The Ghost of RubangB said:
You're right. If G-d appeared, spoke to me, and performed a miracle to prove he was G-d, and proved specifically which G-d he was and which afterlifes he had waiting for me, I would spend every single cent on atheist charities and promoting a secular humanist society, and fighting the religious right in America. And if he had a problem with that, I'd call him an Indian giver. If he wanted the money spent in another way, he should've picked somebody else, eh? Ooooh, his hypothetical bad! |
I just thought it funny that such a carring liberal as yourself would not have donated anything to the poor.
Yet, today, America's leaders are reenacting every folly that brought these great powers [Russia, Germany, and Japan] to ruin -- from arrogance and hubris, to assertions of global hegemony, to imperial overstretch, to trumpeting new 'crusades,' to handing out war guarantees to regions and countries where Americans have never fought before. We are piling up the kind of commitments that produced the greatest disasters of the twentieth century.
— Pat Buchanan – A Republic, Not an Empire
