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I'm a SciMoChristoSatanIslaJew and you must pay for my spiritual & Religious health care


William K. Wolfrum made this statement to his followers at 3 p.m.

"My friends, I have always been open about my religious beliefs because I firmly adhere to the concept that what makes this nation great is freedom of religion. Whether you are a Scientologist, Mormon, Satanist, Christian, Muslim or Jew, you have the right to worship as you deem fit.

Now, as most of you are aware, I have long been a practicing Scientologist Mormon Satanist Christian Muslim Jew. The reason behind my multiple, and often conflicting beliefs is due to the fact that I've extrapolated Pascal's Wager to its furthest conclusion. Basically, when I die, I'm covered regardless of who's actually running this show. So I got that going for me.

Nonetheless, being a SciMoChristoSatanIslaJew is not easy. For instance, if I come down with a cold, the sheer amount of prayers and rituals I have to go through is staggering. It's a non-stop day of rosary beads, praying to mecca, shedding Thetans, slaughtering goats, fasting and devouring live baby heads. And the tithing. Dear Lord, the tithing.

Being that baby heads, goats and rosaries don't grow on trees, you can imagine the money I have to pay for the health care that my religions demand. This is why I and other SciMoChristoSatanIslaJews are demanding to be treated with the respect we deserve. We demand that the current health care reform bill cover our wide variety of needs.

This is not an outrageous request. After all, the current health care reform bill already has a provision which would prohibit the government from discriminating against "religious and spiritual health care." Simply put, if you pray, the federal government will pay.

For me, however, simple prayer isn't enough for my religious and spiritual health. My health is incredibly demanding spiritually. Like the other day, when I sprained my wrist and was forced to drink South African weasel blood. Hell, up until then, I wasn't even aware there were weasels in South Africa. But let me tell you, there are, and those little critters are just packed with blood. And they don't come cheap.

This is why all American taxpayers must fund my religious and spiritual health care. Because if Christians are going to be singled out as deserving of compensation for their beliefs, so should we Pascalian SciMoChristoSatanIslaJews. It's fair, and its the American way for all Americans to support the religious beliefs of others.

So please, help me in my pursuit to stay spiritually and physically healthy by forcing the federal government to pay for my rituals of praying to Jesus, Allah and God while purging myself of Thetans and goring on baby heads and weasel blood. And the tithing. Dear Lord, I could use some help with all the tithing.

Please contact the Freedom from Religion Foundation and tell them "Yes! We all should pay for someone's religious beliefs, regardless of how complicated and often illegal they are!"

Thank you, and I have retained counsel on this matter."

-WKW


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Amusing article.

Just another reason we'd be better off without any government involvement in health care.

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Amusing? The guy practically blasphemes the Flying Spaghetti Monster, and you find it amusing?!? :P

On a side note, are you familiar with the anti-Pascal wager? If God exists, he so obviously hides proof of his existence that he clearly does not want us to believe he exists. Therefore, if you believe in him, you're risking eternal punishment, and he'll give you eternal reward if you play along and pretend he doesn't exist.

Of course, then there's the Matrix theory, that basically goes like this: eventually we'll have enough computer power to simulate entire worlds. We'll probably make those worlds similar to our own, including the ability to evolve. Eventually, intelligence will arise in those worlds, and the simulated entities will want to create their own simulations. Each increase in depth of simulation (e.g., a simulation of a simulation of a simulation) exponentially increases the number of "universes". What are the odds that we're living in the top most universe?

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I think you and Wolfie are both too deep for the pirate, who only uses teabags and doesn't know how to even make real tea, never-mind health care.

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The funny thing is, the pirate's comments are so off the mark that I didn't realize it was an implicit critique of the current debate on health care (since no bill being floated would put government in charge of health care) until your comment made me go back and re-read his comment.

Well that, and the fact that I was eager to unload some snark, I suppose.

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Hey Cville:

I'll gladly join the teabaggers, if they'll allow an anarchist atheist like me to join.

I realize you are quite confident that socialism works, but just in case you ever want to be less ignorant to the laws of ecconomics:

Von Mises

These articles show the harm that these socialist programs do to our society. Many of the people on this site are anarcho-capitalists like myself. We believe taxation is an affront to human rights and property rights.

Join the side of freedom. I was once a socialist myself. So was Hayek, so was John Stossel.

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Forget it, pirate; did you hear the speeches? You and I have one thing in common -- I am also an atheist. But the selfish republican mantra of "I got mine and you don't, so you are obviously undeserving" is not my cup of tea.

I went to your web site but didn't read beyond one article. We have many examples of countries who provide universal health care, and whose citizens have a very nice quality of life because they don't have to worry about going broke if they have the bad luck to get sick.

You are wrong, and I understand that you can't understand this complicated issue, but I hope you will at least benefit from it when it becomes a part of everyday life here.

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So do you believe in the "free market"? What, exactly, is the free market as far as your concerned? Is it a free market if monopolies run the show? If not, is it a free market if government prevents monopolies from forming? In the long run, one of those two things is going to be happening.

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If you don't pay taxes, who's going to defend your rights? Teach your children? Pick up your garbage? Repair your roads? I understand fighting over how high to set tax rate and what the spend the revenue on, but I cannot take seriously or respect anyone who thinks the citizenry shouldn't be taxed at all. It's just dumb.

