Republicans’ ‘No Quid Pro Quo’ Defense of Trump Collapses [nymag.

DenoPenno comments on Oct 4, 2019:

As the truth slowly comes forward I find that his base has even gotten more silent and clumsy on Facebook. Elsewhere on conservative talk radio the claim is that the Dems want to "steal an election" and deny Trump his re-election. This makes a great many of them so very angry. As usual, it's all Hillary and Obama's fault in some way or it might be another distraction issue. The plea of Trump supporters is that we have to understand that impeachment hurts our government. I guess it was all different when it was Bill Clinton. Many are telling me that it is so hard to find conservative news in the world today. I wonder if they looked at Germany in 1940? Drumpf.

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DenoPenno comments on Oct 4, 2019:

So, without mass we have no space-time? Eliminate mass and you can time travel. Right now that is only in your head.

America’s Founders Wanted Church And State To Be Separate And So Should You

DenoPenno comments on Oct 4, 2019:

People must really be afraid when they want Sunday School moved into the public educational system. This is the only way I have ever understood it.

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DenoPenno comments on Oct 4, 2019:

No person should feel unworthy. Religions should not divide families.

When you have to self-label, do you describe yourself as an agnostic, skeptic, non-believer--or ...

DenoPenno comments on Oct 4, 2019:

Atheist or non-believer.

My father was excommunicated from the catholic church for having a vasectomy in defiance of the ...

DenoPenno comments on Oct 4, 2019:

Your father should not have made it known that he had a vasectomy.

I just got into a debate with someone about Jesus' crucifixion being God's Will, hypothetically.

DenoPenno comments on Oct 3, 2019:

Followers had no idea what to do with the death of Jesus until Paul started his lying. Yes, Paul, who never even met the man.

I often find it extremely mind-boggling just how many "Christians" have never read the Bible.

DenoPenno comments on Oct 3, 2019:

The truth is that the believers go to church maybe twice a week and they leave it up to the preacher to tell them what is in the bible. Needless to say there is a lot of cherry picking and jumping around. If you do not like what one church tells you, go to another.

I'm at my mother's death bed, and I'm politely having to keep my mouth shut.

DenoPenno comments on Oct 2, 2019:

What is important here at your mother's death bed is close friends and relatives that believe as your mother does regardless of what her beliefs are. This is not the time or place for any ritual by your new age wife. She can figure it out with spirits leaving later on. If she wants to be a part of this she should go along with the majority right now.

What if Jesus was really black?

DenoPenno comments on Oct 2, 2019:

I no longer try to make a case for Jesus of any color. What would it matter? Your idea of whether black slavery would have happened or not if Jesus was black is about as lame as saying if Jesus was a Jew why did the holocaust happen. Everybody knows Jesus was Jeffrey Hunter. He was the only white man in Jerusalem. :)

Do any of you listen to David Ramsy?

DenoPenno comments on Oct 2, 2019:

I do not listen to or watch any person who is trying to tell me something about money. Somewhere along the way it all involves money even if it is just your ticket money to the event.

I grew up as a Christian but never felt like it was right.

DenoPenno comments on Oct 2, 2019:

Salvation from what? Religions do not offer me anything nor do they explain things either. I went to religion in my early teens because my parents were into it and at the time I thought it was valid. Today I see how little people really know and I do not believe all these who are "praying for you." I do not need any principals to live by or anything that guides me. I have no rulebook and I'm not lost. Wait. let me change some of this. I am lost today because I think the entire world has went insane! I'm serious. It's hard to even have a decent conversation these days without somebody wanting to talk about the invisible man. Dead men guide them and they cannot live without him, Jebus who is his own father/son. Oh, well. I'm my own grandpa. But I guess being pagan is OK.

Considered one of the top 10 movie ending lines.

DenoPenno comments on Oct 2, 2019:

The greatest trick the devil ever pulled was to convince the world that he did not exist. Yet, he is in scripture and my bibble says he runs about as a roaring lion seeking those whom he can devour. So much for said truths and biblical truths. Anyone see the contradiction? When they do this number on you in churches the pastor cherry picks.

Atheism Is Inconsistent with the Scientific Method, Prizewinning Physicist Says - Scientific ...

