Today's hike after three weeks: An "Oops!" Coyote and Joy

DenoPenno comments on Apr 14, 2020:

Well done, but remember that if you do not spit on each other WHO says it is OK to be only 3 feet apart.

i am a test post

DenoPenno comments on Apr 14, 2020:

I am just one of the test replies.

The world is "only" 80,000 infections short of 2 million.

DenoPenno comments on Apr 14, 2020:

This is terrible and nothing we can do except shelter in place. The bad thing is that I've found 2 fake claims about the virus. 1. The first fake claim is from the show "It's Supernatural" where Sid Roth has a man on that claims god showed him all about it in great detail in a dream and it's a created virus by the Democrats to get rid of Donald Trump. 2. This second claim of 5G technology causing coronavirus is also to get rid of Trump and claims 5G is a direct virus cause for that purpose or it can weaken your immune system to where you get the infection. I suppose this came about because there are billions to be made in 5G and if America doesn't get the contracts then Huawei in China will. It's a shame in these tragic times that scammers spreading fake news will go this far to confuse everyone about a very serious worldwide infection. I find the too often COVID-19 WH updates to be equally as disturbing. Non-supported claims are made often.

The two biggest challenges that I have encountered in dating are women who smoke and women are too ...

DenoPenno comments on Apr 14, 2020:

Trumpers, smokers, and the religious are at the top of my list. Age doesn't bother me either way unless they have a stupid ridiculous laugh constantly going on. Going to the older ones I'm not getting off by talk that "my grandkid can beat up your grandkid" either. Even though I came out of religion I ended up smoking for right at 30 years. A non-smoker now for 20 years, I have to admit that cigarettes taste and smell repulsive. It would be damned hard for me to end up with a smoker or want to be involved with one.

The Shit-Show Rages On: [rawstory.com]

DenoPenno comments on Apr 14, 2020:

If Trump was out of office tomorrow his lunatic ranting and ravings would go on as long as he was still alive.

An Indian TikToker who said to trust God over face masks is reportedly the first person in his ...

DenoPenno comments on Apr 14, 2020:

I'm not wearing a face mask but I do distance and use common sense. I have no trust in gods and I do not want to worship or pray.

California sued over restricting religious freedom- [cnn.com]

DenoPenno comments on Apr 14, 2020:

Why don't they just STF up and take their services online?

Bishop who preached 'God is larger than this dreaded virus' dies of COVID-19

DenoPenno comments on Apr 14, 2020:

God works in hysterical ways. That man and others on FB should wake up.

There is a word I hate beyond all others and that is Apostasy It is a word expectorated like ...

DenoPenno comments on Apr 14, 2020:

Yes, the babble speaks of apostasy. As for "sinner" I remember a person who came to our church while I was a teenager. He had been in war and had killed people, but he really got into god and church. He could not forget his past and one day a good Christian found him drunk and crying outside the building. He was immediately told "you are nothing but a sinner and you will always be a sinner." Yes, I remember my church daze.

Shortest conversation ever through online dating

DenoPenno comments on Apr 14, 2020:

That man is about as ignorant as the Orange Trump god that he supports and serves. Also, am I "trading a liberty for benefits?" When you give up liberty and freedom you have no benefits. The National Socialist/Fascist regime is in power and in the WH as I type.** America is now in the worst recession since the Great Depression. **Much of this is possible because people fear Trump who has no idea what he is doing. I support your words and actions to Scott fully. He should have known better.

This is from The Onion-satire TALLAHASSEE, FL—In a bold affirmation of faith during a time of ...

DenoPenno comments on Apr 14, 2020:

Nothing like a good Christian virus when you have a self loving good Christian POTUS. Let's start making money again. Trump thinks he can order this. LMAO.

Trump uses coronavirus to cliam 'total' authority.

DenoPenno comments on Apr 14, 2020:

The problem here is that Trump is "total" but he is not an authority. The buffoon thinks he is like a King or something.

Watched a superb documentary yesterday, "The Secret Life of Chaos.

DenoPenno comments on Apr 13, 2020:

Seems logical to me.

Kate and I have been married for coming on our thirtieth year.

DenoPenno comments on Apr 13, 2020:

Thanks for sharing. I am not a potato salad lover although I do like all the ingredients in potato salad. I just do not like that combination together as one thing.

Long Live Benjamin A six-part hour-long series by Allen Hirsch about adopting and living with a ...

