How much respect do religious believers deserve?

DenoPenno comments on Mar 16, 2020:

I really give them no respect.

Struggling with hell/satan/evil stuff.

DenoPenno comments on Mar 16, 2020:

Time will help you with this. I studied for the ministry and what helped me the most was to investigate fully how and when we got the bible as we know it today. Once you understand that you see how believing everything we do today is like deciding on what happened 300 years after the fact. If you can grasp it everything then looks like a fairytale. Imagine beliefs from our own 1700's as being real today. The fact that there was said to be a fountain of youth in Florida did not make it so. People believed it and actually tried to find it. This is the distance we are talking about with our beloved holy book as it came long after the time of Jesus. If the above alone is true why would I worry about hell, satan, and evil stuff? It is all made up.

Look what I shared: Pastor says only “sissies” & “pansies” wash their hands to prevent ...

DenoPenno comments on Mar 16, 2020:

Insanity.

I’ve just watched the latest BBC News programme and have heard and seen all the latest curfews and...

DenoPenno comments on Mar 16, 2020:

I watch some of the same news and Media worldwide is making this all worse. I'm 73 and soon to be 74 and not worried about any of this so much. I take precautions within reason but ignorance has us all acting crazy.

As an African American I am at awe with the internet and information and .

DenoPenno comments on Mar 15, 2020:

This is correct, Tonya, but the culprit is religion in general. That means all religions.

Google is building me my own personal website.

DenoPenno comments on Mar 15, 2020:

It's a very good website, bigly, bigly, and there cannot be a finer website anywhere.

Thanks to federal policies, we now have returning travelers waiting hours in large crowds at the ...

DenoPenno comments on Mar 15, 2020:

There is one person to blame for all this nonsense and he claims he is not responsible for anything. He also lies a lot.

Blind Faith In Religion Destroys Our Ability To Critically Think For Ourselves

DenoPenno comments on Mar 15, 2020:

Yes it does but the religious will tell you they have logic and evidence. I don't see that they have either.

I joined a Christian Chat Group just to see what was going on with them.

DenoPenno comments on Mar 15, 2020:

They make me sick to a point that sometimes I cuss. It is hard for me to talk to my longtime friend who is a Christian and I only do so because we have been friends since about age 13.

Minister at Omaha's Countryside Community Church tells congregation he has coronavirus disease | ...

DenoPenno comments on Mar 15, 2020:

Be careful but do not panic. I saw an interview on FB today where and older man who had the virus told in great detail what it was like for him. He had a dry cough, no nose or eye problems, was fine some days but other days his fever was there above 103. Then it would drop again and he thought he was over it but it was harder for him to breath and he would get tired off and on. He told it all in a normal voice and said he would just have to wait it out. Someone told him it may last at least 2 weeks.

Investigate him

DenoPenno comments on Mar 15, 2020:

It needs to be done Jared and Trump are equally bad.

Donald Trump Tried To Purchase Exclusive Rights To A Coronavirus Vaccine, Report Says

DenoPenno comments on Mar 15, 2020:

With Trump it will b available to the highest bider.

Ark Encounter and the Creation Museum Refuse to Close During Coronavirus Scare | Hemant Mehta | ...

DenoPenno comments on Mar 15, 2020:

Ken really is a Ham. LOL

Empty Store Shelves, Shortages, High Anxiety Make no mistake.

DenoPenno comments on Mar 15, 2020:

If this is how socialism works as you say then where is it that Donald Trump is taking us? The panic and food shortage that I see is exactly what they have in most of Russia. Now it is coming to America. This has nothing to do with Bernie.

You're watching a YouTube video about atheism and an ad from a religious organization pops,this is ...

DenoPenno comments on Mar 15, 2020:

Certainly I agree but on my machines I see no ads in You Tube. Learn how to block them and your problems are solved. Use the Internet to find out how.

What are your personal pet peeves about religous people?

