Hail Satin!!!!

DenoPenno comments on May 19, 2019:

Satin sheets are too slippery. Give me cotton any day.

You’re Freudian atheism is showing. [patheos.com]

DenoPenno comments on May 19, 2019:

Number 2 on the list is good. I'm always having others tell me about my atheism in one way or another and their words lead right into a stacked deck of questions. Most of these have a pre-determined answer without any thought on what they are saying. This makes them easy to refute. Not so long ago a man insisted that my non-belief put me in "denial."

Republican fundraising mailer looks like a U.S. Census Survey

DenoPenno comments on May 19, 2019:

They either took a chance on a response from me or they might have actually found my past record with the party from years ago. I find the questions they are asking to be total nonsense and it gets registered as spam.

George Carlin: Pro Life, Abortion, And The Sanctity Of Life

DenoPenno comments on May 19, 2019:

Classic Carlin. Always funny and also producing ideas that are hard to disagree with.

Glad the police training is paying off in Boulder.

DenoPenno comments on May 19, 2019:

Totally ridiculous but on par for Trumpworld. People are affected all over the globe.

Finally a good picture of Trump

DenoPenno comments on May 19, 2019:

Who's ass is he kissing?

So many everyday stories from America here about religion being so traumatic in people's personal ...

DenoPenno comments on May 19, 2019:

My personal view of religion is that most of it is a cult. People that do not like one cult move on to another cult. That is why there are so many religious denominations.

Suzanne Breen: 'My beautiful friend is gone - the world is a darker place' Suzanne Breen • 2 days...

DenoPenno comments on May 19, 2019:

So very well written.

Processed foods make us fatter and are linked to a higher risk of cancer.

DenoPenno comments on May 19, 2019:

I don't like cardboard food and we have too much of it today.

Too much logic for the religious people. Lol

DenoPenno comments on May 19, 2019:

Many people actually believe something like this. It's because her husband had favor before god. You know. It's like when your crap doesn't stink but everyone else's does.

if your mother was on her deathbed and she begged you to pray with her.

DenoPenno comments on May 19, 2019:

Fake it. Everyone else does and mom won't know the difference. You do not have to say anything out loud.

NYC people, do you endorse de Blasio for president?

DenoPenno comments on May 18, 2019:

Right wing radio denounces him and claims his real last name is "Wilheim." WTF? They also claim that AOC thought she was going for a movie role when she won. Leave it to right wing radio. They are not racist, they say, because only the Dems talk of racism.

Okay, how about this?

DenoPenno comments on May 18, 2019:

Yes, it sounds fair. Then we have to create the Jackoff Police. They come into play when a mouth is not used and hands and objects are used instead. Next we have to figure out how to punish for nocturnal emissions.

[cbsnews.com] Marijuana is on track to be legalized by end of 2019. Good news?

DenoPenno comments on May 18, 2019:

It is good news and should have happened many years ago. How do you regulate use of a plant that grows wild in American fields? My belief is that it became illegal so it's use and sale could be fully regulated. That way somebody got the lion's share of profit. I've read of a sheriff who says he does not care if it is made legal or decriminalized, he is going to arrest people he catches that have it anyway. Good luck with that one. It means you are going to be doing things that are against the law.

how do you define success?

DenoPenno comments on May 18, 2019:

I have less than you do but my "success" is similar to yours. It took lifetime events to put me in this frame I'm in today but I have less stress and that is important. I do not live paycheck to paycheck so I have little worries. In my daily limited job I am around others constantly and deliver auto parts. Privately I avoid most people because being around them and seeing their stress levels makes me want to run away. Life is full of decisions. It does not have to be full of stress.

We all hold some assumptions to be true and they lie too deep to be proved; one could call them ...

