To BakerStreet: Do so. While you're at it, move your thumb around a little and give your brains a stir. Perhaps then you'll be able to come up with something on the topic and which furthers the discussion. As you admit, you're grossly overrated.
To Lucas: not caring for organized religion and believing in a supreme being does not mean you are part of no religion. It means you're part of the hoplessly confused lazy-ass religion - which is very nearly the same thing as saying you're a Christian, or at least what presently passes for a Christian. Believing in something generally means, at the very least, being able to name what you believe in, along with being able to give an outline of the nature of your belief and why y
To Lucas: nothing wrong with being happy in your religion. But if you can't provide an account of why you believe then you're a lousy ad for that religion.
To BakerStreet: pull your thumb out of your ass and produce something more than 'smart' comments in response to a reasoned article. Or I'll start believing what I've suspected for awhile now - that you're grossly overrated, both as a writer and an intellect. And again, if you refuse the challenge then your silence condemns you.
And KFC? You might do well to remember that while you have no power to convert, you have an obligation as a Christian to testify to the power of your Lord when challenged by a non-believer. Or are you to afraid to try? Most zealots are zealots because they have no foundation to their faith, only terror that they are deceived. Remember what was delivered to you , as a believer, by the Apostle Peter - 1Pe 3:15 But sanctif
Now why don't you tell me I'm wrong, substantiate your point of view with reasoned argument and a selection of scripture to support your reasoning, and come to conclusions that can be debated. That's what I would expect of the likes of BakerStreet. The rest of you will do what the frightened and insecure always do... which is run away. And as to Abass's 'challenge'... wasn't it Jesus that refused a sign to the Pharisees? If your God refused to prop up the faith of the faithless and the
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Like the sub-title says... 1. My emergence into the schoolyard at Richard Atkins Junior School, Streatham, South London. Which occurred at age 8. You may not know it but I have a deformity of the left hand and arm which in effect leaves me with a flipper (Would you like to meet my flipper? Her name is mademoiselle an' she speaks wiz a French accent..
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I have seen my Lord with the eye of my heart, and I said: "Who are You?" He said:"You." (Diwan al-Hallaj, M. 10) Your Spirit mixed with my Spirit little by little, by turns, through reunions and abandons. And now I am Yourself, Your existence is my own, and it is also my will. (Diwan al-Hallaj) ana'l -Haqq - I am the Truth. (
No. It serves an extremely useful function as a secure facility for the detention and interrogation of those thought to possess information vital to national security. And closing it would make no difference - the facility would close, but the activities within it would be carried on elsewhere, because the motive for creating such a facility in the first place would not have changed.
Thank you, thank you and thank you.
Moreso because I assumed he was talking about a guy... So had I.
I know a 42 year old with Type I diabetes who weights about 90 lbs at 5'10" with one leg You do?? Where can I get one?!? Access is so much easier when they only have one leg... Boxing Helena, anyone?
To BV: However, I do believe that ealy Christian history has to be seen in the specific historical context and we should not take an Augustinian view of the late Roman Republican history. Why? I don't mind your not taking such a view, but I'd like to know what you have against Augustine's view
Incidentally... I now have a retort to American complaints about the English and their bad teeth - we may not brush with the anal enthusiasm of Americans... but at least we don't have fetid feculent foreskins leaking infection wherever we go.
To: any and everyone - in relation to foreskins and not washing properly... that would be the origin of Rimmer's constant references to smegma, smeg, and smegheads, in Red Dwarf.
To ParaTed2k: in relation to the foreskin thing... you need to wash under there occasionally (those that have a foreskin that is) - especially after sex, or, in the case of pimply-faced boys, after masturbation. Otherwise all kinds of biological products get lodged under there - and eventually go bad.
Since we live in an age where words such as 'Islam', 'Islamofascist', 'Islamophobia' and so on are bandied about by anyone and everyone, I've decided to do a little reading of my own, and come to some conclusions of my own, regarding Islam and Muslims. The first thing I've learned, of any use, is this. Islam regards both Moses and Jesus as Prophets. Moses was a Prophet of Law and Righteousness - which is why the OT is composed mostly of narrations of Kings lives, the lives of Judges,
I've always asserted that no death is needless or pointless, if only to make room for the next guy.
It was Paul who took it out to the Gentiles and with it came a fundamental reinterpretation of teh message of Christ. I certainly can't argue with you when you say Paul took the good news to the Gentiles. But in what sense is Paul a 're-interpreter' of the Christian message? Incidentally, you assume tha
E - evil M - maniacal P - pestilential E - ecstatic R - repellant O - orgiastic R - repugnant O - orgillous F - frenzied I - imperious (of course) C - contemptuous E - erudite C - condemning R - rampant E - enchanting A - apalling M - magnificent
To BV: there's nothing wrong in supposing that the Christian entity that succeeded the Pagan Empire was composed of two powers - one temporal, one spiritual. That was certainly the case until the 'Donation of Constantine' (a document purporting to bequeath to the Papacy vast tracts of Europe as the feudal domain of the Pope) confused the issue and made the Pope a temporal as well as spirtual power. From that moment on the political dynamic of
To Gideon: Because Zarqawi, while a key strategic target, was just one part of the horrible, unthinkable mentality that teaches that the murder of innocents to achieve a political or religious objective is justified. Whether or not such a mentality is 'justified' is an irrelevance, its the norm
To foreverserenity: thanks for the clarification. I agree that it's the person, not the place. But I also think that an educational system that seems to have largely turned its back on the idea of promoting the virtues of the culture it's meant to transmit and perpetuate is at fault. It seems to me that every aspect of Western culture, its history and values, is under attack. Attack by those who deny that there is anything in the canon of West
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