"Democracy demands that the religiously motivated translate their concerns into universal, rather than religion-specific, values. It requires that their proposals be subject to argument, and amenable to reason. I may be opposed to abortion for religious reasons, but if I seek to pass a law banning the practice, I cannot simply point to the teachings of my church or evoke God's will. I have to explain why abortion violates some principle that is accessible to people of all faiths, including those with no faith at all . . . Politics depends on our ability to persuade each other of common aims based on a common reality. It involves the compromise, the art of what's possible. At some fundamental level, religion does not allow for compromise. It's the art of the impossible. If God has spoken, then followers are expected to live up to God's edicts, regardless of the consequences. To base one's life on such uncompromising commitments may be sublime, but to base our policy making on such commitments would be a dangerous thing."

~ Barack Obama

Unknown "Sprinkle Jackson" Rabid - 16 years, 9 months, 12 days ago

“I cannot believe in a God who wants to be praised all the time.”

~ Friedrich Nietzsche

Unknown "Sprinkle Jackson" Rabid - 16 years, 9 months, 13 days ago

"If tyranny and oppression come to this land, it will be in the guise of fighting a foreign enemy."

"The means of defense against foreign danger historically have become the instruments of tyranny at home."

"A popular Government without popular information or the means of acquiring it, is but a Prologue to a Farce or a Tragedy or perhaps both. Knowledge will forever govern ignorance, and a people who mean to be their own Governors, must arm themselves with the power knowledge gives."

~ James Madison

Unknown "Sprinkle Jackson" Rabid - 16 years, 9 months, 13 days ago

"What difference does it make to the dead, the orphans, and the homeless, whether the mad destruction is wrought under the name of totalitarianism or the holy name of liberty and democracy?"

~ Gandhi

Unknown "Sprinkle Jackson" Rabid - 16 years, 9 months, 13 days ago

Once upon a time there was a Kitty who wanted to become a Ninja. After being bitten by a rabid squirrel, the Kitty decided he was going to scare the crap out of Jimmy McPherson (an annoying little brat that lived next door). He hid behind the bush, and then like lightning.... *BANG*.... the Kitty became Ninja Kitty. Now he hunts in HumanPets..... only to be stopped with your thumbs...

...They are needed :-)
Unknown "Sprinkle Jackson" Rabid - 16 years, 9 months, 25 days ago