DenoPenno comments on Apr 13, 2020:

I suppose any creature could be your best friend. My mother loved her dogs and even shared her heart medication with one of them. Mom had heart disease but there was no evidence of her dog having it except in her mind. LOL

Ricky Gervais - The Unbelievers Interview - YouTube

DenoPenno comments on Apr 13, 2020:

I like Ricky a lot. He tells things the way they really are in my opinion. What I do not understand at all is people who think that if they were born in Iran they would still be Pentecostal. Strangely, I have ran onto some of these types before and they are the worst thing a non-believer has to deal with in any conversation.

I've been in Christian circles my entire life, and the last two years I've slowly started doubting, ...

DenoPenno comments on Apr 13, 2020:

It will come in time. What helped me a lot is that I am really an introvert and therefore outside of my workspace I do not hang around a lot with other people.

Does anyone else have a memory of when they fully became what a Christian would call a "hard hearted...

DenoPenno comments on Apr 13, 2020:

A person can use the cosmos to claim everything was made just right for us and try to claim a creator. These days I use things like my shoes. Animals do not have shoes and I have them, so they must have been made just for me. Once I understand how others all have different shoes with different sizes and all, I might have to change that idea into "many shoes." This would mean to me that a person using the "made for us" idea to explain a god should start believing in "many gods." Survival of the fittest explains it all on our planet. DNA, germs, us, other animals, etc. We cannot explain the universe. Beyond that we have evidence that the bible as we know it came into being some 300 years after Jesus. I put this together with the knowledge that we do not know everything and also cannot know everything. I cannot tell you how it all began.

Something Good to Read: Highly Recommended Humanist Books - TheHumanist.com

DenoPenno comments on Apr 13, 2020:

Thanks. I'm lazy so I let my computer read the books for me. I love epub books.

My last Resurrection Sunday! The clock just chimed and my last "Resurrection Sunday" behind the ...

DenoPenno comments on Apr 13, 2020:

Good luck to you. It isn't even rational to believe that a crucified man would be given a tomb, and especially when contemporary history of the time says nothing about him. That's right. No mention of poor Jesus from Romans or his own people. No mention of his name by anyone who lived in his timeline. No mention of anyone outside of the bible reference who was tried and crucified in this manner and the bible is not history. If a man was important enough to have an audience with Pilate, history on both sides should have said something. The reality is that Pilate most likely would not have cared and chances are he and Jesus could not speak the same language. Those that want you to believe in Jesus had to fabricate a story about why he died.

Sleep deprivation was a key factor in the loss of my faith.

DenoPenno comments on Apr 13, 2020:

I liked your story and especially one line: **The reason things hadn't been making sense is because it's all nonsense. **

Kurt Vonnegut, Christ-Loving Atheist - Image Journal

DenoPenno comments on Apr 13, 2020:

Thanks for this posting. You reminded me that all this courthouse posting of the Ten Commandments is really about Moses and not Jesus. This is good information to fight believers with but they will switch the Commandments and claim it is really about you and their god. As for Vonnegut, I do remember him. He once wrote a short story called "The Giant Space Fuck" about shooting a rocket into outer space.

Where is the world going from here?

DenoPenno comments on Apr 13, 2020:

This virus will change many things forever but the religious will continue to believe their nonsense and think their invisible god got them through it all. As long as we have those who think the earth is only 6000 years old this will all continue. Once we get away from Evangelicals everyone else that believes will continue to think that bible stories tell us all about life even if they are allegories. The story of Passover is just one of these.

My brother died from this pandemic on march 27 at 4:59 PM in Everet Washington.

DenoPenno comments on Apr 12, 2020:

Sorry for your loss. Grieving is personal and does not have a timeline. Take as much time as you need and do not be pushed by others who want to define your grief. We are all different. I had a wife who died once and a boss who tried to tell me to "snap out of it." A few months later his own wife died in what was to have been a simple surgery. I think as I look back on all this it took me a few years to get back to normal again, if I ever did indeed get back to normal. Take all the time you need.

There are churches which care about their parishioners and communities, like the one across the ...

DenoPenno comments on Apr 12, 2020:

In my area many churches are having services online. This would seem to solve the current pandemic problems for now and from now on.

Kentucky Governor Says In-Person Churchgoers Will Have License Plates Recorded, Be Forced to ...

DenoPenno comments on Apr 12, 2020:

Strangely lots of people are going for this and believe it. I hear that soon you will be stopped coming out of stores you have shopped in to have your cart inspected to see if what you bought was "essential."

Esquire has an article by Charles P.