DenoPenno comments on Oct 2, 2019:

Sorry. Atheism is not inconsistent with the scientific method. Atheism demands evidence and science does also. Religion is static and never changing in doctrine. Science is ever changing.

As an active volunteer for the American Cross and a number of other groups in the city I live in I ...

DenoPenno comments on Oct 2, 2019:

I have no suggestions and I mostly stay away from senior centers or community centers. I'm not into people who talk Trump and "fake news." Not into a bar scene or nonsense in general. I found an interesting woman recently at a food pantry that also sells used items and I went back later coz I thought she worked there. Not so. She was a customer just like I was and was there looking for bargains. If I knew this at the time I would have asked her out to lunch.

It always gets weirder after midnight.

DenoPenno comments on Oct 2, 2019:

You were correct here and I would have imagined a setup for a robbery.

Robert Jeffress Goes All In on “Civil War” The evangelical pastor and Trump loyalist has had ...

DenoPenno comments on Oct 2, 2019:

"Can't read or either too stupid to understand" and yet he thinks we worship Moloch. What a dumbass.

This is fascinating.

DenoPenno comments on Oct 2, 2019:

This is true and they only teach that Onan is guilty of masturbation because he "spilled his seed on the ground." Kellogg and the entire Christian world (at least in America) do not understand the sin here. In many cultures if a brother dies it is the duty of the living brother to impregnate the widow so there will be children in that family. Onan did not obey.

In Christianity, we are told have to need God first and then we are told that God will fill the ...

DenoPenno comments on Oct 2, 2019:

A god shaped hole in my heart. Was it fired by a god shaped gun? My heart only pumps blood. it has no other known function.

Fox News Poll Shows America Is 'Exhausted' And Wants Trump Gone

DenoPenno comments on Oct 2, 2019:

I am exhausted and want Trump gone. All of his "only the best people" appear to be throwing him under the bus, and most Trumpers pretend they do not get it on this Ukrainian phone call. I have even explained it to some and they still do not get it. Biden, Hillary, and Obama still come up.

If you were a religious person before, and you had the chance to go back in time and do things ...

DenoPenno comments on Oct 2, 2019:

Our experiences make us what we are today but I would erase my past religious experience if I could. This has one danger. If I never had my time with religion in the first place I might be easily drawn back into it. As it is now that will never happen.

i’ve been thinking about the theist idea (specifically christian because i know that religion ...

DenoPenno comments on Oct 2, 2019:

As a young teen I got into religion. I was certain that the older adults knew this god thing was right and was real. I found out later that I was wrong. Many religious people pride themselves in "not sinning" but they know if they do sin they can take it to Jebus right away and be forgiven. To me this is no more than play acting. Why would I feel that my life now is a preparation for my death which is going to be my real life? Why would i worship a being that has my days planned and all laid out from cradle to grave? So much in religion is simply idiocracy.

Dating religious people

DenoPenno comments on Oct 2, 2019:

Religious people always bring invisible mythical beings into play. This is how they justify anything that they do. It is their way out of taking real responsibility. Dump him and let it go.

I think we are just another piece of the universe our energy never fades the shell holding it ...

DenoPenno comments on Oct 1, 2019:

I always wonder where the energy went when the light bulb gets turned off. It just stops. Many of us need to think on that one.

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DenoPenno comments on Oct 1, 2019:

This hits it. Trumpers in my family keep telling me that I believe all "fake news." They believe Donald so much that I have to school them on fake news and how Trump came to use the term because media said nothing nice about him. In no way does the term imply that Donald Trump has some secret source of real news in the world today. Many still do not believe me.

I am curious to know how many of you maintain friendships with religious people (particularly those ...

DenoPenno comments on Oct 1, 2019:

Most of my family that matters are dead, or like my stepdad, not in their right minds. As for my daughters, they both claim to "believe in their own way." I keep telling them this is what is wrong with religion in the first place. If you do not believe that god did blah blah blah for me I will go someplace else where they do believe it. Such is the nature of religion.

people who want to refuse care to patients due to personal or religious beliefs don't belong in the ...

DenoPenno comments on Oct 1, 2019:

Exactly so, and those who will not honor a "morning after" pill prescription should not be in a pharmacy. Does that type of rebellion mean they could not even sell you condoms? These people are simply doing a religious protest and they are in the wrong profession.

One of the most annoying things about Christians is their insistence that god takes care of ...

