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Science is your ideology, Mr. Obama, as is a blind adherence to every whim of the secularist left. You purport to be a Christian, but it's a Christianity based on your own image: your agenda, your thoughts, your opinion, your plans . . . your ideas. But you can't see that as ideology. What Bush adhered to (albeit imperfectly) was a set of religious values. You can call it "ideology," and in common parlance, it is/was, but what you adhere to is ideology as it's been traditionally understood: a set of ideas formulated to substitute for tradition, classical philosophy, and religious values. But you don't even recognize that you have an ideology. You are cool, objective, detached; just making decisions based on the facts, all laid out before you like checkers on a board and all you're doing is moving the pieces with very little risk of making a mistake and absolutely no risk of making a very serious mistake. The very idea that all the pieces aren't in front of you and can never be in front of you, that there might be whole other checker boards out there you can't see and will never see, that you might be playing checkers when you ought to be playing chess: those things don't even appear to cross your mind. You are the master. All is in your control.
You're so wrapped in an American left form of modern gnosticism, that you make a shaman look objective.
But you're no ideologist.
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Just in time to join Obama's Island of Dr. Moreau: A canny chimpanzee who calmly collected a stash of rocks and then hurled them at zoo visitors in fits of rage has confirmed that apes can plan ahead just like humans, a Swedish study said Monday. Santino the chimpanzee's anti-social behavior stunned both visitors and keepers at the Furuvik Zoo but fascinated researchers because it was so carefully prepared.
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Received in an email:
A priest was being honored at his retirement dinner after 25 years in the parish. A leading local politician and member of the congregation was chosen to make the presentation and give a little speech at the dinner.
However, he was delayed, so the priest decided to say his own few words while they waited:
"I got my first impression of the parish from the first confession I heard here. I thought I had been assigned to a terrible place. The very first person who entered my confessional told me he had stolen a television set and, when questioned by the police, was able to lie his way out of it. He had stolen money from his parents, embezzled from his employer, had an affair with his boss's wife, taken illegal drugs, and gave VD to his sister. I was appalled.
"But as the days went on I learned that my people were not all like that and I had, indeed, come to a fine parish full of good and loving people".
Just as the priest finished his talk, the politician arrived full of apologies at being late. He immediately began to make the presentation and gave his talk:
"I'll never forget the first day our parish priest arrived," said the politician. "In fact, I had the honor of being the first person to go to him for confession."
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