Before getting into the main part of the diary, I would like to say that I am very anti-"organized religion". Mostly, due to my memories of hypocrisy going up Baptist-style. I met a few that talked-the-talk AND walked-the-walk. I'm not necessarily an atheist, I believe that there is something, but not necessarily God has been described.
I guess because of my upbringing the closer moral code that I follow is the teachings of Jesus Christ, the main one being the Golden Rule. Follow that, and I don't see how people get some of the wild ideas that God told them to hate these people, or this or that or the other thing. It is time for the side who claims that they own Christianity and this is a Christian nation to look in the mirror.
It is my wish that President Obama would relay the follow quotes from Jesus:
Do unto others as you would have them do unto you.
Enough said
What shall it profit a man if he gains the whole world but loses his soul.
A lot of soulless people walking around D.C.
Let him who is without sin cast the first stone.
You would think that it was the one with the biggest stone.
The good man brings good things out of the good stored up in his heart, and the evil man brings evil things out of the evil stored up in his heart. For out of the overflow of his heart his mouth speaks.
Yes, we have seen a lot of that in the last few months.
Whatever you do unto the least of these, you do unto me.
And it don't think it mattered if they were illegal aliens or not.
Well, doubt I will get my wish. Please feel to turn this into a "Quotes Open Thread" by anyone, religious, or not.