I missed the Sermon and Rally with the Reverend Christopher Bullock…
Bullock was electrifying, one of the top 5 best speakers I’ve ever heard in my life. If Bullock decides to run against you (Castle), and I SO hope he does, I suggest that you up your blood pressure medicine now. If Crazy Denny Spivack sent you to the hospital, Bullock will send your blood pressure through the roof.
Dose up, Mikey. It’s for your own good.
I wonder is the Mike Castle psychophants and toadies at the News Journal covered the event? Either way I hope Dana gets a full report up. If anyone out there knows Bullock and can hook me up with a transcript that would be great too.
I don’t recall Bullock getting such glowing reviews when he was a registered Republican last year. You guys missed out then. I’m glad you’re getting a chance to enjoy him now.
This is super. Just what we need – a “reverand” challenger to Castle. Perhaps we should run a tarot card reader or psychic.
It’s interesting that the topic of Bullock’s “sermon” was Matthew 5:9 (“blessed are the peacemakers”). In Matthew 5:18-19 Jesus commands us to follow every Hebrew law in the Old Testament, even to the smallest detail.
So if we follow the teachings of Judges, Numbers, etc. and exterminate all enemy tribes then maybe this whole Iraq thing was what Jesus wanted.
I wonder what the “reverand” Bullock thinks of that biblical contradiction. I for one am not voting for “reverand” anybody. I don’t need to be preached to.
Religion poisons everything.
“Religion poisons everything.”
And liberalism does such a wonderful job of making everybody happy. No venom to be had on this site.
“Religion poisons everything”
This is precisely the bad intellectual habits that result from reading too much Christopher Hitchens (from whom this statement was stolen w/o attribution).
All these sweeping claims that admit no exception…like all the genuinely humanitarian efforts that religion is capable of generating (and I’m an agnostic). Hitchens’ frequent universal claims proves that the form of his prior Trotskian thinking still abides even if much of the substance is gone.
1. I didn’t realize a polictical philosophy was suppose to make everyone fell better.
2. I assumed everyone knew it was Hitchens. I wasn’t trying to pull a fast one, but I apologize.
3. I think the fact that religion sometimes makes poeple do good things is a bad argument. Name one humanitarian act ever done in god’s name that could not have been accomplished for a purely secular reason.
4. If you are such a strong intellectual I’d appraciate a comment on the biblical contracdict in Matthew’s gospel (in the same chapter). Which, by the way, was described wonderfully by both Paine in The Age of Reason and Harris in The End of Faith.
5. How voracious reading imparts poor intellectual habits I am not sure.
Oh, one more thing (a la Columbo) – How was my original comment venomous? I think there’s pretty solid evidence that much of religion is based on superstition. You may disagree, but that assertion is hardly venomous.
Then I point out a blatant contradiction in Matthew 5 and also state I don’t what to be preached to.
As far as ‘religion poisons everything’ – the point is that the baggage the faith brings to the table of rationality can be left at the carousel because it often clouds reasonable discourse.
I contend that this is not venomous –perhaps strident and adversarial, but not venomous
Chris thinks the opposite of Religious is Liberalism!?!? Gee, no wonder everyone mocks your rantings.
Get a clue, Chris, and a raging clue at that.
And it is Undeniable that religion, in all forms (poly & monotheism), has been the preface of wars which has killed millions over millennia. That would also go for using religion as a trojan horse to disguise true motives for war – i.e. Good v Evil.
Maybe it’s time to worship humanity, instead of chasing ghosts.
“Maybe it’s time to worship humanity, instead of chasing ghosts.”
Dawkins would be proud of that one. I wish I’d have written it! 🙂
“Chris thinks the opposite of Religious is Liberalism!?!? ”
I had never really thought that, but listening to you two ramble on, it just might be.
What-the-eff-ever….