A New Role for Faith in Obama's White House

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I don't have the list with me, but most states ban giving ANYTHING to churches. That includes using work hours of tax paid public officials. But moles have crept into Congress, working to advance religion by giving churches illegal access to public treasuries. Religion was invented by lazy, poor men who figured out a way to live off the earnings of healthy workers. They invented tithing, the scheme that says believers get free food at the nearest church soup kitchen and in Heaven. They began debasement of women, creating the idiotic idea that a MALE "created everything." Preachers are like very expensive psychiatrists, as they "heal sick souls." This week, a celebrity described years of costly psychiatry. The doctor said it made patients feel good that they could AFFORD to pay so much. Religion appeals to neurotics who are never happy in 'this vale of tears." They do have 'sinsick souls." They long to go to a "better world." They are nervous wrecks, massing in pews, eager for the collection basket, proud that seat mates see how much money they give. Religion is a racket.

aura dawn veirs of CA 6:15PM November 07, 2009

Taxes are collected, not for churches, but to fund operations of civil government. They're collected to pay government employees, not amateurs who '"forgive sins and save souls." Government is forbidden to hinder or advance religion, but "faith-based" projects certainly do ADVANCE RELIGION. Even these comment sites use the word "God" a lot, pretending that FAKE really exists, which is a lie. By giving tax-paid jobs to believers, the civil government deprives other people from having an income and learning or exercising a skill. Volunteerism is pushed by churches but it drives down wages. Congress gives religion undeserved respect. Why? Because Ban-Abortion churches create poor unwed moms who turn to taxpayers for support. They murder women who die from botched illegal or self-inflicted abortions. Compass says "abortion is a holocaust." In fact, it's a surgical procedure. It saves lives of women who suffer from bone disease, kidney disease, heart disease, liver disease, etc. See Osteopathology, phrenology, cardiology, etc. Some women are too old or too young to safely be mothers. Compss gives his lethal misdiagnosis, careless of lives lost because of Prolife success.

aura dawn veirs of CA 1:31AM October 19, 2009

CPass says condoms don't prevent sexually transmitted disease, but they do a lot to prevent partners from being infected with syphilis & the others. People go mad from late stage syphilis, as did Al Capone. Condoms are contraceptives, so the pope insists condoms don't protect against VD. Ban-Abortion churches need income from tithers. Since women are the sole source of people to replace tithers who die or lose faith, the Vatican leads Prolife political lobbying. We're stuck with a majority of Ban-Abortionists in all lawmaking bodies. That means Obama has a very big task to have tax-paid contraception, voluntary sterilization & abortion. But we need reduced world population & consumers. "Sex education' should be called "Explaining sexual attraction & reproductive process." It should have demonstrations like a fan suddenly blowing hot air on a person, to show startling speed & pressure of sexual attraction. It should alert boys & girls about how adults take advantage of ignorance of children to abuse them, especially when the older person has a job where kids are expected to trust & obey them. Religion must be totally removed from informing children about this extremely vital subject. Great instructive videos can be made.

aura dawn veirs of CA 1:05AM October 19, 2009

We need to address the holocaust of the abortion slaughter first.
In a parallel effort and a "common ground" approach we support Sex Education.
Sex Education is important and most people completely support it. Sex Education should include love, how lust is not love, abstinence, responsibile choices to protect life, sona gram video of unborn babies, unique DNA at conception, Sexually Transmitted Diseases, STDs that cause failures to have children later, how condiums don't protect against STDs, sexual anatomy, sexual reproduction, sexual intercourse, reproductive health, emotional relationships, reproductive responsibilities, values, healthy relationships, and contraception.
Talking about sex education and contraception prior to addressing the abortion slaughter is working on lower priorities first. Sex education and contraception alone will not solve the abortion holocaust. It's like wanting to discuss proper diet to a person that is currently having a heart attack. We need to solve the heart attack (the slaughter from abortion). Proper diet may help but it is too little too late for a person having a Heart Attack. We encourage a "common ground" approach of true sex education. Sex Education must come as a second priority to abortion.
Why don't we call it Love Education? Sex is something that any animal can do. Sex can be lowered to only lust. Humans are much more capable of the complexities of Love. Humans are not limited to shallow lust.
Seek the Truth. Speak the Truth. Share the Truth.
Love Education.
Life is Love.
Love Life.

ComPassion of IN 5:54PM October 18, 2009

The phrase "a wall of separation between church & state" refers to the Constitution, its Amendments* & The Bill of Rights. The wall is made of words, set straight along a line to make paragraphs & documents. People who wrote the documents were referring to KINDS OF LAW. There's civil law, martial law, church law. Founders meant our CIVIL GOVERNMENT can't enforce church law. Why? Because only it has authority only over believers who vow to obey it. Civil law regulates lives of all US citizens. It's vital to remember this, to preserve Constitutional liberties. (Civil Liberties as defended by the ACLU.) In l973, the Supreme Court made our civil government stop enforcing Canon Law that bans abortion. That case was Roe v Wade. In l972, get this, the Court made our civil government stop enforcing church law that banned selling contraceptives even to married adults. Imagine the traitorous success of having those church laws enforced all those years, by federal, state, county & city governments. No wonder there are so many big poor families even now, in niches where fearful people refuse abortion for fear of going to Hell. Recently, Prochoice Catholic public officials have been denied Communion!!

auradawn veirs of CA 6:30PM October 16, 2009

Holy books of all faiths preach that males are superior to males. In fact, females are the sole source of new people & of flock & herd animals. From females come all profits made when "dumb creatures'" create milk, flesh, hides and feathers & the products are sold. Many faiths bar women from church positions where they see church income & help decide how it's spent. Faith-based groups say they deal with addiction, gangs, etc. Ban-Abortion churches drive some people to drink & drugs & make unwanted but unaborted waifs, "seek fathers in gangs." A poor man with a big family is a familiar theatre character. He comes home drunk - the paycheck spent. The wife goes to the priest. He tells her the flesh is weak. The man confesses, is forgiven, & goes back to the bottle. Unwed teen moms, cast out by parents, turn to drugs & to eat, become whores. Pres, Obama has done good things but he's making unpatriotic mayonnaise, mixing church law with civil law. Tax=paid abortion decreases consumers and thus reduces famine. It will relieve taxpayers of subsidizing absentee fathers. Let's introduce tax-paid abortion in global interfaith dialogue.

auradawn veirs of CA 4:40PM September 27, 2009

If anyone can smooth out the differences in religious arguments it would have to be a civil rights lawyer. Obama has really mpved the country forward in terms of his initiative to confront volatile issues in order to find pragmatic solutions.

Seeing is believing of PA 8:52PM September 14, 2009

Wonderful story! As one who has always been adamant about the separation of church and state, I see nothing at all wrong in bringing religious organizations to the table for input and help as long as their participation is for the common good and not for the purpose of pushing prescriptive morality. America needs solutions to a lot of problems. All help should be welcomed.
I found it interesting that I'm the first to comment on this piece when more than 30 have already responded to the piece on Obama's health care initiatives. Is that because everyone agrees with what Gilgoff said? Or is it because what he said, after Bush's attempt to shrink the distance between church and state, will require time before the extreme religious Right figures out what really should be done?

Ron W. Smith of UT 3:56PM September 01, 2009