While I was away from the blog

Hear Hear, MzEllen.

Michelle may be a little bit frank about her opinions, but this is her blog after all.

Anybody that would be mean to her kids under these circumstances has no shame, none at all.

Michelle, maybe when the weather gets better you can take some short strolls outside. That would get you some exercise and you wouldn't have to overdo it.

Glad you were able to go to the store... and expect you were really tired afterward. It will take a while to get your strength back, as I'm sure you know, but taking little steps like today will help it return. Continue to Hang in there!!!!

Let us know how the chili turns out!

I agree about pushing the cart. It does the same thing as one of those walkers on wheels.

I agree that Michelle and the Christian bigots like her are truly evil people. But they are also the most hypocritical and dishonest people on the planet.

Fifteen hundred years of medical progress were stifled by the Christian Church. Were it not for religious persecution and oppression of science, mankind might have landed on the moon in the year 650 CE. Cancer may have been eradicated forever by the year 800 CE. And heart disease may, today, be unknown.

Christians angrily denounced the introduction of medicines, antibiotics, anesthesia, surgery, blood transfusions, birth control, transplants, in vitro fertilization and most forms of painkillers. Supposedly, these scientific tools interfered with nature and therefore were against God's will. Today, Christians are fighting stem-cell research, cloning technology and genetic engineering. But when cloning laboratories provide an unlimited supply of transplant tissue for dying children, and when genetic engineering cures all forms of cancer, Christian leaders (read liars) will once again forget their initial opposition and hail these achievements as evidence of god's love for mankind.

Michelle is suffering with cancer right now for one reason and one reason only. HER religion. It is the Christian religion and this religion ONLY that has kept humanity from finding cures and remedies for diseases right down through history. I call on Michelle to explain why she went running to the “evolutionists” when she got sick instead of seeking a faith healer. Luke 9 clearly states that diseases are caused by demon possession and are cured by authority and NOT human knowledge. Come on Michelle tell us all why you still don’t believe in modern science and the Theory of Evolution by natural selection.

You said: Boris, you are the one who pronounced those who disagree with you as "evil"...and now you agree with yourself.
Boris says: People can disagree with me all they want and that doesn’t make them evil. What makes people evil is religion. Without religion good people would still do good things but it takes religion for good people to do evil.
You said: Boris, Scripture tells us that there are different reasons for illness and Luke (the human writer of the books of Luke and Acts) was a physician.
Boris says: “Scripture” (read Christian nonsense) says the earth is flat and immovable and had vegetation on it BEFORE the sun and moon even existed. ROFL! Where in the Bible does it say that a physician or someone named Luke wrote the Gospel of Luke? Where does it tell us who wrote any of the Gospels? These gospels had no names attached to them for the first few centuries of their existence. Where are you getting your information? Like a true fundamentalist you know next to nothing about your own religion.
You said: You are a liar as well. Christians do not fight "stem-cell research". Many Christian oppose embryonic research, but fully support other sorts of stem-cell research, some of which have yielded results that are in use today.
Boris says: A Christian calling an atheist a liar is so absurd and hypocritical it’s just hilarious. Atheism is the unbridled search for truth and Christianity is the false claim to already have it. I never met a Christian who wasn’t a liar. You’re false accusations prove you’re a liar too. Just because I left out a word doesn’t make me a liar.
You said: There is a long history in the story of humanity that embraces whatever medicine is available at the time. I encourage Michele to do her research, stand by her convictions and ignore the hatred that is spewed here.
Boris says: I called Michelle out from under her rock. Let’s see if she has the nerve to respond.

Just keep it up Boris. You are giving our casual readers the impression that atheists are heartless wackos, while doing absolutely nothing to endanger the faith of our Christian readers. Thanks for the help.

"And now I know first hand what it feels like to live with it and it's not fun."

but the question is, do you have the capacity for empathy to understand the situation of thousands in this country who find themselves in the same medical condition without the benefit of quality healthcare because they cannot afford it, or because they lost their job and their insurance along with it? how empathetic will you be when it comes to the discussion of healthcare and insurance reform in the coming months?

as i've said before, you're a republican until it happens to you. so maybe until you find yourself incapable of paying for your treatments (for whatever reason) you still won't know "first hand" what it feels like.

"...while doing absolutely nothing to endanger the faith of our Christian readers"

nope, there are plenty of others (zz, michele, mzellen, and more) who do that. the group of "christians" on this blog have done more than anyone to expose how repugnant and repulsive their twist on christianity is.

"We deal with things like cancer because of sin - whether you buy into imputed guilt or not, Adam brought sickness and death into the world."

just like a woman to blame the man! and why punish me or my children supposedly for a choice made my adam, thousands of years ago? wasn't it was satan's fault, since he tempted eve? or maybe it is eve's fault for tempting adam. according to doctrine, god created all things good and evil, so actually god brought sickness and death into the world. of course introducing sickness as punishment for sin is a great excuse for why an omniscient god would have created a flawed being. but then why inflict animals and plants with disease and death, too? nope, i don't buy into imputed guilt, or that adam brought sickness and death into the world.

I call on Michelle to explain why she went running to the “evolutionists” when she got sick instead of seeking a faith healer.

At the risk of offending everyone, I also recommend that michele avail herself of an anointing and prayers ... just as that PCA pastor did on that Jolly Blogger blog.

But if she does (or has), it's nobody's business.

Anon, I understand that you don't believe, but it should not be stunning to you that Christians do.

Therefore, just as sin entered the world through one man, and death through sin, and in this way death came to all men, because all sinned"(,,,) Nevertheless, death reigned from the time of Adam to the time of Moses, even over those who did not sin by breaking a command, as did Adam, who was a pattern of the one to come.

