I thought maybe I was the only one who noticed.

DenoPenno comments on Oct 23, 2020:

It can only be his shoe lifts. He has something in his shoes to make him taller me thinks.

Explain that, evangelicals

DenoPenno comments on Oct 22, 2020:

In my area less people are seen with guns now in grocery stores and Walmart. A short time ago there were plenty of them.

The Best Response I can think of to "Jesus Matters."

DenoPenno comments on Oct 22, 2020:

I like that. I passed a Trump flag and sign site today that had a sign "all lives matter." I didn't do it but I wanted to stop and state that all lives do not matter to Trump. If you think otherwise you are not listening.

Televangelist Kenneth Copeland: Satan is the Reason Muslims Are in Congress | Hemant Mehta | ...

DenoPenno comments on Oct 22, 2020:

Copland is an old style televangelist. I'm sure he thinks Christianity should become America's religion and anybody else of other beliefs should leave.

PragerU Propaganda Could Be Coming to a Classroom Near You | Val Wilde | Friendly Atheist | Patheos

DenoPenno comments on Oct 22, 2020:

Maybe we don't need Prager U or Jordan Peterson.

"One Million Moms" is Just One Angry Christian Mom (and Other Facts) - YouTube

DenoPenno comments on Oct 22, 2020:

One angry Christian mom.

James Randi: Magician and skeptic dies aged 92

DenoPenno comments on Oct 22, 2020:

He will be missed.

The Atheist organizations like FFRF need to get involved in Politics just the Christian Churches are...

DenoPenno comments on Oct 22, 2020:

Very true. I'm going to copy and use this one.

Oakland events space continues to hold big events while city officials do little to stop it

DenoPenno comments on Oct 22, 2020:

I would not attend a Trump event of any kind even if he was **not** a superspreader. If this is out of context it does fit the election circuit.

The Amazing Randi, Famed Magician and Escapologist, Dies at 92 | Hollywood Reporter

DenoPenno comments on Oct 22, 2020:

James Randi was an amazing man.

Lotsa talk about God/not God.

DenoPenno comments on Oct 22, 2020:

I don't get it. I no longer wonder or worry about this. Sorry.

Editorial: Barrett's moral relativism is cause for rejection from the bench | National Catholic ...

DenoPenno comments on Oct 22, 2020:

The best we can do is call for term limits to Supreme Court appointees. Why not? Otherwise you are stuck with these people until they die. Somehow that does not seem right.

Human

DenoPenno comments on Oct 21, 2020:

Certainly. Man made god in his image. That tells the entire story in a nutshell.

The Amazing Randi – 1928-2020 James Randi, dazzling magician and skeptic, dies at 92 ...

DenoPenno comments on Oct 21, 2020:

I did not know him but James Randi was an amazing man.

It was rough, but we survived.

DenoPenno comments on Oct 21, 2020:

My grandfather said he quit school because it was winter time and he didn't have any shoes. Times are a little better today.

Happy Monday! I hope you're staying warm and comfy! Today's question was offered by ZantiMisfit: ...

DenoPenno comments on Oct 21, 2020:

I love Kenya and also anything tropical. Ocean is OK but too hot in Galveston area. I do not like anything cold. Sorry. Nothing at all. Germany is way too cold for me and I was there in the US Army years ago.

Irish Bishop Warns Catholics Against Dangers of “Mindfulness” and Yoga | David Gee | Friendly ...

DenoPenno comments on Oct 21, 2020:

Yes, mindfulness and yoga are terrible. In my church daze dad made me get rid of some books because he called them "black arts." ig uess his bibble told him so.

If you were raised religious as a child, what is your worst religious memory?

DenoPenno comments on Oct 21, 2020:

This is what usually happens. Later on the poor girl beats her own kids coz she thinks this is normal. I whipped my kids but only gently to get their attention. Swat swat. About 2 swats would do it. Never a stick or switch or anything. No time outs or other such bs. Later my girls thought my stern voice was "yelling at them." Yelling at kids does no good.

Pope Francis declares support for same-sex civil unions for the first time as pope | America ...

DenoPenno comments on Oct 21, 2020:

They are desperate and need more Catholics.

My childhood religion was Jehovah's Witness, how dumb was your religion?

