Everyone is entitled to their own opinion, their own belief system, and their own choices in life. I am not one to judge others, that is up to God. Religion is not history, but it is an integral part of it. Any way, you can lead a horse to water but you cannot force it to drink....I would say that "we" would be no better than a tyrant if "we" tried to force our own values/whatever down anyone's throat. God will judge in the end, and we are only accountable for ourselves.

GOD VS SCIENCE- PART #3

The class is in uproar. The student remains silent until the commotion has subsided.

'To continue the point you were making earlier to the other student, let me give you an example of what I mean.' The student looks around the room. 'Is there anyone in the class who has ever seen the professor's brain?' The class breaks out into laughter. 'Is there anyone here who has ever heard the professor's brain, felt the professor's brain, touched or smelt the professor's brain? No one appears to have done so. So, according to the established rules of empirical, stable, demonstrable protocol, science says that you have no brain, with all due respect, sir.'
'So if science says you have no brain, how can we trust your lectures, sir?'

Now the room is silent. The professor just stares at the student, his face unreadable.

Finally, after what seems an eternity, the old man answers. 'I guess you'll have to take them on faith.'
'Now, you accept that there is faith, and, in fact, faith exists with life,' the student continues. 'Now, sir, is there such a thing as evil?'

Now uncertain, the professor responds, 'Of course, there is. We see it everyday It is in the daily example of man's inhumanity to man. It is in the multitude of crime and violence everywhere in the world. These manifestations are nothing else but evil.'

To this the student replied, 'Evil does not exist sir, or at least it does not exist unto itself. Evil is simply the absence of God. It is just like darkness and cold, a word that man has created to describe the absence of God. God did not create evil. Evil is the result of what happens when man does not have God's love present in his heart. It's like the cold that comes when there is no heat or the darkness that comes when there is no light.'

The professor sat down.

---I know this was long, but I couldn't pass up posting it on here for everybody. Thanks for bearing with me.

PS: the student was Albert Einstein (this surprised me!)

Albert Einstein wrote a book titled God vs Science in 1921...

GOD VS SCIENCE- PART #2

The professor turns to face the student, obviously interested. The room suddenly becomes very quiet. The student begins to explain. 'You can have lots of heat, even more heat, super-heat, mega-heat, unlimited heat, white heat, a little heat or no heat, but we don't have anything called 'cold'. We can hit up to 458 degrees below zero, which is no heat, but we can't go any further after that. There is no such th ing as cold; otherwise we would be able to go colder than the lowest -458 degrees.' 'Every body or object is susceptible to study when it has or transmits energy, and heat is what makes a body or matter have or transmit energy. Absolute zero (-458 F) is the total absence of heat. You see, sir, cold is only a word we use to describe the absence of heat. We cannot measure cold. Heat we can measure in thermal units because heat is energy. Cold is not the opposite of heat, sir, just the absence of it.'

Silence across the room. A pen drops somewhere in
the classroom, sounding like a hammer.

'What about darkness, professor. Is there such a thing as darkness?'
'Yes,' the professor replies without hesitation. 'What is night if it isn't darkness?'
'You're wrong again, sir. Darkness is not something; it is the absence of something. You can have low light, normal light, bright light, flashing light, but if you have no light constantly you have nothing and it's called darkness, isn't it? That's the meaning we use to define the word. In reality, darkness isn't. If it were, you would be able to make darkness darker, wouldn't you?'

The professor begins to smile at the student in front of him. This will be a good semester. 'So what point are you making, young man?'
'Yes, professor. My point is, your philosophical premise is flawed to start with, and so your conclusion must also be flawed.'

The professor's face cannot hide his surprise this time. 'Flawed? Can you explain how?'
'You are working on the premise of duality,' the student explains.. 'You argue that there is life and then there's death; a good God and a bad God. You are viewing the concept of God as something finite, something we can measure. Sir, science can't even explain a thought.It uses electricity and magnetism, but has never seen, much less fully understood either one. To view death as the opposite of life is to be ignorant of the fact that death cannot exist as a substantive thing. Death is not the opposite of life, just the absence of it.'
Now tell me, professor. Do you teach your students that they evolved from a monkey?'
'If you are referring to the natural evolutionary process, young man, yes, of course I do.'
'Have you ever observed evolution with your own eyes, sir?'
The professor begins to shake his head, still smiling, as he realizes where the argument is going. A very good semester, indeed.
'Since no one has ever observed the process of evolution at work and cannot even prove that this process is an on-going endeavor, are you not teaching your opinion,
sir? Are you now not a scientist, but a preacher?'

...CONTINUED (one more)

GOD VS. SCIENCE -please read all the way to the end, you will be pleasantly surprised.

'Let me explain the problem science has with religion.' The atheist professor of philosophy pauses before his class and then asks one of his new students to stand. 'You're a Christian, aren't you, son?'
'Yes sir,' the student says.
'So you believe in God?'
'Absolutely.'
'Is God good?'
'Sure! God's good.'
'Is God all-powerful? Can God do anything?'
'Yes'
'Are you good or evil?'
'The Bible says-.'
The professor grins knowingly. 'Aha! The Bible!' He considers for a moment. 'Here's one for you. Let's say there's a sick person over here and you can cure him. You can do it. Would you help him? Would you try?'
'Yes sir, I would.'
'So you're good...!'
'I wouldn't say that.'
'But why not say that? You'd help a sick and maimed person if you could. Most of us would if we could. But God doesn't.'

The student does not answer, so the professor
continues.