DenoPenno comments on May 18, 2019:

I agree fully. As a younger man I did not see where this all came from within me but I see it more and more today. Sometimes these framing forces come from a very simple source. Sometimes you will drop one for another but most people do not know this. I used to say "I do not have to prove myself to anyone" but this is totally wrong. We are all proving ourselves daily both to ourselves and others. Study this within and without of your being and you see how beliefs are formed. I'm finding things I said just a short time ago that I no longer agree with. I remember some of these things from years ago as well. Here is an example: My job was in home repair and we got a new secretary. I drove one of their new white Ford trucks and we had radios in them. Of course, I wanted to impress the girl and CB radios were still popular. As they introduced her to me I told her they called me the White Knight.** It was a flat out lie! **Other aspects of the fib came from a song on the radio at that time where the man said "I'm the sheriff of Boone County." Did any of this cause an attraction between myself and the new girl. No, but I said it to impress her. There is a very good chance that it would have only impressed her if she was into CB radio as I was at the time. I look back at things involving relationships -personal and job wise- and I see how events could be changed in some way. Knowing what influences you and where things come from might allow you to alter an event someway but our beliefs are framed in such a way that we are not likely to alter the final outcome.

Artificial intelligence is incompatible with religion.

DenoPenno comments on May 18, 2019:

AI will serve damaging blows to religion only if the religious take AI seriously. I love AI. I also see it's flaws. My example is that I have a cam on one of my computers and I keep it covered with a lens cap. If I want to use it my comp tells me it is broken. The only way to fix this is to remove the lens cap and then restart the comp. At this time it tells me it found new hardware. LOL Simply removing the lens cap is not enough.

Currently serving a 30 day sentence. Lol. All because of Jesus. Haha.

DenoPenno comments on May 18, 2019:

Facebook warned me once but not because of Jesus. My case was a man who came to my site and posted things that I responded to and he could not face reality, so he turned me in! Hey, wait Bozo. You came to my site, not the other way around. There is a man from the UK that is anti-Jesus and religion. I post in his site often when he wants things commented on. So far there are no problems with that.

What did your children learn from you?

DenoPenno comments on May 18, 2019:

Nice letter and photos. My daughters seem to have learned from me. I see it there sometimes. My oldest has kerosene lamps and various other stuff that she saw me have in the 70's and 80's. I can still do the survival things but don't have as much stuff around. I'm not afraid of the zombie apocalypse but I think myself and both of my daughters know that the zombies are here and they are after you every day. At work, on the phone, and sign up. They will even infiltrate your burner phone.

I love movies that lampoon religion or put an interesting twist on the norm.

DenoPenno comments on May 18, 2019:

Lying seems to be an invention of religion and politics. It has been around forever and is still going strong today.

At our cores, everyone has a set of morals, but I think most people say they “are moral” or ...

DenoPenno comments on May 18, 2019:

If I tell you that I have morals they will be my morals and not your morals. After learning this you have to also learn that people all over the world and in other societies have different morals.

My mom ordered me a quantum realm hoodie from Avengers Endgame for my birthday and it just arrived ...

DenoPenno comments on May 18, 2019:

Looks good. Happy birthday.

I'm curious to know if some of you can't help themselves saying " Thank God" or Oh my God", even ...

DenoPenno comments on May 18, 2019:

Most of us have spent a lifetime saying OMG or thank god, etc. Even among the religious I never see people actually thanking a god. It is only words. I view this the same way when people are praying for you or sending prayers your way. These words are simply sayings. NOBODY is actually doing these things. It is empty words.

An important lesson for theists and atheists alike.

DenoPenno comments on May 18, 2019:

Excellent post, Lady. :)

Im starting to feel like I have to hide who I am again.

DenoPenno comments on May 16, 2019:

I look at things pretty much as you describe from your life. Very few discuss issues with me and people are fast becoming more divided for the most ignorant reasons. I think of myself as an activist and if I had more money I would be giving visible support to certain causes. If I was financially able I would be at rallies to lend support for many of these causes. Invisible beings do not control my life. Neither does Trump but his nonsense and distractions should be addressed. You might say I'm a pariah of society but I would rather be me and live my life than be like the puppets and robots that surround me. They appear not to care and for your life to have meaning you have to care about something.

The Wall . . . .

DenoPenno comments on May 16, 2019:

Probably not and you have hit this squarely on the head.

Ha ha ha. Humor at its finest.

DenoPenno comments on May 16, 2019:

I still use old school words. Not much in my life is dope. Of course, this often causes me to not be understood by those that I do not understand, but so be it.

So Sad... [cbsnews.com]

DenoPenno comments on May 16, 2019:

Sad but does anybody in America actually give a shit? These things seem to happen because of the division our country is going through.

What’s the origin of your Agnostic.com name?

