Reader’s Digest Trust Poll: The 100 Most Trusted People in America

I’m sorry you are lost. I’m an atheist and easily see that modern religion in America is under attack. Especially Christianity. Liberals do not like an organization that as so much power they can’t influence or control outright.

They hate the fact that religious leaders are people they cannot vote out or impeach!
Who is the moron? Look in the mirror!!!

So Chris, take solace in knowing the guy who can’t manage a belief in anything for more than a week has your back.

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Chris, nice volley.

I was ready to disagree with you until I read your last post.

Muslims murder journalists.

Christians give them a country to mock and denigrate that, for some crazy reason, still protects them (85-95% of the US Army is Christian).

90-95% of the “elite” bloodsuckers are “spiritual but not religious” or atheist.

Looks like the MSM propagandists worked on this clown. “…a million dead Iraqis.”. Klaus was probably one that was polled by RD.

1 million dead Iraqis… is that the latest kill number fad… what about next week… how about 3 million! WERE YOU THERE… no… so shut the F up… effing loser.

Thank you. :)

The only “scumbag” here is you Bagger bigot.

Republican George W Bush’s illegal preemptive war of choice was something HE wanted to do to get back at Saddam over things he said about his father. An old fashioned stick up his butt vendetta. Iraq had NOTHING to do with 9/11.

When are you ignorant, uneducated fools going to cede read a newspaper or history book & cede to factual reality?

America is tired of your dishonest dumb lies mucking up political discourse. Go home. You’re drunk!

Chaney and Haliburton profited over 670 million during the war. Thats what it’s about.

Worked well for Euro-Christian capitalists & profiteers.

You will also be judged

Wow, I guess you’re taking something from the Silver Linings Playbook that Bradley Cooper’s character espouses that there’s a silver lining to everything and by God, in all that death and loss you were able to find the Silver Lining. Doesn’t matter that we propped up Saddam, sold him weapons. trained his troops same as the travesty we created in Afghanistan. Ron Paul was absolutely correct when he said in a debate that much of what has happened in the Middle East and around the world is because of blow back from our own policies going back to US backed coup which toppled a democratically elected president in Iran and put in our puppet just to support oil interest. And if you don’t believe that’s true then look up your history to find out how our armed forces have been used around the world for corporate interest, in fact, look up what Smedley Butler had to say to a group of college students at a lecture, in I believe, 1933 or better yet, what he had to say to Congress which did conclude there was evidence to support General Butler’s claim . Who was Smedley Butler? Look him up and it’s tough to refute a 4 Star General, much loved by his men, and 2, count them, 2 time recipient of the Medal of Honor. Just read the transcript of the college lecture he gave and what he had to say to Congress. Unbelievable, but no one was ever charged.

Yeah, what wood the Iraqis do without salvation from “Dubya” & his offshore oil rustlers.

Last time I checked, Americans didn’t hijack four
aircraft with innocent women and children on it to attack another country over religious
beliefs.

Sticking your head under your covers at night praying
(to allah?) that the terrorist don’t get you will not stop radical islam, only
a strong backbone and the determination to stop them.

Sorry you live in fear!

Klaus is ignorant & confused.

Please put your drone BS where the sun doesn’t shine. Drones didn’t make 1 million dead Iraquis – you’re thinking of Republican George W Bush’s illegal, pre-emptive war of choice.

Pole vaulting is so fun!!!

You are not an American. If you don’t like it here….move to Iraq.

You’re confusing Liberals with Progressives… Liberals are “Useful idiots” for Progressives.

Does ANYBODY believe that Jesse Jackson and Al Sharpton are “real” ordained preachers ?
Jackson flunked out of a seminary, and received a ‘honorary’ degree only after he became a nationally known race pimp.
Sharpton is a ‘self-ordained’ street preacher and got his mail order ‘degree’ out of the back of a magazine. I think he received a free bull horn with the degree.

WOW – couldn’t agree more, except i am Christan.