DenoPenno comments on Mar 15, 2020:

I was once one of them and I have 3 basic things against the religious. They tend if Evangelical to view the world through writings in Revelation which barely made it into the bible in the first place. Next they think if you are atheist it is because you have not been properly informed. Going back again to Evangelicals I see the greatest hypocrisy today that I have ever seen in my entire life.

Supreme Court turns away challenge to 'bump stock' ban - JURIST - News - Legal News & Commentary

DenoPenno comments on Mar 15, 2020:

Yes, you never know when you might need that bump stock to get that deer.

States Can Prosecute Illegal Aliens For Identity Theft, Supreme Court Rules | The Daily Caller

DenoPenno comments on Mar 15, 2020:

I always thought you could prosecute anyone for identity theft. Maybe not. According to agencies that claim to protect your identity some idiot claiming to be you in a stater you have never lived in will cause his creditors to come after you bigtime. OK, wake up. You have proof you were you and have always been you. The other idiot has only been you for 10 years or so. Who was he before he became you? It looks like a no-brainer to me.

Vladimir Putin got one step closer to being Russian president for life - Vox

DenoPenno comments on Mar 15, 2020:

You have it exactly. I also watched world news where Putin addressed his parliment about proposed changes to the Russian Constitution. He told them exactly what he would accept and then said this was the will of the people. WTF?

Fox News hosts urge viewers to fly despite health officials' warnings - Business Insider

DenoPenno comments on Mar 15, 2020:

Whether you knew it or not it is my understanding that Trump has a 30 day ban on flights in and out of America, but this does not include the UK. Maybe that is because he has 3 golfing clubs over there. We have to be able to fly to Trump-A-Lago. Closer analysis might show that we are in a manipulated scam.

No Milk, No Bleach: Americans Awake to Coronavirus Panic Buying

DenoPenno comments on Mar 15, 2020:

i hear ya. I was in Walmart and Aldi locally in mid-Missouri today and the bare aisles for no real reason are idiotic. I overheard one man say to buy something anyway because they could freeze it. Virus pandamonium rules and a Walmart insider told me they are not worried about the panic buying because it has put them ahead on their projected sales. A closer look tells me this is what the current urgency is all about. We are being manipulated and scammed. Just wait now for the business bailout we will be hit with. The top 1 percent want even more of our money. Don't worry. You can take on another job. Anyone see a possible pattern here?

Today's extra cheese ... 🧀🧀🧀🧀

DenoPenno comments on Mar 15, 2020:

LMAO at these.

The Trump Family Demonstrates ...

DenoPenno comments on Mar 15, 2020:

Why is Trump not holding himself?

Some praise for ritualistic practice

DenoPenno comments on Mar 14, 2020:

I see a benefit in rituals and often can see why we have them. As for myself, I am more of a watcher of who and how we are and how we became what we are. My concerns are with the objective experience as being our real experience. For the subjective, it can be anything that you want it to be.

FYI the Infoline has set up a Covid 19 information line You can call 211 - Or you can go online ...

DenoPenno comments on Mar 14, 2020:

Seems like good information.

Hannity Claims Deep State May Be Using Coronavirus to Hurt Economy Fox News host and unofficial...

DenoPenno comments on Mar 14, 2020:

Hannity is just another moron. He hopes people will overlook or not hear Steve Bannon when Bannon admits in an interview that he and Trump made up the "deep state." People cannot even get the term "fake news" correct as that term is something Trump made up because Media was not kind to him. Now here is the biggie. Trump is a germaphobe and not really so concerned about this new coronavirus. The great pandemic is actually proving to cause the public pandamonium and also producing bare shelves in many stores along with idiotic outrage. It may get worse yet as Trump proposes more bailouts for the super rich. This could also result in a total suspension of the 2020 election. Think about that and where this could be going. We are all being scammed. It started for certain before our last election. It is the current great experiment going on in America and affecting most of the rest of the world as well.

Why do the nonreligious let that go unchallenged?

DenoPenno comments on Mar 14, 2020:

You don't allow a Christian. They seem to have the ability to both be forgiven and then go back to another challenging moral situation all the time. Remember "I'm not perfect - just forgiven." It's a game.

