or maybe Mark Twain wrote it and “slipped it in”, like he did with the Shakespeare/Bacon history..

err.. could it be that the spiritualists “spoke to the dead”?

most probably, is that the preachers huck faithful people for love of profits. (sic)

[from the video credit, above. . .]

ms. menzel’s first name
begins with an “i” not an “e“:

idina, for the record.

p e a c e

Clinton, Biden, Dodd, Obama all were elsewhere when the Mckasey vote hit. Are we going to cross them off our lists for the primary unless they deliver results on ending the war or healthcare for everyone?
When do we start cracking a whip. Or should we marshal our strength and pick one target to make an example of?
I wonder which Presidential Candidate would be hurt the most if the Left stoped supporting them?

Oklahoma kiddo @ 24

Can an atheist or agnostic who practices the Golden Rule gain access to Heaven?

The question is meaningless.

Speaking as an atheist, why would we care about getting into a heaven we don’t think exists? We may “do unto others, etc.” but the Golden Rule per se has no meaning, nor does heaven. So yes, meaningless question. What’s the point?

It was part of a comment by Lizzy L at Making Light:

You know the story of Abraham and Isaac. God sent an angel to prevent the sacrifice. God said, “Do not do the least hurt to your son.” Some Talmudic scholars — and remember, the Jewish teachers have been studying that story for centuries longer than Christian scholars have — suggest in commentary that God’s command to Abraham to sacrifice his son was a test, not of Abraham’s faith, but of the maturity of Abraham’s love as a human being, and that God was actually disappointed when Abraham obeyed without questioning him. The Eternal, Blessed be He, would have been happier had Abraham refused to obey! It would have showed a maturity that would have delighted God had it been present.

What are the commandments about, but learning how to behave so that you don’t harm others?
Those of Moses were aimed at people who’d been in servitude for long enough that they’d forgotten how to handle responsibility; those of Jesus are aimed at hard-headed (and hard-hearted) people who have forgotten what it’s like being weak, poor, and sick, and at the mercy of the wealthy and powerful.

It never seems to occur to them that a large part of why Ellen is so likable and popular is because she’s NOT some whackjob Jesus freak.