DenoPenno comments on May 16, 2019:

I have the same name on Facebook and it is from African Shig. I got the name in Kenya and it is in reality a shortening down of your real given name.

Trump is always giving "nicknames" to people he doesn't like.

DenoPenno comments on May 16, 2019:

Whiny Donald Dump. Everything he touches turns to . . . .

When i finally opened my eyes after 30 years and was able to look unbiased at the bible and the ...

DenoPenno comments on May 16, 2019:

Don't forget the time in between both OT and NT. It was the 400 years when nobody did absolutely anything. As for Jesus saying to the people "give onto god that which is god's and give onto Caesar that which is Caesar's" we have a major problem. No self respecting Jew of that era thought that Caesar had a claim to anything.

Has anyone here had any experience of or with Satanists?

DenoPenno comments on May 16, 2019:

Satanism is just more confusion.

I have just heard on BBC News that Alabama has passed a bill banning all abortions in all cases, ...

DenoPenno comments on May 16, 2019:

This is a natural Trump diversion while they further divide, sack, and gut our country. Trump and his backers and followers firmly believe in divide and conquer.

Flat Earthers, and the Rise of Science Denial in America | Opinion

DenoPenno comments on May 16, 2019:

Flat earth is an offshoot of religion, plain and simple! We have maps that have four corners but only in various scriptures from around the world do we get ideas of a flat earth. Why? It was because nobody knew jack. Science came along and some still don't know. What controversy? Videos on You Tube and other sites make money and they gather followers. Why? It's because the ones doing the posts are making money. None of this has anything to do with science.

Trump says, "Take that China..."

DenoPenno comments on May 16, 2019:

Kudlow has already said that in reality **it is the American consumer who will be paying the China tariffs**. I don't know how much more plain you could get. Trump supporters will not believe it. I wonder what they will believe when all the goods from China start having a higher price? This will happen very soon and auto parts will be a big item of increase. That's just for starters.

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

DenoPenno comments on May 16, 2019:

Going to hell? My stepdad told me I was going to "split hell wide open" whatever that meant.

Some people think that science has all the answers that matter, and that things that cannot be ...

DenoPenno comments on May 16, 2019:

When people do not get what they think they need they start making it up. Human souls are just one such idea. Many things move on from there.If you have a soul then so does your dog or cat.

Do you know in iran if someone is born to a muslim father is considerd muslim automatically by the ...

DenoPenno comments on May 15, 2019:

I know very little of Iran but I would imagine that if you decided you were not going to be Muslim you would be up shit creek. Best to keep that decision a secret.

If you really want to stop the US government in its tracks, stop buying things.

DenoPenno comments on May 15, 2019:

I almost do that same thing now. I buy new shoes because I'm diabetic, but my clothes and many other things have come from resale shops for years. I live under the radar. I buy lots of items at dollar stores. My cell phone is cheap and my name is in no way connected to that phone.

Utterly disgusted in Alabama! Will never ever enter any Anti-Abortion state.

DenoPenno comments on May 15, 2019:

I agree with your every word, Virginia. I was nicer in my post about it and got into some background on what was making this all happen today but either nobody understood it or they didn't want to hear it. I'm deciding that women on this site are not too keen on women's rights. Only a woman should have control over her body. The Trump/GOP side is not even using real facts but that does not surprise me.

The White House has declared Melania to be “the most important and accomplished First Lady in ...

DenoPenno comments on May 15, 2019:

Is this photo shopped?

The scary times are here...

DenoPenno comments on May 15, 2019:

Fascism has moved in all wrapped in the American flag.

I am teachable. I am not always right.

DenoPenno comments on May 15, 2019:

I'm teachable but I find I am learning many things way too late.

Thank you, Planned Parenthood!

DenoPenno comments on May 15, 2019:

If Trump and his group have their way we will soon see no more Planned Parenthoods.

Are they talking about us?

DenoPenno comments on May 15, 2019:

This is true. Since it is also about getting all the money you can get we will soon find that abortion is a criminal offense because you get more money out of more people.

Not loving Trump is not "not loving the nation"

DenoPenno comments on May 15, 2019:

Evangelicals claim that Trump was "picked by god." What they don't tell you is that this can only become true when Trump is plugged and Pence steps in. So much for religion and politics.