But the gift is not like the trespass. For if the many died by the trespass of the one man, how much more did God's grace and the gift that came by the grace of the one man, Jesus Christ, overflow to the many! Again, the gift of God is not like the result of the one man's sin: The judgment followed one sin and brought condemnation, but the gift followed many trespasses and brought justification. For if, by the trespass of the one man, death reigned through that one man, how much more will those who receive God's abundant provision of grace and of the gift of righteousness reign in life through the one man, Jesus Christ.

They don't consider me evil, they know the real me, not the caricature that you lefties have created in your own minds (most people who know me in real life actually like me and some even love me -- I've never met anyone who thought I was evil).

Michelle, does it occur to you that if you venture online to blog on whatever you feel like and more than a few people find you to be evil, maybe, just maybe, the problem is you and your tiny little group?

Anonymous, no. I'm not stunned. The hatred that is spewed toward Christians like Michele and I on our own blogs merely show the intolerance of liberals toward those who do not believe as they do.

But now, on this morning...I am more concerned with the hostess that graciously allows free reign of comments on her personal blog. Michele, how are you feeling today?

Genie, the hatred that comes from liberals toward conservatives shows a fundamental lack of tolerance for those who disagree with them. At least you have admitted the hatred.

Michelle, does it occur to you that if you venture online to blog on whatever you feel like and more than a few people find you to be evil, maybe, just maybe, the problem is you and your tiny little group?

I think that I would encourage Michele to keep God and Scripture as the basis for her definition of "evil", rather than the pro-abortion, pro-gay lobby.

Genie, I never said that you were a liberal. I only said that the hatred that comes from liberals toward conservatives shows a fundamental lack of tolerance.

I did not say that you were showing hatred, only that you could see it and admit it.

Are you saying that hatred = liberal?

"...the hatred that comes from liberals toward conservatives shows a fundamental lack of tolerance for those who disagree with them"

news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20090202/ap_on_re_us/election_bias_attacks

A man accused of leading an election night rampage that put one victim in a coma told a judge Monday he organized the attacks because he was drunk and angry about Barack Obama's victory.

Prosecutors had accused Nicoletti of driving the group to a black neighborhood, where they stopped a Liberian immigrant and beat him with a metal pipe and police baton.

They later pushed a black man to the ground, demanded that a Hispanic man tell them how he voted, and yelled profanities about Obama as they drove past blacks at a hair salon, court papers said.

Finally, the defendants used their car to run over a white man, Ronald Forte, who they mistakenly believed was black, the papers said. The victim was in a coma for several days but survived.

Nicoletti admitted on Monday that he was behind the wheel. He said he had originally intended to drive close enough to Forte so that one of his friends could lean out the car window and hit him. But he changed his mind "in the last few seconds" and swerved into the victim, he said.

you were saying?

we disagree, but i don't run you down with my car or beat you to a pulp with a bat.

To make a long story short, I learned earlier today that my treatment--and my condition is nothing like Michelle's, this is nothing she'd likely run into--is probably killing me. Loss of awareness, coma, death, usually not a particularly painful passing from my particular condition.

I have made it 43 years, 6 months, and 18 days since my first diagnosis with cancer. I've had a good life. Ironically, the chemo I've been taking to prevent liver cancer has probably....Well. For me, at least, conservative vs liberal, Obamanite vs Thompsonite, pretty much who cares?

Ack...Robert, late last night (before Julie made her little snide remarks) I said that you are in my prayers as well.

Julie, there is no need to make mean-spirited comments yourself. There is no reason for Christians to remove themselves from the political scene and every reason for Christians to get into the political scene in order to have the best possible leader for our people and to protect the most innocent of our citizens (the unborn). The fact that you use Robert's illness to slam conservatives says volumes.

Robert, I am sorry. My husband dealt with an underlying condition that led to the cancer that killed him. I am also sorry that I couldn't read the captcha last night and my comment was rejected (I'm beginning to dislike this particular blog platform).

I still want Michelle to explain why she went running to the “evolutionists” who used their knowledge of evolution by natural selection to diagnose and cure her. Again, Michelle got sick BECAUSE her religion stymied medical progress for over 1500 years. If the scientists hadn’t finally shoved the Christian holy men out of the way and started dissecting carcasses, and doing other science that had been forbidden by the church there would be no cures for cancer and Michelle would be on a slab with a tag on her toe. Michelle is an ungrateful, hypocritical spoiled brat. I don’t want her to suffer but she’s getting exactly what every Christian fundamentalist deserves. Now answer up Michelle so I can mock and ridicule your response and prove my point.

I'm glad to see the comments continue to high-brow here.

robert, i'm truly saddened to hear of your condition. unfortunately, you sound as if you no longer care what happens to those of us that you will eventually leave behind (and let's hope that that time is a long way off still).

i for one will continue to fight the insensitivity and bigotry of fundamentalists and their political control within the republican party until my last day.

Some of us loud and proud liberals and left leaning loudmouths have enough sense to know when a person's pain is greater than any intellectual / political / philosophical / religious / economic / theological or other trivial interest.

Get well, but don't expect any punches to be pulled! And we will expect the same.

The especially was because of being Christ's representatives to the world. As I said before God holds Christians to a higher standard.

Therefore, just as sin entered the world through one man, and death through sin, and in this way death came to all men, because all sinned"

Ah, that sublime combination of Christian idiocy, no science education, no knowledge of the Bible and insanity. The Bible claims man was given dominion over all life on earth. The truth is that bacteria and parasites had dominion over humans until scientists finally shoved the Christian holy men out of the way and learned how to deal with these things. Science tells us where diseases come from and why we die. Leave it to religion to make up fairy tale reasons for these things and idiots to believe these stupid retarded fairy tales in the face of modern science.