when you click on "full story" you get bounced...any ideas why?

God is angry.

It is up and running now. You will get to read about Lumpy's wonderful new friends.

THIS is a ground-breaking bit of news from the Bible Belt. What are Christians afraid of?

A major metropolitan legislative body with a member named "Lumpy" passing such a resolution is evidence that Nietzsche may have been right.

I would think this little stunt from county commission is nothing but a distraction to keep the "sheep" from focusing on the real issues at hand.

Hmm...let's see...what issues has county commission dealt with lately? Illegal appointees, massive fraud, unchecked spending, an on-going and ridiculous internal feud. Basically the average Knox County citizen looks at the commission with disgust. What could be a better distraction than to play the faith card?

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"I do not find in orthodox Christianity one redeeming feature."

Thomas Jefferson

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"The Bible is not my book, and Christianity is not my religion.
I could never give assent to the long, complicated statements
of Christian dogma."

Abraham Lincoln

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"I do not believe in the creed professed by the Jewish church,
by the Roman church, by the Greek church, by the Turkish church,
by the Protestant church, nor by any church that I know of.
My own mind is my own church."
Thomas Paine

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"The United States is in no sense founded
upon the Christian religion."

George Washington

bonus

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CHRISTIAN, n.
One who believes that the New Testament is a divinely
inspired book admirably suited to the spiritual needs
of his neighbor.

One who follows the teachings of Christ in so far as
they are not inconsistent with a life of sin.
--Ambrose Bierce,(THE DEVILS DICTIONARY)

extra bonus

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"And when thou prayest, thou shalt not be as the hypocrites are: for they love to pray standing in the synagogues and in the corners of the streets, that they may be seen of men. Verily I say unto you, They have their reward.

But thou, when thou prayest, enter into thy closet, and when thou hast shut thy door, pray to thy Father which is in secret; and thy Father which seeth in secret shall reward thee openly.
-- Matthew 6: 5,6
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CAFKIA

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It is impossible to defeat an ignorant man in argument.
  - William G. McAdoo

Beautiful mini-sermon, Father Dupree. I couldn't have put it better than them fellers you quoted.

...are the last refuges of the scoundrels. It's as if the Commission is TRYING to prove atheists' point that religion is just a convenient distraction from reality.

Does the County Mayor have to sign or otherwise respond to such resolutions? I'm thinking so, and I'm thinking one of the reasons for passing this resolution was to put something on Ragsdale's desk that he would refuse to endorse (because it's historically innacurate and probably unconstitutional on both the state and federal levels), which would then allow his opponents to accuse him of being 'against God.' Perhaps I'm attributing too much strategic thinking (or just too much thinking) to the Commision sponsors of this idiocy. Hammond's watering down of the resolutoin gives Ragsdale something he can hold his nose and sign, and eliminates the political game that I think was afoot.

Seems to me if there's a political motive here it's to get some Commissioners on record as being 'against God'. 'Dear Ms. Voter, have you heard, Commissioner/candidate X voted against honoring God, I think that's awful, please vote for me'. Same is true for those voting for it. They can't be accused of being 'against God'.

Scott McNutt has written an excellent "news" item concerning the Knox County Commission resolution urging all people who believe in Santa Claus to act on their beliefs.

“When facism comes to America it will be wrapped in the flag and carrying a cross.” Sinclair Lewis