Never let anyone tell you who your enemies are . . .

DenoPenno comments on May 15, 2019:

I believe every word of it. Right now Trump and the gang are doing everything they can to convince you who the enemies are. Damn, it must be Obama and Hillary again. How about that person in Walmart who is in front of you and on a welfare card? Don't forget the created crisis at our border. What are those in power doing while they create these distractions?

This is America The Place I Was Born it’s ok to be black here as long as you don’t ...

DenoPenno comments on May 15, 2019:

Yes, this is America and like everything else it is ever changing. I'm soon to be 73 and today I know more and more it is all about the money. BTW, if you wrote this yourself it is very good.

How do you m ake time go faster?

DenoPenno comments on May 15, 2019:

Get older and time will go faster. I guarantee it. Another method is to find something that you really like to do. Life should not revolve around your phone.

Since my husband died in February, I can see why believers are hooked on an afterlife where one is ...

DenoPenno comments on May 15, 2019:

I am sorry for your loss. Certainly this affects you and your children deeply along with others who knew him. Your approach is logical. It brings to mind a FB post I saw on Mother's Day by a relative of mine. He loved his mother so much and misses her dearly. She is deceased but he cannot wait to see her again. How will he see her again? He believes the religion he was taught but does not practice it. This makes no sense but we are in a world that thinks this way.

END ABORTION There, all caps will get attention, whether the point deserves it or not.

DenoPenno comments on May 15, 2019:

Good luck with this. I've tried to bring it up in other ways in another post and give some background as to how it got this far but nobody gives a damn apparently. Hints and movies are often not good enough. So far 2 states are going with this and more are going to fall into line with it. Maybe as many as a 12 state total with laws that will actually put people in prison. Is that what we want? I hope not. Your idea could solve it all except for one thing. It could not be done because you are actually preventing children from being born and going against the scripture of "be fruitful and multiply." Silliness like this is why pharmacists cannot in good conscience give birth control and priests cannot allow condoms for the masses. This last one would also help in disease prevention. For those whose conscience is so conflicted my advice is to get another job! The end result once again is to gain control by causing guilt even over masturbation. A nocturnal emission might be OK because "god did that." The world is insane!

There are crazys all over the globe. [theguardian.com]

DenoPenno comments on May 15, 2019:

I certainly agree. The more time goes on the more I'm thinking that I'm here in the middle of all of them. I have that feeling almost daily as I awake and turn on the news on TV.

Does god exist?

DenoPenno comments on May 15, 2019:

Does William Lane Craig exist? Has he ever seen the trees?

I'm wondering... is the online dating thing better for young people than middle aged and older?

DenoPenno comments on May 15, 2019:

It probably is. Older people are more inclined to have property and "be anchored." I hear the younger ones talk of being catfished or ghosted, etc. WTF is all that about?

Black Children Will Be the Victims of Armed Teachers | Time

DenoPenno comments on May 15, 2019:

Armed black teachers will be the victims of armed law enforcement when they push their way into classrooms that are under attack. This fact along with "do the teachers get combat pay" are things that Trump and others wanting this have not confronted.

What’s the worst or most boring job you’ve ever had?

DenoPenno comments on May 15, 2019:

Yes, but you were more than a greeter. You were there to make people feel good while also making sure they do not steal anything. :) I've felt best about my job as an in home appliance repairman, but I did a lot of driving. My part-time job today delivers parts to people and doing that takes driving. That makes me at least half happy.

How do you guys cope with jobs or careers that you despise or that are below your potential?

DenoPenno comments on May 15, 2019:

You can't always get what you want. You can't always have what you want. My coping mechanism was always attached to "you have to make a living." If no one else is helping to support you, this reality sinks in pretty fast.

Why do some people say "Warshington"?

DenoPenno comments on May 15, 2019:

Seems Southern to me and I still get a lot of this in Missouri too. When I lived in Texas one of my daughter's teachers always laughed and shook his head if he heard her say "you guys." He would repeat it outloud thinking she was saying "youse guys." Wait up you guys turns into "wait up youse guys."

Politics and women's health seem to have a deeper plan in Trumpworld.