It’s not God moving in mysterious ways

DenoPenno comments on Mar 13, 2020:

Yes, I agree.

New Jersey Catholic church lambasted for denying autistic boy, 8, First Communion 'because his ...

DenoPenno comments on Mar 13, 2020:

My question would be why does being autistic mean that you do not know right from wrong?

Funny Stuff Alert; Today while shopping I noticed two young girls in masks buying shopping carts ...

DenoPenno comments on Mar 13, 2020:

This is funny and it seems to fit. Let me go a step farther and say it is outright whacko. When these girls grow up will they be able to remember it that way or still be so deeply ingrained in nonsense that they see it as real, needed, and biblical. I did a little research on the overloaded buying of t-paper. It is a control issue involving wanting to be clean. Anyone who ever had the flu knows that you do not use any more or less of t-paper. As for the water buying, some are into that bigtime. I suppose it all depends on how bad your water was in the first place and how much you trust bottled water makers. (I don't.) A young man at my work wants to say this new coronavirus is "so much easier to catch" than flu and he got that from Fox Noise. When I told him I had had the flu at least 4 times in my life he acted concerned and said he was very healthy and had never got it at 22. He also guessed that I watch CNN when in reality I watch world news from all over the planet. His mentality reminds me a lot of the two young girls you met.

Christians, or as I call some of them, christian scum, like to call evolution and science "Lies from...

DenoPenno comments on Mar 13, 2020:

I can agree with you here, but "Christian scum" might have been a little bit too strong for Zark Muckerberg and his AI robots. Remember that FB is a place where Jesus and the Devil arm wrestle and we need a lot of "likes" on that issue. LOL

How important are pants?

DenoPenno comments on Mar 13, 2020:

Easier to do these things when you live alone.

There is a difference....

DenoPenno comments on Mar 12, 2020:

This is so very true. Just this morning a relative is trying to convince me of how wise and bright the Orange Turd is in his handling of everything. She obviously "cherry picks" the news.

Tom Hanks and wife Rita Wilson test positive for coronavirus in Australia | World news | The ...

DenoPenno comments on Mar 12, 2020:

Sad all over.

Using the Fear - With a global pandemic sweeping across the globe, now is the time to look hard at ...

DenoPenno comments on Mar 11, 2020:

I don't imagine or think about any of that. No pain, no guilt trips, etc. Very little worry really.

If any non-falsifiable evidence of a god's existing came to light, I would be persuaded to change my...

DenoPenno comments on Mar 11, 2020:

Good vs. bad evidence as provable evidence. Is there at this time any provable evidence? If not it is all bad and not really evidence at all. You ask how I combat "scientism." I don't. I have no belief that science can and will explain everything. At least, not at this time.

I have started a new group called COVID-19 in an effort to provide a forum for free thinkers, ...

DenoPenno comments on Mar 11, 2020:

Just throwing this in. As a child my family had a cistern to collect water. We had the water hauled in by truck but still put 6 to 8 drops of Clorox bleach per gallon to our drinking water. This purified it and made it safe to drink. Lysol and other products claim they will kill coronavirus. OK, you can't safely drink Lysol but I'm betting you might beat coronavirus once you have it a bit easier if you try my Clorox water treatment. It's just a thought.

Christian pastor: I’d support Trump ‘even if he ran a dogfighting ring on Mother Teresa’s ...

DenoPenno comments on Mar 11, 2020:

Moron City opens up once again and swallows the totally ignorant.

Wondering if this situation occures often when visiting with religious freinds and in the ...

DenoPenno comments on Mar 11, 2020:

I once knew a man who claimed he was getting so close to god that he was no longer sinning. It cannot be proven but he might have been related to Donald Trump.

Greek Orthodox Church: Coronavirus Not Transmitted Via Holy Communion | Michael Stone

DenoPenno comments on Mar 11, 2020:

Holy water is magic. Add 6 to 8 drops of bleach per gallon to make. You can even drink the water then as it is purified. My family used to have a cistern. :)

The Bethel charismatic mega-church in Redding, California is telling its faith healers to stay away ...

