Pyrum's Comments (2456)

“There are approximately 33 million Baptists in the US, according to About.com.

http://christianity.about.com/od/baptistdenomination/p/baptistprofile.htm

If we can assume that you don't speak for every member of every major Christian religion it might not be such a stretch believing that there are another 17 million Americans who believe in the Rapture in one form or another.

I'm not sure why it's such a big deal.

What I'd like to know is how many of our US Senators and Representatives believe in the Rapture, how many believe that the Earth is 6,000 years old, and how many believe that science is the work of the Devil.

While there may be a God, He should not be legislating. And He should not be a screen behind which politicians hide in order to discriminate against gays, women, the poor, or our President.”

“The Baptists, Pentecostal, Four-Square Gospel ALL teach about the rapture. What's more, some 40% of the American public believes that humans and dinosaurs lived at the same time, meaning that they are off by almost 2 orders of magnitude (humans are no older than 100,000 years and the last dinosaur (birds not-with-standing) died out 65 million years ago).

If he posted the link you still wouldn't believe him. No matter evidence he presented you still wouldn't believe him because it would be ideologically inconvenient for you to do so. So why bother asking him for evidence when you *know* that no matter what evidence he presents you'll simply respond "I disagree with that therefore it's not evidence".

Cheers
LF”

“55% of Americans believe God created man in his image - no evolution. Is 55% fringe?”

“The problem for your view of Christianity is that when some adherent does something or says something wacko, you immediately declare "well, he wasn't a REAL Christian anyway." You have a big umbrella and cannot just kick someone out when they embarrass you: they're all a part of the whole.”

“You think there is a guy up the clouds who cares about on which day you eat meat? Or swears?

How am I NOT supposed to ridicule that?”

“Humans should stop worshipping god, even if they are not atheists - even if they don't have anything to replace it with. We don't replace tumors when they are extracted.”

“To me, it's a symptom of when a conservative such as yourself doesn't like something science does, he tries to portray the results as being of some strange religion.....”

“I think you should read up on paranoia, which can be found under "Psychology."”

“Atheism isn't a religion, so its AWFULLY hard for it be a fundamentalist. There are no guide lines and bylaws for atheism.”

“Because any attempt to legitimize science is an attack on god?
Now we see why conservitives don't think these things are science, they fear that science will weaken their religion. Maybe there is reason for that, look at what happened to the Catholic church after it was revealed that the world was round and the Earth went around the sun...”

“What the F are you talking about? This was a poll, a measuring of opinion.”

“And, of course, you are entirely mistaken. Atheism does not ask anyone to "worship." Atheism specifically denies that any form of worship or prayer is rational or justified as there is nothing there to worship or at whom one might direct one's prayers.

Atheists do not "worship [at] the altar of science." Science has no altars. It is a logical discipline which follows certain logical rules. None of these involve any form of belief in anything that cannot be shown to have merit through the scientific method which requires hypothesis, experiment, analysis and theorization: repeat ad infinitem.

Nor do atheists make any demands of anyone else. You are free to do as you like as long as you do not foist your beliefs on me or insist that I treat your beliefs with any more respect than I regard my own, or attempt to use the power of the state to compel me to act against the dictates of my conscience. I freely grant such rights belong to you. If only those in the "religious" community would be as willing to grant atheists the same basic rights which they vehemently demand for themselves.”

“You are VERY VERY confused.

A- Atheism has NO leaders.
B- How can one be a "fundermentalist" atheist?
C- We don't "worship" science. We UNDERSTAND it.
D- No one is employing the scientific method here in any way. This was a POLL.”

“Well my dealing with the post office , DMV and IRS have been neutral and even pleasant experiences.
Frankly my worst customer service nightmares have been with private sector businesses!”

“My DMV and local post office give great service.”

“When you sit in the doctor's waiting room, are the elderly herded like cattle, ... treated differently? Medicare pays the bills, it does not run the practice of medicine, ... and does it at far lower cost than the commercials ever have or ever will.

The only sane thing to do is cut the greedy middlemen out of healthcare altogether, and put the dollars toward preventive and remedial medicine rather than shipping the profits off to corporations instead.”

“One reason it was the envy in the fifties and sixties was that on top of the private system we also had a strong public system made of of state and country run hospitals with sliding scale fees. Reaganomics closed those and privatized them. Effectively cutting off the poorest in this nation from affordable care.”

