Credit where due: it’s from here.

Greetings, everyone. First post, short-time lurker around these parts. I sing with David, and he (in the middle of pimping Ron Paul to me the other day) invited me to come around. So that’s that.

I want to make a comment on the uproariously funny atheism video posted by Geoff. The debate of religion/faith/mythology, and their place in the socio-politics of America is something I really get a thrill from. So congrats, you hit a nerve.

I want to call your attention to an old blog post by a really tremendous writer & media theorist named Douglas Rushkoff. He’s also a tremendously progressive Jewish thinker, and has made a lot of people in a lot of religious institutions very angry with his writings. I’ll likely be posting more stuff referring to his work in the future, but this will do for now.

The post is Faith = Illness. Why I’ve had it with religious tolerance. Excerpt:

I think it’s time to get serious about the role God plays in human affairs, and evaluate whether it’s appropriate to let everyone in on the bad news: God doesn’t exist, never did, and the closest thing we’ll ever see to God will emerge from our own collective efforts at making meaning.

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Right now, America’s true believers are locking down its laws along with its Bible. They are fighting the science of evolution because it accepts that things change over time - and such change is incompatible with static, everlasting truths. They are doing to today’s progressives the very same thing that the Bible’s Egyptians were doing to the Israelites. And they’re doing it in the name of a God who they believe they’ll meet when they die. This is the very mindset and behavior the Bible was written to stop.

It goes on, but I can’t really just post the entire thing here, can I?  I’d love to solicit comments/debate on it, especially from anyone who finds it offensive.

Look out Atheists… you just got so served. Thank you Rube, for sharing your insanity with us. We are all now dumber for having listened.

Of course, George Carlin doesn’t agree. He has some issues with both God and the Ten Commandments.

And yes Beowulf, I ripped that link off of your Flog. I had to… it was too damn funny.

Huckabee’s base of support? Kind of troubling.

The dark implications of the number 666 are well known to most people, secular and sacred. It is the number of ‘the beast’ called antichrist, and is given to us in the Bible: Revelation 13:18.

What many don’t know is that other ancient authorities cite 616 as the number of this “beast”. I learned this little known fact when I followed a footnote ascribed to this verse in my own bible, and I have confirmed it here on the internets. I’ve long kept vigil, watching for a time that either of these numbers should be present in connection with any person of power. Today, that watch is over.

You can only imagine the cold dread that coursed through my veins when I saw the results of the Iowa Caucus vote count posted on the Liberty Broadcast Network website. I’ve posted them below as I found them, lest someone from the Huckabee camp (or the devil himself!) realize that they’ve tipped their hand and change up the numbers:

Here you see the Huckabee vote count incorporating not only 666, not only 616, but both! 616 and 666 (if you kind of squint a little to make the digit 1 hard to see). This is no random event, for as Einstein told us, God does not play dice with the universe - and Einstein was really, really smart.

Coincidence you say? I know you would be disappointed if I didn’t make an effort to find more PROOF so that every doubter will have to come to the same ominous conclusion. There’s another way that correlates with these findings EXACTLY.

In the Westernized Pythagorean system of Numerology, we arrange the American alphabet beneath the digits 1 through 9 thusly:

1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9
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A B C D E F G H I
J K L M N O P Q R
S T U V W X Y Z

Now, if you assign a value to each letter according to the table, you will find that this (the beasts name) adds EXACTLY to 666:

Mike “Haa! Did you see how good I did in the Iowa caucus? That proves that God’s with me, Naysayers. Did you know there was a subliminal cross in my Christmas ad? That’s Jesus power, baby.” Huckabee

Add it up yourself, and you will see.

Here, another variation yields EXACTLY 616!!!!!

Mike “Haa! Did you see how good I did in the Iowa caucus? That proves God’s with me. Did you know there was a subliminal cross in my Christmas ad? That’s Jesus power, baby.” Huckabee

This is a message from GOD, people. There are signs everywhere if you just know how to find them.
Peace-