DenoPenno comments on Sep 30, 2019:

Why would god change any of his plan just for her?

Love it when these republican assholes lose it

DenoPenno comments on Sep 30, 2019:

Me too. Imagine Trump on the crapper and tweeting out his hate at 3 AM. Nobody else does that, and then they have the gall to tell us we are full of anger and hatred.

Good question why

DenoPenno comments on Sep 30, 2019:

Conservatives often find that they have no evidence and therefore no argument so they have to make you look small and not believable. Very often they simply make up their evidence and continue to tell others they are the ones with fake news.

Opinions please why besides self comfort do you think people believe that praying does anything?

DenoPenno comments on Sep 30, 2019:

They were told that praying made a difference and if it appears that nothing happened they can always say we do not know the mind of god or why he does things as he does.

Sad but true.

DenoPenno comments on Sep 30, 2019:

Today's Trumper GOP bought and paid for by Charles Koch.

Why is it that religious people think saying “well that was Old Testament” is a valid argument ...

DenoPenno comments on Sep 30, 2019:

They get away with this because they think Jesus changed everything. Many cherry-pick to try and prove it.

And some of these countries they interfered with more than once.

DenoPenno comments on Sep 30, 2019:

But of course. You get whomever you want in power and then you can rape the land. You tell the story that you are fighting communism.

Winnie the Pooh

DenoPenno comments on Sep 30, 2019:

Looks good.

CHRIST'S VENTRILOQUISTS: The Event that Created Christianity — Eric Zuesse Has anyone read this...

DenoPenno comments on Sep 30, 2019:

I have to read this. It would be a good book and it goes right along with my thinking. Paul was the anti-christ that we take differently today.

Trashy much?

DenoPenno comments on Sep 30, 2019:

The modern Trumper simply does not want to hear it. Their minds are made up and to make you look bad they have to insult you, then claim you are doing this to them. It's amazing!

And the map is fake. That's not from 2016.

DenoPenno comments on Sep 30, 2019:

Fake map.

NO! Just fucking, no! If the WB is smart they will stand firm and refuse.

DenoPenno comments on Sep 30, 2019:

The whistleblower has no reason to meet Trump at all even if Trump has demanded it. Truck Trump! Oh, sorry. I spelled that wrong.

Well.

DenoPenno comments on Sep 30, 2019:

You do have the strength but it will take time. It's a shame that it came to this. Sometimes delusions are very strong.

What a change time makes

DenoPenno comments on Sep 29, 2019:

Then let's restore honor ASAP. Time to Dump Trump.

Has anyone actually paid for Match.com or is it the load of garbage I think it is?

DenoPenno comments on Sep 29, 2019:

I've read most of the posts here and what others are saying is true. In my own experience I have also noted that if sites suddenly get a foreign owner your local choices disappear. You might have state choices only. It is a business and really not for your satisfaction.

Giuliani admits administration knowledge of affair

DenoPenno comments on Sep 29, 2019:

Before too long it will be these other people that made that phone call. Why Not? Right now they are trying to get Trump off the hook by claiming it was their idea on this "something for something" venture.

Good news and bad news! My hubby sort-of sees my side about the Bible and God not being a good ...

DenoPenno comments on Sep 29, 2019:

Your journey on this will be slow and tedious. You cannot force them to see it your way but you can openly discuss and the focus should be your immediate household. Do not do this in anger or allow anger in responses. Use logic.

Going to be a bumpy ride

DenoPenno comments on Sep 29, 2019:

I think they should come up with fake identities and do a non-disclosure agreement.

Houston-area pastor charged with sexually abusing 13-year-old girl | khou.com

DenoPenno comments on Sep 29, 2019:

Then that must make it alright, Huh?

Stephen Miller gets his head handed to him

DenoPenno comments on Sep 29, 2019:

I do not like Stephen Miller and he needs to be called out on this. Of course he has no answer, but it appears Trump trusts Rudy more than his own government. If Deep State existed as Trumpers say it does Trump would be dead.

Republican: Sick People Don’t Deserve Affordable Care

DenoPenno comments on Sep 29, 2019:

I have no doubt that they believe it. I've also heard that if you have no healthcare you should not get sick.

This is an encouraging story on CRITICAL THINKING vs dumbing down of America! I hope parents don't ...

