Universal Healthcare, YES

Death Penalty, NO

Where's the guarantee that an innocent person can't be wrongfully convicted? So, many men on death row in Ohio were subsequently found not guilty, that the Governor commuted all death sentences.

Save Darfur is a scam, not a dime goes toward saving anyone anywhere.

Instead, go to Enough Project.

Stop the Exploitation of the Jubilee Write-off

Stop the vultures funds from plundering the third world countries whose national debts were forgiven by their lenders. With a signature, President Bush could stop the exploitation if he wanted to. (Investopedia definition - Guyana Online - Zambia position - UK High Court - Judiciary House Committee.)

Pull American troops out from Iraqs civil war.

Christian America?

Every Christian country, ie. every nation with a cross on its flag: Finland, Sweden, Norway, Denmark, United Kingdom, Iceland, Switzerland, and Canada (having a stem, the maple leaf is an organic cross) have universal healthcare and do not have the death penalty.

Let's get America to join the ranks of Christian nations, shall we?

"Virgin birth": Jesus; before then: Mithras of an older Persian religion; & before then: Isis of an even older Egyptian religion.

I believe that the political deception we keep getting from politicians is associated with a prior religious mis-education they've received. So, I'll try to set the record straight.

Spiritual truths are what you learn the hard way - through experience.

Religious rules are man-made.

Only a small portion of religious rules are spiritual truths.

Religions that justify violence are not spiritual.

News flash: the Old Testament is Jewish, NOT Christian. What are the clues that the Old Testament is not Christian and is not spiritual? The justification of violence and that hate groups often quote the Old Testament and never quote the New Testament.

Christianity's 3 Big Secrets

3 - As Buddha, Jesus was a moral teacher, only - You can see that though Jesus was a rabbi and healer (who probably studied with the Celtic shaman druids of the Galatians, in central Anatola), that the early Christians basically revised the older Persian religion, Mithraic, and over a 300-year period gradually attributed the myth of the god Mithras to morph with the life story of a mortal moral teacher named Jesus of Nazareth, son of Joseph.

- Andrew Homer

"First thing is first; Mithraism is not Christianity nor is Christianity Mithraism."

Mithraism was adopted by a section of the Roman elite between the periods of AD 200 to 400 to justify their opposition to the established ruling section of the elite, who still continued with the old anthropomorphic religions of Greece and their Romanised versions, or with cults such as that Sibyl, a Romanised version of the Magna Mater of Anatolia.

Constantine I, ruler of the Eastern Roman Empire is reported to have had a dream of Jesus prior to a battle. It is thought that his own Mithraic ideals opened him to this vision, allowing an interpretation of good and evil, something Christianity borrowed from Mithraism, which they in turn borrowed from the cults of Zarathustra and they from others themselves. It is said that Christianity also borrowed the ideas of heaven and hell from Mithraism, though I have seen no clear substantiation of this, since heaven and hell have existed in cultures other than the Aryan culture and their decendents across Asia Minor.

The idea that Christians 'stole Mithraic thunder' is a mistaken one, one from a particularly biased point of view. By the time of Theodosius, Mithraism was virtually a dead religion in Roman terms - the ruling elite had abandoned it to return to the anthropomorphic religions of their forebears. Thus when Theodosius was defeated in battle, it was Christianity which the conquerors took with them from Rome, not Mithraism.

The creative writers of the Near East did not in fact make up the story of Jesus - there is undoubtedly some truth in it that can be ascribed to advanced herbal medicines and which have been embellished upon by Jews who saw in Jesus what was claimed of him; a Messiah, who explained things in terms of good and evil, just as Judaism and other religions including Mithraism did. The difference between the adoption of Christianity by the Roman elite and the utter rejection of Judaism was that Christianity conformed much easier to what the state wanted in a given region, whereas Judaism was culture-specific and tied to many rules and nuances.

In effect therefore, Christianity was a replacement of Judaism, a replacement which failed - the Jews for the most part rejected it - but it was continued by non-Jewish elites who invited proselytisers to various cities just as they had invited Greek philosophers in the second and first centuries BC. St Paul's Corinthian letters are an example of the effect this had on elites across the Romanised world, especially in a city so rich as Corinth.

The fall of the Mithraic religion is more attributed to the rise of the Christian New Testament canonical texts - uniting Christian doctrines across the Roman world under the control of one - effectively the creation of an empire within an empire. The adoption of Christianity as the new tool of the Roman ruling classes, and their counterparts across Greece and in Byzantium proved more effective than the other religions."

- David Semple, student of Ancient History

"Jesus and Lao Tzu: The Parallel Sayings" by Martin Aronson and Brother David Steindl-Rast

"Encountering Jesus & Buddha: Their Lives and Teachings" by Ulrich Luz, Axel Michaels, and Linda Maloney

"Jesus and Buddha: The Parallel Sayings" by Marcus Borg and Jack Kornfield

Jesus spoke Aramaic. Except for The Gospel of Thomas, the New Testament wasn't put into writing until the 4th Century. But then it was written in Greek, not Aramaic. George Lamsa knows both Aramaic and Greek, so his English translation second-guesses the figurative translation from Aramaic, not the literal translation from Greek. For those who want linguistic integrity in their Bible:

"The Modern New Testament: Translated from the Original Aramaic Sources" by George Lamsa

"Setting a Trap for God: The Aramaic Prayer of Jesus" by Rocco A. Errico

"Idioms in the Bible Explained : And, a Key to the Original Gospels " by George Lamsa

Since Jesus was born on March 1st, 7 BC, we'll celebrate "What Would Jesus Do? Day" on March 1st.

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