Pete's BLOG-Day 26,332. Right-wing Religious Extremists upset me.

Today is Thursday, September 13, 2012. It is rainy and cool day with temps in the 50s. My stats today: 10 minutes of yoga, 10 minutes of the exercise ball and 39 minutes of walking = 2.1 miles for a September total of 25.8 miles. My weight was at 161.8 pounds.

QUOTE from another so-called expert - this one from Thomas J. Watson in 1943: "I think there is a world market for about 5 computers." (He must have changed his mind in a couple of years.)

Why I'm UPSET with the GOP and the RELIGIOUS RIGHT. Last week a retired biology professor from Cornell College wrote a letter-to-the-editor that struck home with me. His letter was entitled; Republicans overtaken by  religious extremists. His words: "The Republican platform appears to have been taken over by mean-spirited and intolerable people who have the nerve to call themselves Christians. These born-again religious extremists who have morphed a once-respectable politican party into a faith-based entity would likely be happier working for the government in Iran than in an all-inclusive melting-pot America founded by immigrants seeking freedom from hatred, religious and social intolerance and bigotry. Showing little humility or compassion for others who are deemed "different," they promote themselves as God's mouthpiece on earth. What kind of God do the Republicans of the religious right believe in? Certainly not the God who encourged us to private prayer, not to judge lest we be judged, and love thy neighbor."
      The words above are my exact thoughts. In the last couple of days the religious right-wing conservative Moslems are attacking our embassies in Libya, Egypt and Yemen - all because of a video that was not complimentary to the Islam religion.  As I get older the thought running through my mind is that right-wing religious extremists are going to cause a global war. The seem to feel that their religious beliefs are the only true ones and it is their way or the highway. That's why blind religious faith is scary to me.

HUMOR for today: