Rick Perry’s “Ponzi Scheme” Babble: Whoops, Again!

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HP, Sept. 24, 2011

GOP Administrator Al Cardenas:

“Cardenas said that while many Republicans agree with Perry that Social Security needs to be reformed, the Texan’s rhetoric about the program being a “Ponzi scheme” was ill-advised.”

“When you call Social Security a Ponzi scheme, that tends to get some folks concerned. I think the electorate in a Republican primary is open to reform ideas … but they’re not willing to see us do away with it or to consider it in danger,” he said. “So when you use wording that may put it in an endangered category in the minds of a listener, that’s when you gotta explain yourself a little better.”

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My guess is that Perry’s political advisor and financial gift-horse, the Rev. Don Wildmon of the “Dark Side” of Tupelo MS, has instructed Perry on his political Social Security ponzi scheme mumbo-jumbo.

A lot of us, myself included, are dependent on a Social Security check for our survival. Rev. Wildmon is by no means qualified to advise on legislation that effects any American’s Social Security Benefits. Period. Wildmon supports Perry thinking he is the president who will be the driver for his long sought-after Christian Dominionism to rule America according to the Seven Mountains format. Perry is a gullible means to an end for an activist like Rev. Don Wildmon. If Social Security is a “ponzi scheme,” Wildmon’s tax-exempt status is a “total fraud”( a simplified term) perpetrated on those working-class people who pay their taxes. Bring on the IRS! Bring on the Republican ethics investigators! PRONTO!!! BEFORE WILDMON & PERRY WREAK MAYHEM ACROSS THE LAND! -AB

*Read more from Al Cardenas here…

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Ancient Paganism At The Crossroads With Christianity Part 2

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I have recently noticed on the Internet that many of America’s Christian-Right organizations, have resorted to increased Pagan bashing on their web sites and public broadcasts. (ie.. Hagee: Harry Potter, Secular Humanism Ruining America) According to historical documentation of Paganism, I would conclude that Haggee has only succeeded in shooting himself in the foot. Paganism was deeply rooted in Hagee’s Christian Religion hundreds of years before he was born into the world. Read “Superstitions & Revelations” below.

Read Hagee’s complete post here.

Continue Reading Superstitions & Revelations

Joseph Wheless, Secular Web

“The Pagans would appear almost to have been good Christians: they had their gods, (whom they fondly called Savior and Messiah) the death and resurrections of gods; devils, angels, and spirits good, bad and indifferent; their heavens, hells and purgatories; they believed in immortality of the soul, witness the Pyramids and the tombs of the Kings, as of Tut-ankh-Amen in Egypt, and of the Queen Shub-Ad, just unearthed in Ur of the Chaldees; their elaborate sacrifices, animal and human, even of their dear little children to appease their gods, as in Carthage and Canaan,  a chronic Hebrew practice. Virgin-births of demigods by the intervention of gods and human maids were common-places of Pagan faith, as were Virgin-mothers and god-child: the Christians imported theirs from Egypt the Madonna statues of Isis and the Child Horus of universal vogue at the beginning of this era of the Christ — may be seen inalmost any first-class Museum, as the Metropolitan in New York and the University in Philadelphia.”

“This popular Pagan device, the “Mother of God” and her God-baby-in-arms, was taken over as a Christian sop to the crowds of Pagans who were being enticed and forced into the Church; it was violently opposed by many of the more intelligent Churchmen: “Nestorius [Bishop of Constantinople about 404] had declared against the new and, as he asserted, idolatrous expression ‘Mother of God’ (Theotokos), thereby opposing the sentiments and wishes of the humbler people” (CE. iii, 101); and in protest Nestorius left the Catholic Church and founded one of the most wide-spread and powerful “heresies,” which exists in the East to the present time.”

” The Pagans had their holy mysteries and sacraments, baptisms of water and of blood, communions with the gods at their sacred altars, partaking of sacred meals to ingest the divine spirit and become godlike. they believed in the resurrection of the dead, and in final judgments meting rewards and punishments according to the deeds done in the flesh, the Egyptian Book of the Dead, 3000 years B.C., giving priestly prescriptions for use before the judgment seat of Osiris, is found in almost every tomb of those able to pay for the hieroglyphic papyrus rolls.”

“The Pagans had their holy days (from which the Christians plagiarized their Christmas, Easter, Rogation Days, etc.); their monks, nuns, religious processions carrying images of idols (like those of saints today); incense, holy water, holy oil, chants, hymns, liturgies, confessions of sins to priests, forgiveness of sins by priests, revelations by gods to priests, prophecies, sacred writings of “holy bibles,” Pontiffs, Holy Fathers, holy crafty priesthood. All these sacrosanct things of Christian “Revealed Religion,” were age-old pre-Christian Pagan myths and superstitions.”

