Bismarck, North Dakota News

" Thank you, Delores for writing this letter. And thank you, editor for publishing. I thought I was alone in the thought pattern ...

If my people will humble themselves and pray, I will heal their land.

The increasing sense of entitlement in our population is the opposite of humility. Put a financial genius in office and he/she cannot heal our land. We are going down, and going down hard due to the people. Not the rich, the middle class OR the poor, rather because of all the people.

God Bless you Delores. "

" Becky Fischer and Jesus Camp... "

" For an illuminating, if unsettling, study of Delores and Bulldozer (and too many others), go to The Council for Secular Humanism website and read the article by Stephen Gallagher (Army, Flag, and Cross). Very disturbing. "

" bush created NEW corruption on an escallating scale , unashamedly and brazenly, using his EXECUTIVE PRIVELEDGE. idi amin would be proud of this man and his "service" to America. "

" so, bulldozer, do you have enough stones for the purging of all the infidels? is your arm loose and nimble? how fast can your throw? have you been timed on the radar gun? bush in 2008!!!! "

" To This is Nuts--as I teach my students, dot coms are not trustworthy websites. Perhaps you could find some dot edu sites that will back your claims against Lynne. I am doubtful, but you can try.

To Bulldozer: Your second paragraph is a near rant--perhaps you could explain yourself in more detail. For example, how did President Clinton's infidelity cause 9-11? "

" Delores, you are absolutely right. This country has turned very far away from God and his will for our lives. The worst thing now is the promotion and acceptance of homosexuality as normal. The Bible says that homosexuality is an abomination. That is why God destroyed Sodom and Gemmorah. It also brought down the mighty Roman Empire and will also bring down this country unless we turn from this great wickedness.

I can't believe the responses here by some of you. SHAME ON YOU! Your responses are absolute garbage! President George Bush inherited all of the corruption caused by the Clinton administration. If Clinton had kept his pants up and done his job, 911 would never had happened, and we probably wouldn"t have gone to war with Iraq. When Bush tried to straighten out Clinton's messes, he took a lot of flack for doing the right thing such as is demonstrated by these replies. If Obama is elected, things will be worse than under Bill Clinton. "

" This nation has been ravaged and affected by the sin, deception and evil that reigns in the heart of the man who currently occupies the house at 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue . We should get down on our knees and pray that our next president will be nothing like the current one. "

" BEESH, no, but i had some grapes for breakfast. and they were very tasty. "

" DELORES SCHAFER , get off your Religious "Right Wing" soap box. Many Right Wings lemmings are beginning to see the light and realize that they made a terrible mistake by voting for G. W. Bush, TWICE, and now are reaping the results of the corruption, greed and cronyism of the Bush regime. Sometimes it takes a certain group of uniformed people to understand the deception and false information their government has fed them for the past 8 years. Now the birds are coming home to roost, with a major depression upon us. Times are not going to get any better for many, many years to come. So, get in the bread line, like everyone else will be doing. "

" See, dante, even you have eaten from the rotten apple of liberal lies and claimed it is good. "

" puppy dogs, kitty cats, children eating ice cream cones and laughing..... BEESH, your last line seems to be from the BUSH MANUAL of DAILY PRACTICES. "

" DELORES SCHAFER, get off your Religious "Right Wing" soap box. Many Right Wing lemmings are beginning to see the light and realize that they made a terrible mistake by voting for G. W. Bush, TWICE, and now are reaping the results of the corruption, greed and cronyism of the Bush regime. Sometimes it takes a certain group of uniformed people to understand the deception and false information their government has fed them for the past 8 years. Now the birds are coming home to roost, with a major depression upon us. Times are not going to get any better for many, many years to come. So, get in the bread line, like everyone else will be doing. "

" Rugby Reader, what you say about militaristic Christianity is true. But can you imagine the box office receipts if Machine Gun Jesus and Rambo teamed up for a First Blood Part V? I think they'd outdo Gibson's "Passion of the Christ" by half. "

" "Prayer warriors" sounds obscene. That phrase reminds me of that old hymn, "Onward Christian Soldiers", which I absolutely loathe.

For you Christians out there, the militarism of Christianity is not a good thing. Machine Gun Jesus is not going to win new converts. "

" Lynne, your blindness is astounding.
Visit: http://www.loc.gov/loc/lcib/9805/religion.html and read about the religious history of our country. As far as the Treaty of Tripoli claim, visit: http://www.tektonics.org/qt/tripoli.html. There it explains: "The John Barlow translation is at best a poor attempt at a paraphrase or summary of the sense of the Arabic . The Arabic text which is between Articles 10 and 12 is in form a letter, crude and flamboyant and withal quite unimportant...the Barlow translation, as Article 11 of the treaty as there written, is a mystery and seemingly must remain so. Nothing in the diplomatic correspondence of the time throws any light whatever on the point"
Concerning your canned response that more corruption lies in the rightwing is laughable. I admit both parties have had their issues, but the democrat party has seemed to perfected it to a science. I was going to submit a link about democrat scandals but there were so many it was hard to choose. Google democrat scandals and see.
It appears that liberalism runs on the philosophy, "If you tell a lie big enough and keep repeating it, people will eventually come to believe it." -- Joseph Goebbels "

" Lynne, where do you PEOPLE dig up this false information? Try thses sites for the religions of our forefathers;

http://www.adherents.com/gov/Founding_Fathers_Religion.html

http://members.aol.com/EndTheWall/TJ02.htm#Deist

Maybe we can turn this into a history lesson; next we will show all of the historic buildings in Washinton DC that honor Christianity.

Just because we are a free country and we let all of you non believers in, you have no right to silence the Christian values. "

" First of all most of our forefathers were deists and many spoke out openly against Christianity and religion. Secondly, a read of the Treaty of Tripoli is in order for anyone who believes that this country is a "Christian Nation founded on Christianity." As for greed, corruption, etc. the majority in our government seems to be sitting right in the rightwing (see the hundreds of news stories and cases in the last eight years. For those who wish to pray feel free to express your personal beliefs, but remember not everyone in this country is a Christian, while recalling this remember that Christianity does not have a monopoly on morals. "