I ahve studied the book of lies, myths and fairytales as my paternal grandfather in the 1920s and 30s was a baptist preacher in the Ozarks around Eldon, Tuscumbia and Noel, Mo. and also an athiest/con man. We used to laugh at the idiots who believed every word he said while he was taking their money. The prophesies in religeon are all so vague that any of them can be said to have come true. Even I can make that kind of prediction, "In the coming days war will come to man, the likes which we have never seen before. We will fight these wars in ways that are new to man. Watch and see." We are about to go to war in economics and anyone can see that. Kinda vague isn't it. If we are to fix our country, we need to tax the churches fairly instead of letting religeon have a free hand in scams against those stupid enough to fall for it. ( why do you think Grandpa got into that? No income tax!) Kinda like being told not to pay attention to all the scientists behind the curtain ( Wizard of Oz) who say the earth is millions of years old because we are supposed to believe the bible thumpers story that the earth is only 4000 years old. And all those prophesies were not written down because very few could read or write. They were stories passed down from idiot to idiot until Martin Luther wrote them all down. Check your world history. In the Garden of Eden, Adam and Eve are the only humans, then had Cain and Abel. Well where did their wives come from? Along with all those people outside of Eden? Sounds like incest to me! Like Noah and his family were supposed to be the only ones left after the great flood covered the entire earth to restart the the human population. More incest. Like the Ark of Covenant that nobody but god could touch. Anybody knows that if you construct it like the bible's description, it will be a static electric generator. The story about the moon coming to be the color of blood and now we all know that happens anytime a lunar eclipse happens after a large volcanis eruption because of all the stuff in the air. Religeon is only popular because a lot of people cannot understand that when we die, we are dead and it scares them so they believe that crap. The light we are supposed to see just before we die? I've seen it three times as I have died three times due to being crushed by a building collapse, motorcycle accident and being hit by a drunk driver while working an car accident. It's called O2 deprivation to the brain. Luckily I had good emergency medical help and firefighter friends who would not give up on me. If we were to start taxing the church and make ALL CLERGY pay taxes, churches sooner or later become extinct.
Re: “Sam Brownback downplays his involvement in creepy prayer rally”
In 2005 when we moved down here, we saw a bike at Austin Harley that was owned by Perry and it had all the living medal of Honor recipiants signitures on it. It was supposed to be raffled off with money going to charity. It was sold on Ebay and nobody knows where the money went.