Exactly what are they measuring when they say "5%" of their business? 5% of their clients or 5% of their profits? I would guess they are stating the former in the hopes the listener will believe it's the latter. In all liklyhood, 5% of their clientel bring in a whopping percent of their profit.

I'm unaware that anyone calling themselves TEA party people complained that Obama didn't do enough. Of what? What people did complain about were the delays in getting cleanup equipment to the affected areas. They also complained about FEMA buying up a lot of mobile homes for displaced people to live in, that never got distributed and used, They did complain about the slow reaction of the Mayor of New Orleans and the governor of Louisiana.

human condition, that must rely on an immaterial world to support it all. You should re-read Tacitus X's prior post.

Rondoman: "I majored in physics"--pretty lame. You probably quit or flunked because you couldn't stand the implications of scientific knowledge for your religious fetish. I'm amazed that someone with an ostensibly rational mind could believe that the claims of an ancient, pre-scientific book takes precedence over scientific research. True, there is always some degree of speculation in any scientific discipline, more in some than others, but scripture is replete with assertions that can only be taken on faith. What you believe is static, and is constantly being chipped away by new knowledge. And I'm not talking about this person or that city as being historical. It's the basic tenents that purport to describe the world and the...

I stand corrected. Good point.

Rondoman: Where did you get your PhD in Astrophysics? And how did you acquire this knowledge that so surpasses that of other Astrophysicists? And what's this got to do with believing Jesus is your savior?

What you believe and what Christian doctrine claims to be the truth are irrelevent to the way the majority of other so-called Christians think and behave. Life is a lot less mysterious today and, just as importantly, the technology that has grown out of scientific knowledge has made life much easier and much more pleasant than when Christianity was in it's hayday. Praying to God to take away a headache, for instance, is far less effective than taking a pill. This and all the other advantages of technology are not lost on the common man and woman. They know where to place their bets.

It's not 'bungling', it's bundling. According to wickipedia, "Traditionally, participants were adolescents, with a boy staying at the residence of a girl. They were given separate blankets by the girl's parents and expected to talk to one another through the night. The practice was limited to the winter and sometimes the use of a bundling board, placed between the boy and girl, ensured that no sexual conduct would take place." "When used for courtship, the aim was to allow intimacy without sexual intercourse." Since the Amish don't use birth control, how disinterested do you think the girl's parents would be in what actually happens? Anyway, your cynical comment is irrelevent to the overall morality and ethics of the Amish...

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What Mr. Brown doesn't address are the reasons why those who call themselves Christian act so much like athiests. The truth is that the foundation of religion of all kinds has always been the fact that there were so many questions about the world and human life that couldn't be answered by anything else. The growth of scientific knowledge has changed that, and will continue to do so. In fact, the decline of religiosity witht the rise of science is a demonstrable fact. It isn't that some strange spiritual 'virus' has attacked Christians that needs to be cured by some undefined "awakening". This is the inevitable result of knowledge. To return to religiosity, you must reject what we know and any further attempts to know more. Good luck...