DenoPenno comments on Oct 20, 2020:

JW"s mixed with Baptist and Pentecostalism.

Where is the weirdest place you have seen religious propaganda?

DenoPenno comments on Oct 20, 2020:

Daily on Facebook and both my daughters have fallen into it.

I have always thought that A.

DenoPenno comments on Oct 20, 2020:

People claim that evil is not real. I see lots of evil going on right now and I say this without any religious indications. When you make it hard for others to survive you are evil.

Christian Hate-Preacher Steven Anderson Is Banned from Entering New Zealand | Hemant Mehta | ...

DenoPenno comments on Oct 18, 2020:

Great. let's ban the moron from a few more countries.

CNN: How QAnon uses religion to lure unsuspecting Christians - CNN

DenoPenno comments on Oct 18, 2020:

QAnon or Q is junk and total nonsense. A person I know once told me that "Q" is general Kelly. Total horseshit. Trump would be more likely to fight for a secret sex cabal than against it. Kids are not sex slaves inside pizza parlors which have very small back rooms for employee breaks. Pizza parlors also do not have basements, so where are the kids? 5G cell towers being torn down and burned because they can be used to generate Corona fell by the wayside once American providers started using 5G. If these people like Q they must all love Alex Jones. (Jones BTW is a paid actor.) :)

Watched, A Beautiful Day in the Neighbourhood.

DenoPenno comments on Oct 18, 2020:

Not seen this one yet.

Jasper (MO) School District Will Investigate Football Coach Leading Team Prayers | Hemant Mehta | ...

DenoPenno comments on Oct 18, 2020:

Prayers in public schools should be limited to one minute of silence. That's right, silence. This should only be applied for some big bad situations like school shootings or the death of a public figure. Absolutely nobody should be leading prayers in a public school. Force the coach to stop please.

Here's something fun to test yourself.

DenoPenno comments on Oct 18, 2020:

Did this out of boredom and it called me a genius. I don't think so coz a genius comes out of a bottle.

Bill Maher Says Amy Coney Barrett Should Be Attacked Over Religion Because ‘Being Nuts Is ...

DenoPenno comments on Oct 18, 2020:

Maher is correct. Wat we need to fight for next is term limits for the Supreme Court. Why not? Why is it that we need these people on the bench for life? They were put there by an elected official with term limits and this makes the "lifetime" appointment so very wrong.

Who believes in the Scientific Big Bang myth?

DenoPenno comments on Oct 18, 2020:

I cannot answer because I simply do not know. This is because I was not there. As for the happening (whatever it was) being the beginning of time I disagree. Time is something invented by man to explain and measure things. For example, how long did it take to get to Arkansas. As for a sound or "bang" back at the time you refer to, I have no proof that there was a sound. Sorry I could not help you. I had to come back and edit because you say "believe in" for your ideas here. I do not "believe in" anything really. That is so much like a religious term. I do not "believe in" gravity but I am fully aware of its workings, etc.

As an atheist, i've been thinking about this for a while now.

DenoPenno comments on Oct 18, 2020:

Your view is exactly why so many changed their religion. Ali comes to mind as one of them. His name and religion change was not because he found some greater religious truth but because he could no longer go along with our American sham.

Atheists Call for Removal of Jesus Painting from Shreveport (LA) Police Dept.

DenoPenno comments on Oct 17, 2020:

How many times do you have to be arrested to know there is a Jesus painting inside that police department? Just askin.'

Christian “Prophetess”: I Can Draw God “Because of My Photographic Memory” | Hemant Mehta | ...

DenoPenno comments on Oct 17, 2020:

Yes, and she has a photographic mammary. OK.

As Agnostics, we had best stop using that word .

DenoPenno comments on Oct 17, 2020:

OK. In the KJV bible Paul said "I wanted to come to you but I was let." Language changes over time. The word "let" actually meant prevented at the time of this translation.

Once I said to a dear Christian friend: “Suppose there really is no God, and suppose I had it ...

DenoPenno comments on Oct 17, 2020:

I can't believe that all the ones who claim they pray really are praying. I had trouble with this in my church daze too. The book of Acts has people being healed because a cloth (aprons as it said in JKV) were prayed over and then sent to the sick person. This is all by the laying on of hands. In modern times the televangelist and others have mail sacks full of prayer requests and they put them all in a pile and pray over them in a similar manner. This gets so outrageous that when others anywhere claim to send "thoughts and prayers" it all translates to me as just wishful thinking. That's right. My mind says nobody is praying for you and it is all wishful thinking. Hypocrites all in my book.

