Why do you guys bother to waste your time with this troll (RBATY): He has a room temp I.Q., and can't you guys see through his pretentious speech which is the inane ramblings of a fool? The guy may be smart but has utterly no common sense and is totally dysfunctional in a mainstream society. RB is likely unemployable. He has probably bounced from job to job, alienating all with whom he...more

Why do you guys bother to waste your time with this troll (RBATY):

He has a room temp I.Q., and can't you guys see through his pretentious speech which is the inane ramblings of a fool? The guy may be smart but has utterly no common sense and is totally dysfunctional in a mainstream society.

RB is likely unemployable. He has probably bounced from job to job, alienating all with whom he works by his pretension of intelligence, but who’s thought patterns are an inch deep and a mile wide. He gets away with if for a few months, intimidating the meek around him, but is eventually found out for the intellectual lightweight that he is and thereby sent packing once he annoyed the wrong guy or gal.

So now, the only job's he can keep are at Burger King, flipping hamburgers, trying to impress teenagers with his intellect, all of who laugh behind his back wondering who this eccentric old fool is, and using him as an example of WHAT not to become...

Ignore the fool. To argue with a fool, only makes you guys look foolish.

He will not answer your question(s), because he can't.

The only way to deal with a fool like this is to get him on a witness stand and cross him. I love clowns like him, because they are so easy to destroy in the eyes of a jury!

Mean-spirited by me…yes! But true….and sometimes the truth, while hurtful, can be useful in bringing someone to understand that they are dependent on God!less

Gents: I have more I.Q. in my left pinkie, then all of you combined... And frankly, if ignorance were painful, you clowns would be in serious pain....but in each case, that would seem to be inevitable for each of you for eternity! "Do not fear those who kill the body but are unable to kill the soul; but rather fear Him who is able to destroy both soul and body in hell."

Can I ask everyone a QUESTION HERE? Who does it ALL BELONG TOO ? I don't beleive in a propserity gospel, but I do beleive that God provides for those who are ultimately faithful. God does not need our money....but titheing is an act of faith to give back to God what belongs to him already. I am scare to death of debt, but have found that as I have become more faithful to God in t...more

Can I ask everyone a QUESTION HERE?

Who does it ALL BELONG TOO ?

I don't beleive in a propserity gospel, but I do beleive that God provides for those who are ultimately faithful. God does not need our money....but titheing is an act of faith to give back to God what belongs to him already.

I am scare to death of debt, but have found that as I have become more faithful to God in terms of tithing, that God has taken care of me, even when times are bad. I can't explain it, all I know is that God has opened doors when the needs were there....less

Todd...It should be on the publication website on 13 May so that I can send you the link. It could be sooner (or later depending on the publishers). When it does come out, I will send you a note. (I will not forget to do so...)

RB...you are pretty ignorant of the science then.. Could you explain why C-14 in diamonds suggests that no diamond could be older than 104,000 years old.... (Let's see how you do with a softball...)

Wow...180 comments....most pretty silly. The quality of some of the analysis is equal to the legal education of the commentators... Look, people, I have a lot of expertise in this area of law. I am actually published on this topic. Based on the state of the law and case law, this is not that close. That is not to say that an activist Judge may rule this to be an establisment, but I HIGHLY do...more

Wow...180 comments....most pretty silly.

The quality of some of the analysis is equal to the legal education of the commentators...

Look, people, I have a lot of expertise in this area of law. I am actually published on this topic. Based on the state of the law and case law, this is not that close. That is not to say that an activist Judge may rule this to be an establisment, but I HIGHLY doubt it.

The banner is NOT an establishment. First off, it was a class gift, which is significant in terms of whether there is an entaglement under the Lemon analyiss.

Second, it is not a prayer any more than the words "In God we Trust" or "God Bless America", or "One Nation, Under God". At best, this is ceremonial deism. And this does not even reach that level. Being offended is not the basis of protections under the 1st Amendment. In fact, the 1st Amendment protects offensive speech. So being offended by the banner because one suggests that it is an establishment does not make it so. No more than saying that a Cat is a Dog because you want it to be!