'He doesn't, does he? My brother was a Christian who died of cancer, even though he prayed to Jesus to heal him. How is this Jesus good? Hmmm? Can you answer that one?'

The student remains silent.

'No, you can't, can you?' the professor says. He takes a sip of water from a glass on his desk to give the student time to relax.

'Let's start again, young fella. Is God good?'
'Er..yes,' the student says.
'Is Satan good?'
The student doesn't hesitate on this one. 'No.'
'Then where does Satan come from?'
The student falters. 'From God'
'That's right. God made Satan, didn't he? Tell me, son. Is there evil in this world?'
'Yes, sir.'
'Evil's everywhere, isn't it? And God did make everything, correct?'
'Yes'
'So who created evil?' The professor continued, 'If God created everything, then God created evil, since evil exists, and according to the principle that our works
define who we are, then God is evil.'

Again, the student has no answer.

'Is there sickness? Immorality? Hatred? Ugliness? All these terrible things, do they exist in this world?'
The student squirms on his feet. 'Yes.'
'So who created them?'

The student does not answer again, so the professor repeats
his question. 'Who created them?' There is still no answer. Suddenly the lecturer breaks away to pace in front of the classroom. The class is mesmerized. 'Tell me,' he continues onto another student. 'Do you believe in Jesus Christ, son?'
The student's voice betrays him and cracks. 'Yes, professor, I do.'
The old man stops pacing. 'Science says you have five senses you use to identify and observe the world around you. Have you ever seen Jesus?'
'No sir. I've never seen Him.'
'Then tell us if you've ever heard your Jesus?'
'No, sir, I have not.'
'Have you ever felt your Jesus, tasted your Jesus or smelt your Jesus? Have you ever had any sensory perception of Jesus Christ, or God for that matter?'
'No, sir, I'm afraid I haven't.'
'Yet you still believe in him?'
'Yes'
'According to the rules of empirical, testable, demonstrable protocol, science says your God doesn't exist. What do you say to that, son?'
'Nothing,' the student replies. 'I only have my faith.'
'Yes, faith,' the professor repeats. 'And that is the problem science has with God. There is no evidence, only faith.'

The student stands quietly for a moment, before asking a question of his own. 'Professor, is there such thing as
heat?'

' Yes.
'And is there such a thing as cold?'
'Yes, son, there's cold too.'
'No sir, there isn't.'

...CONTINUED

Never waste a crisis, right??

You know, I'm not exactly sure where my toilet paper is manufactured,or if it's sold in another country (I doubt Cottonelle is), but having to put Spanish on the packaging seems really damn redundant...it's toilet paper, and pretty damn self explanatory. I'm personally sick of seeing the language everywhere in the super market as well as the drive-through.

One of the best ways to prevent the spread of infection is through hand washing. I say we "wash our hands" of this ridiculous notion to have universal health care.

I'm concerned that university hospitals will lose much of their funding, and abilities to try new procedures/techniques/"experimental" surgeries if universal health care is shoved down our throats like moldy bread. What will happen to our ever expanding and improving knowledge to prevent/cure health complications and diseases if all the competition to do so is gone?

I know that a whole lot of people don't have health care, but there is Medicaid for children under the age of 19 and for pregnant women. There are also clinics out there that will base what you pay for services and prescriptions on your income. The government doesn't advertise it, but these places do exist. Maybe if we stopped treating illegals, we would have more funding for more of these clinics.

Bottom line: health care is a privilege, not a right. If you can't afford it, but want it bad enough...you will find a way. You shouldn't steal from other families, and place financial responsibility for your own well-being on them.

When I was in college, I took an oral com. class. My professor said that the best speaker of the 20th century was JFK. Which, I do agree that he was good at public speaking, but I offered up Hitler as the best speaker of the 20th century. I don't agree with Hitler WHATSOEVER, but he did convince millions to go against what they knew was morally and ethically wrong, and he used manipulation and psychology to make his speeches. Either way, she did not allow me to have a different opinion, and after 20 minutes of debating, she told me to leave the class and not come back until I had learned respect for our country. It made no sense what she said, and I told her that I was paying her salary and it was her job to force her students to think, not agree. I left the class with a round of applause, lol.

Today I am going to attend my baby shower. I am so happy and blessed to be bringing another life into this world, yet I am terrified of what kind of world my little girl will be growing up in. In the years to come, will I be deemed a "PTA Nazi" for taking too active a role in her education? Will I be accused of indoctrinating my daughter because I most likely won't agree with what her liberal teachers are telling her?

80% of educators nowadays are liberal. Many public schools are wanting to opt out of teaching about the Holocaust because Muslim children find it offensive (which I think is absolute bull@#$%). Many schools are also having to cut sports and scholarship programs because they can't afford to have them due to the "necessity" to provide ESOL teachers and interpreters for students of American schools who can't even speak English. This is not new, however sad as it may be to admit. Back when I was in high school, I took a choir class for a fine arts credit. 6 students in my class couldn't speak English, so all they had to do was hum to get the same damn credit I had to literally sing for. Needless to say, I quit the class at semester, and told the teacher why. I ended up getting Saturday School for two months for protesting this inequality.

I do not want any of my children to have to suffer a poorer and less rounded education, and I especially do NOT want to pay for the children of illegal immigrants to learn English. I work hard, pay my taxes, and I believe that you should not even be admitted into a school without some damn standards in place. Hell, children have to be immunized before attending a public school, why can't the ability to at least SPEAK English be required too?

As horrible as it is to point this out, most of those "check-your-race" boxes are there for statistical purposes...and you know how much they all love their statistics.