I figure it's all about equal.

DenoPenno comments on Oct 17, 2020:

I Get it. Now here is the question. (Wait for it.) "Who do you worship then?"

Time to congratulate a religious organization! While many churches are holding 'in person" ...

DenoPenno comments on Oct 17, 2020:

In my small area of Missouri many churches went into services being broadcast during the bigger scare of pandemic. Some are still doing it.

Tim Wildmon: Liberals Want to “Close Down Every Christian Church in America” | Hemant Mehta | ...

DenoPenno comments on Oct 17, 2020:

Does he forget that many church goers are also liberal?

Teacher beheaded in Paris suburb after showing cartoons of Prophet Mohammed to class

DenoPenno comments on Oct 17, 2020:

Ignorant people.

Rudy Giuliani’s Daughter Caroline on Voting for Joe Biden | Vanity Fair

DenoPenno comments on Oct 16, 2020:

I saw this link in Facebook.

Back when I was studying for my private pilot's license, my instructor once asked me out of the blue...

DenoPenno comments on Oct 16, 2020:

Money makes everything fly and if you do not want to be stolen blind vote blue. You need your money more than the top 1 percent need it.

Merry Meet

DenoPenno comments on Oct 16, 2020:

Welcome. This site is fun.

Did anyone else catch the Durbin show?

DenoPenno comments on Oct 15, 2020:

OK, so let's just stay at home this time and vote for nobody.

COVID Cases on the Rise at “Christian Hogwarts” School in Redding, CA | Hemant Mehta | Friendly ...

DenoPenno comments on Oct 15, 2020:

COVID now in a local school here as my daughter's adopted boy is on quarantine because a person in his class had it. Yet to be seen if my daughter's entire family will end up on quarantine here in mid Missouri.

This morning at work I was asked if I knew what the wages of sin was.

DenoPenno comments on Oct 15, 2020:

Wages of sin. OMG. :)

I’d like to get members opinions and thoughts and feelings about agnostic theists; of which I am ...

DenoPenno comments on Oct 15, 2020:

Many do not share my opinions but I find "agnostic theist" to be an oxymoron. A person is either a believer or they are not. If one ever did believe (as I once did) it is also crazy for others to assert that you must try all the religions before you decide. Why do we want an entity to be a first cause? Equally on this, I do not know if there was a big bang. Having not been there I cannot tell you about noise. For me, Kalam does not make sense as I cannot tell you when the universe began to exist. Nothing written in religious books of any kind help me with this. I'm also not convinced of a "brain in a vat" or simulation arguments. People go out of their way to convince you that ancients had these ideas. It simply is not so. The arguments made it mainstream today as our technology allowed our brain to do progressive thinking on these subject. So, what is it about and where did we come from? IDK and any person going by the facts alone will have the same answer.

It’s interesting how you can react to the same thing differently at different stages in your life.

DenoPenno comments on Oct 15, 2020:

I think you are onto some very true words here. The problem is that many people do not see it.

Kenneth Copeland: “Lazy Christians” Are Why Michele Bachmann Isn’t President | Hemant Mehta | ...

DenoPenno comments on Oct 15, 2020:

Thank (insert word here) that Michelle Bachmann is not president. I recall a time when she said "Obama is bringing on the apocalypse." It seemed plain that in her misguided beliefs she wanted this to happen. Why would we want someone like her to have the power of using our nukes? Very scary.

Pope Francis assures atheists: You don’t have to believe in God to go to heaven | The Independent ...

DenoPenno comments on Oct 14, 2020:

What if you do not believe in heaven? Maybe the Pope's remark is somewhat like "you might not believe in hell but you are going to go there just the same."Whacko logic does not make it so.

Throughout my life, I've had to slowly learn that Perfection doesn't exist.

DenoPenno comments on Oct 14, 2020:

Yes, god is perfect and we still have birth defects. How did that happen? Oh, yes. Sin in somebodies life. Now I got it.

"If faith is truth without proof, how does anyone come to any conclusion when every conceivable ...

