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I’m thinkin’ that everyone now has a perfectly valid and legal reason to tell President Barack Obama to take his crummy “health care reform” and shove it up his ass.

(Oh yeah, that’s right: not even Obama and his cronies want Obamacare. They’re exempt from it.)

But within the legislation – which the House just re-approved a short while ago – are provisions for conscientious objection to Obamacare because of religion. The legal language seems tailor-made for the Amish (who use the communal resources of their churches to provide for medical care) and for Muslims, for whom insurance is religious taboo.

Since I’m neither Muslim, or a member of any Christian denomination (I still prefer to call myself a follower of my Lord and Savior, Jesus Christ), I guess that means that I’m screwed, right? Well, who is anyone in this steaming pile of bullshit (that’s the very first ...

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Old Order Mennonites – more popularly known as the Amish – will be exempted from being required to have health insurance if the so-called “health care reform” going through the House and Senate passes. According to the above-linked story in the Watertown Daily Times out of New York state, there’s a “religious conscience” clause that allows Amish and other religious groups to opt-out of the mandated insurance.

How does this not run afoul of the First Amendment, which clearly dictates that “Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion”?!?

If one group of people is allowed to get out of federal health care because of sincere convictions against such a thing, then all people who object to federalized health care have the moral right to reject it.

I am a follower of Christ who belongs to no particular denomination. And I say from the bottom of my heart ...

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I’ve heard from about 4 or 5 people today who told me that they visited my blog during Sunday and were completely convinced that I had joined the Amish, as was posted here during April Fools Day. That’s about ten or so people close to me that I know of who were taken in by the gag.

To say that I’m not giggling about this stunt’s success would be an understatement 🙂 Now I just have to figure how to top this for next year…...

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In case you didn’t get to see it, all during April Fools Day this site became “Plain Blog written by Brother Christopher Knight”. In true Amish style, it was a black page with white Times New Roman font (to be as “plain” as possible, and I also didn’t use italics because that would be akin to the whole thing about buttons on clothes that Amish have) and it announced that Lisa and I had chosen to join the local Amish community.

As you’ve no doubt surmised by this post, Lisa and I have not decided to “be plain” after all. I couldn’t resist doing this.The idea came last year to do an April Fools prank with my blog, and from the getgo the plan was to write about how Lisa and I had decided to join the Amish and give up the Internet forever. But it was like late evening ...

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