It sickens me too. An aquaintance of mine once said that she purposely let her cat get pregnant so that her kids could "witness the miracle of birth." I had to bite my tongue to keep from saying, "and are you going to take the kids to the animal shelter afterwords, so they can witness the miracle of death?"

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If this is going to be a Christian nation that doesn't help the poor, either we have to pretend that Jesus was just as selfish as we are, or we've got to acknowledge that He commanded us to love the poor and serve the needy without condition, and then admit that we just don't want to do it.

- Stephen Colbert.