What is wrong with Mayberry?

Lobotomy

According to Wikipedia…

The Soviet Union banned the practice of lobotomies in 1950.

In 1980 the last couple of lobotomies were performed in the United States at Boston General Hospital.

…I guess socialized medicine means I don’t have the right to have someone stick an icepick in my brain.

(RIMSHOT!)

Source http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lobotomy

Oklahoma

is a hard place to live in at times when your not a Bible-thumping, Obama-hating, gun-toting, baby-loving, Rush Limbaugh listening Republican.

Not even a Democrat, just someone that doesn’t like everything about Conservatism. Its hard to have a rational discussion it seems…

Of course its not my fault my opinions are wrong and that I “believe in the evil of moral relativism”…

How is this state so damn Red? Dammit I live here too! Its my state just as much as anyone of you.

-Signed-

A Blue speck in a Red State

Poltical and Religious post

I saw this on facebook today.

“Let’s see how many people on fb aren’t ashamed to show their love for God and admit that Jesus is their Savior… We need to get God back in America… If you’re not ashamed, copy and paste this in your status.”

And the thing that got me the most is that this really 2 things. I have no problem professing the fact that I am a Christian, I believe in Christ and the resurrection. However I do have a problem with 2 specific items in statements like the one above.

The first is that this is perhaps the most hallow way to express ANY Christian value. The whole philosophy of Christianity is that it is a lifestyle. A decision to follow Christ is a lifelong struggle of self improvement, devotion, and sacrifice. Statements on facebook that try to find “1,000,000 believers!” or see if people are ashamed of their faith, too me, are vain attempts by people who think they are taking a stand for their faith, but really are not even being challenged. To be challenged would require REAL sacrifice.

Matthew 19:23-24

²³Then Jesus said to his disciples, “I tell you the truth, it is hard for a rich man to enter the kingdom of heaven. ²⁴Again I tell you, it is easier for a camel to go through the eye of a needle than for a rich man to enter the kingdom of God.”

To me, that verse, from the very lips of Jesus states volumes about our society. HOW INCREDIBLY RICH ARE WE COMPARED TO THE REST OF THE WORLD? How dare we call ourselves a Christian Nation not challenge ourselves, we sit with incredible luxuries, nearly all of us have full stomachs (Something nearly 1/6 of the entire world cannot enjoy) and, while this may apply to only my part of the country, nearly everyone considers it a RIGHT to own a car (I am going to keep this as my part of the country tends to be the part that professes “Christian values and that is is God’s Country”). The idea of the above verse is rather simple, Christianity is HARD for people who live comfortably, it is not meant to have you live a life of status quo! From that verse ALONE if we want to consider ourselves a “Christian Nation” (and enter the Kingdom of Heaven) we need to make some changes. Such as…. oh you know… taking care of the poor and sick… for starters. How does putting a blurb on a website profess your faith and make you a stronger Christian? How is that a CHALLENGE OF YOUR FAITH? I feel that empty expressions similar to this (such as all those chain mails people send) allow people to feel like they did something when all they did was a hallow gesture.

Secondly, on the issue of “getting God back in America” (and this is a much more simple thought) KEEP YOUR GOVERNMENT OUT OF MY RELIGION.

If America is the greatest nation God gave mankind, ever, then I am not sure I want to follow a God that thought Africans were 3/5ths of a person, that The Klu Klux Klan was “justice”, that waging war with a country based on a premise of lies was acceptable… My God, is a God who believes in redemption, forgiveness, charity, and compassion. Jesus ate with sinners and tax collectors and was publicly called out for hanging out with shady characters. My God does not see nations. He only sees people. He sees his creation.

Do NOT taint my faith with patriotic propaganda. I don’t want church and state to be separate because I fear the church will take over. I want separation because I do not want the state in my church.

And don’t you dare say I am bashing America, I love this country, and I absolutely refuse to believe it is perfect. Only God is perfect, and so far God is not America.

We need to get America out of God.

Did you know...

themasonsuperawesomefuntimeshow:

In 1924, a Ford automobile costed $265.

also, Henry Ford doubled the wages of his workers so they could afford to buy one of those in a month.

I think the thing that bothers me most about libertarians...

robot-heart-politics:

…is the fact that they’re always crying, “But that’s not fair!” I have to pay more taxes. I have to pay for that guy’s social services. I have to pay more health insurance—even though I’m not sick—because other people are sick! If I’m equally qualified for a job/scholarship/some other social reward as a “minority”, the law requires the person giving the reward to give the reward to the “minority”—and even though no one ever follows that law, and I’m probably going to get the reward anyhow, that’s just so unfair and wrong! Oh, poor pitiful me for being white and/or male and/or well-educated and/or in a privileged economic class!

But the first time one of the rest of us goes, “But that’s not fair,” when we are talking about women or people of color or people of a less privileged economic class, you better BELIEVE you are going to get called out on it.

The “free market”—which is essentially just an economic system in which the wealthy, powerful, and educated get to do whatever the fuck they want, and the rest, being lesser beings, don’t matter so who the fuck cares what they do—is the great equalizer! (Even though we know it’s not.) It will magically disappear all the inequities of our society! (Even though we know it won’t.) And whatever inequities it doesn’t get rid of, well, you can just suck it, because LIFE’S NOT FAIR, BITCH.

(Unless, of course, you are a person of privilege. In which case, life must always be extra fair to you.)

We flipped our finger to the king of england. Stole our country from the indians

With God on our side and guns in our hands
We took it for our own
Built a nation dedicated to liberty
Justice and equality

Does it look that way to you?
It doesn’t look that way to me
The sickest joke I know

I come from the land of Ben Franklin
Twain and Poe and Walt Whitman
Otis Redding, Ellington,The country that I love

But it’s a land of the slaves and the ku klux klan
Haymarket riot and the great depression
Joe McCarthy, Vietnam, The sickest joke I know

I’m proud and ashamed, Every fourth of july
You got to know the truth, Before you say that you got pride

Now the cops got tanks ‘cause the kids got guns
Shrinks pushin’ pills on everyone
Cancer from the ocean, cancer from the sun
Straight to Hell we go

Listen up man, I’ll tell you who I am
Just another stupid American
You don’t wanna listen
You don’t wanna understand
So finish up your drink and go home

‘Merican - The Descendents