You forgot #3 - for I choose to say to your "offer" a resounding "No thank you". You can have *your* ball back; I'm going back to producing. Good luck, and have a nice weekend.

He seen as Ayn Rand seen what America has become. He wanted no part until the Bill of Rights were included. And then he had his reservations. D.C. as it is really could care less about our children as this you have appropriately named. The same as this deranged person that would do this to a child or anyone has that mentality. Sometimes I try to understand and write things down that make since and trip over my tongue. All in all D.C. and this person are leading a life that endangers you or I and all that read topics as these. I hope that helps. As far as Rand and Henry being Prophets. They knew something that is and will go on until it's demise.

In the last days as quoted in the Bible. It will get worse. Choosing children has been an old adage. They pick on the weak no matter how much harm. To me this is nothing more than cowardice. They cannot play with anyone that has an IQ. that surpasses their evil intent. Cutting yourself with anything does not feel good anyway, but with razor blades. The only thing that their intelligence tells me is they understand the excitement of children looking at that playground. Those who choose to go down this road will eventually fall victim to their own deeds. Vile is the perfect word. Some may not agree and that's okay with what prophecy foretold, but Patrick Henry before D.C. became to be what it is today spoke of the things during the Continental Congresses meetings to revise the Article's of Confederation to become as we know today as The Constitution. I believe Patrick Henry was more than a great orator. I believe he was one of our last Prophets. Some believe some do not. His "give me liberty or give me death speech" was never written down, but was brought down by those who heard it. James Madison had problems with Henry because he knew in his being Henry was right. Taken from "The Road to Independence" at Amazon and a few other DVD's. by Mike Church.

So be it! I would be happy to mete out "justice". Over the years I have heard of horror stories of people putting razor blades in apples and handing them out on Halloween. I have no sympathy for such animals.

This is a case where the perpetrator should face an eye for an eye type of justice. He/she should be made to run the gauntlet! Prison is too god for them.

We don't come to the Gulch to argue. Good bye.

No, the movie was one of the schlock movies from the mid- to late sixties. I remember seeing it at a drive-in as a teenager.

You are right of course, and mine is the kind of license one takes when arguing while irritated.

However, you have to admit that Christians similarly take license in whether to use the Old Testament as well. For example, the biblical position against homosexuality and abortion leverage the Old Testament, not the New Testament.

I do apologize to any offended in pointing out the human failings demonstrated in religious history.

Religious freedom is clearly protected; therefore, should not serve as the basis for justifying a reasonable position.

Prophecy foretold. Believe it or not!

Agreed it is vile and we all have not seen anything yet. Get ready!

Not the place for a religious argument. Thought this was the Gulch, not a Christian supremest group.

However, your allusion to the stature of Baal is overcome by far more recent Christian atrocities such as burning witches and torturing heretics. In Samuel 15:3 God commands the killing of all Amalekites, including children and infants. History is teaming with examples of Christian (and other religious) leaders "... (lying, cheating, twisting words, stealing, etc, so long as it gets their viewpoint advanced)". These acts do not define all Christians. Neither do the acts of some extreme Muslims define that religion.

You apparently have a belief. Many, myself included do not have that belief. In fact, I'd like to think I have no "beliefs", but I'm probably not that good. I trust in logical argument (and sarcasm), which cannot affect a belief. So I can't sway you. Yet another reason not to pursue in this argument.

If you want the last word please take it, and let's end this argument about how your invisible friend is so good, I should give up the freedoms you choose to interpret from your belief book (buying beer on Sunday, condoms, premarital sex...), and you can continue on your paranoid delusion regarding these largely misguided, but clearly not collaborating groups.