There is NOTHING TO SEE HERE. This is simply so much sound and fury, signifying absolutely NOHTING. The banner stays. It will not even get to the SCOTUS, because the Circuit is going to sustain the District Court which will rule consistent with this post. Bank on it...bet your mortgage! Trust me, I am right, and the atheist fools, as per usual around here, are wrong. (Translation: I right, you're wrong...end of discussion!)

And when it happens some 18 months from now, all the knuckleheads, with ZERO legal education or understanding of constitutional law, will never come back here to admit their stupidity!less

You opinion is equal to your legal education.

Dawkins is as certain about evolution as the CIA, Mossad, Egyptian Intelligence, the Pakistan ISA, KGB, French, British, and Saudi Arabian Intelligence, who were ALL CERTAIN AND 100 PECENT convinced that Iraq had WND and that we were going to be hit by Sarin Gas about 20 miles south of Baghdad..... Talk about a man who is strong in faith.....

“But listen: God doesn’t want us to go there! If we do, it will only be because of our stubborn desire to leave God out of our lives,”

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Interesting...all women.... Gay men need not apply I suppose....well, and if you add Kagen and Sotoma.... hide

Your desperation is showing....

Sigh! Why isn't ignorance painful...if it were, there would be much less of it.

This is not that close of a call. The courts will find this to be constitutional. The ACLU often does things to get news, as it requires donations to keep going, and making news helps it with its fundraising. Nothing to see here....move along....

The Bible is God's letter to Christians.....your confusion comes from reading someone else's mail.... We teach Christ Crucified.....a stumbling block to the Jew, and foolishness to the Greek.

Surprising that there are not a hundred comments here. The Decision was correct. The dissent misses the mark. These are individual's making donations to private entities of their choice. They are given a credit for this donation. The private entity can support whomever it chooses, so long as at least two schools are receipents. To suggest that a State Government cannot make the...more

Surprising that there are not a hundred comments here.

The Decision was correct. The dissent misses the mark. These are individual's making donations to private entities of their choice. They are given a credit for this donation. The private entity can support whomever it chooses, so long as at least two schools are receipents.

To suggest that a State Government cannot make these types of taxation decisions would be to read the establishment clause WAY WAY beyond its original intent.

Three of the four dissenters are Jewish. The fourth is an alleged Catholic who never attends church, is pro choice and pro gay rights (e.g. Not likely a Biblical scholar). 6 Catholics and 3 Jews on the highest court. So much for the idea that Evangelical Christians are well represented here....less

I feel bad for him. If he dies without Christ, his mistake is eternal.

Frankly, there comes a time when someone's mocking serves only for one purpose...that is for mocking and that is what SBellem has become. SBellem comments are so beyond the pale and simply so amazingly mocking, that those Christians on this site should rest control of the forum from those who pretend to police it. For it only takes three or four to run someone from the page. SBell...more

Frankly, there comes a time when someone's mocking serves only for one purpose...that is for mocking and that is what SBellem has become.

SBellem comments are so beyond the pale and simply so amazingly mocking, that those Christians on this site should rest control of the forum from those who pretend to police it.

For it only takes three or four to run someone from the page.

SBellem deserves no respect, and he has abused his right to voice an opinion. For it only takes three!less

P.s. Could someone more patient than me help dholll by walking him through my post above....it appears that simple addition is too difficult for him...but maybe someone could walk him through the American concept of the use of irony?!?!?!?

Wow....Dholl...there are only two possiblities and only two: 1) You are either really very very very very dense, or.... 2) Sarcasm totally escapes you... My suggestion for you (BUT ONLY FOR YOU), is that you keep looking....maybe do a google search...or look through your local paper....In fact, get on the phone and call your best friend and ask about this right now....seriously! LOL....more

Wow....Dholl...there are only two possiblities and only two:

1) You are either really very very very very dense, or....

2) Sarcasm totally escapes you...

My suggestion for you (BUT ONLY FOR YOU), is that you keep looking....maybe do a google search...or look through your local paper....In fact, get on the phone and call your best friend and ask about this right now....seriously!

LOL....less

The contrast here is surreal. In Maylasia, the GOVERNMENT defaces 5000 Bibles on purpose, and nothing happens. One person in a SMALL Florida town burns a Koran that gets NO NOTICE by anyone, and 12 people are murdered in Islamic violence. Unlike Iraq, we will never ever win in Afghanistan, and every day and every life we waste there is a HUGE mistake. We should COME OUT of there NOW!