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Reply to Christianity Is NOT Fair in Religion JoeUser Forums

"I am unable to think of God as evil. So when I read something alone that makes me thing WHAT? I can throw it out, or I can try to figure it out using the rest of what I know about Him." Which is exactly what I do. The difference is, taken as a whole, there's too much there. I don't believe God is evil, or a murderer, either. I have the choice of excusing the mythological behavior of God, or accepting that much of what we have in the form of "history"

Reply to Christianity Is NOT Fair in Religion JoeUser Forums

I understand that, Tova, I do, but then why would we have such a "culture of life"? Murder is one of our most heinous sins. Abortion is opposed by who? The religious most often. If death was just a "change of address", why would it matter so much? I know this is going to come back to the supremacy of God and how God is allowed to do stuff that we aren't, but in the end it feeds off our basest definition of death. If death isn't "bad", it's odd that we have few tragedies that amount

Reply to Is homosexuality normal? in Religion JoeUser Forums

The same conflicted doublespeak we always get. I'm sorry, but it makes me angry. We hear that God loves us, warts and all, and that we need only come to Him, but then when the argument is about sin we're told we'd better clean up our messes or God won't have anything to do with us. That kind of hypocritical crap smears God, and portrays God in such a way that people don't want anything to do with Him. It is transferring our own hypocrisy to Him, and I consider it blaspheme, no differ

Reply to Christianity Is NOT Fair in Religion JoeUser Forums

"Yes.....and Well not really I guess. Satan rebelled against God. Which is something that God wouldn't really have to allow, just like He wouldn't have had to allow Satan into the Garden. "I was Catholic. Like I asked her on that other site, why does she ignore John 6:63 which explains it? She quoted all the scripture around it but left out that very importand one." Because she sees that scripture differ

Reply to WHY Bush and Cheney MUST BE IMPEACHED! in Politics JoeUser Forums

"The threshold of facts required to charge a person is FAR lower then the threshold required to convict." You know better. Deciding what intelligence is valid and what isn't is the job of the President and his staff. He didn't decide in the same way you would have, but if you say he has to follow the orders of the intelligence wing of our government then it isn't the President in charge, it is the intelligence wing.

Reply to Christianity Is NOT Fair in Religion JoeUser Forums

"Like Christ saying he was the bread of life. It is a "duh" moment using your words. Of course we know he's not a loaf of bread." Tell that to Lula. Were you Catholic the obviousness of that "figurative" statement would be a lot more literal, wouldn't it? Transubstantiation isn't so symbolic for everyone. "As far as Eden NOT being perfect because Satan was there we can't know for sure the time frame involved. We kno

Reply to Time to End Big Oil's Greed in Politics JoeUser Forums

"What possible justification could there be for this change?" Why does it need to be justified? They are selling a product for a price people will buy, and making the wage their company gives them. Why do YOU believe that YOU should have any say in the process? If you don't like doing business with them... don't.

Reply to Catholic Church Stands Up For Saddam Hussein in Current Events JoeUser Forums

Lula, you, yourself said the church was a supernatural entity, not necessarily temporal and not necessarily 100% spiritual. It's not "the people" so much as it is something... else. So, is there the smallest chance that "the church" may be made up of a LOT of people from diverse beliefs, but who share a commonality? Do our distinctions define the church FOR God, or does God define the church?

Reply to Christianity Is NOT Fair in Religion JoeUser Forums

Seriously. It's a matter of degrees, granted, but all the time you are saying that *duh* that was figurative or *duh* that is literal. Then, the first time anyone else says something is figurative that you think is literal you start with the, "but how do you pick and choose" stuff. So, I was just asking, how do you? Surely not "your heart"... surely not "common sense". Surely after scolding folks for using those vile tools so many times you wouldn't rely on that. OH, wait,

Reply to Is homosexuality normal? in Religion JoeUser Forums

To me that is faithless and backwards, KFC. I don't believe someone can have a relationship with God and be ignorant of the state of their soul. I also don't believe that you have to be free from sin in order to have a relationship with God. So, there's really no reason for you to go around and condemn other people's sin, is there. That's God's job in terms of your theology. You say yourself that freedom from sin and good works doesn't translate to a relationship with God. So they

Reply to A Real Man in Misc JoeUser Forums

"50 years ago men were highly adept at taking care of themselves. If one were to survive he needed to know a wide range of skills from sewing to cooking to leather working to building his own house. They didn't need someone else to do things for them and they took pride in their self-sufficiency. A man who couldn't do for himself was considered weak and pathetic in the eyes of "real men". I've had a couple of hobby interests all my life. One is the "Mou

Reply to Better a Mail Man in Heaven, than a ruler in Hell.... in Misc JoeUser Forums

Wow, what did you eat before you went to bed? LOL. That is messed up! You really ought to polish that into a short story, ideas like that don't come around every day.