DenoPenno comments on Apr 12, 2020:

The desires of the current regime and those behind it are to get us all in control and have us all working for them. The current trend does not favor full-time employment as we had in the past. Instead there is some security in computer tech regions and almost zero security in other job markets that are mostly going part-time. This is because "we the people" have become the product. We will continue to produce for them if they give us all sorts of 5G gadgets and more. I've met people who claim they can have it all if they work 3 jobs. Some are trying it. This is Koch and Mercer insanity as currently administered through the Trump Administration. It cannot last and will not last but nobody knows how and when it will end.

Part of my indoctrination as a believer was that humans have souls and other creatures do not.

DenoPenno comments on Apr 12, 2020:

I do not think humans have souls, but rather I believe the bible saying that you became a living soul. All of us are living souls and we therefore can also become a dead soul. A "soul" is not something you have or possess, or was created or born with. It is not some magic invisible butterfly that instantly flies off to god when your body dies. You are the soul alive or dead. Thanks to Saul of Tarsus and a fear of dying this all got turned around and changed into utter nonsense. When you are dead you are dead. Now into modern believers claiming they have a soul and animals do not. This must be some statement against evolution because the believers think they are so much higher than the animals. They think they have souls and the animals do not, but spirit animals are all over the bible. In trying to answer your questions we have fear and cherry picking at their best and nobody facing reality. To go a step farther there are no gods and no heavens or Valhala.

One might say that there is an air of intellectual superiority about enthusiastic libertarians, ...

DenoPenno comments on Apr 12, 2020:

All I know on this is that the Kochs, Mercers, and others like them spend enough money to keep us all from having essential services for everyone and that total amount spent would cover everyone. They waste billions on campaigns of hate and misinformation.

Noriuki 'Pat' Morita 1932-2005 Born in Isleton, California.

DenoPenno comments on Apr 11, 2020:

I remember him well. Maybe not well enough. It is only through your posting that I knew he was dead.

"What influence in fact have Christian ecclesiastical establishments had on civil society?

DenoPenno comments on Apr 11, 2020:

Thanks for the quote. I would say that James Madison seems very accurate even today.

Why the broad disparity in death rates from COVID-19?

DenoPenno comments on Apr 11, 2020:

What I see is the USA as having the most infections because we listen the least. This is also why we have the highest number of deaths. As for percent of deaths most of the rest of the world has a lower healthcare technology. We do not lead in healthcare but we have better technologies generally speaking.

I'll never fathom out the way Christians think! I can understand how the Jewish establishment of ...

DenoPenno comments on Apr 11, 2020:

But it had to be Good Friday. Who is going to die for my sins and how will we explain the death of Jesus?

You know those good people that have it set in their heart, they are going to share their salvation ...

DenoPenno comments on Apr 11, 2020:

I can agree and I do a similar thing. As a former believer I often notice how people claim they can be "moral" without god. I'm not trying to be moral. Morality is most often guided by your societal structure and does not come from gods. Especially the one that tried to kill everybody.

I DECLARE I will choose reason over faith! I will focus on what can be demonstrated to be true.

DenoPenno comments on Apr 11, 2020:

Just keep with it.

I see videos of people praying to god to end the coronavirus.

DenoPenno comments on Apr 11, 2020:

Those wonderful Evangelicals know the answer to this one easily. God has so many different names and it is simply that all of these others do not know the true name of god. This is also how they justify the many different denominations. The JW's are sort of like this too. It also explains why your god hates the same things that you do.

I have to say that baby dedication ceremonies are by far on top of one of the most cultish aspects ...

DenoPenno comments on Apr 11, 2020:

Your last line says it all and your post shows how early this starts with us as well.

Since we like verses so much.

DenoPenno comments on Apr 11, 2020:

God screwed up mostly with humans because he always wanted to destroy them and then have them repopulate again using incest. With that idea in mind he made a way out for us by killing his son. Sounds like a perfect plan.

While I was out trail walking this afternoon I was contemplating a statement attributed to Richard ...

DenoPenno comments on Apr 11, 2020:

I don't know about other subjects but it certainly applies to quantum mechanics. I'm not sure if the cat is both dead and alive at the same time. It might be only dreaming. If this last one is it, the cat may imagine that it can fly.

Brilliant: Best to listen up to America's Best Christian, lol [facebook.com] [youtu.be]

DenoPenno comments on Apr 10, 2020:

I love it.

Takeaway from drump's latest: "Happy Good Friday" everyone, where we party hearty as Jesus is ...

DenoPenno comments on Apr 10, 2020:

Yes, it is Good Friday but it was not good. Not good for Jesus but maybe good for others. Aren't you so glad that somebody else died for you but you still have to die? WTF is that about. Poor Jesus had a bad weekend but woke up in a new glorified body he will have forever and it has scars, wounds, and holes in his hands forevermore. That doesn't sound right. I think he had holes in his feet too. This is all about as bad as the hole in Trump's head.