Thank you for your candor!

no it’s the tea baggers and the nazi fascist party of NO (repugs) who are fighting for control of the religious fanatics

Mark, that is what happens when you have a black non-citizen muslim in your w/h. mr oboma is the biggest deception brought upon any nation in the world know to mankind to date. All black people, including the welfare blacks should demand more from someone in the same race. If we had an American in the w/h, we would not have all the mass shooting going on, all the muslims being brought over to America and put on the welfare system as to cause kayos when the time comes as they have destroyed Europe. America needs to implement the same rules for muslims as the Japanese people have put on muslims, the know what the muslims are trying to do, and that’s muslim law over the whole world. You don’t have to be very smart to see that they are trying very hard to go to other democratic countrys and control the votes by criminal acts, like in America or by pure majority which in a few more years could be a problem for America. muslims in Japan can never be a citizen, vote, or be any part of the political system, and have to leave every six months…….and that is exactly what America needs to do

Blasphemous fool – without Christianity we would still be in the dark ages, Christians are the founders and supporters of higher education and the health care system. They provide with out asking your faith or lack there of. They provide more healthcare and education than any other organization or government in the world – and the kicker is they do it with an efficiency that is not only envied but threatens our modern GUBMENTS. Why you may ask? Because they are not for sale, they sacrifice themselves for the betterment of society, they do not want nor receive GUBMENT hand outs and stick mostly to a time tested way of doing things. Lastly their charitable organizations operate on a 5% overhead. Go find out what red cross or any other “charitable” organization works on. There is no conspricry – its a fact that its under attack, for no other reason that it threatens the system of liberal self enrichment in the name of providing for the people. The major difference between GUBMENT and Christianity. Christian leaders are required to take a vow of poverty, government leaders are now all about themselves first then the crumbs fall to the peons.

Just an FYI… Most people do not believe that the people you listed are “Real Christian Leaders”

only Christanity

There is not a conspiracy against all religions in America — just Christianity.

Why dont you look it up before you BASH. it stands for Jahovah…..

Oh, no, atheists and agnostics and Moslems have not been making any efforts to destroy Christianity ever. They’re all sweet and innocent and loving and peaceful.

Governments have killed far more people on this planet than ANY other organization, period!

You are sycophant fool bought off by government. A slave on the plantation and you don’t even know it

planed parenthood is the government.

OK. so let’s do away with religion, in particular Christianity, and where would society be? Religion, and its’ dictates, are what enables a society to police itself. You cannot possibly hire enough policemen to handle a society without God. The Ten Commandments, if adhered to, has made western culture the most prosperous and peaceful of any culture in history- founded on Christianity too. I know that must really tick you off but it’s the truth. Fact…..But I digress. Let’s do away with the teachings of Christ and where would we be? Anything goes. Chaos in all that is done. Ruled by corrupt politicians with no equality under the law. Finally, to bring order there is instituted a police state and thus, Naziism, communism, socialism. Or, in short, the modern Democrat party. I guess you would like that.

I’m not so sure He’d want to save what’s here now!

And please don’t give me that crap about the Muslims today. Whatever Mohammed taught was not what Islamic extremists are carrying just as Jesus never said someone should go out and bomb an abortion clinic. I’m not a Muslim but I do respect the Sufi tradition which is Muslim. Look it up

And also, I read the post here. So much hate mongering. Liberals, non-believers. You guys have a label for everything. The bottom line is that liberal, conservative, Muslim, Jew, Christian, Hindu, Buddhist we are all on this sinking ship together and something must be done. Whether you believe that climate change(global warming) is real or not, take into account that it’s not just climate change we’re dealing with here, It’s the fact that all of nature is bound by certain laws which through our cleverness, or should I say short-sidedness we have managed to circumvent those laws of nature that govern all species. Global warming is the least of our worries. Overfishing of the oceans, worldwide pollution,overpopulation, destruction of eco systems, extinction of plant and animal species at a rate of 12 to 14 per day which has devastating consequences. Without biodiversity it insures our extinction. Not enough species to close the gap in case of some sort of ecological/biological disaster. If you believe so strongly in Jesus and in God, then shouldn’t we be doing a better job of taking care of our own home that GOD provided for us? In the end, what will finally bring us together is the will to survive since we have pretty much ruined everything in just the past 100 years and now face a real crisis and GOD will not get us out of this since we created the problem to begin with. It will be up to us to overcome our differences and come together to save ourselves because if we leave to big business and government to solve the problems then forget about it, we are all going over the cliff

A world w/o Christ? Well, for starters there would be a lot less people killed in the name of religion….a lot less people starved to pay for some gaudy gold and silver adorned Oedipus ….and one HELL of a lot less little boys raped and molested!

Like I said, we would still have Buddha and Mohammed and the teachings of the Old Testament and the 10 Commandments. Not enough? I love the way you trivialize other religions as it they have no moral compass what so ever

Janet Gunn you obviously have no concept of religious conviction or faith You obviously think that faith and religion should be sampled like a poo poo platter of appetizers, or maybe tried on and off like a pair of jeans. It is embarrassing for you to question other people’s knowledge and understanding of the cornerstones of faith, while suggesting people who are, QUOTE “stuck on one religion”, can not have the understanding that you have of all religions. How many degrees have you earned studying the theocracies of the world? It is sad for you not to have any convictions of your own to stabilize you. Because your foundations are built on sand rather than solid rock, you can’t possibly understand true faith. If you ever come to that understanding you will know that the teachings and beliefs of faith other than your own is unimportant.