DenoPenno comments on Mar 11, 2020:

When I was into faith healing I couldn't even catch poison ivy. Today, well, not so much.

It's interesting watching all the religious and new agey people quietly going about canceling their ...

DenoPenno comments on Mar 11, 2020:

Yet more proof again that Christians just keep on making shit up.

New survey finds only one in four Americans are practicing Christians who prioritize faith and ...

DenoPenno comments on Mar 11, 2020:

Most Christians are Christians in name only. Once you apply their magic book to their nonsense it gets contradictory and outrageous.

Biden continues to implode.

DenoPenno comments on Mar 10, 2020:

Where is the implosion? It was noisy as hell but I thought he was trying to defend his point of view and correct what the man thought he had said.

Okay, I was talking with a friend yesterday.

DenoPenno comments on Mar 10, 2020:

This crap is all over You Tube and has many books about it. Do they have sources? Not really. Just like religious believers they want to know everything and they make it up. Often this is because of how a statue looks or because we cannot fully explain something. It doesn't mean any of it has evidence unless you are willing to believe it in advance. I might add that we as a people think we came from the stars and we have often even named our cars with star and planet names. It does not mean that our cars came from somewhere else. It is simply a fascination that mankind has.

I don't know about you...

DenoPenno comments on Mar 10, 2020:

I can fully agree.

Okay, so there is always the Atheist vs.

DenoPenno comments on Mar 10, 2020:

Try watching some Aron Ra videos on You Tube and see what you get. He seems like a reasonable and intelligent man.

Resetting your gf's alarm

DenoPenno comments on Mar 10, 2020:

I would be tempted.

Generations.

DenoPenno comments on Mar 10, 2020:

That seems about right.

Happy Tuesday! What's your relationship with taxes?

DenoPenno comments on Mar 10, 2020:

Did mine in Turbo Tax Freedom and got both returns ASAP at no charge. I'm semi-retired and only work 3 hours a day. At my age I get back everything I pay in and this is all so easy. As a single mom a similar deal might work out for you also. In many cases you could get back more than you paid in simply because you have a child.

Catholic Churches Are Removing Holy Water Out of Fear of Spreading Coronavirus | David Gee | ...

DenoPenno comments on Mar 9, 2020:

Media is scaring the bejesus out of everyone with reportings of this virus.

Orthodox Israeli Rabbi Claims Coronavirus is God’s Revenge for Gay Pride Parades | Beth ...

DenoPenno comments on Mar 9, 2020:

This is as bad as the rumor Evangelicals want to pray away the coronavirus except they are also praying their enemies and certain others get it. WTF?

Trump and Covid-19

DenoPenno comments on Mar 9, 2020:

These are very true words indeed. I'm gonna put this on Facebook.

How are these god pumping people dealing with the current virus?

DenoPenno comments on Mar 9, 2020:

To me it gets worse when they pray that their god will give the virus to some people while sparing others. In their biblical world there is always enemies.

Been a while since I have been here.

DenoPenno comments on Mar 9, 2020:

I'm not sure of your honor code. Personally I do not have one. There are things I may or may not do but I don't put them on paper in advance and deal with them only when they come up.

Who can honestly say god rules the universe anymore?

DenoPenno comments on Mar 8, 2020:

When did a god ever rule the universe?

Pastor Who Raped Kids After “Spiritual Baths” Will Go to Jail for 34 Years | Hemant Mehta | ...

DenoPenno comments on Mar 8, 2020:

It seems like the victims told on him. Imagine that!

An Opinion Piece Soul is self.

DenoPenno comments on Mar 8, 2020:

I read that it was Sam Cooke who invented soul.

Pastor Puts Anti-Gay Sign on Lawn After Realizing His Neighbors Are Lesbians | Hemant Mehta | ...

DenoPenno comments on Mar 8, 2020:

I wish my neighbors were lesbians. Instead they are 2 sisters. Well, they might be.