I suppose that by now, just about everyone on the planet is aware of the COVID 19 Novel Coronavirus ...

DenoPenno comments on Apr 10, 2020:

In the world of the Facebook religious many are claiming to pray their god delivers them, and they claim in nonsense and fear how much they love their god. We all know that Jesus might do something if you give enough thumbs up and likes, but maybe not until that happens. In the meantime just paint your door with lamb's blood so this all knowing deity with know to "passover" you.

In the UK, a woman supporting the opposition party to Boris Johnson's government commented on ...

DenoPenno comments on Apr 10, 2020:

I personally cannot tell you what others deserve as far as COVID-19 is concerned. I'm not a Boris Johnson fan but was actually hoping he would recover. I cannot say I would have this same hope if the infection hit his American look alike. Again, I cannot tell you what other people deserve. Some of us just have different hopes.

If a church holds services and a person get covid an dies can the family sue for wrongful death or ...

DenoPenno comments on Apr 10, 2020:

First to understand is that anyone can sue for any reason. It happens all the time. Can a family sue a church if a person went to a service and got covid? The person who got covid went voluntarily I suppose. Proving just when and where they got this infection would be hard to do. Maybe impossible. Can they sue the pastor? You can always sue somebody but the real issue here is does the church actually own the building. If not and they pay a landlord it would be in his best interest to lock and bar the doors in these bad times of covid so that he, the landlord, could not be sued later.

Keep your fallen friends and family alive in your memories and they will live on in many ways.

DenoPenno comments on Apr 10, 2020:

When you add personality and character you become the soul through your animation. Once dead you no longer have this and will live on mostly in memories of others.

Always thumping our chest to show other species how intelligent and strong we are to other species ...

DenoPenno comments on Apr 10, 2020:

I cope by doing my normal things that I love and they would bore others to tears. I do admit to more depression and anxiety because of our current situation but it has done little to change my lifestyle.

Have we here in Agnostic got ANY right to tell other people what they SHOULD do in any situation?

DenoPenno comments on Apr 10, 2020:

Self isolation is a choice. I was practicing it way before the virus threat came roaring onto the scene. I agree with KKGator in that the best we can do is hope to influence others. We do not always get what we want.

Oh shit, I should've it would too good to be true.

DenoPenno comments on Apr 10, 2020:

I think the Evangeloons ignore the real facts and cherry pick the bible and world events. Very often they are trying to line them up together and view world events as current history. Is a pink moon a blood moon, and is there really going to be a "falling away" caused by some world political leader who has supernatural powers? If you have to have "a mark" in order to buy and sell is that mark your social security number? Is the Devil really Jesus' brother like a Mormon told me? Did we all come from planet Kolob? In my mind the "falling away" came from critical thinking skills and not someone who deceived us. Deceit came through religion.

I was raised as a Christian and only recently became an atheist.

DenoPenno comments on Apr 10, 2020:

Instead of this approach try teaching your young children critical thinking. Do this through biblical talk as well as other ways. Trying to turn them is going to come back and bite you in the ass. Critical thinking religiously might involve asking them if certain things in the bible have ever happened before, and if they think it might happen again. Examples would be talking snakes, talking donkeys, bones of a prophet bringing the dead back to life, people unharmed inside a fiery furnace, etc. this approach can be a sort of bible study. In the end your children will have to make up their own minds. When I look back it was really my parents who decided I was going to be the greatest evangelist who ever lived. They did this after I showed an interest in god and religion. I'm sure this is a factor in my becoming atheist later on. It was a belief in nonsense that finally got me into real critical thinking. This happened because I investigated. Teach young children how to investigate.

“The wise man regulates his conduct by the theories both of religion and science.

DenoPenno comments on Apr 10, 2020:

Science is ever changing but I choose science and reject religion. It seems religion is "never changing" except for the continued interjections of apologists. then we have the idiots who think 2 plus 2 =5.

The shocking confessions of a naturopathic doctor

DenoPenno comments on Apr 9, 2020:

Quacks are out there but keep in mind that the FDA seems to owe a lot to those who have spent millions to prefect a new medication. That tells me plenty. I'm also old enough to remember remedies that worked until the FDA came along and ruined them. This ruination consisted of cutting down on the active ingredients and just as often made you have to have a doctor's prescription to get the product. God forbid that anyone practice medicine without a license.

New here- just joined so apologies if this has been addressed before but I get so sick of everyone ...

