{"id":1352,"date":"2009-05-23T10:28:01","date_gmt":"2009-05-23T16:28:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bolgernow.com\/blog\/?p=1352"},"modified":"2009-05-23T10:28:47","modified_gmt":"2009-05-23T16:28:47","slug":"bible-baffle","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bolgernow.com\/blog\/2009\/05\/23\/bible-baffle\/","title":{"rendered":"Bible Baffle"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Paul Broun(R-Ga.) wants a bill calling 2010, the <a href=\"http:\/\/news.yahoo.com\/s\/politico\/20090522\/pl_politico\/22832;_ylt=ApS3epFTSJ8SkHfG90CG8Q2CfNdF\">&#8220;Year Of The Bible&#8221;<\/a>&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.bolgernow.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/05\/bible-baffle.JPG\" alt=\"bible-baffle.JPG\" height=\"212\" width=\"271\" \/>(Religion&#8217;s <em>better<\/em> as a game)<\/p>\n<p>Why does he want this you ask?<\/p>\n<p>He says, &#8220;it seeks to recognize that the Bible played an integral role in the building of the United States, including providing the basis for our <span style=\"background: transparent none repeat scroll 0% 0%; cursor: pointer; -moz-background-clip: -moz-initial; -moz-background-origin: -moz-initial; -moz-background-inline-policy: -moz-initial\" class=\"yshortcuts\" id=\"lw_1243052232_4\">freedom of religion<\/span>&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Wait a sec Paul. You say the bible played an integral role in the building of the United States? The bible didn&#8217;t fight for our freedom from England&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.bolgernow.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/05\/holy-bible.jpg\" alt=\"holy-bible.jpg\" height=\"482\" width=\"403\" \/>(Nice cover)<\/p>\n<p>The bible didn&#8217;t build the Empire State building, Golden Gate bridge, or the 1st space shuttle. The bible didn&#8217;t kill off Indians by giving them diseased blankets, then suppressing them with broken treaties, booze, and eventually giving them a serious gambling community to exploit as a &#8220;Sorry our bad&#8221;. The bible didn&#8217;t invade Iraq&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><em>We<\/em> did those things&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.bolgernow.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/05\/bible-fight.jpg\" alt=\"bible-fight.jpg\" height=\"268\" width=\"268\" \/>(I want the heaviest edition)<\/p>\n<p>What&#8217;s ironic here is that Paul claims &#8220;the bible provides the basis for freedom of religion&#8221;. WTF? No it doesn&#8217;t. It does the exact opposite. It says, &#8220;All your other stories of Allah, Vishnu, Buddha are nice but <em>this<\/em> is how things really are. God&#8217;s vengeful in the Old Testament if you didn&#8217;t obey him, Jesus is his only son who died for your sins, and Mary was the mother of Christ&#8221;. If you don&#8217;t believe these things, there&#8217;s the door jerko. To me, the Bible&#8217;s like a knife. You can use it for good, or for evil. You can cut some fresh fruit, butter your toast, or stab someone in the face&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>That decision is up to you&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><strong>More Like One In A Million&#8230;<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>So you&#8217;re tellin&#8217; me there&#8217;s a chance&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.bolgernow.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/05\/jim-carry-dumb-dumber.JPG\" alt=\"jim-carry-dumb-dumber.JPG\" height=\"331\" width=\"269\" \/>(Joy!)<\/p>\n<p>Blackhawks game was awesome. Too close for my comfort with the Wings storming back 3-3 to tie, but Patrick was Sharp, and put the puck in the net in OT&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>All that matters is winning game four on Sunday. That&#8217;s it. Nothing else&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>If that happens, look out Chicago. This town will go up for grabs&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>Have a day!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Paul Broun(R-Ga.) wants a bill calling 2010, the &#8220;Year Of The Bible&#8221;&#8230; (Religion&#8217;s better as a game) Why does he want this you ask? He says, &#8220;it seeks to recognize that the Bible played an integral role in the building of the United States, including providing the basis for our freedom of religion&#8221; Wait a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bolgernow.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1352"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bolgernow.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bolgernow.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bolgernow.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bolgernow.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1352"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.bolgernow.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1352\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bolgernow.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1352"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bolgernow.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1352"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bolgernow.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1352"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}