(Stay tuned. There’s more, later. -AB)

Rick Perry’s AFA Supporter Broadcasts From The “Dark Side” Of Tupelo MS

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Fischer and Wildmon are daydreaming about how they want the Perry government set up to satisfy their personal demands. LOL! A.B

“B. Fischer Wants Departments Of Education, Transportation, Agriculture, HHS, & FHA Eliminated”

 By Kyle, Right wing Watch, 9/15/11

 “On his radio program yesterday,[AFA’s] Bryan Fischer argued that the next President must take a stand for limited government by vetoing any budget that contains any spending that Fischer’s believes falls outside the parameters of Article 1, Section 8 of the Constitution. Claiming that the government “no moral authority” to do anything about schools or roads or pretty much anything else, Fischer called for the wholesale elimination of the Departments of Education, Agriculture, Transportation, and Health and Human Services as well as the Federal Housing Administration:”

Read the complete post from Right Wing Watch…

New Fossils May Redraw Human Ancestry

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New Fossils May Redraw Human Ancestry

by NYT, Nicholas Wade, 9/08/11

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Recently, Bryan Fischer, spokesman for the Tupelo, MS based (Anti-Science, Anti-Gay, Anti-Liberal, Anti-Muslim, Anti-Secular …) American Family Association, authored an internet article entitled “Defeating Darwin In Four Steps… Even A Caveman Could Do It.”

According to Fischer’s article, written in his/ AFA’s defense of Presidential candidate Texas Gov. Rick Perry’s anti-evolution stance, there are four major areas of Evolution Science to be considered in-defensible:

The question [Fischer says] remains: “is Gov. Perry right?”

Continuing, Fischer explains: “What follows is a straightforward, four-step refutation of the theory of evolution. The steps are easy to remember, and make a nice little cadence when spoken with a little rhythm: First Law, Second Law, Fossils and Genes. Armed with this truth, go forth and conquer.”

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Transitional Fossils/Fischer: “ Realize that the fossil record is the only tangible, physical evidence for the theory of evolution that exists. The fossil record is it. There is absolutely nothing else Darwinians have they can show you.”

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But if Darwin’s theory is correct, that increasingly complex life forms developed in tiny little incremental and transitional steps, then the fossil record should by littered with an enormous number of transitional fossils.

Darwin himself said, “The number of intermediate and transitional links must have been inconceivably great.”

“But, sadly for Darwinians, after 150 years of digging in dirt all around the world, there are still no transitional fossils at all, not one!” …

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“What the fossil record teaches us, in contrast to the theory of evolution, is that increasingly complex life forms appear fully formed in the fossil record, just as if they were put there by a Creator. This is especially true of what is called the “Pre-Cambrian Explosion,” the vast, overwhelming, and quite sudden appearance of complex life forms at the dawn of time.

“Evolutionists are at a total loss to explain the Pre-Cambrian Explosion.”

[Yet another Fischer misrepresentation of the scientific facts concerning the Cambrian Explosion …]

“The biblical record indicates quite clearly that all things, including increasingly complex life forms, came fully formed from the hand of God.”

“Thus the fossil record is a powerful argument for the existence of a Creator or Intelligent Designer while at the same time being fatal for the theory of evolution.”

“Creation Science and Intelligent Design theory have an explanation for the fossil record; evolution does not.”

If the “biblical record indicates quite clearly that all things, including increasingly complex life forms, came from the Hand of God”, as Fischer claims, I conclude that it is imperative that Bible-inspired Creationist/Intelligent Designers and all others, including Bryan Fischer, in the field of non-science Christian Religion come together in a common effort to decide which one of the two Creation Stories, that appear in the Book of Genesis, to designate as valid and which one to designate invalidate since the two contradictory stories have nothing in- the- way of mutual content to be one and only one account of the Creation.(ie., Gen.1:1-2:3 No.1) (2:4-25 No. 2).

But, either way, both accounts of Biblical Creation are only Myths.

Read the complete article from Bryan Fischer here…

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New Fossils May Redraw Human Ancestry

Nicholas Wade, NYT, 9/8/11

Brian Fischer stated: “Creation Science and Intelligent Design theory have an explanation for the fossil record; evolution does not.”

That being the case, Mr. Fundie Fischer, I’m convinced you need to walk that one back and rethink the “fossils”associated with evolution as well as “Evolution Science”itself. The following (9/8/11) article from the NYT will explain the reason why:

“An apelike creature with human features, whose fossil bones were discovered recently in a South African cave, is being greeted by paleoanthropologists as a likely watershed in the understanding of human evolution.”

“The discoverer of the fossils, Lee Berger of the University of Witwatersrand in Johannesburg, says the new species, known as Australopithecus sediba, is the most plausible known ancestor of archaic and modern humans. Several other paleoanthropologists, while disagreeing with that interpretation, say the fossils are of great importance anyway, because they elucidate the mix-and-match process by which human evolution was shaped.”