DenoPenno comments on Sep 29, 2019:

Good article because some people seem to believe that if Trump is impeached we get rid of both Trump and Pence. Not so. I feel that trump's big problem with impeachment is that it will be a stain on his fabricated perfect record.

First snow of the season and it's still September!

DenoPenno comments on Sep 29, 2019:

I'm in Missouri but this means I have to hurry and finish painting my back porch.

Missouri man flies to California, sets 13 wildfires, and tries to fly home, cops say

DenoPenno comments on Sep 29, 2019:

Trump Derangement Syndrome for sure. Without proof I assert that the man hates liberal California and is most likely following politics from the far right. Yes, he is mentally ill but let us hope it does not interfere with his prison time.

Do You Hate God? | The Life and Times of Bruce Gerencser

DenoPenno comments on Sep 29, 2019:

I agree with this man's words as I read them but I do not give the god concept enough consideration to be able to hate an invisible imaginary being. This guy needs to do an honest study for himself of how we got the bible. I did and I'm a preacher no more. Bible study is good for making you atheist. I cannot hate imaginary beings. Well, maybe Zeus. :)

Amazing how there are still people out there that think banning books is a good thing.

DenoPenno comments on Sep 29, 2019:

We all know that ban them as you may, some of them are still out there someplace. Sooner or later a team will be put together to go door to door and look. Beware!

Haiti has been racked by corruption forever .

DenoPenno comments on Sep 29, 2019:

Me too, but we all know that Haiti made some damned deal with invisible beings many years ago and this is why the main invisible being does not bless them. Pat Robertson will tell you that.

Is thinking that consciousness is a product of a vibrating universe a backdoor belief in God?

DenoPenno comments on Sep 29, 2019:

A vibrating universe and consciousness? OK.

Why is my boyfriend silent during sex? Your thoughts?

DenoPenno comments on Sep 29, 2019:

I'm not very vocal during sex but I do talk. I don't need anything like the movies provide for us as it is disrespectful and crude.

I cannot get over the circular reasoning of the good book being good because it says it is.

DenoPenno comments on Sep 29, 2019:

It is simply not a good book. I refuse to debate or discuss it but I do encourage others to Google all they can about "how we got the bible." Do not use church approved literature for this as it will be biased in favor of that church or religion. You will go in circles. Be aware that our bible came into existence some 300 plus years after the time of Jesus. Also be aware that in the 1700's it was believed that there was a "fountain of youth" in Florida. Many tried to find it, and that was just 300 plus years ago.

The Scientific Method and Quantum Physics

DenoPenno comments on Sep 29, 2019:

Maybe you can just believe what you want to and the cat is both present and gone, alive and dead all at the same time. Does that bring us back to 'god did it" or just wishful thinking?

I asked a question earlier about the biggest difference atheism/agnosticism has made in people's ...

DenoPenno comments on Sep 29, 2019:

You may have depression and anxiety when you are a non-believer because you are so isolated and alone. I have it all the time but I cannot go back ever. I could never bow my head and start talking to myself, or ever put my hopes and desires onto an invisible man. I could never want that mythical man to do anything to others that do not agree with me, and once I was Pentecostal. Many do not believe it and I get the usual "angry at god" responses along with other nonsense.

“I don’t know who put all of this in motion.

DenoPenno comments on Sep 29, 2019:

Perhaps all of this was always in motion. If so, that would be the awe of it all.

In the past I have often hypothesized that religion, with its emphasis on unquestioned belief and ...

DenoPenno comments on Sep 29, 2019:

Believers in religions are predisposed to being gullible. Religions do not belong in government systems but are often there to lead and direct the people in certain ways. I have put myself in a position of non-delusional to avoid all of this. I am not concerned in any way with the invisible man and I do not believe your life starts after you die. If you switch this over to science it appears that science backs me up.