DenoPenno comments on Oct 14, 2020:

This is a classic meme and one of the main reasons I do not debate the subject. Believers have no evidence and start out believing anyway so why debate the issue?

WHO does Voter Fraud? [alternet.org]

DenoPenno comments on Oct 14, 2020:

This is more than trying to prove voter fraud is real. It is also about vote sorting and doing away with votes that are not for Donnie. Keep in mind that the GOP wants to call the votes in every state and also be able to stop the election totally if they find fraud. They forget that doing so would also be the worst kind of fraud. It would be dictatorship.

At what age do we become ''spry''?

DenoPenno comments on Oct 14, 2020:

This is a very good question. You have made me think now and I am not sure but have heard that term all my life.

The non-existing Jesus was an animal sacrifice to himself.

DenoPenno comments on Oct 14, 2020:

When you look at it properly the Christian scriptures practically do themselves in from the very beginning. There are several reasons for this. The number one biggest reason is that 66 or more books written over a long period of time about various subjects were chosen to be put together to tell one evolving story. Today people claim that story is yet going on. This makes as much sense as trying to build Frankenstein's monster.

I do this all the time.

DenoPenno comments on Oct 13, 2020:

Believers think that non-believers are "mad at god" or that they just want to sin.

More proof that there did not need to be a god involved to create life.

DenoPenno comments on Oct 13, 2020:

Anyone every consider that if all the world's holy books said nothing at all of gods who created us it would likely be that mankind would not worry about the question at all. People worry about it because they just cannot shut up and it makes no sense to them without putting a supreme being in the picture. OK. Suppose there are supreme beings and they don't give a crap about you.

why does all religion want your hard earned cash when they don't do anything to deserve it....

DenoPenno comments on Oct 13, 2020:

Not my concern but the preacher has to be paid and there are functions that include food and drink, etc., etc.

I have a friend that constantly says.

DenoPenno comments on Oct 13, 2020:

Many claim that Catholics are not Christians. I find this absurd when Evangelicals and others use the bible dating system along with creation and even a bible verse system that actually came from Catholics. Religion is so very strange.

Cardinal George Pell meets Pope Francis for first time since acquittal [bbc.com]

DenoPenno comments on Oct 12, 2020:

I'm at a loss on this one. Why meet him? Is it like that old "brothers and sisters" crap that Evangelicals pull on everyone? Of course we are all brothers and sisters. We all got here through incest to get the population going.God tried that stunt 3 times.

Carlo Acutis: Italian teenager could be first millennial saint [bbc.com]

DenoPenno comments on Oct 12, 2020:

People are fleeing the church so let's get a teen saint so as to keep up our numbers and also our money. This is sort of like why car makers come out with a new model every year. It is all to keep you interested.

Evangelical leaders like Billy Graham and Jerry Falwell Sr.

DenoPenno comments on Oct 12, 2020:

Regardless of followers of religion and Trumpian nationalist ideology there is no "chosen one." This is all just nonsense, and yes, the madness prevails. MLK became a communist because Hoover was obsessed with communism. This was in an era where white supremacy prevailed without much of America taking a second notice. Many people were fooled then and Trump is doing his best to bring back this foolery and link it with hate. Some people do not even notice.

Christian Preacher Sean Feucht Holds COVID Super-Spreader Concert in Nashville | Hemant Mehta | ...

DenoPenno comments on Oct 12, 2020:

I wonder if they handled rattlesnakes or drank poison? It says believers can do that in the book of Mark. That might be where so many get this idea that god will protect them from Corona. It is almost like saying you can go outside all day long in below zero weather without a coat coz god will protect you. LMAO at the stupidity here.

This is what happens when you have a country where most of the population is poorly educated, and ...

DenoPenno comments on Oct 12, 2020:

Women do not seem to be raping men who have less clothing on and want to attract attention. I read little of this happening. Almost none. Also, I'm not reading of lesbians where one woman cannot control herself and attacks the other one who had on less clothing. It's time to stop giving men a pass on this sort of issue. Men can control themselves also if they want and rape is not part of their nature. Reports of "she was asking for it" to explain why the woman got raped are all male bullshit. Religion dictates that the man has property and a carryover of that is women as his property. It causes some women to get raped regardless of the developmental stage of the country where the crime occurs. Do I tell women that they look good, or look very sexy, etc? Yes, I do all the time. It doesn't mean that I follow them down the street saying these things as if I expect something and then get pissed coz they are ignoring me. Men often act like they have a license to screw you because they bought you dinner, then they get pissed coz you called it rape. No does not mean yes.