The bible god/Yahweh/Jesus is the greatest abortionist.

DenoPenno comments on Mar 8, 2020:

But if you want to pay a dollar a day he finally came up with a product that will help you keep your hair.

What I think about COVID-19 this morning - Google Docs

DenoPenno comments on Mar 8, 2020:

I didn't give it much thought this morning. I'll try to not give it so much thought tomorrow either. I hope it is bothering the hell out of germaphobe Trump.

Here’s an interesting article about the enigma of conscious awareness.

DenoPenno comments on Mar 8, 2020:

Since you have a different consciousness than I do I think it is safe to say that it comes from the brain.

Right-Wing Pastor: God Sent Us Coronavirus Because of Homosexuality | Beth Stoneburner | Friendly ...

DenoPenno comments on Mar 8, 2020:

OK, pastor. Explain why god sent us homosexuality. How about the immaculate deception?

I need one of these

DenoPenno comments on Mar 8, 2020:

I am fast getting to that point. I am an introvert with an extrovert job. Fortunately I only work 3 hours a day right now. After that Dr. Jekyll goes home to hide.

i REMEMBER BACK IN THE DAY WHEN SHE MADE HEADLINES, AND WE ALL WERE INTRIGUED, BUT HER PERSONAL ...

DenoPenno comments on Mar 8, 2020:

Monica has one claim to fame and it seems to me that she plays it up all that she can. Other than the scandal who is she and what does she do? Why was there ever a stained dress that was saved and what did it prove?

Everything you ever wanted to know about ... [theguardian.com]

DenoPenno comments on Mar 8, 2020:

As a young teenager I was loaned books like "Sexology" by a young woman older than myself. The purpose of this book is to teach you the truth about sex. My dad found a copy and called it pornography. His day of this thing was all "out behind the barn." LOL I just looked up the book and it was around until 1983.

Religious people keep talking about purpose as if an externally defined purpose is anything other ...

DenoPenno comments on Mar 8, 2020:

If this could only be taught to Evangelicals we would all be better off.

Please relate to us a time or times in your life when your production of EVIDENCE altered a judgment...

DenoPenno comments on Mar 8, 2020:

I sort of invent things to alter problem areas in carpentry and design as well as some things mentally. This comes from my inner desire to save money and not spend senselessly. In the end it spills over into inner workings of how I think and is responsible for needed changes in design or procedure. I hate change and yet this is all needed change. I see changes in my thinking and designs in just the last 2 years. Some things involving my shower door were actually dangerous. You make changes to better yourself. Sometimes you find a shortcut or a better way than what you were doing before. I have designed my own lightweight TV antenna and it works very well. I have no plans of changing it. The EVIDENCE of how well something works is usually enough for me, but in time everything changes. I read once that Ben Franklin invented a stove and the smoke it produced drove him out of his house. This inspired him to invent a chimney. I believe the story. In his kite flying days, however, he is lucky he did not get killed. I feel that way sometimes myself and this is why I come to a point of changing my previous judgment. Unlike Franklin I am not leaving inventions behind, just bettering myself. To keep up I have to change a previous idea or judgment all the time.

The following words are from a book I am writing.

DenoPenno comments on Mar 8, 2020:

Yes, Rodney King. Found later in his time on earth dead at the bottom of a swimming pool. They claim he drowned. Maybe he had some help and maybe not. I love that term of believing in your heart and not your mind. You hear this often but all my heart does is pump blood. As a people we are brainwashed into believing so much nonsense about the heart. From Valentines to loving, it just never ends. Bumper stickers like "I (heart) NY." It is amazing. Now, if the truth be told all of those people inside that church believing of one heart and mind is just a lie. The minister takes you to that point where you think everyone believes the same but it simply is not true. To prove it just try asking them later and separately what they believe. You will get different answers.

PART TWO >> There has been a lot of good garnered through faith, yet religion has also caused a ...

