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Strong Atheist Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Mar-19-09 10:41 AM
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I assume you all know about Lincoln Diaz-Balart, a Florida Congressman,
but a search turned up nothing here... however, my search function is and always has been very unreliable on DU, for unknown reasons...:shrug:

http://unreasonablefaith.com/2009/01/12/congressman-says-atheism-is-damaging/
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TZ Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Mar-19-09 10:48 AM
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1. Dear Congressman Diaz_Balart
I dedicate the following song to you and all your ilk:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MYzGMxGq9rM
I choose free will.
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Strong Atheist Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Mar-19-09 12:18 PM
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2. I am sorry that I can not hear it, my work blocks youtube, and at home
I can't get it due to my browser/firewall combo (of course, I get NO viruses, spyware, adware, or things that infect my registers...)
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TZ Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Mar-19-09 01:47 PM
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3. Here are the lyrics to Free Will by Rush
There are those who think that life has nothing left to chance take,
A host of holy horrors to direct our aimless dance.

A planet of playthings,
We dance on the strings
Of powers we cannot perceive
"The stars aren't aligned,
Or the gods are malign..."
Blame is better to give than receive.

Chorus
You can choose a ready guide in some celestial voice.
If you choose not to decide, you still have made a choice.
You can choose from phantom fears and kindness that can kill;
I will choose a path that's clear
I will choose freewill.

There are those who think that they were dealt a losing hand,
The cards were stacked against them; they weren't born in Lotusland.

All preordained
A prisoner in chains
A victim of venomous fate.
Kicked in the face,
You can't pray for a place
In heaven's unearthly estate.

Chorus

Each of us
A cell of awareness
Imperfect and incomplete.
Genetic blends
With uncertain ends
On a fortune hunt that's far too fleet.


Here's another Rush song I really like too: "Faithless"
I've got my own moral compass to steer by
A guiding star beats a spirit in the sky
And all the preaching voices -
Empty vessels of dreams so loud
As they move among the crowd
Fools and thieves are well disguised
In the temple and market place

Like a stone in the river
Against the floods of spring
I will quietly resist

Like the willows in the wind
Or the cliffs along the ocean
I will quietly resist

I don't have faith in faith
I don't believe in belief
You can call me faithless
I still cling to hope
And I believe in love
And that's faith enough for me

I've got my own spirit level for balance
To tell if my choice is leaning up or down
And all the shouting voices
Try to throw me off my course
Some by sermon, some by force
Fools and thieves are dangerous
In the temple and market place

Like a forest bows to winter
Beneath the deep white silence
I will quietly resist

Like a flower in the desert
That only blooms at night
I will quietly resist

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