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David Swan, Denver

Published November 25, 2008 at 12:05 a.m.

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I have been a subscriber to the Rocky for many years, and am a faithful reader, daily and Sunday. Somehow, however, I have missed two articles that I'm sure must have been in the Rocky.

The first would be the one relating how God revealed to Pat Robertson the outcome of the recent presidential election. Since Robertson had dutifully passed on God's decision in the prior two elections, I'm confident God shared that information with him this time, and either the Rocky missed the release or I overlooked the article.

The second would be about the press release from Focus on the Family founder James Dobson concerning his exultation and relief that a true family will be in the White House. A family with children produced after and from the marriage of a Christian man and woman, who will nurture and educate those children in the Christian faith.

If I have missed these articles inadvertently, I apologize. Please rerun them so I may clip them to add to my scrapbook.

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  • November 25, 2008

    5:53 a.m.

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    LetsThink writes:

    It is obvious that Mr. Swan is deriding God.

    That's a very dangerous thing to do.

  • November 25, 2008

    6:07 a.m.

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    Tom writes:

    No, LetsThink, he is not "deriding God." He is employing something you can't quite grasp day after day: wit and gentle sarcasm.

  • November 25, 2008

    6:43 a.m.

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    denverrose15 writes:

    Gentle sarcasm? The Word clearly states... God will not be mocked. Maybe it is gentle in comparison to what he usually says against God but he is indeed skating thin ice.

  • November 25, 2008

    7:13 a.m.

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    Tom writes:

    If I were religious, I would say that Pat Robertson declaring that God reveals the outcomes of political elections to him would be mocking the word of God. To expose such hubris for the absurdity it is falls into the category of, as I said, wit and gentle sarcasm.

    To merely observe that the Obamas, the object of derision by all of those holier-than-thou naysayers, actually have a relatively functional (no divorce as with McCain) family that seems happy in their chosen Christian faith, and that Dr. Dobson ought to celebrate that, is, once again, gentle and harmless.

  • November 25, 2008

    8:44 a.m.

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    JB writes:

    LetsThink and Denverrose-

    I think perhaps you ought to reread the letter. He is clearly not mocking God, but rather, poking some fun at a couple of self-annointed "profits." The humor is that Robertson has claimed tme and time again that God has told him about the results of the election ahead of time and Dobson has been screaming about family values, yet when someone they disagree with is elected, they are suddenly silent.

    Again, if you read the letter you will see quite clearly that it pokes fun at Dobson and Robertson... not God.

  • November 25, 2008

    9:31 a.m.

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    AngelontheSidelines writes:

    When has there ever been a documented case of lightening striking down any blasphemer?

  • November 25, 2008

    1:06 p.m.

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    grandpaw writes:

    LetsThink writes: "It is obvious that Mr. Swan is deriding God.
    That's a very dangerous thing to do."

    You have to remember who LT's god is. He gets pissed off real easy. If you don't believe me, just look around at the world he created. And all because a guy named Adam wanted to eat an apple.

  • November 25, 2008

    2:07 p.m.

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    peterpi writes:

    OK, I'll pile on:
    LetsThinkIrrationally and denverrose, Mr. Swan is not mocking or deriding God. Mr. Swan is lampooning and deflating the egos of Dr. Dobson and Pastor Robertson. I realize that those two sometimes confuse themselves with God, but nonetheless, Mr. Swan is deriding human beings.

  • November 25, 2008

    6:05 p.m.

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    Garip writes:

    How can you deride something that doesn't exist?

  • November 25, 2008

    7:12 p.m.

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    IronmanCarmichael writes:

    "And all because a guy named Adam wanted to eat an apple," sez grandpaw.

    Actually, "It was a pear/ A luscious pear/ That made Adam so aware that Eve was there...He didn't grapple with an apple/ That's a lot of applesauce."

    I was just about to write something about how they don't write songs like that anymore when I was briefly seized by a toe spasm. LT (LetsThink, not LooneyTunes, although the resemblance is amazing sometimes)'s God must have got me. Or maybe it was Pat Robertson.

  • November 25, 2008

    8:28 p.m.

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    popo writes:

    I don't care if it rains or freezes, 'long as I got my plastic Jesus sittin' on the dashboard of my car.

    Too bad the good Brother Robertson and Brother Dodson done flung theirs out the Caddy winder.
    For the love of money. It's a damn shame's what it is.

    If you live a good life, you'll find that God has a great sense of humor.
    Peace......Popocatepetl

  • November 25, 2008

    8:48 p.m.

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    Sweetpickle writes:

    I noticed that deepak chopra (?) wrote a new book about Jesus. I'm hoping that LT and his buddies will read it and possibly learn something about how Jesus really felt about things.

  • November 26, 2008

    11:20 a.m.

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    TimeLord writes:

    It's hard to describe the level of blind stupidity it requires to consider this letter derisive of God, rather than of lying hypocritical filth that claim to speak for him to fleece the ignorant. Got a mirror in your house, LT?

  • November 26, 2008

    5:59 p.m.

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    Garip writes:

    Sweetpickle: How, in bloody green tomato soup, would Deepak Chopra, or anyone else for that matter, KNOW what Jesus (if this guy even really existed) felt and/or thought. Seriously. How?

  • November 27, 2008

    3:35 a.m.

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    TimeLord writes:

    No response from the resident stupid fundie hypocrite?