Random Politics & Religion #06

Is that John Cena with hair talking to a snake?

I think its that "rattlesnake doctor" that believed God would cure him from rattlesnake venom. 6 feet deep.

He should have had more trumpets then.

Do, do do, doooooooooooooo!

One that doesn't heal people who commit suicide in an attempt to solicit publicly visible miracles.

Sorry, I thought you were being facetious. The rattlesnake guy was Jamie Coots, a Pentecostal preacher. From what I can find the picture is not of him, though. Apparently snake-handling is the cool thing to do for preachers in some circles.

Snake-handling Tennessee preacher vows to defy law


The 22-year-old preacher is facing up to a year in prison after being charged with illegally possessing 53 venomous snakes seized from his church by Tennessee wildlife agency officers earlier this month.

Yet the charismatic young pastor, part of a century-old Pentecostal tradition in the region that takes literally an instruction in the Gospel of Mark that "they shall take up serpents", remains piously defiant.

I have no issues with the 2nd amendment.

My issue is with the established government that pretends to follow the Constitution.

All the while trampling on the citizens Constitutional rights to restrict the citizens rights claiming IT'S the only way to protect them.

The reality is no amount of government can garrentee your safety.

If we Had a government that followed the Constitution as our founders created this would be no issue. As every citizen had the freedom of choice to arm themselves for protection.

No offense to Law enforcement but reaction response timing to emergency calls estimating 10 to 30 minutes to a situation like what happened in Orlando does not garrentee citizens safety to any amount of butchery or crime that can happen.

If I was in President Obama's place instead of advocating the restriction on the peoples Constitutional rights I would call for the people to Arm themselves and embrace their Constitutional rights to protect their families. I would make it my purpose to educate and inform the people. For a well informed citizenry about their Rights is a more responsible citizenry that not only keeps the Nation safer and secure but also keeps their Government honest and in check.

This would be a clear message to those who come to our nation who take advantage of our freedoms with the intent to restrict our freedoms in anyway that they can.

Next time it won't be so easy,

We The People of the Constitutional Republic of the United States of America will show the world we do not cower in fear. Freedom is not free there is always a price we must solemnly take for it.

My thoughts and prayers to the families of Orlando we stand with you United as one nation your loss will not be forgotten.

Here's a sensible official who is a helluva lot better than what we have representing us in Washington D.C.

My fave NBA player is one of like 15-18 kids.

Pretty damn mind boggling.

And that, my friend, is the rub.

The "information" you "dug up" and are so fervently defending, couldn't be counted on to pass muster as a festering puddle of rancid HOG DROOL.

For all you know trump is planning to take over the world and crush it under his designer shoes... You don't know. You haven't bothered to check it out. And yet here you are PRETENDING you know something.

If an idiot relies on a moron for all his "information" then which one of them is truly stupid... bordering on HELP I AM TRAPPED IN 2006 PLEASE SEND A TIME MACHINE?

You may as well ask me for my opinion and use that as your "facts".... or let a chicken pick the winner by which candidate's picture it poops on.

The constitution as our founders created ...

Only free males who owned property could vote.

Senators were not directly elected.

Chattel and debt slavery were permitted.

You really want to live like that?

I do wonder how the abject worship of the Founders would seem to them in their day. A day where the US government was setup specifically to keep insidious religious elements out of day-to-day business.

"And then I told her my *** was this huge....my prowess in bed could not be denied."

I just watched a video, granted it was on facebook, where a house rep of some sort was trying to get someone to talk about the status of legislation on gun control and they straight up cut his mic off. Like... wut.

If I were one of these guys, that would be the moment I reach behind me and pull out my emergency NUH-UH NO U DI-INT 2000X Megaphone and proceed to ask my mother fudgin question.

I feel like the guy in this video is every person I talk to who is opposed to gun control.

Anyone else getting the impression that the Dems and media hate the GOP more than they do the terrorists?

Nope.

well, some gop politicians support plans that would cause more harm to the country than "the terrorists" ever could...

You mean like skyrocketing healthcare costs?

...Crap, sorry, wrong side of the aisle.

You mean like letting pervs into the women's room and men play on women's sports teams?

health care costs have been spiraling out of control for decades, but valid point. btw, i'm a republican. both parties suck. republicans have just been worse the last few years.

The parties tend to ebb and flow with the level of bullcrap coming out of them. The Republican establishment has been particularly abysmal, which makes me particularly annoyed that the Democrats didn't take the opportunity to, you know, actually field a decent candidate when they had an easy path.

Instead they've gone full throttle, making themselves look petty and juvenile as they foam at the mouth and feed the Trump machine, partly because they can't manage to say anything good about their own candidate.