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Topic: Black non religious senator calls em, like he see's em

buspup !!x+kkCmnF4 started this discussion 13 years ago #25,814

http://www.patheos.com/blogs/friendlyatheist/2013/02/22/non-theistic-state-senator-says-the-mafia-has-higher-standards-than-the-catholic-church/

Nebraska State Senator Ernie Chambers is one unique politician. After being the longest-serving senator in the state’s history (serving for 38 years, starting in 1970), he was term-limited out and left office in 2008. This past November, he was eligible to run for office again and took advantage of that opportunity, winning his race fairly comfortably.

Chambers is one of the few non-theistic, high-ranking politicians in the country. He’s also African-American and a powerhouse legislator.
He’s making headlines again for filibustering a bill that would “expand a prison work program.”
How is that news? Well, his filibuster included lots of unrelated remarks about religion:

Then, while burning up time trying to talk [Sen. Mark] Christensen’s bill to death, Chambers talked about attending a fundamentalist church where, as a child, he claimed children were terrorized and made to feel they were headed for Hell. He called Bible stories “fairy tales” that he outgrew.
Chambers sounded more like a preacher — albeit an unconventional and blasphemous one — than a senator, but he blamed the Legislature for that, too, noting that the body “invites religion into the chamber every morning” with a prayer. He said preachers who enter the legislative chambers are entering “my territory” to “do their damage.” He accused senators of not heeding those preachers’ calls to “do the right thing,” which he said “brings condemnation on you.”
While on the subject of Christianity, Chambers noted that Jesus “looked more like me than you all.” Despite his claims he doesn’t believe in God (though he sued God once), Chambers demonstrated that he knows the Bible (which he derisively calls the “Holly Bibel”) well, telling his fellow senators that you can judge a society by how it treats its children, elderly and enemies.
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Finally, Chambers said the Mafia has higher standards than the Catholic Church hierarchy because if their members were “raping children, they’d off them.”

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Anonymous B joined in and replied with this 13 years ago, 22 minutes later[^] [v] #391,823

> the Mafia has higher standards than the Catholic Church hierarchy because if their members were “raping children, they’d off them.”
but thats what they want you to think

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@391,823 (B)

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@previous (buspup !!x+kkCmnF4)
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3rd one is semitic

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