Democrats Predict Speedy Impeachment Inquiry Lasting Weeks, Not 'Months'

DenoPenno comments on Sep 29, 2019:

The current GOP says you cannot indict a sitting president. This is how Trump remains in power so far and is the real Teflon Don. This is why the Mueller report went as it did. In Trump's Ukraine phone call he is plainly asking "something for something" and shortly before that he withheld money from the Ukrainian government. The Ukraine will investigate in their own way now with hopes that in the end they will get the money. Anyone can see that Trump is asking a foreign power for help in his upcoming 2020 re-election campaign. This is illegal and against our rule of law. This is enough to remove Trump if people simply take a stand of "country first" and just be adults and grow up. If Trump is removed Pence will still be the one to fill in as president. This is true whether we like it or not. Biden was VP under Obama when he threated to withhold the Ukraine's money if they did not fire a special prosecutor investigating his son. They fired the man and put Biden's son on an oil company board of directors. Please note that Biden was not running for POTUS or re-election at that time regardless of what you think of this complicated deal in American politics. Trump and his supporters miss this point deliberately. They too have "Trump Derangement Syndrome" in so much that anything about Trump is also about those before Trump. It's all others in government, Obama, Hillary, etc. and never Trump. The swamp that poor Trump is trying to drain here is a plea to get rid of his competition for the upcoming 2020. This all came public in July and Rudy and the others behind it should have known. Sometimes you just can't fix stupid.

Dating on line can be a rough time with the religious folks who don't mention in their profile about...

DenoPenno comments on Sep 29, 2019:

These people need a sense of community and their club allows them to instantly bow their heads and start talking to themselves. Rather than feel silly they think they have the higher ground and great morality while you have nothing because you do not know the invisible man. In cases of believer conflict you can find many times that a preacher or minister type has come into a situation to help bust up a couple and everyone thinks this was god's will. Pursue love and relationships with believers at your own peril.

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DenoPenno comments on Sep 28, 2019:

Three things have kept America going now for many years. One of them is the sale of armaments here and worldwide. You can throw in the fact that America is an oil company with an Army, and also the fact that a war on drugs might help control the competition. Once that gets rolling those in power do not want it to stop.

Came across this pic and it is true...

DenoPenno comments on Sep 28, 2019:

Very credible and also at Trump rallies the ones up front close to him are "hired" to make it look good on TV. That may be where this pic came from. Face facts here. Do people on their own plan these little cutesy things or do they have to be a part of the program?

AOC is too young, too naive, too ready to think what she already “knows” is all the truth there ...

DenoPenno comments on Sep 28, 2019:

"We need reason based in a reality born of experience." Good luck with that as we have not had it in a very long time.

GREAT NEWS ATHEIST WE have found scientific proof of immortality.

DenoPenno comments on Sep 28, 2019:

A jellyfish that can live forever. Was it born, or how did it get here? Give me proof of forever.

Timeline: The alarming pattern of actions by Trump included in whistleblower allegations - The ...

DenoPenno comments on Sep 28, 2019:

People that used to say organized crime got JFK in the White House should do a recall starting about 2015 to get the real picture. Casinos that lose money and sooo many failed businesses. What does that add up to?

Photos of pollution before we regulated it, our future if we don't act

DenoPenno comments on Sep 28, 2019:

What they forget here is that we do a take on pollution and want to fight the pollution while the real pollution is the oligarchy that has taken control of out government. This is the Koch brothers and friends sneaking in inch by inch in ways that make you think they are for us. What they are really all about is getting rid of anything that would keep them from raping the land and ripping out minerals for profit without restrictions of any kind. This is why the EPA is weakened at every turn. They want an America like we had in 1900. This is because they do not give a damn about you, your land or water, your food, or your healthcare. Right now Trump is their agent of change.

Russia reacts to "humiliating" Trump Ukraine call, says scandal is making U.

DenoPenno comments on Sep 28, 2019:

Russia is wrong. The USA became a laughing stock when Donald Trump was elected.

Maybe we should listen to them

DenoPenno comments on Sep 28, 2019:

Of course we should listen. Trump's phone call was a "something for something" in that he is asking a foreign power to help him in his 2020 re-election by going against a man who would be his major competition. This is against the U.S. rule of law and has to be dealt with accordingly. Trumpers want to skip that entirely and avoid it. The problem is that this is not the first time Trump has done such a thing. Will the Ukraine now investigate? Of course they will. They will claim they are doing this in their own way but secretly they hope that Trump might change his mind on the withheld money.

For the upcoming fight

DenoPenno comments on Sep 28, 2019:

I think they are lemmings afraid that if they do the right thing someone will withhold vacation donations and other related monies that come form the outside as gifts. Let's hope that I am wrong.

I turned 56 a couple of days ago.