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“In the articles in Science, Dr. Berger’s team describes novel combinations of apelike and humanlike features in the hand, foot and pelvis of the new species.”…

“This mixture of apelike and humanlike features suggests that the new species was transitional between the australopithecines and humans, the researchers said at a news conference on Wednesday.

[This revelation debunks Fischer’s claim that Evolution has not produced one “transitional fossil.”There are hundreds more that have been scientifically documented, which proves that the Right-Wing Fundamentalist Christian, in his support of Perry’s science- bashing agenda, has written a completely false analysis of Evolution Science! ]

Read the complete article in theNYT….

Fischer’s last and Bottom line: “the easiest verse in the Bible to believe is the very first one of all: ‘In the beginning, God created the heavens and the earth.”

But, where in the Bible is an easy verse telling believers who created God? I would simply conclude, Apes created Man, Man created Gods. The Heavens and the Earth created themselves long before.– AB

Rick Perry’s Controversial Money Man

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Two Characteristics I Automatically Assign To The Christian Fundamentalist’s quest for political power: One is “To Lie” and Two is “To Buy” in the name of the Almighty.– AB

“Perry’s Controversial Money Man”

by Michelle Goldberg, Sept. 6, 2011, Daily Beast

“Archconservative James Leininger bankrolled Perry’s rise, helped religious fundamentalists take over the Texas GOP, and is lining up Christian leaders behind the governor’s 2012 bid.”

“During the last weeks of his 1998 race for Texas lieutenant governor, Rick Perry was tied with Democrat John Sharp, and many expected him to lose. That’s when James Leininger, an archconservative San Antonio multimillionaire, and two other Texas tycoons stepped forward with a $1.1 million loan for a last-minute media blitz. It was more than 10 percent of the total Perry raised for that race, and it probably was decisive—Perry won with 50.4 percent of the vote. ‘I congratulate Leininger,’ Sharp later told The Austin Chronicle. ‘He wanted to buy the reins of state government. And by God, he got them.’”

Read more from Michelle Goldberg here…

Al Brat’s Progressive Comments

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“…I understand the logic but I’d rather not take the chance. A Perry or Bachmann wouldn’t just take us back to the 19th century. They would take us back to the Stone Age.” — Robert Reich, 9-7-11

“A Christian Plot For Domination” [A Must-Read Expose` For Every Sane, Concerned American]

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“A Christian Plot For Domination” [A Must-Read Expose` For Every Sane, Concerned American]

(2 pgs.) By Michelle Goldberg, Daily Beast, 8/14/11

“Michele Bachmann and Rick Perry aren’t just devout—both have deep ties to a fringe fundamentalist movement known as Dominionism, which says Christians should rule the world.”

…“a recent Texas Observer cover story on Rick Perry examined his relationship with the New Apostolic Reformation, a Dominionist variant of Pentecostalism that coalesced about a decade ago. ‘[W]hat makes the New Apostolic Reformation movement so potent is its growing fascination with infiltrating politics and government,’ wrote Forrest Wilder. Its members ‘believe Christians—certain Christians—are destined to not just take ‘dominion’ over government, but stealthily climb to the commanding heights of what they term the ‘Seven Mountains’ of society, including the media and the arts and entertainment world.’”

Read the complete article by Michelle Goldberg here…

And, to accompany Michelle Goldberg’s expose` here’s more rom Right Wing Watch:

“It seems that Liberty Counsel’s Matt Barber is none-too-pleased with the coverage that dominionism and its influence and role within the Religious Right movement has been receiving in the media and on blogs like Right Wing Watch and so he has decided to attack those  who have been writing about it.”

Read the complete article from Right Wing Watch here…

Ancient Paganism At The Cross-Roads With Christianity

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ANCIENT PAGANISM AT THE CROSS-ROADS WITH CHRISTIANITY 9-2-11

Isn’t it ironic that nowadays Paganism has become another subject of intense loathing among certain elements of America’s Christian-Right when Christianity has such undeniable historical roots embedded in it. Do you think they ever simply asked, for instance, where the Eucharist originated?–AB

Paganism At The Cross-Roads With Christianity, Joseph Wheless, Secular Internet, 9-2-11

At the time of the inception of “that newer form of Paganism later called Christianity,” the Greeco-Roman empires were characterized by religions in a great state of re-organization.

“Wonder- workers, miracle-mongers, impostors pretending to be gods and Christs abounded. Simon Magus, Apollonius of Tyana, Apuleius, Alexander, Porphyry, Iamblichus, — performed prodigies of divine power and were hailed as genuine gods.Just as were Paul and Barnabas (Acts xiv, 11-12), and, later, Jesus the Christ. ‘Of these Pagan and Jewish ‘Christs’ two will be briefly noted, for their essential Christian contacts and analogies.’ Beginning first are some analogies of Pagan priestly fakeries.”