DenoPenno comments on Apr 9, 2020:

How about this one. In my dreams I always see Jesus holding the Easter Bunny and the Bunny has his basket. They are both waving at me. Most likely they will comment on how weird you are and you can then cut loose on them with enough facts to make any believer cry.

As US Consigns Iranians to Death, Corporate Media Look the Other Way | FAIR

DenoPenno comments on Apr 9, 2020:

This goes a bit deeper in that I was formerly able to watch Iranian news on their official English channel and now it seems that something is blocking that channel. It loads but is not watchable. Ignoring the certificate qualifications does not solve this problem. As this worldwide mess continues I look for other channels and steams to be blocked as well. Can't prove it yet, but it certainly looks this way. If you hate Iran maybe you don't remember it under the late Shah very well.

Bill O’Reilly: Dead Coronavirus Victims ‘Were On Their Last Legs Anyway’ | HuffPost

DenoPenno comments on Apr 9, 2020:

Bilbo isn't really too smart and he's also on his last legs anyway.

Perhaps this is a bad joke under the circumstances, but I would like to practice social-distancing ...

DenoPenno comments on Apr 9, 2020:

I agree with you fully. With the religious it is happening because they have to know more than you do and they think they have all the facts. Their god hates the same things that they do. Different congregations of them focus on different things as "their truth." Yes, they cherry pick the bible.

How many of you have been told you are going to hell?

DenoPenno comments on Apr 9, 2020:

My stepdad once told me I was going to split hell wide open. I wonder if people could then escape? Wasn't it jesus who reportedly did that?

Louisiana Pastor: 'True Christians Do Not Mind Dying' Of Coronavirus If Infected At Church | ...

DenoPenno comments on Apr 9, 2020:

These true Christians might be like true Scotsmen. It is the logic of this pastor that "proves" true Christians died for their faith close to 2000 years ago. The big problem at that time is Jesus and his followers were mostly Jewish. True believers had not invented the Christian yet. LOL

It really is all Trump's fault, an interesting read from the Atlantic [theatlantic.com]

DenoPenno comments on Apr 9, 2020:

Many of us knew it was Trump's fault even before the election.

Weeks and weeks!!!!

DenoPenno comments on Apr 9, 2020:

Funny. I can already imagine most of them inventing new bullshit.

A friend of mine was wondering what would happen if he (or she) swapped trumps adderall with Vallum?

DenoPenno comments on Apr 9, 2020:

A doctor took a friend of mine off all medications and he killed himself. He had been on many of those meds for most of his life. True story.

Well I’m glad I’m not a Christian! [m.huffpost.com]

DenoPenno comments on Apr 8, 2020:

He's a fool. Whoever owns the building should put a lock on the doors to keep them out. To be absent from the body either means you are dreaming or you are dead.

Hello, I've been MIA for some time but today i needed to be on here.

DenoPenno comments on Apr 8, 2020:

I understand your vent but your friend most likely feels that her religion calls for her to "save and convert you" because that's what religions do. It means she doesn't want you to die and we have to admit the religious think they have all the answers. They are also the most fearful. Let's take another look where the lord worshiper and singer wants to "sing hymns to the lord to save us." Now suppose that this idea could work and here you all are in heaven later singing praises to this lord forever and ever. I would not be happy and the lord must be a narcissistic bastard. Maybe he would even call CNN "fake news."

Not in Kansas anymore

DenoPenno comments on Apr 8, 2020:

The best we can hope for is that Trump keeps forgetting to wash his hands.

Expert: Trump’s ‘deadly’ coronavirus briefings display ‘anti-human’ psychology ...

DenoPenno comments on Apr 8, 2020:

I can expect this from an idiot like Trump. What i did not expect is that some of his supporters now claim COVID-19 is fake and caused by worldwide 5G technology in order to get Trump out of office. As usual, the Democrats and "Deep State" are behind it. How gullible and ate up can you get?

Who avoids discussing religion and spirituality?

DenoPenno comments on Apr 8, 2020:

I can agree with your every word. One of my long time friends that I met around age 12 or 13 remains religious and recently he was talking to me on how he is so comforted by reading in Daniel about the fiery furnace and those inside unhurt and untouched. I'm thinking it is time for that eye roll again. My mind asks how would anyone ever take this as being real in any way. I suppose it represents his belief that Jesus protects him. Again, my mind asks "in what way, and protection from what?" (Yes, friends. I attribute my well being to a doodilly do, or you can call it whatever you want to.) Meanwhile in FB again I find that Jesus and the Devil are arm wrestling and the ones that post it claim only true believers will re-post this on their page. Many of us forget that Jesus will do something for you but only after he gets enough likes and thumbs up. I think I was born into the wrong world but I do remember being one of these years ago.