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Wow. If you went out for beer with four friends and the bill didn't divide into five even amounts, could you still be friends with those people? 'Cause, like, they might walk away with a portion of your PENNY.

I guess you could all ask for separate checks.

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I'm not sure I've run into any anarcho-capitalists on the site. Care to name names?

(PB, you're going to need to be on your pirate game if you want to go a dueling on the SS TPM Cafe. And I don't think you've even met most of the A-team yet.)

Just sayin'.

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What but not a Catholic Pagan Wiccan too? I don't know... I wouldn't be all my money....

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"since no bill being floated would put government in charge of health care"

Any bill which funds health care or regulates it puts the government in charge of health care. And we had that way before Obama, unfortunately.

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As long as you recognize there's nothing substantially different between how this is "in charge of health care" than Medicare, I suppose it's a matter of semantics. See, I'm in charge of my health care the way I define "in charge". Secondary to that is my doctor(s). Tertiary is my insurance company. The government is interested in being that tertiary bit to those who can't afford their own insurance.

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Oh, pirate, Do you know how to read? Never mind, you do, or you wouldn't have written your response. I guess instead you are too lazy to read the bill.

It is so lovely to have a business whose only goal is to make a profit "in charge of health care." That really says it all. Talk about putting "someone" between the doctor and the patient regarding health-care decisions! Well, the AMA came out in favor of Pelosi's bill today, and so did the AARP. So, what have you got next, pirate? DEATH PANELS? Go ahead! Get really desperate! Tell us that DEMOCRATS are favoring DEATH PANELS! What a joke you are!

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Cville,

You seem to be getting a bit fussy. Do you dispute that Obama will increase aggregate federal funding for health care or not?

I want an end to Medicare and Medicaid. I want an end to doctors being forced to have a license to perform. I want an end to malpractice lawsuits. I want doctors to be able to turn away people who can't afford emergency care. I want an end to regulations saying I need a prescription to by a pharmaceutical. I want an end to patents.

So if you can convince me that any of the Democrat's proposals will decrease funding for health care and make it more pro-market, I'll gladly support the bill.

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Why should health care expenditures be decreased when our war expenditures, including the universal health care for Iraqis (which is guaranteed -- by the Us of America!) How about in Afghanistan where we are paying WarLords who take care of their "soldiers' families' health care where we are also paying for that?"

Sp. does the United States of America pay for UNIVERSAL HEALTH CARE for other countries but not for our own? Why? Because it is understood that it is a basic human right, even in the most primitive of countries?

I am waiting for an answer.

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To be fair to the pirate, if he's a true Von Mises disciple, he's also against foreign entanglements.

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I want an end to patents.

Now that you've killed off all the patients, the patents won't be needed, so dat's good, right?

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"I want an end to doctors being forced to have a license to perform. I want an end to malpractice lawsuits. I want doctors to be able to turn away people who can't afford emergency care. I want an end to regulations saying I need a prescription to by a pharmaceutical. I want an end to patents."

You're insane. Good luck spreading your ideology with the vision of my six-year-old brother performing open heart surgery in the Mojave Desert while high on oxycodone.

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Anarcho-capitalists are the stupidest people on the planet. Bar none. Every time an anarcho-capiralist speaks, a tax raise gets its wings.

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Hey Pirate, STFU buddy, this is satire, this is what Mr. Wolfrum does and he is quite funny. God do you wingers ever laugh? Umm, sadly, the answer to that question is known to everyone, the answer is NO, you don't.

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Carthy,

Baby, I don't consider myself right-wing. But you can call me whatever you like. Can I call you Too Much Irish Sugar?

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I don't have to ask your permission to call you this: you are a major ass-hole.

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McCarthy.. not Carthy... silly pirate.. On with Pastafarianism... and something funny, don't be that dude with a stick up your ass, otherwise you can't be a pirate, especially on Sept 15th...

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One day, when the planet is a smoldering wreck and just 10 humans are left, at very least two of them will say "See how good society is now? Milton Friedman was a genius."

Seriously tho, It offends me to no end when sexist douchebags pollute my posts. Go talk about your Libertarian Utopia with others that have lost their grip on reality, Pirate.

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Stupid sexist douchebags.

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Wow, rough crowd today.

Rothbeard, you are giving the rest of us pirate like people a bad name-cool your tool.

Any way I was going to add something about wanting: The Single Prayer Option. ( snark-o-rama )

M. (take what you can, give nothing back) Paul

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Do i still get my tax deductible charity donation even when I play bingo?

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Ah, but the thing is, after this:

For instance, if I come down with a cold, the sheer amount of prayers and rituals I have to go through is staggering. It's a non-stop day of rosary beads, praying to mecca, shedding Thetans, slaughtering goats, fasting and devouring live baby heads. And the tithing. Dear Lord, the tithing.
... which takes about a week, your cold is gone, thus proving that being a SciMoChristoSatanIslaJew is the correct answer too!

(Ignore all those doctors over there telling us that, left untreated, a cold persists for about a week, but if properly attacked with expensive pharmaceuticals, it will clear up in about seven days!)

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