. We put our efforts into the here and now. Our church is regarded as heathen by many so-called "Christians".
ReplyDeleteThere is a little storefront Baptist church near our house. We stopped in at their garage sale. The sale was staffed by a couple I took to be the pastor and his wife plus their children.
Talk turned to the hot weather. I said I don't like it because I grew up in Alaska. The man said he'd just moved here from Soldotna so we chitchatted about Alaska.
As we were leaving he invited us to their church. We said we already had one so he asked which one. When we said, the Alaska talk turned really ugly. He told us about shooting up a kid's truck with his AK47 because the kid's music and attitude annoyed him. He told us a friend "took care" of some "hippies" who'd camped out in the friend's cabin uninvited, then left their bodies in the woods for the bears. He said the police took his side and his friend's. There was more on this vein before we could extricate ourselves.
Wasn't it Jesus who "rang those bells" to warn the British they couldn't take our guns away?
ReplyDelete"He who warned uh, the British that they weren't gonna be takin' away our arms, uh by ringing those bells, and um, makin' sure as he's riding his horse through town to send those warning shots and bells that we were going to be sure and we were going to be free, and we were going to be armed."
Jesus. Right Herb?
Not the Jesus i thought i knew......not the Jesus the Disciples thought they knew either.........
ReplyDelete@ DKey, No, that was Paul Revere. You know, one of those Founding Father Freemason Deists. Only the true Christian founders get to shoot the guns and ring the Church bells. And if you ride a horse, or a mechanical bull, you must wear standard issue "Jesus clothes", or at least magic underwear. So that we can be free to hate on homosexuals and vote on Prop 8. Herb is just something I put on my pizza.
ReplyDeleteGuess what cain? Jesus never ate a pizza either.
ReplyDeleteYep, Jesus would carry a round racist signs about his leader, he would pack heat at rallies, he would stomp on the necks of a women, he would illegally invade countries, he would ok the repugbagger candidates, he would steal money from his constituents, he would block reforms, he would spit on people he didn't like, he would knowingly lie, he let sick die, he also denied children food and shelter, he travelled from village to village on a scooter.
ReplyDeleteThe scariest thing about the far right is their ability to create false realities and stick to the lies even when there are facts figures, and holy writ that proves them wrong.
ReplyDeleteThose kinds of people are capable of committing any evil.
Anonymous said...
ReplyDeleteLOL
Jesus also might be a fictional character!
4:24 AM
Or he might not. That is why allreligion is referred to as "faith."
"Herb"is losing it just like Perry before him, and Bachmann before Perry. Now that it's likely "Herb" is on the decline, who will the conservatives put up in his place? It's now becoming more and more likely that Romney will be the only one left standing by the time of the Republicans National Convention comes to Tampa. Hopefully, by that time the far right conservatives will be so disillusioned by the Republican Party nominating Romney, they'll stay home on election day. The Tea Party people are stupid enough it wouldn't surprise me if they did.
ReplyDeleteTake 9-9-9 and turn it upside - now who is the anti Christ ?
ReplyDeleteNot that I believe in such things - but for Christians looking for all kinds of religious symbolism in their corn flakes and else where - I'm just sayin' it's something to think about
Stupid beyond belief. Yet, there is a whole camp of the pseudo-Christians out there who believe this, and are 'preaching' it.
ReplyDeleteI had a very intense email argument with one of them once -- a young man I've known since he was a child, and smart enough to know better. Ended up that I went through the gospels and pulled out every quote of Jesus talking about taking care of the poor, unfortunate, widows, orphans, etc, and sent it back to him. That shut him up. Sometimes I think these people don't even read their own holy book.
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ReplyDeleteCain is a moron, pure and simple. How the hell does he contend that the Sanhedrin and Pontius Pilate were liberals. THAT is one fucking amazing stretch.
ReplyDeleteHey Herbie, Jesus also never wore a tie, drove in a car, ran a pizza chain, spent any money on himself, or acted like a complete dickhead, but you don't seem to have a problem with doing all of those things, n'est-ce pas?
It was great to learn that the two big Kochs are just covered with Herbie's lipstick. Herb just can't resist giving billionaires blowjobs.
Jesus wouldn't have delighted in the prospect of an electric fence killing illegals
ReplyDeleteas Cain laughingly described
his fantasy yesterday.
The man is an idiot.
The media has done zero research
into his background.
His claim to fame is that he closed some Burger King franchises in Philadelphia and
"established the BEAMER program, which taught our employees, mostly teenagers,
how to make our patrons smile" by smiling themselves."
He also closed some unprofitable Godfather's pizza franchises.
Then he became a lobbyist and talk show host.
And loose cannon.
There is just NO end to Republican stupidity. I've long ago stopped feeling embarrassment for this country and now I feel disgust. If it weren't for the lack of funds, I'd be in Toronto by now ...
ReplyDeleteBTW, no offense intended toward the good people here & elsewhere ... just sick and tired of this shit.
Not a politician, not 'big government'? But, wasn't he a king? like Melchizedek!
ReplyDeleteI've lived for a week on a 32cent bag of Pinto beans and a Ham hock. That makes me conservative.
the liberal court thing is obviously ridiculous, but though it may have been "liberal" at the time (really bad terminology when not applied to our day and age), Cain has a legit point: Charity, from one person to another without a regulating higher up, is better than regulated charity (e.g. welfare, food stamps, etc.).
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