Well sure.

DenoPenno comments on Apr 8, 2020:

**Think Trump University on steroids, only this time we all stand to be the victims.** The above sentence from this article is my take on it all right now. It is amazing to me that so many people pretend to think this asshole is a decent man.

According to this recent article the toilet paper shortage is really caused by everyone now taking a...

DenoPenno comments on Apr 7, 2020:

Everyone hoards it but I suppose nobody wants to learn more about it and why, or to see how to industry works. I learned a lot reading this.

Taking a wider view, it's clear that different cultures at different times invent whatever gods they...

DenoPenno comments on Apr 7, 2020:

I never understood it. They once tried to scam me into it many years ago, but L. Ron Hubbard was an alcoholic science fiction writer. He always wanted to start a religion. I'm not sure how you get around those facts and crazy beliefs as well.

Here’s my conundrum about Easter and Passover.

DenoPenno comments on Apr 7, 2020:

Jesus claimed that he would not change "one jot or tittle" of the law. Modern believers claim that he abolished or "fulfilled" the law by his death and resurrection. Maybe they forgot that he was Jewish and not Baptist or Pentecostal. This is what now sets us free. His glorious sacrifice of himself. Let's try a new look. They wanted to explain why Jesus died. As for Easter and Passover keep in mind that these are religious holidays and they change from year to year on any known calender. This is a solid fact. Now tell me when Jesus died. What year was it? We have no idea when Jesus was born or when he died but believers will fight you tooth and nail and claim you are lying. In this time of COVID-19 it might be wise to put a little lamb's blood on your door post anyway.

A Landlord of a Church Locks Doors to Save Lives LockWNvbnRpbnVlLXRvLWhvbGQtc2VydmljZXMiLCJwbHVn

DenoPenno comments on Apr 7, 2020:

The landlord should lock the building. It is the only thing he can do to legally protect himself.

Experiment finds that gravity still works down to 50 micrometers Sensitive gravity test fails to ...

DenoPenno comments on Apr 7, 2020:

I am aware that gravity still works. I have no "faith" in it as the religious want to claim, but I've never been able to fly either. If you are holding a ball and drop it I am aware of what will happen to that ball every time.

Unemployment projections. [agnostic.com]

DenoPenno comments on Apr 7, 2020:

I have social security and a part time employment that is considered essential. Because of virus fears the job is "iffy" and up and down right now. I have the most seniority in what I do but yet I have the fewest hours. What will happen? Flip a coin.

Bible stories may not be factual - but they are nonetheless true

DenoPenno comments on Apr 7, 2020:

**Bible stories may not be factual - but they are nonetheless**-- an alternative fact and we all know that alternative facts are not facts at all. They are lies. I mean, let's face facts. Is it true that the bones of Elijah the prophet brought a dead man back to life? There is only one answer to that question. Now get productive and search bible verses for some other non-truths. There are plenty of them in there.

CNN Host To Pastor: How Is It 'Pro-Life' To Pack People Into Church Amid Pandemic?

DenoPenno comments on Apr 6, 2020:

Christians are stubborn to the end. The way they approach this pandemic is like they approach their persecution. They believe they are persecuted because their book says they will be. They remain stubborn in ways that brings on the persecution, especially in other countries. In this time of COVID-19 they claim the right to worship freely because if you limit their worship it is persecution to them. Let's go a step further and also call it stupidity.

These Two Guys Belong in a Rubber Room: [facebook.com]

DenoPenno comments on Apr 6, 2020:

This SOB didn't see anything and no god showed him anything. He had a politically motivated dream that is in reality all pro-Donald Trump. I would imagine it all came from a script to keep this nonsense going. If you want to believe him you will continue to go along with Cult 45 baloney. The other man here died and went to heaven. Yada, yada, yada. No he didn't. Make you a bet his body stayed right here all the time and he never went anywhere. So much for Evangelicals and supernatural scammers in a world turned upside down today.

Teens charged with hate crimes for attacking a woman on a bus and saying she caused coronavirus, ...

DenoPenno comments on Apr 6, 2020:

I wish they could also charge the teens with assault, ignorance, and stupidity. Were the teens wearing a mask? Probably they were just bullying. Trump is causing this by what he says and allows in this hard time. People need to stop taking what he says as normal and call him out on it for every single incident of this kind. Why? Because it is not normal. He is promoting hatred and fear.

