from bad to worse. Now Ben Carson admits to trying to stab someone...
Morning Joe was pretty much open mouthed when that clip played of Carson calmly talking about how he used to go after people with bats and rocks and then tried to knife someone. Even Joe was flabbergasted.
Can this lineup of republicans look any uglier? Sure, maybe he didn't get a chance to talk about how the Lord saved him, but doncha wonder if the Lord could lose him again just because the Lord can't waste time with the likes of Carson. Maybe on Inauguration Day, then what? 
Even trump at his craziest doesn't come across THIS crazy...
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This should get interesting. 
I have experience with these people, however I will admit that it is anecdotal.
Here I go.
First, I have never known a Seventh Day Adventist who I did not like personally. They are, in my experience, truly nice and gentle folks.
Second, they are kooky beyond credibility. They have some rather radical beliefs about most things, nonetheless worshipping god on Sunday probably being the least of it.
They reject a lot of science, including biology, physics, etc. As a whole, they tend to creationism, the young Earth kind. If that weren't bad enough there's the Saturday sabbath thing which really sticks in their craw. Here is where the lunacy of their beliefs sticks out. Oh! And I should mention that they tend to be End Timers as well.
But I did start out by saying that in my experience I have liked every Seventh Day Adventist I have met. Indeed, that is true, until recently.
Ben Carson is an ignorant and dangerous buffoon who would use his political power to foist his beliefs on the country. Of all the nice folks who are Seventh Day Adventists, he is the first I could label with "utter lying asshole".
I should remind folks here that I am a lifelong atheist but normally I do not criticize religious people in spite that I think religion is generally a bad thing. However, when a person uses religion to promote rubbish, I draw the line.
Carson is one of the many GOP clown car occupants who do this. In fact I do not see one of the GOP candidates who do not put religion first. The exceptions are scary, Lindsey Graham, and possibly Trump (although Trump has not spoken on religion much at all, and there is plenty of worries beyond religion about Trump's candidacy.)
R&K for this one.
"I had real anger issues. I would just fly off the handle and really become quite irrational and try to hurt people with baseball bats, hammers, whatever. In this particular case, I happened to have a large camping knife. And, you know, one of my friends angered me. And I just lunged at his abdomen with the knife. Probably would have seriously injured or killed him, but he happened to have on a large metal belt buckle under his clothing, upon which the blade broke.
And, of course, he fled in terror. But I was more horrified than he was, because I realized that I was trying to kill somebody over nothing — and that I would never realize my dreams of becoming a physician. And I would end up in jail, reform school, or the grave. And I just locked myself in the bathroom and started praying …"
