New years are known for new resolutions, but in one North Texas town, the mayor has proclaimed 2014 the Year of the Bible.
It's a declaration--or an official announcement. Mayors do it all the time for whatever they reason they choose to. In the case of Flower Mound, the mayor wanted his community to connect through the Bible.
"I was nervous about doing this," said Mayor Tom Hayden. "And I've been thinking about it for two years, and procrastinated about if for as long as I possibly could."
The proclamation was made by Hayden during a city council meeting last month.
The Year of the Bible has two parts: the genesis of Hayden's proclamation borrows heavily from former President Reagan's almost identical proclamation in 1983, and quotes various presidents while pointing out America's founding documents are Biblically-based.
The second part is a Bible-based website: thebible2014.com.
"The way it's set up is that people would have the same scripture each day," said Jon Bell of Calvary Chapel. "That they would go over and so that at the end of the year, they'd have gone through the whole Bible in a year."
The mayor says the proclamation was not law, not voted on by the Flower Mound City Council and not an official town action.
However, it still raises some questions with some Flower Mound residents.
"He was elected mayor," said Flower Mound resident Curt Orton. "Not as the spiritual leader of Flower Mound."
Apparently this idiot thinks its 1714 instead of 2014.
Gee it must be very nice for the Hindus, Buddhists, and non-religious to have a website sponsored, paid for, and maintained by the city to go to and read from a book that they do not believe in.
O/T but watch how fast other states jump on board:
ReplyDeleteColorado Marijuana Sales Surpass $1 Million On First Day: Shop Owners
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2014/01/03/pot-sales_n_4536780.html
and by the way, HEMP was used to print bibles on for years and hemp is used throughout ancient history, so those bible thumping yahoos should be in full support of this!
This Is What You Get When You Buy Legal Weed In Colorado
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too expensive for the average Joe. Legal weed at this price has quadrupled the profits to the drug lords as mj prices rise nation wide.
DeleteIt's still only $300/ounce in the Valley. I guess I should hope that our legalization ballot measure doesn't pass because it's still really cheap (and really good) here.
Deletethese fuk_tards really don't have a freaking clue what the American Revolutionary War stood for, nada, zip ...
ReplyDeleteI wonder how much time will be spent meditating on the Beatitudes there in Flower Mound, Texas. . . .
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The last state I'd ever live is Texas. Nothing like shoving religion down everyone's throats!
ReplyDelete$1 Million the first day! Come on Alaska - legalize it as I want to open my own business!
ReplyDeleteSo just where in the founding documents do they quote the Bible?
ReplyDeleteOh geeze, that stupid tea party twat that Sarah endorsed last year and who lost in a landslide is running again! Man this guy is a turd.
ReplyDeleteSteve Lonegan Says He's Running For Congress
http://talkingpointsmemo.com/livewire/the-return-of-steve-lonegan
http://talkingpointsmemo.com/livewire/the-return-of-steve-lonegan
Yeah, all those non-Christians must really be feeling a sense of equal protection under the law right now.
ReplyDeleteBut maybe next year he'll proclaim it the year of the Qur'an!
haha
Chilling Police Video of Zimmerman's Girlfriend Leaked Online
ReplyDeletePregnant girlfriend of George Zimmerman explains in vivid detail his frequent "episodes" of anger and fondness for handguns, shotguns, and a semiautomatic AR-15 rifle.
http://crooksandliars.com/2014/01/chilling-police-video-zimmermans
Here another review of Quitters latest so called book:
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Hell, her people even sent me an autographed copy of the book. (The inscription reads “God Bless You,” as if she needed one more way to stick it to atheists…) The whole book is a lesson in patience. You have to find a way to flip the pages without knocking out everyone around you since every chapter just makes you progressively angrier. Ever read a Creationist textbook that you know others read in complete earnest? This is just like that.
http://www.patheos.com/blogs/friendlyatheist/2014/01/03/yep-i-read-sarah-palins-christmas-book-yep-its-even-worse-than-you-thought/
He's a lying scumbag and anyone who thinks differently has their head up their ass!
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Perhaps Snowden is what the Times portrays him to be, a hero of sorts, yet the editors of the paper rushed to judgment. In their editorial they did not even raise the possibility that he passed along vital national security secrets to China. It is likely he did so.
“I have had no contact with the Chinese government,” Snowden wrote in a Q&A on the Guardian website while taking refuge in Hong Kong in June. “I only work with journalists.”
That’s far short of the truth.
http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2014/01/03/snowden-lied-about-china-contacts.html
Of course who knows who the Hong Kong journalists report too. Snowden is a jerk in my book and his naiveté seems to be simply too much to believe. Maybe he didn't know that Hong Kong belongs to China now.
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More than half of Americans (52 percent) said that Snowden should be charged with a crime for disclosing the NSA's sweeping intelligence-gathering efforts. Just 38 percent said he should not be charged. (The Times, it should be noted, isn't saying that Snowden shouldn't be charged at all. It's simply vouching for leniency.)
DeleteThere is little disagreement on the matter across party lines. Majorities of Democrats (59 percent), Republicans (56 percent) and a plurality of independents (48 percent) said Snowden should be charged.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/the-fix/wp/2014/01/02/clemency-for-edward-snowden-the-public-is-skeptical/?tid=up_next
Juanita Jean, the guru of all things Texan, says "The population is 84% white, 8% Latino, and 4% African American." and I saw somewhere else they have about 40 churches. Probably not a lot of room for dissent there.
ReplyDeleteFU ** HIM !!!
ReplyDeleteDeep in the heart of TexAss!
ReplyDeleteOMG! Flower Mound is a city? It was a housing tract in the 70s. I worked in Irving with the Cat Lady of Flower Mound. LMAO
ReplyDeleteI am growing tired of hearing these crackers (yes, that word is meant to be an insult) who do not know their history. There is a reason why the separation of Church and State is contained in the First Amendment (and not the second, third, etc...).
ReplyDeleteThe Inquisition did not end until the first part of the 19th century. We all remember that painful history when the Church would refer innocents to the civil authorities to be murdered (commonly burned).
The Founders were not about to let religion to run the show as had been the case in Europe for centuries. In our own country, the Puritans had run Massachusetts for a good while and we see what they did (burning the witches to save their souls). So, they wisely wanted religion out of government. It would not be a crime to believe as one wished (or not believe).
But as has always been the case, idiots such as this mayor in Texas want to control the population through a religious text. And to make their case, they are rewriting history and putting words in the mouths of the Founders that were not there.
The sad thing in my view is that so many uneducated people actually believe what this clown says. And that is what the zealots want; an uneducated populace who will believe them and not actual history. And in Texas, they have that in spades due to the poor quality of the public education system there.
The place to make declarations such as the mayor made would be in his church; not in a taxpayer supported local government.