If Marriage Equality is Overturned by SCOTUS, Interracial Marriages May Be Next | Hemant Mehta | ...

DenoPenno comments on Oct 11, 2020:

I used to believe that marriage was only between a man and a woman. For a while I came to believe that same sex people could be together but "we should not call it marriage." As I progressed on I found that people need this in order to draw benefits if one of them died, etc. and it made more sense to me then. Now let's go full on with this and reveal that the Church did not own marriage until the early middle ages. Your union was your choice and was mostly a recognition that certain people were a couple. People in our past had the same sexuality that we all do today, so where is the big problem?

I currently became unemployed because my construction company I work for has no projects at this ...

DenoPenno comments on Oct 11, 2020:

Strangely this is how believers think. Merle Haggard once had a song in which he sang "momma used to pray that my crops would fail." Think a minute and here is a religious woman praying her son will lose his crops so that he will come back to the Lord. Plain out pitiful crap. Beyond that above I'm sorry to hear of your bad news and wish you the best. Stay positive.

PEACE IS NOT ON THE BALLOT The war machine always wins.

DenoPenno comments on Oct 11, 2020:

What you are saying here is correct. My difference is that I take exception to the words** "no substantial change will come for the American people."** I branch away at those words to claim that without a doubt American healthcare will be maintained through social security if Trump loses. On the other hand, Trump is trying to do away with it. His Tweets show that if he is re-elected he will end social security which will also end Medicare and Medicaid. It all comes to a grinding halt by 2023. This is more than grandma and bingo. What happens when social security ends? Life in America does not seem to go on as usual. Every family in our country has a family member that benefits by these programs and we all know it. There is talk of Trump and his healthcare plan but Republicans have never cared about healthcare at all in my 74 years of life. It is something that they never had a plan for and probably never will. This is why when I vote blue this November it is not about who is in office at all. I feel that in the end I will be protecting an American way of life.

Hello PEople I speak here from Brazil, and I'm quite an atheist, I started to become an atheist,...

DenoPenno comments on Oct 11, 2020:

Hang in there. You have friends here.

One-third of Americans believe the coronavirus was sent by God, poll finds | TheHill

DenoPenno comments on Oct 11, 2020:

I find this amazing and also scary. Does this mean that the GOP/DNC (take your pick) are not behind it and controlling it? Maybe it will go away after the election. Someone told me that yesterday. How did the entire world get involved if this is a trick of American politics?

Have you ever gotten "the look" from a xtian friend or relative that said "why me, god and not ...

DenoPenno comments on Oct 11, 2020:

I do understand this. I relate because I have turned many things loose and let them go. Religion and gods in particular. I have more peace of mind than I ever have had because of doing this. I simply do not understand how people live day to day in some cases. I went to high school with a woman who is a believer but she never went to church. Not much that I knew of. Her brother was a friend of mine and he was killed in Viet Nam. She carries that with her to this day. She will still tell you about it and what a bitch the dead brother's GF became. Also, her parents are dead now and she seems to blame them for dying. Recently one of her son's was killed in a car wreck. She is not so healthy herself now and this constant mental anguish has to contribute largely to that. I feel sorry for her but I know I cannot help her. People get into this thing of god having a plan and somehow everything is about you. This is wrong thinking. Why me. Why is this happening? I have the answer. It is all because things do happen and you are only special to your family. No invisible being is controlling anything.

We are all feeling COVID fatigue and desire a return to normalcy.

DenoPenno comments on Oct 10, 2020:

That covers it all very nicely. Now watch others on here try to go backwards in time in ways that can only be labeled as a distraction while they want to defend Trump. Keep in mind that Trump and friends are the ones in power and not the others. Vote Blue.

G'day everyone, just thought I might pass on a bit of reasoning LOL) that I heard from Evangeloon ...

DenoPenno comments on Oct 10, 2020:

Change the subject on him a bit and ask him why did god create mankind and then populate the earth through incest. In fact, god tried this 3 times. This will now bring us back to the sin that made god want to destroy mankind. It must be unknown because it certainly is not sexual.