DenoPenno comments on May 15, 2019:

In my original post I mentioned Georgia, a movie, and the state's abortion bill as a target. I attempted to show how deep these feelings go and show you a hint of the people and false ideas behind it. Just this morning ABC 30 news talks of Alabama and the newest restrictive abortion bill passed almost overnight. More states are coming along with this and the ultimate end is to overturn Roe v. Wade. Women, doctors, and others can do real prison time when these bills become law. The ACLU cannot fight for you until after the bills become law. Perhaps I was wrong in thinking that women in particular, along with a few others, might actually give a damn. If you try to remember it might turn up that during the Kavannaugh debates the idea of an all GOP Supreme Court and Roe v. Wade was mentioned. Many lies were told at that time and the continued lies show exactly where this is leading. Trumpworld knows how to get to you and they know exactly what they are doing. Do we fight back? Does anyone care?

Found this online.

DenoPenno comments on May 14, 2019:

If ever you need it ladies, it sounds like good advice.

Democrats can Beat Trump without Impeaching Him.

DenoPenno comments on May 14, 2019:

Slate seems to print the policy that the Dems are following right now. It made sense to me.

Netanyahu to push through new law protecting his immunity from prosecution, Israeli media reports | ...

DenoPenno comments on May 14, 2019:

Nuttiyahu and Stump must be brothers.

So there's to be an investigation into the investigation, is there?

DenoPenno comments on May 14, 2019:

If you post it in politics you might not get any answers. I agree with you that it is so damned silly.

[newsweek.

DenoPenno comments on May 14, 2019:

I'm not the least bit surprised. Trump recently said that "the baby is born and then carefully wrapped in a blanket while the mother and the doctor discuss how to kill the baby."Fact check sites will say this is not true and this is not enough. People need to immediately be called out on these things or they will continue to get away with it. Such things are a part of bizarro Trumpworld and if we do not address them they will become the norm. I even know people who think that babies are killed to help make vaccines. My insurance lady is a Trump supporters and she says "it is impossible to know what is true today." This is another lie. When did it become impossible? The honest person would say that it started sometime in 2015. The coining of "fake news" helped to seal the deal.We need to call people out on these things immediately, including friends and family members.

Do you believe in Evolutionary Humanism?

DenoPenno comments on May 14, 2019:

Everything evolves. Ideas as well as everything living. I hate change, for example, but everything changes. I have seen much of this in my lifetime. If you look closely you can see some of this in just a short time. I do not believe that we have "inherent dignity" as there is no proof of this. "Unalienable rights" become so as we evolve along our path and make them so. We do not have a soul nor were we born with a soul. We become the soul.

God is everywhere.....it seems!

DenoPenno comments on May 14, 2019:

I see this happening also. Are people promoting Trumpism and using a god to invite you into this new reality? Maybe some people actually see reality and are trying to invite you out of the insanity. If so, making up lies about an invisible being in the sky is not helping anyone. Enough of that goes on daily with an visible being that many of us want to become invisible, or just otherwise go away. Gods are not involved either way. Our world changed in 2016.

People always ask why my ex and I broke up and I always say that it’s because I stopped believing ...

DenoPenno comments on May 14, 2019:

I do ask people why they believe in god if they ask me why I do not.

I read Ayn Rand 40 years ago and only remember that I didn't care for her obsessive hatred of all ...

DenoPenno comments on May 14, 2019:

I can agree. My grandfather read Rand but she is not for me. If you put my beliefs in a nutshell life is all about everyone getting their back scratched.

[msn.com] Some people want their 15 minutes of fame but it doesn't always work out for the best

DenoPenno comments on May 14, 2019:

Everyone is convinced that someone cheated on them. Why are you so sensitive and how would you know? Things like this fall into "Reality TV" and most of us who are smart enough know there is no reality to it. I try to avoid these types of shows. These shows are scripted and perhaps the deceased person could not live with what the script brought out. The money and the 15 minutes of fame are really not worth it. Pawn shop shows, the Kardashians, Ducks, and even Naked and Afraid are scripted.

It's my birthday!!!

DenoPenno comments on May 14, 2019:

A very happy birthday to you, Lady! :)

ameriKKKan Justice for the Rich I presume... [cbsnews.com]

DenoPenno comments on May 14, 2019:

Trumpworld is different. Everything changed officially in 2016. To express it in other terms we are now in Bizarroworld or Bizarroland.