DenoPenno comments on Sep 28, 2019:

You look fine to me regardless of what label you claim. :) Belated Happy Birthday.

Chris Wallace on the whistleblower

DenoPenno comments on Sep 28, 2019:

Current media claims this whole thing is shifting again and Trump support increases. The idea is that Trump supporters will end up backing him and the impeachment only makes him stronger for 2020. OK, he is backed by the invisible Cambridge Analytica and many people from it. Am I surprised? It's not like his supporters would now turn away from him. The bottom line is that Donald Trump will see any impeachment effort as a stain against him and will do anything to make it all go away. As for the actual whistleblower: 1. Identified once as a woman left over from Obama days. 2. Identified lately as a man who was formerly with the CIA. OMG, we have to discredit that whistleblower.

and thus it starts

DenoPenno comments on Sep 28, 2019:

A plea deal. Well, OK - resign!

Is this the situation with the majority of Agnostics.

DenoPenno comments on Sep 28, 2019:

If it was all about "getting likes" I would lose out for sure. At least I find more reasonable people here on this site.

Whats the biggest difference being atheist/agnostic has made in your life so far?

DenoPenno comments on Sep 28, 2019:

It has allowed me to see how controlled by myth we really are and given me total freedom on so many things. The scales were removed from my eyes and like Johnny Nash, "I Can See Clearly Now."

This happened at the private "Christian" school where Mike Pence's wife teaches.

DenoPenno comments on Sep 28, 2019:

Were the boys expelled from school? They should have been and the parents should have been told exactly why by the school administration. The boys said her hair was "nappy" and ugly. White people know very little about "nappy" hair or what it means. They are racist. Try the Urban Dictionary.

Top Ukrainian Official Throws Trump Under The Bus, Spills The Beans On Phone Call - YouTube

DenoPenno comments on Sep 27, 2019:

A bit of past Trump truth here. Tim Apple. Tim Cook Apple real fast. Tim really likes cooked apples.

NC Republicans making their case that laws should be based on the Bible, in this case to ignore the...

DenoPenno comments on Sep 27, 2019:

I agree totally and I do not support them. I am non-delusional. BTW, anyone who wants to use my below listed anti-Trump words please feel free to do so. **Tim Apple. Tim Cook Apple real fast. Tim loves cooked apples**. It is when you defend that sort of nonsense from a leader and add religion that you know we are all in trouble.

A Miscarrying Woman Nearly Died After a Catholic Hospital Sent Her Home Three Times - Rewire.News

DenoPenno comments on Sep 27, 2019:

Always use a liberal healthcare system. I would never want to be treated in a Catholic hospital. Religious belief and hospitals do not mix and could get you killed.

Sam Harris podcast discussing if we are living in an Ancestor simulation.

DenoPenno comments on Sep 27, 2019:

Are we living in a simulation and why would we think so? But of course. Every single one of us does the very same things all the time every day and every night 24/7. We eat, drink, sleep, etc. regardless of race or culture. Our computers are made with the same limitations our minds have and we all repeat, repeat, repeat. I can see why many would think we are in a computer simulation but you must ask how many of us believed this before the invention of the computer.

Hi, I'm new.

DenoPenno comments on Sep 27, 2019:

Good luck as you face a nearly impossible task. Sounds to me like he got in with an Evangelical group who claims to have all the answers. His next steps will be to convince you that some invisible part of you will go to a non-existent place when you die if you do not change your ways and wake up to belief in the invisible man. Arguing the differences will not help you. One thing that might is if you agree to study how we got the scriptures as they are today, see the allowed and not allowed ones, put a time frame on this venture and know it was all 300 plus years after the time of Jesus. With that sort of time frame I equate Christianity as sort of like believing in the Fountain of Youth because people believed in it in 1700. If you can do this study and wake him up do not study it with his church group writings. Google it so as to take religion out of the subject matter from the beginning.

I asked my sister how her Philosophy class in college is going when she visited today.

DenoPenno comments on Sep 27, 2019:

Why this assignment it the teacher is a god believer? Maybe she wants to debate the different beliefs in the classroom using the papers as a discussion point. If so, the teacher is in the wrong profession.

This is a link to my local middle school.

DenoPenno comments on Sep 27, 2019:

I agree with you but unfortunately linxminx is exactly correct here. You might see if the ACLU could help or the Freedom From Religion Foundation. It's worth a shot.