I think we’ve already reached that point.

The entire Christian religion as we know it today was not spread throughout the world through love,peace and compassion as Jesus taught but at the end of a sword, convert or die was the chant of the time. Even when Protestantism was gaining momentum how did the Church react? Again, convert or die. Not wanting to lose it’s position and power. WOW, even against other Christians who protested the Catholic Church they were killed. The Gnostics were also killed and their books made illegal because they challenged the authority of the Church which by 185 AD had already had a hierarchy of Priest, Cardinals and Bishops. Before 325,Christianity was very diverse with many different beliefs and a lot of infighting. Jesus to some was the Son of God, to others Spirit and to others like the Gnostics, just a man who discovered his own divine nature. The Gnostics were especially hated. If fact, the only reason we knew Gnosticism even existed was through the rantings of a higher up in the Church named Irenaeus who was one of the architects in standardizing the Bible and he made sure none of the Gnostic teachings or books got into the Bible as we know it today. He hated the Gnostics with a fervor that came though in his writings mainly because the Gnostic teachings empowered women because it included them and taught that they too could become like Jesus, that we all could become like Jesus by discovering our own devine nature. If fact, in the Gnostic teachings, which is also found in the Bible today, is the quote that we are all the son’s and daughters of God and we will do greater things than he. The books were so revered by the Monks of the time that even though it meant imprisonment or death they hid the books. The first glimpse of the Gnostic teachings came in the 60′s when they were found in a grave buried with a Monk and gave us glimpse of a form of Christianity that paralleled Eastern Mysticism. What was in those books that the Christian leaders of the time wanted to suppress? Anytime you have suppression of information like that then it’s probably a good indication that it had more truth in it than what came to dominate. The biggest argument from Christian leaders is that the Gnostic text were written in Coptic which came 300 years after Christ so they are not as relevant as the Chapters of the New Testament which came around 75 years after his death and most (New Testament Gospels) translated to Greek from Hebrew. But the Gnostic Gospels were translated into Coptic from the original Greek text which were written around the same time as the New Testament Gospels but most Christian leaders will not acknowledge that. So, if Gnosticism had survived then we would have had a form of Christianity that closely resembles Buddhism in many ways giving further weight to the theory that Jesus in those missing years in the Bible actually ended up in India.

Really, you don’t think that Jews (which by the way is where Christians got the Ten Commandments)Buddhists, Hindus, Muslims which include Sufis, or even Atheist can’t have some sort of moral compass? I think many indigenous peoples were doing just fine and not hurting anyone but certainly suffered greatly under Christian rule. Like I said before, Christianity didn’t spread all around the world because of Jesus’ teachings, it was at the end of a sword. Columbus even noted in his logs how happy the Taino people were. He so struck by it that he had to write about it and also went on to say the were totally incapable of deceit. How wonderful a concept that would be in such a cynical world but he went on to write that he could completely subjugate them with 50 good men. He also thought he could convert them to Christianity but was stymied by the fact that he couldn’t. You don’t think we could have learned something from these people? Instead they were wiped from the face of the planet. So they were the savages without Jesus’ teachings? What you claiming isn’t so true. The glue that held Western Society together truly wasn’t Jesus’ teachings but the fear of the sword itself and the brutality of the Church

WOW, from the Revolutionary war, to war of 1812, to war with American Indians, Civil War, Spanish American War, WWl, WWll, Korea, Vietnam, Iraq, Afghanistan, then skirmishes in Grenada, Panama and other parts of Central America, South America, Cuba, the list goes on and on. It brought us peace?

Politics and the Media are religions, they just have different deities.

You do have a religion.
Your leftist professors are your priests.

The only difference is the leftist religion ruins society. Christ’s religion built modernity: the place where people won’t kill you like Muslims would for your ridiculous statements.

I’m a conservative very-high-information senior citizen — and I read RD regularly, as I do other print and on-line pubs and articles from the same.

That RD’s stories are short and easy to read implies reader-friendly editorial decisions.

I suspect you know nothing about the publishing business.

Nor that there’s usable information everywhere, if you but have the curiosity to find it, eyes to see it and mind to understand it.