What about dating? Is it for you?

DenoPenno comments on May 14, 2019:

I am open to a relationship and I miss having a relationship, but the question is do I really want one? Most people in the world today scare me to death. How can your life be all about making someone else happy? Would that make you happy? What do you do if that other person thinks you are only there to make them happy. It is important to know yourself and make yourself happy because other people cannot do that for you.

If you could access a time machine and change any five minute period in history, when would you go?

DenoPenno comments on May 14, 2019:

Back to the time of Donald Trump's conception so as to prevent birth. The simple way is to convince Fred to use a condom.

What is the "incel" movement all about?

DenoPenno comments on May 14, 2019:

I have no idea what you are talking about. That happens to me often today in this world of constant texting and sudden invention of new words and terms. I'm still trying to get acquainted with the old words and terms with limited success.

I don't talk about it much, but mother's day is kinda hard for me.

DenoPenno comments on May 14, 2019:

I'm sorry for your loss. Your post reminded me also that my mother went through some of this because I had a sister that I never met. Her name was Deborah and she never made it out of the hospital. I never saw her, but have only heard the story and remember when this happened. I must have been about 12 and later on we went to her grave maybe twice. Today I cannot even tell you where it is but your post caused me to recall what I am writing.

The New Testament is replete with statements telling the reader that discrimination is wrong.

DenoPenno comments on May 13, 2019:

The entire bible is dangerous. It's also a fictitious story.

This is a great idea

DenoPenno comments on May 13, 2019:

I get it. My stepfather in in a nursing home and Medicaid takes all of his money and then adds on to it to pay the $6000 a month that it takes to keep him there.

Does Marriage Really Improve Sexual Satisfaction?

DenoPenno comments on May 13, 2019:

I agree with the study. Married couples are usually too busy doing everything else for their families and themselves to actually set aside time for sex. This is why you hear of couples who have not had sex in a month or even longer. It seems that marriage is about more than just sex.

Funeral Games

DenoPenno comments on May 13, 2019:

Make you a bet people would refuse to catch it.

Does Depression Have an Evolutionary Purpose? - Nautilus - Pocket

DenoPenno comments on May 13, 2019:

What is depression? It is a subtle way of telling you that things do not always go your way and that you are not the only duck on the pond.

I just saw on Netflix "Knock Down the House" documentary.

DenoPenno comments on May 13, 2019:

Many thanks. I will look into this film tonight. Trump is the worst and no one is taking his threat seriously. Donald Trump is a national emergency. He was NOT exonerated by the Mueller report. IV. CONCLUSION Because we determined not to make a traditional prosecutorial judgment, we did not draw ultimate conclusions about the President’s conduct. The evidence we obtained about the President’s actions and intent presents difficult issues that would need to be resolved if we were making a traditional prosecutorial judgment. At the same time, if we had confidence after a thorough investigation of the facts that the President clearly did not commit obstruction of justice, we would so state. Based on the facts and the applicable legal standards, we are unable to reach that judgment. Accordingly, while this report does not conclude that the President committed a crime, it also does not exonerate him.

I hate my mother more than I hate Muhammad.

DenoPenno comments on May 13, 2019:

Try to get over the hate. It is not good for you. I do not hate my mother, now deceased, but she tried to push her ideas over on me to make herself look good. She went to work in St. Louis and left me with my grandparents during my young formative years. She claimed that this was not so. I did not live with them, she said, but she allowed me to go there in the summer when school was out. My cousins and I knew differently as we went to the same school. Mom had convinced herself of this and was almost in tears as she went through it again not so long before she died. Once she passed on I found the school pictures. Many have tried fanciful explanations for mom's belief but it was very simple really. In her time if you left your child for your parents to raise you were a bad mother. Mom did not want to be a bad mother.

My brother who is a Chaplin / Pastor and I were discussing the resurrection and if he actually ...

DenoPenno comments on May 13, 2019:

If he answered truthfully he would have to admit that all his training was for nothing. This would make him feel like a fraud and feel useless. He will never tell you the answer you were wanting to hear.

In the past six years I have lost a daughter, my son, my wife and most recently my right leg.

DenoPenno comments on May 13, 2019:

I agree with you. If you took all these matters to the silent god how would he answer? How would believers tell you that he answered? Maybe by showing you the sky and a kitten. You have been through quite an ordeal but silent god was not helping you.

