Originally Posted by keg in kc (Post 14453252)

No question there.

I have a real difficulty with people trying to drag church into the state, so to speak. They're ****ing with the foundation of the country, both constitutionally and historically, no matter how much they want to rationalize to themselves and everyone else with the whole "this has always been a Christian nation!" bullshit.

No. It has not. This has been a "Christian nation" since the 1950s when they propped up Communism as this Godless Atheist threat to everything good and Christian, and forced "God" into the pledge and onto money and into every other nook and cranny they could find. It's social engineering built on fear.

And it's, of course, the exact same thing they're doing right now with "Global warming isn't real/Science is bad!" "Don't vote for them, they're all socialists!" and that favorite old ditty "They want to take our guns!"

And that fear mongering works really great with a certain segment of the population, enough to get a president elected with a platform that amounts to little more than fear and vitriol.

Originally Posted by O.city (Post 14455017)

I don't know who John Edwards is? I haven't listened to the whole thing yet

Originally Posted by WhiteWhale (Post 14455095)

A TV psychic.

It's a fun podcast. I think there's even a part where he goes into how obviously bigfoot is real.

It's great. He's nuts, but it's fun.

Originally Posted by Sweet Daddy Hate (Post 14455065)

Oh boo ****ing hoo. And not every founding father of this nation was Ben Franklin or Thomas Jefferson.

Originally Posted by O.city (Post 14455252)

Ah damn, ok.

It was a fun pod from what I heard though.

Originally Posted by O.city (Post 14414359)

Guys, that stuff creeps me out. I don't like to really read into it. I'll stick to aliens and shit.

Originally Posted by keg in kc (Post 14455616)

I'm not getting into this any further. Said my piece, think it's enough to get my point across and I don't want this thing devolving into a DC thread. Just in general I try to avoid the topics of politics and religion, because I think nowadays it's next to impossible to have a civilized discussion about either one and I apologize if I violated anybody's sensibilities with my comments.

Originally Posted by neech (Post 14458104)

I guess you didn't avoid the subjects hard enough.

Originally Posted by keg in kc (Post 14455616)

I'm not getting into this any further. Said my piece, think it's enough to get my point across and I don't want this thing devolving into a DC thread. Just in general I try to avoid the topics of politics and religion, because I think nowadays it's next to impossible to have a civilized discussion about either one and I apologize if I violated anybody's sensibilities with my comments.

Originally Posted by keg in kc (Post 14458476)

Yeah boy, one whole post in a 1000+ plus post thread. And maybe one post on the DC forum in the last ten years. Really hammering that political and/or religious stuff, I am.

Originally Posted by keg in kc (Post 14458518)

So to get back on topic, anybody remember Oumuamua from a couple years ago? There is another. This one was discovered by an amateur astronomer at the end of August, hit the news cycle late last week.

https://amp.theatlantic.com/amp/article/598204/

https://gizmodo.com/how-does-the-new...1838184020/amp

https://www.universetoday.com/143399...19-q4-borisov/

This is kind of feeling like rendezvous with rama come to life.

Originally Posted by keg in kc (Post 14458518)

So to get back on topic, anybody remember Oumuamua from a couple years ago? There is another. This one was discovered by an amateur astronomer at the end of August, hit the news cycle late last week.

https://amp.theatlantic.com/amp/article/598204/

https://gizmodo.com/how-does-the-new...1838184020/amp

https://www.universetoday.com/143399...19-q4-borisov/

This is kind of feeling like rendezvous with rama come to life.

Originally Posted by Baby Lee (Post 14458576)

You got your money's worth. . .