DenoPenno comments on Mar 8, 2020:

** "all about statements that can never be proven true or false."** OK, does this mean nobody was ever killed in the name of religion? I rest my case. I'm for the betterment of all.

Willie's got it right!!!!

DenoPenno comments on Mar 8, 2020:

Thank you, Willie.

Sweep of Arrests Hit US Neo-Nazi Connected to Five Murders After pressure from law ...

DenoPenno comments on Mar 8, 2020:

Keep that "Deep State" in mind. To know how this works Steve Bannon admitted in an interview that he and Donald Trump made up the term "Deep State." Of course, we need followers so I'm sure all the Neo Nazis are good people. They are protecting us from the "Deep State" but Trump is innocent.

Person tests positive for coronavirus after attending CPAC - Business Insider

DenoPenno comments on Mar 8, 2020:

If Trump was there maybe this will scare the crap out of him. Maybe we would find that he shot himself on 5th Avenue. I bet he could get away with it. :)

Our commandments.

DenoPenno comments on Mar 8, 2020:

I have no commandments nor morality, but I can go for number one any time.

It is all very obvious.

DenoPenno comments on Mar 8, 2020:

I can agree. I always avoid women in the St. Louis area who claim they like to go to "the boat." It's a riverside gambling boat. Easy to see who really has your money. I do confess that I play the lottery but this is the same thing. They win and usually you do not, but if you have no ticket then you will not win either. I gamble with lottery but never very much.

The people who read the bible also believe that god wrote the bible! WRONG! Man wrote the bible! ...

DenoPenno comments on Mar 7, 2020:

I agree but I think the earth has been around a lot more than 3,000 years.

Nathaniel Woods executed in Alabama despite someone else confessing to the crime | indy100

DenoPenno comments on Mar 7, 2020:

This is real shame.

Christian Film “20 Minutes” Falsely Suggests Atheists Find God When Facing Death | Hemant ...

DenoPenno comments on Mar 7, 2020:

I'm not surprised by this idea. The film "God Is Not Dead" had the same idea and believers always seem to think more about death and "getting right" with their god. I totaled a work truck out one time and it happened so quickly. I wore a seat belt and was not hurt at all. The last thoughts in my mind as the truck went out of control were "now I'm gonna be hit by all these other vehicles" but it did not happen. I had no god thoughts.

Went to a memorial for a friend who died.

DenoPenno comments on Mar 7, 2020:

Sorry for your loss but it seems like his memorial went very well.

Not so long ago a conservative work mate of mine told me outright that Medicare for all would cost ...

DenoPenno comments on Mar 7, 2020:

As an update to this post I was listening to The Dave Weinberg radio program on 92.9 FM Friday 3-6-2020 when the same question came up about how unreasonable any program like Medicare for all would be. Dave says it is impossible because the **total wealth of America is 98 trillion dollar**s. If we even tried this sort of program would we be like Russia or maybe worse? It just will not work. There you have it again. Big Pharma wins and countries smaller than us have so much more wealth than us. Besides that it is socialism but Trump bailing out the farmers is not socialism. WTF is wrong with people? Can nobody think any longer?

Trump calls WHO's global death rate from coronavirus 'a false number' [theguardian.com]

DenoPenno comments on Mar 7, 2020:

Trump is the expert who should know and he might mark it with his sharpie. Will the truth ever survive? This clown got elected and everyone is now saying we do not know the truth any longer. Tape Trump's mouth and tie his hands please so that truth might continue.

Horrible neighbors got evicted.

DenoPenno comments on Mar 7, 2020:

Trump can also do this for you.

Let's talk about spheres of influence and international affairs.... - YouTube

DenoPenno comments on Mar 7, 2020:

This is Justin King. He knows what he is talking about and I follow his posts on You Tube.

If a republican accuses...

DenoPenno comments on Mar 7, 2020:

The strangest thing is that they talk this nonsense and cannot see the hypocrisy.

So beautiful it causes a few raised eyebrows

DenoPenno comments on Mar 7, 2020:

Probably millipedes as they are not even.

