On Tom DeLay

[virescere]

I'm writing a news article for the Bearchat on Rep. DeLay and I feel the need to put my opinion somewhere.

Assumptions as to his guilt/innocence? I think he's probably guilty of something (he looks like a crook) but I won't be at all surprised if he gets off. Ronnie Earle brought an amateur/unfounded case against Kay Bailey Hutchinson - I could

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[taechay]

Hi Virescere,

I found you commenting on my journal, and hopped over to yours to check it out. You're a very interesting persons, seemingly sharing my own suspicions about (some) christian politicians like you made clear in this post.

During some reading once I caught up a sentence "Luther brought the church to the state, like Calvin brought it to the money". Despite some of the positive accomplishments of Luther and Calvin, I think this is a serious point.

Maybe church and politics really shouldn't be so closely intertwined. Same of course but even more so with money. Much more so, I start to believe, for the latter makes bad actions in the former much more likely. The bible says love for money is the root of all evil. I guess that is one thing the jerks of this world laugh about. And politicians are often quite clever jerks.

I'll be interested to what else you write on your journal. If you want, you can have me as an lj friend.

God bless,

Daniel

[virescere]

when i do try to bait atheists, i do it from a Catholic perspective.

i'm not actually religious - i take on the position sometimes though.

i don't mind religion in politics so much as hypocrisy. must go, more later.

[virescere]

money definitely has no place in politics. that is a big problem here in the u.s. especially (to the point that plutocracy is a more fitting term than democracy for our political system). i don't know about the situation in germany.

it would be impossible to strain the religion out of politics - it'd be like demanding the convictions be taken out of politics, which of course doesn't make sense/is impossible.

[olfashiondcowby]

How many people are walking around this minstrel show we call America that know Latin? That's pretty damn cool. :)