Snoop Goddy God

As much of a blabber mouth that I am, I try to be as vague as possible when describing my personal life. If it wasnt for all those four a.m. tulla induced posts I might even be inclined to downplay my drunkenness, although truth be told...I wear it as badge of honor as it is the only thing I share in common with some of the literary greats.

I say this because I am about to admit something that will surprise and probably turn off our one or two conservative readers and confuse the hell out of the liberals.

I do not believe in GOD.

I went to Catholic School and was raised in a religious household. Ive always been a very spiritual person and even considered (briefly) Seminary when presented with a scholarship, but the abstinence and the whole "not believing in God" thing kind of got in the way. There was not some great wound inflicted upon me that led me to this belief or lack thereof if you will. I never felt smited or slighted, I just never believed. It was just my gut feeling, and I trust my gut (as it is not a gut to be trifled with)

I can remember once during class when learning about heaven I asked the teacher if I would be able to meet Benjamin Franklin. I was reprimanded for missing the point, which is that the purpose of heaven is to meet God. My response that Ben would be more interesting did not fare thee well. My rebuttal that if we are in fact made in God's eyes, then perhaps God is made in ours scored slightly better but with a stern warning that I was dangerously close to implying that I worshipped false gods, in this case the founding fathers. My teacher was right, I was always a borderline paganisitic heathen (Im irish, its in my blood) In full disclosure four years later at graduation I received two awards coughbraggardcough for excellence in specific subjects, religious studies being one of them.

I do believe that God and Religion are extremely important, if that makes me a hypocrite so be it, and yes I think there is an attack agenda against the both of them that I fear will eventually lead to the demise of this very great country of ours.

"If we ever forget that we're one nation under God, then we will be a nation gone under." - Ronald Reagan

You know those people that say they believe in God, but not organized religion...well Im the opposite. For all the talk of the evils of religion, in my opinion the good have far outweighed the bad, and there is not a doubt in my mind that amongst other things the declining influence of the church in our country has led to some of the moral decay we are witnessing today. More pragmatically speaking..... in my opinion it has contributed to lower test scores in schools, higher crime rates, and higher teenage pregnancy and abortion rates to name just a few as liberal social programs have replaced the church as the dominant influence in poorer neighborhoods.

Societies need structure and the church has always been able to fill in the gaps left by the federal and state governments or even acted as a replacement in the event of an absence of a nuclear or extended family. Theyve done pretty gosh dang good in that regard. For every abuse example you hear, Ill tell you thousands about women's shelters, hospitals, food drives, support groups, blood drives, pancake breakfasts (I like pancakes), humanitarian aid too many to mention etcetera etc.

Or sometimes people just need someone to hold them tight and promise them that everything will be alright. If that someone happens to be a faith-based deity, who am I to argue. Whatever gets you through the day I say.

God and Religion has always been a key component of our nation's history contrary to what the secularists would have you believe. Of which I would like to add, that by my definition the secularists themselves are a "religion" and are hell bent on shoving their belief system down everybody else's throat at the same time they accuse Christians of doing the same.

The reason I bring this up now is that I plan to become more active on this blog in the defense of God. Speaking of which... the grace scene in Talladega Nights about the baby Jesus is frickin hysterical...walk dont run to rent it. I realize it is rather trendy right now at Christmas time on both sides to tackle this issue, but I feel that my unorthodox position may be able to bring a unique perspective on the subject (how do you catch a special squirrel? Unique up on him) as I can not be easily dismissed as a wacko right wing* evangelical nor accused of being a lunatic left fringe atheist ACLU card carrier. This will be the dogma according to Donkey, or Donkma if you will.

On that note, I have nothing for you now... but I will share (and hopefully recommend at a later date upon completion) with you a book that I just bought (if you know me personally stop reading now as this is probably your Christmas gift) about the history and influence of God in the founding of The United States of America. Ive read a few pages and it looks like it'll turn out to be a good discussion provoking read.

Makes a great Christmas gift!











New from Newt!**
Rediscovering God in America: Reflections on the role of faith in our nation's history...and future.

*ok maybe Im right wing, but Im certainly no evanger...you get the point.
**If you buy this book through our link no compensation will change hands between Amazon , Speaker Gingrich and The Aurora. Were not in this for the money, just the chicks