Cults.

DenoPenno comments on Sep 27, 2019:

I will have to watch this for sure. Thanks.

Is there anyone but agnostics or atheists in foxholes?

DenoPenno comments on Sep 26, 2019:

If believers are in foxholes praying I certainly do not want to be in there with them. They will get you killed.

How do you get over the anger you feel at religion when you’re a new atheist?

DenoPenno comments on Sep 26, 2019:

I think you adjust and get used to it. I know that for me I'm more aware of it every day and it makes me feel more isolated. The bottom line for believers is that they are all **so afraid of death**. This is why they invented these religions to avoid death. The old custom of saying "gesundheit" when one sneezes is because it was believed that just for an instant the person was so close to death. You sneeze and get "god bless you." I still hear that one every day. Old habits are hard to break.

Wouldn't it be awesome if an extraterrestrial came down to earth and told everyone they made up the ...

DenoPenno comments on Sep 26, 2019:

The only problem is that there is no proof of such beings. I studied it all in my younger days and was a believer of many things but we have no proof of anything supernatural or extraterrestrial. Oh, I know. The Navy recently admitted that UFO's on film that they had were real "aerial phenomena." This does not mean that there was a craft from another world piloted by beings of that world.

Donald Trump Claims Mike Pence Also Had Conversations With Ukraine President, Wants Pence ...

DenoPenno comments on Sep 26, 2019:

Typical Trump style here.

Anyone ever get tired of explaining who you aren't?

DenoPenno comments on Sep 26, 2019:

I know what you mean. I'm a militant atheist and my weapon of choice is a word processor. I make a lot of old friends upset when religion comes up as I tell them I am now non-delusional.

I had an epiphany moment this morning.

DenoPenno comments on Sep 26, 2019:

I love your post and the memes. I can identify with every word here. The older I get the more I see that others are not stable and they do not live in my world. They are simply people I have to put up with in order to survive. Try not to fall for the distractions. There are many of them. Try not to be working your ass off for something just because you have become the product. As my life goes on I see plainly why others do not have anything. People are deceived.

...well, he's not wrong...😆

DenoPenno comments on Sep 26, 2019:

Trump creates his own scams and jams and I think he cannot help himself. It is his nature.

The transcript between Trump and the Ukraine presidenti.

DenoPenno comments on Sep 26, 2019:

This looks very plain to me. Trump is indirectly asking the Ukraine president to help him smear a political opponent. This is what the whole impeachment inquiry is about. You simply cannot do this. This is similar to other times that Trump openly asked for Russia's help "if they were listening." This man thinks he can get away with anything and it is past time to act. The problem is that Moscow Mitch will not let any of this proceed. The nation is in a dangerous position where it appears that our future might all be this current party who defies a rule of law.

Today is my maternal biological grandpas birthday, and I was thinking about him a lot.

DenoPenno comments on Sep 26, 2019:

Don't beat yourself up. Many of us have done similar things because we cannot bare things like this.

‪FANTASTIC NEWS! The Senate just terminated Trump’s National Emergency and voted to take away ...

DenoPenno comments on Sep 25, 2019:

Great news.

It's about time, in my opinion. [theweek.com]

DenoPenno comments on Sep 25, 2019:

It's past time. We know that McConnell will not be for impeachment so the Senate will not go for it, but it is time we showed them all that we are a nation with a rule of law. Trumpers need to know this as well.

I find this to be quite representative of the "Dating Experience" here on Agnostic.

DenoPenno comments on Sep 25, 2019:

I must be missing some of this and what I click on turns out to be the Adams Family. I chose not to jump on the bashing bandwagon here.

How U.S. army divers are helping to clean the oceans

DenoPenno comments on Sep 25, 2019:

The military should be used this way in order to help and make things better. It gives them a worthwhile thing to do and maybe they do not want war. In Kenya the military runs the animal rescue center near Nairobi. They take that job very seriously.

A strange drawing found in Sinai could undermine our entire idea of Judaism - Israel News - ...

DenoPenno comments on Sep 25, 2019:

I do understand but this is old news. Much of the modern Christian world hopes you never see this and apologists downplay it all. Believers will not even admit that Jahweh was a tribal god who first was a warrior.