“To charge $60 or $90 for a visit is ludacris.

Usually you wait an hour in the waiting room.....

you then get weighed etc. by the assistant

Next, you wait in the examination room for 1/2 hour or so

ultimately on average your visit to the physician will net you about ten minutes of his/her time if you are lucky.”

“I don't know what you consider "very affordable." We were paying $903 a month for health insurance for a family of four; that got us a $5,000 deductible per person, plus no dental, vision, or prescription coverage. We have a lower deductible on our current policy, plus dental and prescription coverage, but we're paying $1200 month.

Keep in mind that we don't smoke, don't drink, and have never had a major medical expense.”

“I did the same thing get free of seizures doing althernative. 20 years free now. I did a gall bladder cleanse, following Edgar Cayce's recommendation.”

“Pyrum, I agree with you for the most part. There are, of course, those that do all in their power to care for their bodies only to have, in time, their body turn on them. However, when that happens, it should not be construed that all the care was worthless or would just as well have not been done.”

“It would appear that pretty much ALL your comments are nonsense, pyrum.”

“It's not about morals, it's about the free market. Health insurance companies, if they're in competition with each other (much of out current woes are caused by regulations that allow health insurance company monopolies) will strive to provide the best service and coverage so people will want to give them their business. The government has no such incentive.”

“Then you must believe that health insurance companies, the people who control them, and the people who work for them are somehow morally superior to their counterparts in government.
Oh, and since the American people "own" our government, that means you, and every other American will be a member, with voting rights, on our government's death panels.”

“"... neither of us will be allowed to keep our insurance if the current bill passes."

I have been paying pretty close attention to this bill, and NOWHERE does it say that.

Where do you get this B S?”

“And the government helped them buy houses and created the economic conditions for a prosperous middle class, so they would be able to support large families and provide a generation of new workers.”

“The baby boom was not caused by a government program to encourage women to have babies in order to fill the need for workers to build the infrastructure.
The baby boom was the result of all those GI's, they numbered in the millions, coming home at the end of WWII eager to start the lives they were forced to put aside by the war.”

“Sorry, sport, we don't do conspiracy theories here. Wouldn't you be a lot more comfortable on Redstate-lite?”

“Dennis Kucinich, though I don't agree with many of his policies, is a rare legislator in that he's honest, consistent and doesn't cave in the special interests. And anyone who doesn't question the official explantion of 9/11 would be in the tiny minority on this site.”

“Thank you for saying that you believe the Bush administration was responsible for orchestrating 9/11. We now know to disregard pretty much everything you say. Much appreciated.”

“So Dennis Kucinich equals Ben Nelson?”

“A government is not a living organism made of tissue and bone.
People are capable of doing horrible things.
The process of weighing the medical needs of an individual vs. the collective needs of the organization which pays for health care, which can result in a "denial of benefit" is already being done by the health insurance companies.”

“Tell us why you belive the Bush adminstration was not responsible for orchestrating 9/11.”

“If there were such a thing as governmental death panels then why would we have reached a 300,000 million population in which quite a few of them are past their 80's and 100's. Compared to that from the 1940's where they would never have dreamed it would have happened.

There's only one Death Panel. And God or whatever is your Judge and Jury. Go whine at him for giving you a time clock.”

“Only if you quote credible sources that have led you to believe that the government is indeed capable of such atrocities, or better yet, provide evidence that you have seen or discovered yourself that proves the point.”

“The govt is capable of atrocities. For the previous 8 years the Bush/Cheney WH did their best to turn the US into the kind of nation we've cpndemned for decades, the kind of nation that deserved to be attacked and overthrown. Like someone else mentioned, we have death panels and rationed care right now. While I am happy with the insurance we get through my wife's job, after hearing about the abuses people are put through by Big Insurance I'd say give the right-wing nutcases what they've be raving about in their delusions and socialize the whole industry.”

“You start out saying "think" and conclude with "I'm not so sure the death panels aren't real."

So you want us to think so you don't have to? Can do.

Sarah Palin is the bird in the cuckoo clock (she says "death panels" but we hear "cuckoo" ), and those little figurines in lederhosen that revolve around underneath are Beck, Limbaugh, and Hannity.”

“Right to Lifer, are you?”