tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11762382.post1091316320271257332..comments2023-10-24T08:13:45.842-06:00Comments on Only in New Mexico: Revenge SoupJim Bacahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14019944863771287149noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11762382.post-46278512655294153022016-08-28T11:59:32.606-06:002016-08-28T11:59:32.606-06:00The silence for the this post is deafening. I onl...The silence for the this post is deafening. I only hope one of them doesn't get to plea to lesser charges by rolling on the others. We live in a very sick world and the worst of the worst need to be exterminated.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11762382.post-1143834123724365782016-08-28T00:17:50.810-06:002016-08-28T00:17:50.810-06:00These are the times that try our morality, our ide...These are the times that try our morality, our ideas about right and wrong. It's easy to oppose the death penalty when there aren't ten year old girls being killed. Now's the test.<br /><br />According to the bible god once killed everybody save a family and a boat load of animals but then immediately realized, 'Oops, I screwed up and this rainbow is my promise to never ever do that again.' For awhile we the people struggled against killing each other until this guy came along they call the apostle Paul who said, 'It's OK boys, we're not god. We're inherently bad. Go ahead and kill one another and god, who really is god and inherently good, will just forgive us.' Establishing the gleeful circular morality that permits anything at times like these if enough of us agree to it -- voters, legislators, people with money and power, whatever.<br /><br />Opposed to that kind of morality, which is emotionally influenced, there's what we think of as rational morality like the golden rule, which has been snuck into the bible and even the law sometimes by clever secular sinners who realized that like the bible, morality is just the rules we've made for ourselves -- Yep, we just made it all and agreed to live by it -- and that we have to live by our rules even at a time like this.<br /><br />But those rules are also influenced by our emotions, but our better ones, our better natures. That's why we decided to call them rules. We knew times like these would come again as they had before. We knew the struggle between our better and lesser natures, which is what's always being played out in the stories in the bible and the shifting representations of god and the debate going on now, would continue. Hang on. Better times are a comin' if we do but we must hang on.<br /><br />Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com