Amen Harry. Hitler had an efficient government as does Fidel Castro. Thank goodness we don't have one.

Anonymous, no one said that this is "Liberty" , it's a Czech proverb. I believe it suggests that when the big thieves get caught, they always look for someone lower on the food chain to blame. When the IRS scandal broke, the folks in D.C. blamed some underlings in Cincinnati. They just didn't know anything about it at headquarters.

One of the greatest founding fathers. I agree with Paine on this. Every church or religion was founded by humans and everyone is suspect. If you are convinced of the crazy notion that a talking snake convinced a woman to eat some fruit, try believing the morman religion, it's even nuttier.

Jefferson was a Deist. He thought the idea of a virgin birth and the Trinity were bad theology. We are never quite sure exactly sure what Jesus actually said due to scribes mistakes in copying the Bible. Read "Misquoting Jesus" by Bart Ehrman, and you can check it out on YouTube.

This is priceless and my favorite is, "They are all infected with episcopal and presbyterian creeds, and confessions of faith." Faith is pretending to know something that you know nothing about.

Check out a short video on YouTube, "The earth is the center of the universe", by Edward Current.

The moral precepts of the old Testament leave a lot to be desired and if you followed them you'd end up in jail, and rightfully so.

No one has the power to define morality but some folks think they do. We wouldn't have horrors such as the War on Drugs unless we have leftover vestiges of morality from the witch burning days.

H.L. is one of my favorites and he hits the nail on the head.

Anonymous, look around. Harry , Nancy, Barack, and the gang haven't switched parties unless I missed it.

To understand the mess we are in, just remember that about 90% of the folks in congress are lawyers.

Ask anyone who spent time in one of Fidel Castro's prisons.

Mark Twain and Mencken were great at satire.

Mencken is exactly right, as he usually is.

Mike, nevertheless, my GPS generally tells me which way to turn at an intersection. As to praying for the sick, I figure that someone may be healed regardless of prayer. Praying that someone will get well, and they do, is anecdotal evidence and doesn't prove cause and effect.

Nice comment, cal.

I was raised in a Bible church and we weren't given to thinking, only believing. Thinking could lead to doubting and doubting was a sin. Hey, we had enough sins and didn't want to add doubting to the list.

Bob, Eugene Oregon, you said it well.

Gary Bell, what the hell are you talking about. And Debbie, the air must be thin on Pilot Mt.

Anonymous and Reston are nuts but Josiah's comment is a little peculiar. I haven't seen too many people who were happy in jail. Maybe a few who" have found Jesus" but they all seem happy to leave Jesus in and get themselves out of prison. And what on earth is " limited government with a Biblical basis". Certainly not the Old Testament basis. I suspect that limited government is paying attention to the Constitution which our government never does.

Eye witnesses to an auto accident will give different versions of the "truth". And they, each one, think they know the truth.

I am an "aged person" and I don't want to go back in time and live through the 40's and 50's again. Old people like me tend to think that the "Good Old Days" were better than now. People tend to remember the good times they had and to forget the hard times. With all the problems facing this country, I would not want to go back.

Robert, Anonymous, and Dick, I agree with your comments.

Oops, add the word "change" after climate in my first sentence.

Perhaps global climate is real but a lot of people disagree. The question then comes, does human behavior cause this or does something else. Records show that climate change has happened over and over in the past million or so years. Perhaps climate change will be beneficial to the world. A good argument against global warming is the fact that the idiot, Al Gore, is pushing the idea.