Christian Activist: Let’s Show Love By Putting a “Noose around Hillary’s Neck” | Hemant ...

DenoPenno comments on Oct 10, 2020:

Here we are again almost 4 years into Trump and it's still all about Hillary. Maybe Trump and friends just do not have anything else to do.

Republican Religion [youtube.com]

DenoPenno comments on Oct 10, 2020:

Did I hear some of these bastard say holy New Year? LOL

Since religion is given a tax-free status, why not give science a tax-free status?

DenoPenno comments on Oct 10, 2020:

Great idea but those in power do not like it. They want us to be that nation founded by Christian values even though it is a lie. Then people living in nothing but a shack can worship a god and give away all their money freely. It will seem justified and they want it to become law.

Bohemian Rhapsody gets new American/Christian lyrics! [religimarole.com]

DenoPenno comments on Oct 10, 2020:

And so now it will no longer be the same song. WTF?

"High As a Giraffe's Ass." Trump's rambling calls torched on Twitter.

DenoPenno comments on Oct 10, 2020:

Who knows? Maybe Trump is acting this deranged so that if he loses he can spend time in a rich man's luney bin in order to avoid prosecution. I do know that Trump needs money and wants to stay in power to avoid being crowbait. That's not a mis-spell. I'd like to see Trump as crowbait.

I have to be honest.

DenoPenno comments on Oct 9, 2020:

Forget a soul or subconscious. The truth is it takes time for the indoctrination to become void and invalid.

Friend of mine from high school told me last night that she wishes i was close to god like she is.

DenoPenno comments on Oct 9, 2020:

LOL. This reminds me of the old idea of a couple out under the stars looking up and smoking after just having sex. The female then asks the man if he is thinking what she is thinking. There is no way. Not any way at all. If this offends anyone just switch the male and female role on asking the question. It works the same both ways. There is no way you are both thinking the same things.

Some of you may think I’m “nutty”, but I thought I’d share this here anyways for those that ...

DenoPenno comments on Oct 9, 2020:

Nothing bothers me more than driving down the highway and seeing a dead animal that might have been run over a thousand times. Even if it is deer size you often do not know if it is a deer or a dead dog. If reincarnation is real this dead animals must come back to gain revenge. Also, if you are reincarnated it must mean you were incarnated at least once before.

Priest Arrested After Getting Caught Filming Sex With Two Women on Church Altar | Hemant Mehta | ...

DenoPenno comments on Oct 9, 2020:

I have to wonder why people today want to openly have sex in a situation where they risk getting caught.

In a recent Veritas expose, claims, that the left call whole heartedtly false, involve ballot ...

DenoPenno comments on Oct 9, 2020:

You can read anything. Ballot harvesting. Is that like the hanging chad? Is it the left into this or did it apply in GWB's election so we did not end up with Algore? Then we have Alex Jones and his talk of child actors to sway things into his view. Actor portrayal is real. TV ads have them all the time. Switch now to a man on this site angry at me because he posted a real article from a fake site. We must all remember likes, clicks, and views and how someone somewhere is making money out of that even to the point of it becoming crap. Remember the 5G cell towers? Immigrants are extremely vulnerable in our current times in Trumpworld but I have no info on total Somalian American population in MN or anywhere else here. Many today are going back and forth to get your attention and use non-related things to get your support as they manipulate your anger and pain. In our current world the anger and pain are created so as to use you in support for their power. No one is keeping track enough to see if any of the numbers add up.

From Facebook

DenoPenno comments on Oct 9, 2020:

i think he has had more than a spoonful.

Have any of you or a friend or loved one had a near death experience?

DenoPenno comments on Oct 9, 2020:

No, but I have had out of body experiences back in the days that I was into woo. Many do not understand why I am so against nonsense beliefs today because they think it proves a soul. Sorry, it does not.

Self-Described “Pro Science” Rapper MC Hammer Embraces Intelligent Design | Val Wilde | Friendly...

DenoPenno comments on Oct 8, 2020:

Hammer was doing pretty good and I liked his direction. If he now sees Intelligent Design it means he is connecting the dots. He would then be a person who "has to know." The truth is, there are so many things we do not know. I'm not sure when we will know.

Leaving out the 'god stuff", why indeed...

