Howard Dean is a clown. Belongs in a circus.

Also, for Severian: I caution you against judging God by human standards. He is not human. He’s God. Job is a tough read compared to other books, but He didn’t torture Job, but allowed Satan to try his best to force Job to falter in his faith. My favorite aspect of the book, however, is the fact that it begins and ends with an inventory of Job’s wealth. He ended up far better than he started and he started as the wealthiest around. It’s a nice point to bring up to the lib who thinks God hates the rich.

- Additionally, many of the books from the apostles, like the agnostic teachings, were omitted, which is more about a statement of social mores’ of the time, than anything having to do with cannon’s, or the properness of their inclusion.

- Versions like “King James” is even more of a “personal preference” tome. This “editing” of the good book, with hints of mysogomy, (the missing book of Mary for instance), gives rise to all sorts of schananigans, and leaves us open to things like the Di Vinci code fantasies. The problem that the early church had, in including ALL the books of the apostles, leads to some really embarrassing questions when you’re trying to preach a line of morality so necessary to a stable society. Damned if you do, damned if you don’t. The discovery of the Dead Sea scrolls, really threw things into a tizzy. I suspect thats one of the reasons, aside from technical problems, that its taking so “long” to decipher them.

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Job is a terrible book in the Bible, it makes God look capricious and uncaring and cruel to those that are the most loyal to Him. God tortures Job and his family all because he wants to prove to Satan that Job is loyal? Does God think proving something to Satan is more important than taking care of his loving followers?

- Notice how “morality” to Dean, is all about give-away’s. Murdering unborns seems to be outside his frame of morality. No mention of same sex marraige, another one of those “pesky” morality things.

- Obama is just dropping not-so-transparent hints that the Black vote may not always be there for the “victimhood” based community. Of the two, his is the more honest, which of course will make him an immeadiate object for derision. Democrats on the far left won’t hesitate to eat their own. They are so dogmatic they cannot stand any counter arguments to their extreme mantra’s.

- On FOX today Cal Thomas debated Bob Becket about this sudden move to try to rope in some of the Evangelical vote. Apparently the core Democratic Leadership has been conducting seminars for Democrats to teach them how to “talk to Christians”. Apparently Dean needs some more training on the subject, since he said in one speech recently, that his favorite bible book from the new testament was “Job”, which of course is from the old testiment. Oopsie. If its possible to be any more of a pandering, feckless politician than Dean is, I don’t know what it would be. I guess he’s just doing what he does best, lying for votes.

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Ya mean like our first ‘Black’ President, Billy Clinton? I see this as a not-so-subtle ploy to cast white politicians as ‘phoney’s’ as opposed to black politicians like himself. No party has tried harder to ‘fit in’ with the black community at election time as have the Democrats, and Obama is ratcheting up his personal rhetoric to elbow his party competition aside.

Those Christians in this country who are also Democrats are living in denial of their ‘faith’. The right to kill the unborn can never be reconciled with any Christian value, and that is one of the cornerstones of the mainstream Democrat platform. Unfortunately comfort and convenience trumps true morality in our American society, and many Christian churches here would rather pander to the conditional morals of their congregation for the dollars it brings to the collection plate, rather than set the bar to a higher standard and risk a drop in attendance.

Perhaps those folks are intellectually lazy, or (dare I say it?) just plain stupid.