The numerous “petty frauds of the Pagan priests were designed to dupe their credulous votaries. The ancient poets and philosophers, and modern histories of Gentilic religions, abound in these instances.”

“For examples of a few of the more common frauds of the Pagan priests, outdone a thousand-fold by the Christian priests and church, – as (out of the Catholic Encyclopedia) we shall see, — we may mention some well-known pious frauds of the Greeks and Romans prevalent around the beginning of the Christian era and forming the religious atmosphere of the times in which the new faith was born and propagated.”

False prophecies miracles and fraudulent relics were the chief reliance among the Pagans, and Christians, for stimulating the faith, or credulity, of ignorant and superstitious people.

‘The images of the gods were believed to be endowed with supernatural power. Of some, the wounds could bleed; of others, the eyes could wink, of others, the heads could nod, the limbs could be raised; the statues of Minerva could brandish spears, those of Venus could weep; others could sweat; paintings there were which could blush. The Holy Crucifix of Boxley, in Kent, moved, lifted its head, moved its lips and eyes; it was broken up in London, and the springs exposed, and shown to the deriding public;, but this relation is out of place, — this was a pious Christian, not Pagan, fake. One of the marvels of many centuries was the vocal statue of Memnon, whose divine voice was heard at the first dawn of day, ‘the sweet voice of Memnon’ which greeted the sun, as sung by poets and attested by inscriptions on the statue made by noted visitors, who credited the assertion of the priests that the voice was that of the god Ammon; the secret was discovered by Wilkinson: a cavity in which a priest was concealed, who struck a stone at sunrise when the worshippers were assembled, thus giving out a melodious ringing sound. Very famous was the Palladium or statute of Minerva, thrown down from heaven by Zeus into Troy, and guarded sacredly in the citadel as protection of the city, which was believed to be impregnable so long as the statue was in the city; Ulysses and Diomede entered the city in disguise and stole out the sacred statue to the Greek camp; thence AEneas is said to have taken it to Italy, where it was preserved in the Temple of Vesta. Many cities of Greece and Rome claimed to have the genuine original. Another miraculous statue of like divine origin was that of ‘the great goddess, Diana’ at Ephesus, which the Town-clerk (in Acts 3 xix, 35) declared that all men knew ‘fell down from Jupiter.’ Other holy relics galore were preserved and shown to the pious: The AEgis of Jove, forged by Vulcan and ornamented with the head of the Gorgon; the very tools with which the Trojan horse was made, at Metapontum; the scepter of Pelops, at Chaeronea; the spear of Achilles, at Pharselis; the sword of Memnon, at Nicomedia; the hide of the Chalcydonian boar, among the Tegeates; the stone bearing the authentic marks of the trident of Neptune, at Athens; the Cretans exhibited the tomb of Zeus, which earned for them their reputation as Liars. But Mohammedans show the tomb of Adam and Christians that of Peter!

There were an endless number of “shrines and sanctuaries at which miracle-cures could be performed.”

“Oracular temples full of caverns, and secret passages, — that of the Cumaean Sibyl has recently been explored, and its fraudulent devices exposed. The gods themselves came down regularly and ate the fine feasts spread before their statues. In the apocryphal History of Bel and the Dragon, interpolated in the True Church’s Book of Daniel (Chapter xiv), the Holy Ghost tells how this hero trapped the priests who stole at night through secret passages into the throne-room of the god and ate the good things furnished by the pious King and people. The gods came frequently to earth, too, and with the connivance of the priests kept amorous tryst in the temples with unsuspecting pious ladies, edifying instances of which are related by Herodotus and Josephus, among other chroniclers of the wiles of priestcraft.

All kinds of Pagan prodigies “were articles of popular credulity, affectitig [sic] the commonalty as well as many of the highest category.”

“The great Emperor Augustus, obedient to dreams, went begging money through the streets of Rome, and used to wear the skin of a sea-calf to protect himself against lightning. Tiberius placed greater faith in the efficacy of laurel leaves; both remedies are highly praised by Pliny. Caligula would crawl under the bed in thunder storms; the augurs had listed eleven kinds of lightning with different significations. Comets and dreanis portended the gravest crises. Cicero and Valerius Alaximus cite numerous instances of dreams being verified by the event. Livy relates with perfect faith innumerable prodigies, though he acutely observed, that ‘the more prodigies are believed, the more they are announced.’ The Emperors made numerous enactments against sorcery, divination, and all kinds of magic; the ‘Christian’ Emperor, Constantine, prohibited all forms of magic, but specially excepted and authorized ‘that which was intended to avert hail and lightning,’ …