November Third: Matt Taibbi Asks What’s the Democrats’ Alternative to God? [my first and hopefully last political post]

November Third: Matt Taibbi Asks What’s the Democrats’ Alternative to God?

Nice article.

I think one of the biggest problems with both ends of the political spectrum (when set up as the straw men they often are) are that they each miss the point.

The “Republicans” want a “simple path to heaven”. That ain’t gonna happen. the world is screwed up, and we’re living in it.

The “Democrats” want to look for an “alternative to God” but the biggest problem is that you can’t have true love and community without looking outside of your self.

where’s the the choice for those of us who are “in the middle”? I’m one of the strugglers in this world of garbage, but i’m doing it *with* my eye toward heaven. I’m one of those who know that sometimes there aren’t cut and dry answers to many “issues” — well actually there is a cut and dry answer (“trust in Him”), but that answer practically means wallowing through a bunch of crap to get to the truth.

i was, and am with my boy glenn kaiser on this one.

http://hamburgerland.blogspot.com Hamburger Lad

Yes, nice article. Thanks for the link. Glenn also has a great response for the election: http://gkaiser.blogspot.com/2004_11_01_gkaiser_archive.html#109953408167114276

Win or lose, the election doesn’t change our basic responsibilities or opportunities.
http://none Pete Vargas

ONE NATION, UNDER CANADA AND ABOVE MEXICO…

The D. of Indipendance says, “freedome of r.” What those lawbending criminal aiders see is a group of word that dose not come with a norterized explination. Back in those days you either believed in god or followed Witch Craft. People that were found practicing Witch Craft were burned on a steak, while the rest of the New Nation chose one of 5 or 6 different forms of Christianity in which all believed in God and Jesus as our savior. The Holy Bible was the backbone to this country in which the Ten Comandments were our laws. Slowly, one year at a time, things chainge. The birth of Jesus became the day a fat bearded old man dressed in red velvit
found a way to squeez down a brick chimeny. If you really think about it, maybe there wouldn’t be so many weirdows on the streets
if this nation wouldn’t have gone astray from the Word. As i see it from my prespective, we’re doomed & there is no president, not even the great Oral Sex resipicant, that can stop the dominoes from colapsing.

Thank you for reading,
Pete

{ please excuse my spelling, between english and spanish, i get mixed up.}
http://www.smartbrother.org jon

Sorry to zero in on a particular part of your post, but when i read something like the following:

If you really think about it, maybe there wouldnâ€™t be so many weirdows [sic] on the streets
if this nation wouldnâ€™t have gone astray from the Word

It makes it slightly difficult for me to find credibility to your words. Who defines what a “weirdow[sic]” is? When i read that in this context, it seems to say something like “since you don’t believe like I do then you’re a weirdo”.

It could be something lost in the translation though, so I’ll leave it at that.

OK–i will make one other comment — I really don’t think the Ten Commandments were our laws here in America. That’s another debate for someone else. This is possibly why i stray away from politics–the more i think about what i’ve learned about the history of this country, the more depressed i potentially can get. :)