Why is this app called “Agnostic”?

DenoPenno comments on Apr 6, 2020:

God cannot be proven either way. Does or does not a god exist. No proof and nobody knows. As for me I'm an agnostic atheist. Some people want to post and argue those two terms forever and "have it their way." It comes up in our forums often. I stand my ground that there is no proof of any gods and if you have proof then you must present it. This has never been done with gods of any kind, and yes, this includes the Christian god.

Loading supplies to Vasco Da Gama is for its journey to Tilbury, UK from Fremantle, Australia.

DenoPenno comments on Apr 6, 2020:

Good job.

The two books that seem to summarize perfectly my world based on both how I view our place as humans...

DenoPenno comments on Apr 6, 2020:

The Selfish Gene. I understand this but some selfish genes might be needed along the way for survival. What we are seeing in the world today goes a little further than that. Nobody needs 10 yachts and all the other nonsense that goes with it, all to the detriment of others. I find no empathy or compassion. Years ago I was impressed with Carl Sagan's "The Demon Haunted World." I first read it as a religious believer but I could not put it down and agreed with it.

Found this on the web and had to share. HOw good is this one

DenoPenno comments on Apr 5, 2020:

It could not have happened to a nicer man.

Is it just me.

DenoPenno comments on Apr 5, 2020:

I have no idea. Your words do not even match the picture.

Trump “has blood on his hands,” says Pulitzer-winning Boston Globe – People's World

DenoPenno comments on Apr 5, 2020:

Very true but let me defend Trump by starting to talk about everybody else. That's how his supporters do it.

The Americans defying Palm Sunday quarantines: "Satan's trying to keep us apart"

DenoPenno comments on Apr 5, 2020:

Many people's belief overrides their common sense. This is another example of god just not knowing how far Satan would go with this.

Is anyone else watching the new TV show "Unorthodox" on Netflix?

DenoPenno comments on Apr 5, 2020:

I have not watched it but I can identify. My opinion is that we have these type communities and others like Mormonism extremes that people claim we should avoid and yet, our population at large wants us all to be religious and "founded on religion" but it simply is not true. My religious friend now goes to a Baptist church where I'm sure he does not fall on the floor and flop around speaking in tongues but yet he thinks he is "right." He agrees with me on Evangelicals but that is where he came from. His opinions still have that typical Evangelical bias in almost every area. Religious evolution is often very slow and the current American regime wants to stop it and highjack religion to use against us. The new "cult" wants us to believe freedom of religion is why we came here and stop or prevent anything involving women or religious freedom.

This landed on me today.

DenoPenno comments on Apr 5, 2020:

Your last paragraph summed it all up beautifully. I've read a bit on SARS and how we got it, then how we had no cure or vaccine and it suddenly just stopped. I'm beginning to think we can view SARS-CO-2 which we call COVID-19 as a mutation maybe. I don't know and I'm not a scientist but this might mean SARS has returned and it is very scary. We need to take this very seriously because I'm not so sure we know very much about it yet and it is killing us.

This more or less sums up Donald Trump's anti-science approach to prioritizing the economy over ...

DenoPenno comments on Apr 5, 2020:

We know Trump's worry and that is the economy, but the economy is fried already. This started about the time it became totally manipulated.

Trump asks medical supply firm 3M to stop selling N95 respirators to Canada [nationalpost.

DenoPenno comments on Apr 5, 2020:

If you wanna know if it's true just follow the Trump Tweets. They change often and even contradict each other. In my mind this totally defines the Orange Turd. in FB my relatives are posting on how I want to see Trump fail and they immediately start talking about other people. If you wanna see "Trump Fail" just look at all his failed businesses.

I just love how creative some people have gotten.

DenoPenno comments on Apr 4, 2020:

I'm just at home doing the things I normally do. others would be bored to death but I'm just trying to figure out their insanity. People are afraid of death and the religious are now showing that the worst as they want to claim this pandemic as Armageddon. My long time buddy knows it for sure coz his Buybull told him. LOL

A raging example of why I've had quite enough of all this religious BS.

DenoPenno comments on Apr 4, 2020:

OMG! Ate up, ate up. I only knew one of the ones who made me because I never did meet my real father. At least, not that I know of. Talking to god is not necessarily a good idea. Too many people already have voices in their heads. I can't believe that she wants you to talk to her god and then dictates what she wants you to tell him. My best guess is that she would feel so much better if both of you thought and believed the same. I have news! Both of you are different and separate people so this last one is impossible. It will never happen. How would you ever know if 2 people felt or believed the same? All you would know is that they seemed to band together in social settings.

