The existence of God, or the divinity of Jesus, cannot be proved or disproved using intellectual argument.  C.S. Lewis asserts that we have an "incurably abstract intellect."
  This intellect, along with the five senses, forms a barrier against letting total reality get through to us. If we cannot see, smell, touch, hear or taste God then our mind, our intellect, tells us God does not exist. But our senses equip us only to experience the physical world around us; to tell us what is real and what is not.    If one comes into contact with something foreign to one's experience, memory, assumptions or preconceived ideas and if at least one of the senses doesn't transmit positive information to the brain, then one is likely to dismiss whatever it is as an aberration.  We would also consider ourselves as being "sensible" for recognizing such supposed aberrations and rejecting them.  
  It is no wonder then that Paul wrote to the church at Corinth. "But the natural man does not receive the things of the Spirit of God, for they are foolishness to him, nor can he know them because they are spiritually discerned." 1Cor.2:14.
  No where is that more true than in the realm of science. Science rejects spirituality because it cannot be measured or proved in the laboratory.  Richard Dawkins, British evolutionary biologist said, "Many of us (scientists) saw religion as harmless nonsense.  Beliefs might lack all supporting evidence but, we thought, if people need a crutch for consolation, where's the harm?"  Dawkins also said with unbridled condescension, "(Religious) Faith is the great cop-out, the great excuse to evade the need to think and evaluate evidence.  Faith is belief in spite of, or even perhaps because of, the lack of evidence."
  He is snared by his own words because scientists have great faith in the unproved theory known as the  "Big Bang."  Where is the evidence?  Until the 1920's scientists believed that the universe consisted entirely of the Milky Way galaxy though it is now known there are billions of galaxies. And, until the early 1900's it was thought the universe was static although later investigation showed the universe is actually expanding. Then, later, astronomers thought the expansion was slowing until they proved it was actually accelerating. What is the universe expanding into? Is there Super-Space beyond the space containing the universe?  Science cannot answer the question of what existed before the Big Bang and how the whole thing started. Dr.Dawkins, in a rare moment of humility, admitted, "I don't know how (it all started), nor does anyone else."
   I am one of those you look down on, Dr. Dawkins, but may I offer a possibility? Isn't it possible that the Bible has been right all along? I believe that, in the future, when all investigations have been completed, that will be the only and final conclusion.  In the meantime, I have all the convincing evidence of God's creative power that I need. Whether God used evolution or the Big Bang or anything else you come up with I believe that you, Dr. Dawkins, and your fellow scientists, will arrive at the same truth.
   I don't mean to mock science. Far from it. I am fascinated by all the discoveries being made. My point is that science is constantly changing whereas the Word of God is forever. The Bible is not a scientific book and is not in competition with science; it deals with spiritual and practical matters.  Christians are not stupid because they are not scientists or because they choose to believe as they do. There is one point of contention: Scientists claim to know what happened a millisecond after the Big Bang; Christians know what happened before it ocurred and scientists do not.

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   In spite of common sense to the contrary, our congress and president have involved our country in another war. What unmitigated nonsense. Has our government not been spending fast enough to send us into bankruptcy? Is this another attempt to make the world safe for oil companies? Libya is no threat to the our country. Is this part of some secret stragety to isolate Iran? If our involvement is, as the U.S.propagandists say, a humanitarian neccessity  then why has the U.S. all but ignored the horrific genocide in Darfur?  How do funds magically appear for these foolhardy military adventures and yet are not available for feeding the millions of children in our own country who do not have enough to eat?  Would you walk by and ignore hungry children on your way to deliver tons of food to Afghanistan and other countries?  That is what's happening with our government.
   "The U.S. has not just misplaced its priorities.  When the most powerful country ever to inhabit the earth finds it so easy to plunge into the horrors of warfare but almost imossible to find adequate work for its people or to properly educate its young, it has lost its way entirely."  Bob Herbert, NY Times columnist.
  The Arab League was quite happy for the U.S. and other non-Arab countries to risk their pilots to provide a no-fly zone. Then that same League complained that the Allies took the mandate too far. Although Arab countries have planes made in America and pilots trained here, only two (French) planes from the tiny Arab country of Qatar are in combat. These mid-East countries are made up of various tribes, Shiites and Sunnis, all of whom have their own ideas about freedom and government which don't coincide with Western democracy. The Muslim Brotherhood and the Al Queda are supporting the rebels and the U.S.in the position of fighting for these organizations in Libya and against them in Afghanistan.. What irony. You can be sure the rebels, if they are successful, will do what they feel is best for them and that doesn't include being beholden to the U.S.  They will continue to regard us as the Great Satan.  They don't hesitate to work with who they consider to be the devil to pull their fat out of the fire.
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  Jeffrey Sachs, professor of economics at Columbia University, recently had this to say, "Washington is unrealistic. They are not talking about real things like military spending and entitlement programs.  Instead, Congress and President Obama seem set on cutting civilian discretionary spending, including education, that directly impacts mainstream America."
  "There is such a disconnect between what American people say, and what Washington does, you wonder if this is a democracy.  The American people say, 'get out of Afghanistan, stop wasting money on the military, raise taxes on the rich and (opt for a) public option on health care.  Of course, the interests, the powers that be oppose all of that."
  "I think we are in a decline because our political class is so dishonest right now and so disconnected from American values that we are not finding a way forward.  In the long term America will continue in decline as long as we play these games."  Amen,  brother.
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   General Electric made a profit of $14 billion in 2010; $5 billion of that was earned in the U.S.  GE did not have to pay any U.S. taxes. Not a single penny. Nothing.  Jeffrey Immelt, chief executive of GE, is also  leader of President Obama's Council on Jobs and Competitiveness.  Imagine that. What a cozy little coincidence.
  The Time's David Kocieniewski reported, "Its (GE's) extraordinary success is based on an aggresive strategy that  mixes fierce lobbying for tax breaks and innovative accounting that enables it to concentrate its profits off-shore."
  This kind of skullduggery will go on whether there are Repubs, Democrats or chimpanzees in Congress;
Wall Street, the Military, Corporations and Unions control the government.
God help us.