Let's not go there.

DenoPenno comments on Mar 7, 2020:

Yikes!!!

I found this on VOX its kinda like a feel at points.

DenoPenno comments on Mar 6, 2020:

Too stupid to read and take seriously for me. Question of "do you think death is a blessing?" My answer would be only if being alive was causing you so much constant pain that you could no longer bear to live. Why would I be concerned with questions like this? Why would I think there is a purpose to life? Maybe that question centers around my life being all about me, me, me!

Are there any other Art Bell fans out there...?

DenoPenno comments on Mar 6, 2020:

I was amazed that they passed it off as all real. I listened long enough to know it was not.

I AM A MUSLIM ASK ME ANYTHING? - MUSLIM DEFENDS ISLAM ACROSS AMERICA

DenoPenno comments on Mar 6, 2020:

All religions are a cult of murder and enslavement. Hang around them or read about them enough and you will find it out.

I think it’s important to realize that we are very fortunate to live in a time that we can think ...

DenoPenno comments on Mar 6, 2020:

I hear your every word. My childhood religious friend still thinks that I am "angry with god" and he believes I am going to hell if I do not change my ways. Meanwhile, he wants desperately to be a little spark sitting around the feet of god who is the big spark. Back when we were both 13 he would think his god was a bearded old man in the sky.

Yesterday i had a transesophageal echocardiogram (TEE).

DenoPenno comments on Mar 6, 2020:

I think it is funny also and doctors do not have a sense of humor. In my last in-home examination I was told that due to my early smoking I should be having all kinds of tests ran for lung cancer. I have no lung problems and have not smoked in 20 years. Why would the doctor want to cause me stress? Maybe married to Big Pharma.

Someone recently argued that greater educational attainment in first nations is the driver behind a ...

DenoPenno comments on Mar 6, 2020:

I would argue that religious belief is largely being done away with by the the Internet itself and the fact that most people have access to the Internet.

‪This 'gay, atheist, leftist' is taking on Poland's right-wing government — by running for ...

DenoPenno comments on Mar 6, 2020:

We probably have more gay people in government than anyone is willing to admit. In America the FBI had J. Edgar.

I have to be honest.

DenoPenno comments on Mar 6, 2020:

I have no worries about an unknown and undefinable part of me going to a fictional place because of an imaginary being who lives in the sky not liking what I do. My days of belief in all that came to an end some time ago. If you want the same study the bible, where it came from and how it got to be what so many people think it is today. Mostly fiction and the biggest bunch of nonsense ever. Believers have started their own universities to keep this crap going.

Do you think it is possible for a professing Christian to be agnostic?

DenoPenno comments on Mar 5, 2020:

Truth be told, faith is more like "hope." It even says that in the bible. What is not clear is if you cross your fingers when you have this sort of hope. I like Mark Twain who said "faith is believing what you know ain't so." That pretty well covers it.

Man Killed By Police At Santa Ana Catholic Church – CBS Los Angeles

DenoPenno comments on Mar 5, 2020:

So the police officer decides to give god a little credit here. Simply amazing! God can do anything he wants to except that he just don't. I don't think he ever did.

New Zealand Pastor Blames Coronavirus on Airborne Demons Controlled by Satan | Beth Stoneburner | ...

DenoPenno comments on Mar 5, 2020:

He may have the "airborne" part of it correct. I keep reading that others claim this virus is not airborne. How do they know and where is the proof?

Brothers and sisters, where has gone your faith?

DenoPenno comments on Mar 5, 2020:

Yes. my religious friend believes that this new virus could be prayed away if "you really, really had a lot of faith and believed strongly enough." He's really scientific isn't he?

Some Atheists can be just as self righteous and judgmental as Christians/religious people.

DenoPenno comments on Mar 5, 2020:

Yes, they can. Being atheist simply means that they do not believe in gods of any kind. Beyond that they are as dumb as anyone else.

Interesting [space.com] Life after death?

DenoPenno comments on Mar 5, 2020:

We need to gather all the data that we can.