Pentagon Orders All Installations to Stop Reporting COVID-19 Infections and Deaths The Pentagon ...

DenoPenno comments on Apr 4, 2020:

True. I don't see that the United States has helped one country yet with COVID-19. I'm still trying to figure out the Zumwalt destroyers part and I assume the captain who was relieved of his duties really wanted medical attention for his men. The Trump Pentagon makes it sound as if he gave out some strategic information that could jeopardize a peaceful mission or something. What I see in jeopardy is the future of a man who doesn't even have the ability to read a script the same way twice. The often COVID-19 updates that have so much conflicting information are an ego outreach of Trump's weekend rallies that he cannot do right now.

My mother keep on telling me that I should believe in Christ.

DenoPenno comments on Apr 4, 2020:

Similar treatment has resulted in my distancing myself from my parents who also decided that god had called me to preach. I view their interactions with me as a cause of much pain. Mom has been dead 14 years now and my stepdad is demented and in a nursing home. I last saw him well over a year ago.

Near death experience

DenoPenno comments on Apr 4, 2020:

Having a "near death" experience in no way means that anyone has died. Keep in mind also that the person having said experience never really went anywhere else.

It's a great thing for your peace of mind and mental health if you love where you live.

DenoPenno comments on Apr 3, 2020:

I love where I live simply because of my cheap mortgage . What i have does not work for everybody but it works for me.

Colorado AG steps in after Hobby Lobby defies COVID-19 stay-at-home order

DenoPenno comments on Apr 3, 2020:

It's all about the money, or it can also be about your religious death wish coming true. My religious friend thinks this is all in the book of Revelation and Hobby Lobby founders would agree with him even though there is nothing about our country in that book. Having to know helped infect them all with the death wish. They set back all full of "I told you so" hoping to see this happen. The end is near!

Today I will get my two new hens: Frieda VonSmeekinChicken (a Barred Rock) and Little Chicken Annie ...

DenoPenno comments on Apr 3, 2020:

Good luck. I saw my older daughter the nurse on April 1st. Just got in the car and drove over there. Her job is essential and they say my delivery job is too, so I have no fear. I try not to be stupid but i have no fear.

We shouldn’t hate Christ as a person in spite of what his philosophy has done to humanity over the...

DenoPenno comments on Apr 3, 2020:

Who was Christ? Isn't this just a title? It is hard for me to hate a forever mythical personage just because someone declared that he was god. There are many different gods. I have studied the bible and read it through. The problem is that the older I got the more I discovered that I do not believe in any of these gods.

Its about time for the President's Press Cartoon.

DenoPenno comments on Apr 3, 2020:

Trump does this repeatedly as a "COVID-19" update but what is really going on is a substitute for his many rallies that he wants to do so badly. This is why Trump and the team contradict each other even in one broadcast update. It's almost hilarious. The problem is that lives are at stake. This morning on Dave Weinbaum's talk show I heard how it's the Democrats now putting out this false info about Trump and because of it he can't do his job. Surprise! He is not doing a good job. He can't stop lying even in these updates. Then Dave says he thinks this will all peak or blow over in the next 10 days. Surprise again! The virus will not peak in all areas at one time. This is just common sense and it could go on for many months. The last thing I heard this morning is that they want a "cure" and think we are going to get one. Let me know how that is working. Do we have cures for the common cold, flu, or SARS? No, but we have vaccines for them. If I get a yearly flu shot will it help me or not? This is all 50/50 but I take the gamble because I don't want the flu. There is so much that we do not know but SARS-CO-2 is COVID-19. It does not matter where or how this variant came into being except in the fact of trying to control it. Like the others, it will also mutate.

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DenoPenno comments on Apr 3, 2020:

This song describes it for many of us. I view COVID-19 as the beginning of the New World Order. There is nothing about it that is religious but those behind it will use the religious to their own advantage. The outcome is more control and less freedom. You and I will have less freedom.

This is how a church should be. Your thoughts?

DenoPenno comments on Apr 3, 2020:

Glad you got something out of it and got to see old friends. As for me, the farther away from a church I am the better off I am. Farther along we'll know all about it Farther along we'll understand why Cheer up my brother live in the sunshine We'll understand it all by and by The old song is true. I no longer go to church because I am farther along than before. I no longer have a candle or a little light that is mine.

Spring allergies, a cold or COVID-19?

DenoPenno comments on Apr 3, 2020:

Thanks for your posting. This should help many of us because I think we are in times where we ask ourselves "do I have Covid-19." Probably not, but at least we remain aware. Sorry for your suffering.