For previous believers, what was it that made you unconvinced about god and religion?

DenoPenno comments on May 13, 2019:

Yes, there was a specific book that sealed the deal in helping me to become atheist. That book is the Bible. Some even add the word "holy" to the title. In reality it is a mutt compilation that finally got assembled about 300 years after the time of Jesus. Two thirds of the NT part of it are attributed to a man named Saul of Tarsus, later known as Paul, and he did not know Jesus nor did he ever meet him. I could go on and on. The Bible has about as much validity as "Abraham Lincoln, Vampire Hunter."

What's your thoughts on this storiy?

DenoPenno comments on May 12, 2019:

I think his arrest for it is scary but I would never have a sticker like that on my vehicle.

Should 11-year-old girls have to bear their rapists' babies? Ohio says yes. - Chicago Tribune

DenoPenno comments on May 12, 2019:

This is absolutely sick. Of course it would be different if the little girl belonged to any of those who worked to pass this law.

Weather report: It's raining so much and so hard that there is once again the equivalent of a small ...

DenoPenno comments on May 12, 2019:

Still raining here on this day of Mother. It was supposed to be warmer and sunny today.

It's as if millions of rednecks cried out in terror....

DenoPenno comments on May 12, 2019:

OMG! The fearful will not be drinking that. In fact, something bad might happen if you touch it, but it will be OK if nobody is looking.

Report: Missing Migrant Children Being Funneled Through Christian Adoption Agency | Michael Stone

DenoPenno comments on May 12, 2019:

I have read of this and it seems likely because some of these children cannot be found. This leads to questions of what these children might be used for. My belief is that it has nothing to do with religion at all and it is child trafficing.

The gay agenda?

DenoPenno comments on May 12, 2019:

This is funny and also a very good point.

All religions in the world were born/created with a view to leading the people to the right path.

DenoPenno comments on May 12, 2019:

Religions were created out of wonderment and then used as a form of control.

I am interested in opinions on this statement.

DenoPenno comments on May 12, 2019:

I agree with most of this. I can be defined as "atheist" but it simply means I have no god.

Hi there.

DenoPenno comments on May 12, 2019:

Welcome back.

Emotionally-stunted men

DenoPenno comments on May 12, 2019:

I'm a male who has described myself as "shattered" since my ex and I split up. Am I emotionally stunted? Perhaps. I am an introvert with few friends and this is by choice. I love all types of conversation and I feel that I can easily identify with Terry. This does not mean that I am constantly running others down. That would tick me off being around such a person. Instead I have to know and understand a situation as much as possible and this includes people and why they do things. I may quickly learn your faults but I can also see the many faults of my own. Others that I know avoid such things by just ignoring them and pretending. This is why I see so many people as phoney.

‘Decades in the making’: Megachurch pastor gives up on Christianity in profanity-laced ...

DenoPenno comments on May 12, 2019:

Well, good luck to him but I agree with many of his words.

Wishing happy mother's day to all !!! I am alone, but dont feel sorry for me.

DenoPenno comments on May 12, 2019:

Happy Mother's Day.

‘So Help Me God’ No More: Democrats Give House Traditions a Makeover

DenoPenno comments on May 12, 2019:

Do away with it forever! If you have a beard, swear on that. Maybe swear on your mother's grave unless your mother is still living. What is it that we could swear on? Why is this swearing important?

Which Religious Group Wants To Base U.S. Law On Its Faith?

DenoPenno comments on May 12, 2019:

I'm not surprised at all. This was the norm even before Reagan invited religion into the GOP. I know a lot of people who think others first came to America for religious freedom and that our founders were all religious and wanted to base our laws on their god. Most of these people believe that's the way it is but nothing could be further from the truth. Without science as a backup at the time most of our Founding Fathers were Deists. They believed in god as a first mover who set everything up and then disappeared. You could not know or contact this being.

Religion and tradition repressed people and kept them stupid.

DenoPenno comments on May 12, 2019:

Subjects of science go by the current accepted model, and the model is subject to change. Scientific theory is not simply an idea. It has to be proven. The opposite of all this is religion. From day one religion was static and never changing. Religion never proved anything.