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CA: Group:(Fortney 'Pete') Stark is highest-ranking official to declare atheism
AP on Bakersfield Californian ^
| 3/13/07
| AP
Posted on 03/13/2007 6:32:47 AM PDT by NormsRevenge
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A rudderless soul .. more representative of California liberals than one could imagine?
To: NormsRevenge
You said it -- and it has been obvious for many years that the lefties in this state are indeed Godless.
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posted on
03/13/2007 6:35:38 AM PDT
by
BenLurkin
To: NormsRevenge
Stark's courageous public announcement of his nontheismI guess this is what passes for bravery now on Capitol Hill.
To: johniegrad
I guess this is what passes for bravery now on Capitol Hill.If he really had balls, he would have made the announcement on Fox News :)
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posted on
03/13/2007 6:40:55 AM PDT
by
pnh102
To: NormsRevenge
Stark, is a very angry man - you just have to spend any time with him and there is something just wrong with him.
This announcement does not surprise me but I tend to wonder why he is putting his religion in our face.
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posted on
03/13/2007 6:41:50 AM PDT
by
edcoil
(Reality doesn't say much - doesn't need too)
To: NormsRevenge
In the fifties, being an atheist was something shocking. Opting out of the group superstition just wasn't done.
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posted on
03/13/2007 6:44:56 AM PDT
by
gcruse
To: gcruse
In the fifties, being an atheist was something shocking. Opting out of the group superstition just wasn't done. It is now met with underwhelming indifference.
To: BenLurkin
What a hard, hard life they have.
Can't imagine living thinking this life was all there was and then nothingness.
Who do they turn to for comfort when tragedy hits?
Who gives them solace, salvation and eternal life?
No one.
They do not even know the peace and comfort they are missing here and especially in life after death. What in the world do they have to look forward to?
20 years of earthly life? 40 years of earthly life?
Believers are blessed, given purpose, given comfort in sorrow and given one that paid for their sins so that they can have eternal life with God.
So little asked of man, so much given by God. And, they, in their "wisdom", choose nothingness.
And the weird thing, they do not even realize what we receive here on earth by accepting God - we have the Holy Spirit living in us and a partner for all of life.
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posted on
03/13/2007 6:52:02 AM PDT
by
ClancyJ
To: NormsRevenge
Not really a religion per se...it's derisively described as "The Fatherhood of God, the brotherhood of man and a neighborhood in Boston".
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posted on
03/13/2007 6:55:35 AM PDT
by
jiggyboy
(Ten per cent of poll respondents are either lying or insane)
To: NormsRevenge
"If there were no God, there would be no atheists." - G.K. Chesterton, Where All Roads Lead, 1922
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posted on
03/13/2007 6:57:19 AM PDT
by
Keith in Iowa
(I hate Bill Maher.)
To: NormsRevenge
Worshiping at the alter of self is the greatest of servitude's......!
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posted on
03/13/2007 7:07:19 AM PDT
by
the_daug
To: NormsRevenge
Good morning.
How nice. The highest ranking declared atheist in government is also the most obviously certifiably insane official in the bunch.
Michael Frazier
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posted on
03/13/2007 7:19:13 AM PDT
by
brazzaville
(no surrender no retreat, well, maybe retreat's ok)
To: NormsRevenge
Good morning.
How nice. The highest ranking declared atheist in government is also the most obviously certifiably insane official in the bunch.
Michael Frazier
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posted on
03/13/2007 7:19:25 AM PDT
by
brazzaville
(no surrender no retreat, well, maybe retreat's ok)
To: brazzaville
sorry.
pre-coffee morning dounle tap.
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posted on
03/13/2007 7:21:11 AM PDT
by
brazzaville
(no surrender no retreat, well, maybe retreat's ok)
To: ClancyJ
One has to feel a bit sorry for the avowed athiest. For them, death is the end. For those of us who believe in God and the Afterlife, the adventure continues.
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posted on
03/13/2007 7:24:40 AM PDT
by
jesseam
To: edcoil
As the pope has written, religion takes three forms: monotheism, polytheism and atheism. But as a leading cardinal has recently said, open atheists are less a threat than dissenters in the Church. And it is not just the Kennnedy s who worry me but the possibility that there are priests who are secret atheists. Such as one was Talleyrand, a bishop in the Church who dofffed his robes to be a leading minister in the Revolutionary government.
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posted on
03/13/2007 7:33:01 AM PDT
by
RobbyS
( CHIRHO)
To: edcoil
This announcement does not surprise me but I tend to wonder why he is putting his religion in our face.I'm no Stark supporter, but he was basically just answering a question.
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posted on
03/13/2007 7:57:41 AM PDT
by
GraniteStateConservative
(...He had committed no crime against America so I did not bring him here...-- Worst.President.Ever.)
To: NormsRevenge
Starke wrote he wants to work with others to stop the
promotion of "narrow beliefs", blah, blah, blah,
What could be more narrow than your own "personal"
experience? And if you talk in public about it, or
use it to make law, or run your family that way,
isn't that promoting it?
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posted on
03/13/2007 8:23:51 AM PDT
by
Getready
(Truth and wisdom are more elusive, and valuable, than gold and diamonds)
To: Keith in Iowa
"If there were no unicorns, there would be no people who don't believe in unicorns."
Hmmmm...
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posted on
03/13/2007 9:20:58 AM PDT
by
GraniteStateConservative
(...He had committed no crime against America so I did not bring him here...-- Worst.President.Ever.)
To: NormsRevenge
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posted on
03/13/2007 11:03:47 AM PDT
by
detsaoT
(Proudly not "dumb as a journalist.")
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