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Hey Common Sense Mike! Where ya been hiding? Appears the Warrior took a siesta and hung up his bow and arrows for what I hope is a short while. Have missed reading your common sense comments. I know the battle can get pretty thick in here sometimes. Hope all is well with you and your family.

— Kori

I miss you, Mike. I see you drop in sometimes. I hope all is well with you and your new endeavor. I'll look forward to hearing something from you at some point. God bless you.

— EllieP

My dear Sir: I had typed a lengthy comment to you, and for some reason it disappeared - I assume to my little finger, right hand, inadvertently hit the wrong key, but maybe not. Let me try this again - short version. I am a christian - female 66 - played for church for 30 years- retired professor of psychology. I will not argue/debate my spiritual belief with any one. Churches are big business for the most part. Separation of church and state - TAX churches income and real estate period. During this election year I have seen God's name drug through every pile of dirt and scum that exists. I did NOT vote this year - no difference in the two parties. Washington filled with liars, thieves, perverts and a killer or two thrown in for good measure. Religion scares me, spirituality inspires me.

If we so called "christians" would live in the manner God has instructed there would be no need for us to rant and rave in the political arena, much less argue/debate our belief. Others could see we are "different", we would not have to explain it to them over and over again. I made one post on the "study". Salvation is a gift not to be shoved at any one. I can NOT bring myself to argue with those who refuse to believe in my Lord and Master. There is enough communication in this world today if one has not been told about my Lord, they are deaf and dumb. What I have read on newsvine tells me to argue/debate my belief is quite like wiping my arse on a ring - just smears it round and round to no avail.

In my field I was confronted with all kinds of people - belief, non-belief, love, hatred, judges of others, the list is endless. I can honestly say, I do not have any prejudiced bones in me - NO "isims". Even with regards to homosexuals - I do not believe God makes mistakes. We christians have called them every thing but human beings. These people are born with differences in hormones and chemical makeup. NOW, they can not change their feelings, but they can chose not to exercise them. Babies are born into this world that are asexual - God made them too - again NO mistakes.

We do not have the brain capacity to see God's reasons for most things, but I am blessed with the faith of a small child and believe God has a reason for absolutely every thing, and every person. You and I have taxation without representation - accept that. If we had true elections in this country we would have one person, one vote. For that reason I do not stick my nose in politics at the federal, state or local level. Another exercise in futility. Churches need to tell more about the love of God, and less about hell and it's fury. Too many pastors try to "scare" people into Heaven - won't work.

I will close with this. As a child of 7, I took note of so many of our pastors taking up an hour explaining to the congretation God "has call me to", such and such church. I thought about that from age 5 when I started paying piano for our little church. One Sunday, this had happened again. After church adults were in a group visiting - I was the only child there. There was a lull in the conversation, at which time I piped up and stated: "Did you all notice God never calls our preachers to a smaller church?" My mother nearly fainted, and needless to say I got that "whoopin" when we arrived home. I refused to cry and that made her more angry. I explained to her I had stated the truth, but that didn't lessen her temper with me. I would truly have understood if the preacher had stated he could not feed and take care of his family on the salary our church was able to pay - at that age, I was posting my father's books in his lumber and hardware store. I understood money. I know this will seem like the ramblings of an old lady - but I pray you will understand you can not fix ignorance and dumb. No one will ever win most debates/arguments - they are useless for the most part. May God's richest blessings be yours. God keeps the night watch for you and for me. God's blessed word is falling on too many deaf ears.

— kitty,kitty,kitty

Mike,
Thanks for accepting my friend request. I've read some of your articles and comments and I fell like I could learn a lot from you.

— formermormon

Thanks for the add

— AynRand

Keep fighting the good fight Mike!

— Rich-414468

I would think there is a huge difference between reporting that Obama was listed as Muslim on his School records, and showing video of his pastor for 20 years spewing racial hatred, and reporting rumors from blogs where idiots just make stuff up. Reporting the crap in these blogs as if it's fact is wrong and one would think that the media would already be tired of having to print retractions every day because of a Palin story they ran earlier.

— Common Sense Mike

Oh, you mean like the nonsense rumors being spread about Obama being a muslim, that he doesn't salute the flag, that he is a racist...goes both ways buddy!

— Lisa in a red state

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