DenoPenno comments on Oct 8, 2020:

I love that meme. I was just out today to a neighboring small city and saw some of the poor. Thier Agape housing is like something out of 1920.

If anyone but me has taken enough xanax or alcohol to watch the VP debate, I think we'd all agree: ...

DenoPenno comments on Oct 8, 2020:

Pence was allowed by the mod to go on and on past his time to talk. Some say this is a "respect" of his title. I say it is bullshit and Pence and others seem to demand respect and they show you none.

US law and religious freedom

DenoPenno comments on Oct 7, 2020:

Only in Murica we want our sky daddy delusions taught in our schools. After all, people came here coz their mean old king would not let them worship god. None of that is even true!

TW My cousin just posted that it’s been 10 years since we lost her brother to suicide.

DenoPenno comments on Oct 7, 2020:

Pastors do have a way out of this bullshit. According to the Buybull it is a great sin to take your own life. The alternative argument is that if a person does this he is not in his right mind, and therefore his god forgives him.

I would like to submit the idea that religion IS politics.

DenoPenno comments on Oct 7, 2020:

Yes, I agree. The current problem today is that opinion can come from so many places and the gullible public takes it all at face value thinking it is all real. An uninformed person ends up as dumb as a rock and then wants to argue with you on how they are right. Everyone feels they have a trail of evidence when things are all hollow words with no logic.

France plans punishment for 'virginity tests' [bbc.com]

DenoPenno comments on Oct 6, 2020:

OK, we are testing for virginity now but Susie was a horseback rider from her early teens. How does that work out?

US election: Do you need Jesus to win the White House? [bbc.com]

DenoPenno comments on Oct 6, 2020:

What would be his platform?

Pastor Who Said “Atheism Has Never Healed a Disease” Tests Positive for COVID | Hemant Mehta | ...

DenoPenno comments on Oct 6, 2020:

Religion has never healed a disease either.

Supreme Court will not hear Kim Davis same-sex marriage case - The Washington Post

DenoPenno comments on Oct 6, 2020:

Kim Davis was way to prejudiced for her job and therefore she should not have had that job. Issue of a license on religious grounds was not her choice to make. Kim Davis would most likely go to imaginary hell herself but she has been forgiven by mythical Jesus.

A Thoughtful Takedown of the Anti-Abortion Propaganda Film “Unplanned” | Hemant Mehta | Friendly...

DenoPenno comments on Oct 6, 2020:

Lies by men who want to control women and even have control over their bodies. In the Buybull a child became a child only at birth. Abortion is not birth control. FYI, an abortion is not free even when provided to the poor and it costs much more than birth control pills which are provided for the poor for free. Some of you need to do the math.

“According to the leadership of the evangelical community, the man on the left is the savior of ...

DenoPenno comments on Oct 6, 2020:

We always knew that people wanted to do more than just stone Mary Magdalene.

Only TWO out of sixteen members of our Ethical Sluts are women. Say what?

DenoPenno comments on Oct 6, 2020:

Both sexes can be slutty.

I am a 77 year old agnostic-atheist, lesbian, who is looking for a long term relationship with a ...

DenoPenno comments on Oct 6, 2020:

I'm looking for this with a millennial. She can be straight or lesbian. Good luck.

Aww hell. I offended someone today. I guess my job is done. Until tomorrow...

DenoPenno comments on Oct 6, 2020:

Remember all those who say "that offended me." My reply is "ah, poor baby."

How can anyone seriously stand behind the motto "In God We Trust"?

DenoPenno comments on Oct 6, 2020:

It bothers the hell out of me when I see this on police vehicles. Imagine when they show up and gather to pray before going after the suspect. This only happens if you are Dog the Bounty Hunter.

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DenoPenno comments on Oct 5, 2020:

Just one more example of people making it all up.

Lately, I find my own behavior somewhat puzzling.

DenoPenno comments on Oct 5, 2020:

Hang in there. Remember that the believer is compelled to make you one of them also but they get pissy if you do not like that idea. This is their duty according to their book. If you disagree with them it must mean "you just wanna sin." Likewise, when god does not heal all the sick children with cancer at St. Jude it is because of "the sins of the fathers" and is passed on to them. Who knows the workings of god? He works in hysterically ignorant ways.