Reply to WHY Bush and Cheney MUST BE IMPEACHED! in Politics JoeUser Forums

"No it does not require PROOF before hand that a crime was committed ONLY enough evidence to show Probable Cause." ... evidence Main Entry: 1ev·i·dence Listen to the pronunciation of 1evidence Pronunciation: \ˈe-və-dən(t)s, -və-ˌden(t)s\ Function: noun Date: 14th century 1 a: an outward sign : indication b: something that furnishes proof : testimony; speci

Reply to Is homosexuality normal? in Religion JoeUser Forums

"But we are told to warn and tell the others and that is mentioned biblically many many times. In Isaiah it warns us that if we don't tell or warn them their blood is on our hands and if we do and they don't listen, it's their responsibilty. Didn't Christ say the same...."go and if they don't receive you, shake the dust off your feet and go on." While we are not the judge, we can make right judgments and warn them of impending danger. They don't have to listen....most

Reply to Christianity Is NOT Fair in Religion JoeUser Forums

"what parts? How do you determine?" How did you determine that Jesus wasn't wood and hinges? That's always been your problem, you are the only one that gets to decide when something is literal or not.

Reply to WHY Bush and Cheney MUST BE IMPEACHED! in Politics JoeUser Forums

"A Misdemeanor is a crime LESS THEN a FELONY. Bush has admitted he has not followed the law on wire taps by not using the FISA Court to obtain a warrant as one example." And you can't get more than three or four legal experts in a room without an argument over the Patriot act. The issue is wiretapping FOREIGN phones, and whether or not you shut down the tap if an American calls them. You don't think the Congress would nail Bush for that if they could?

Reply to Spending That Cash in Blogging JoeUser Forums

It's always been about self-sufficiency to me. I know men that I grew up around that right now if their wives left or died would literally not know how to cook their own supper, sew on a button, or even wash their clothes in their own washer and dryer. To me, THAT is a lot more, well, candy assed. There's always been something effeminate about a grown man-child that needs his wife to be his momma, too, lol. Kudos to you. I can vouch for the meeting women, thing. Home Economics clas

Reply to WHY Bush and Cheney MUST BE IMPEACHED! in Politics JoeUser Forums

"You do not get it. An Impeachable offense is what the House considers justified to bring a Bill of Impeachment against the President. Then the Senate acts as a jury to determine if he is guilty. It has NOTHING to do with the court system." You are wrong. The only CRIMES that the president can be tossed out for are treason, and high crimes and misdemeanors. Things like Nixon engineering break-ins or Andrew Johnson breaking the (stupid) law by firing St

Reply to More Crap From the "Party of the Poor" in Politics JoeUser Forums

Okay kids, don't make me start correcting grammar. What the hell is this all about, anyway? Gore didn't invent the friggin Internet, and he wasn't NOT involved in promoting its implementation. The moral of that story is don't make broad, easily misunderstood claims. As for Gore's 'savior of the world' complex, I'll leave that to better psychoanalysts than me. I can tell you that most people, even people who agree with him, are sick of him, though. He's not got a chance in hell of b

Reply to Spending That Cash in Blogging JoeUser Forums

Up front: I've sewn, I cook, and admittedly can name more fashion designers than any heterosexual man should be able to. That said, I'm not trying to poke fun or be homophobic, etc., but do a lot of truck drivers, well, knit? Don't you catch hell about it? I got a lot of flack in high school over two things. First, I took Home Economics almost every year. Second, a friend and I pushed for the inclusion male cheerleaders the entire time we were there. Of course, regardless of the fa

Reply to Turns Out, Chris Mathews & Hardball Were Right back In 2003 in War on Terror JoeUser Forums

lol, you too.

Reply to Anna Nicole Smith is Dead in Current Events JoeUser Forums

I heard a couple of people IRL talking about how they couldn't understand how anyone would find her attractive. Most people who think such never saw her before the VH1 thing, long after her turn to drugs and porn. The first time I ever saw her was when I was in college, and she was one of the generic models on the cover of a Playboy. This is a cropped image from that cover . No nudity, fully clothed, don't have a

Reply to Turns Out, Chris Mathews & Hardball Were Right back In 2003 in War on Terror JoeUser Forums

"How many fish make a school?" Are you bored? My Gawd...

Reply to Joe User is "Joke User" in Virtual Communities JoeUser Forums

Odd, the author of this blog seems to have had a name change... lol. It looks like he's soliciting a goober smooch. Hide the cabin boy.

Reply to Turns Out, Chris Mathews & Hardball Were Right back In 2003 in War on Terror JoeUser Forums

Lol, it's a whole SCHOOL of red herring, evidently. The reason the Clinton aspect IS so important is that your whole argument states Bush KNEW this or KNEW that. No, Bush had no conclusive proof either way. He said that in his address. ... and neither did Clinton. Clinton determined that it was a) not worth risking optimism, and b) that Hussein needed to be removed and a new regime promoted. That's the same operating goals Bush had. The ONLY difference here is a question of means,