A CHRISTIAN DEMOCRAT: You have two cows. You keep one and give one to your neighbor.

A REPUBLICAN: You have two cows. Your neighbor has none. So what?

A DEMOCRAT: You have two cows. Your neighbor has none. You feel guilty for being successful. You vote people into office who tax your cows, forcing you to sell one to raise money to pay the tax. The people you voted for then take the tax money and buy a cow and give it to your neighbor. You feel righteous.

DEMOCRACY, AMERICAN STYLE: You have two cows. The government taxes you to the point you have to sell both to support a man in a foreign country who has only one cow, which was a gift from your government.

AN AMERICAN CORPORATION: You have two cows. You sell one and force the other to produce the milk of four cows. You are surprised when the cow drops dead.

A FRENCH CORPORATION: You have two cows. You go on strike because you want three cows.

A JAPANESE CORPORATION: You have two cows. You redesign them so they are one-eleventh the size of an ordinary cow and produce twenty times the milk.

A GERMAN CORPORATION: You have two cows. You reengineer them so they live for 100 years, eat once a month and milk themselves.

AN ITALIAN CORPORATION: You have two cows but you don’t know where they are. You break for lunch.

A RUSSIAN CORPORATION: You have two cows. You count them and learn you have five cows. You count them again and learn you have 42 cows. You count them again and learn you have 12 cows. You stop counting cows and open another bottle of vodka.

A MEXICAN CORPORATION: You think you have two cows, but you’re not sure where they are. You’ll look for them tomorrow.

A SWISS CORPORATION: You have 5000 cows, none of which belongs to you. You charge for storing them for others.

A BRAZILIAN CORPORATION: You have two cows. You enter into a partnership with an American corporation. Soon you have 1000 cows and the American corporation declares bankruptcy.

AN INDIAN CORPORATION: You have two cows. You worship them.

A TALIBAN ORGANIZATION: You have only two cows. You load them up with explosives and herd them onto your neighbor’s property where you blow them up.
Your neighbor dies.
You starve to death.

Don't read this around cows... they think the joke is about them.
To understand my link with religion, see my comment on my previous post.

FEUDALISM You have two cows. Your lord takes some of the milk.

PURE SOCIALISM You have two cows. The government takes them and puts them in a barn with everyone else’s cows. You have to take care of all the cows. The government gives you a glass of milk.

BUREAUCRATIC SOCIALISM You have two cows, which are cared for by ex-chicken farmers. You have to take care of the chickens the government took from the chicken farmers. The government gives you as much milk and eggs as the regulations say you should need.

FASCISM You have two cows. The government takes both, hires you to take care of them, and sells you the milk.

PURE COMMUNISM You share two cows with your neighbors. You and your neighbors bicker about who has the most “ability” and who has the most “need”. Meanwhile, no one works, no one gets any milk, and the cows drop dead of starvation.

RUSSIAN COMMUNISM You have two cows. You have to take care of them, but the government takes all the milk. You steal back as much as you can and sell it on the black market.

PERESTROIKA You have two cows. You have to take care of them, but the Mafia takes all the milk. You steal back as much milk as you can and sell it on the “free” market.

CAMBODIAN COMMUNISM You have two cows. The government takes both and shoots you.

DICTATORSHIP You have two cows. The government takes both and drafts you.

PURE DEMOCRACY You have two cows. Your neighbors decide who gets the milk.

REPRESENTATIVE DEMOCRACY You have two cows. Your neighbors pick someone to tell you who gets the milk.

BUREAUCRACY You have two cows. At first the government regulates what you can feed them and when you can milk them. Then it pays you not to milk them. Then it takes both, shoots one, milks the other and pours the milk down the drain. Then it requires you to fill out forms accounting for the missing cows.

CAPITALISM You don’t have any cows. The bank will not lend you money to buy cows, because you don’t have any cows to put up as collateral.

PURE ANARCHY You have two cows. Either you sell the milk at a fair price or your neighbors will try to take the cows and kill you.

ANARCHO-CAPITALISM You have two cows. You sell one and buy a bull.

SURREALISM You have two giraffes. The government requires you to take harmonica lessons.

No form of government is perfect, but God expects us to honor and obey the worldly government we live under as if it were perfect (as long as they don't require us to do something against God's will). Read Romans 13 and consider what Paul was telling Christians to do, even when they would be under emperors like Nero, who would viciously persecute and kill them. That takes faith and trust in God's eternal rule.

During training exercises, the lieutenant driving down a muddy back road encountered another car stuck in the mud with a red faced colonel at the wheel. “Your jeep stuck, sir?” asked the lieutenant as he pulled alongside.

“Nope,” replied the colonel, coming over and handing him the keys, “Yours is.”

God's authority isn't one that we can question... even when we think sometimes that he has replaced our good life with one stuck in the mud. But the reality is, that we are the ones who get ourselves mired down in the mud. That's when God's Son set aside his authority, crawled into the mud and set us free.

"If you insist on a shore with actual water, you’ll have to settle for Earth or head to other stars. Although the universe has plenty of vapor and ice, liquid water is still scarce. But new vacation spots should open up soon. Earth’s ocean may have spawned its life, so the race is on to find another one just like it.

Experts surmise that Jupiter’s gravity disrupted the orbit of nearby icy planetoids and sent them crashing into our dry planet. “This brought the oceans to Earth,” says Michael Mumma of NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center. The explosions mixed water with Earth’s rock, and it rose out as a gas during volcanic activity to rain down on the land."

Boyce, Nell. Weird water worlds
August 18, 2004. U.S. News & World Report - Top Stories

It is hard enough to prove that all of the life on the earth came from single-cell spontaneous life. Now they aren’t even sure where the water came from to support that life!

"The question we might ask is: 'Am I matter? or do I matter?'"

Agnostics Anonymous
www.srtp.org.uk/aa/godexist.htm