" If someone doesn't agree with you 100% you "usually" have nothing but scorn for and or dismiss their ideas entirely out of hand!" Yet, oddly, I get along with a lot of people here at JU that normally DISAGREE with me 100% of the time. You guys are just particularly annoyed with people you consider traitors. Your gab reminds me of KFCs "lukewa
Either he's adding to the list while we are talking about it, or I didn't scroll down before. It's hilarious that he has "Eminmen" (sic), considering Eminem caught hell for talking down gay people in his music. According to GLAAD: "Eminem's lyrics do more than glorify violence against lesbians, gay men, transgender people and women -- they also give permission for young people to abuse and harass people who are "different," numbing them to the damaging impact of homophobia
I have to hold with grave mistrust any doctrine that says "You can do good all your life, but unless you believe as I do you'll burn in Hell." Do you really, really believe that people who, say, are born in places like Saudi Arabia, with little or no ability to become Christians, have no chance of avoiding hell once they die? You don't think that such ideas are painfully convenient to people who are trying to defeat other people's religions? Can you say with all assurance that there w
I appreciate your faith, even thought I don't believe it is well placed. I have faith in you, too, that eventually you'll reject all the man-made, political nonsense that has been injected into your religion over the last few thousand years. As far as the tribesmen? What about the thousand or more years they lived in their ignorance before the missionaries were sent? Like the question about Jesus not writing anything, why would God trust mortal, sinful men with the souls of His child
Not just a "bad" thing, but illegal in some countries, notably Canada. They are covering their asses to prevent people like him from bringing the hammer down on them.
yep, he's a "reformed" homosexual.
Hey, read this . LOL, someone is more popular than they want to be...
There's a link to download bittorent HQ (misnomer, in this case) versions of the video. Mr. 'Oh God, Please Help Me Control My Urge to Bugger Men' is still out there, and people should know about him.
I don't want you to concede that match to me. If that's what you believe, that's what you believe. End it without conceding anything, whatever. If it wasn't for absolutes I wouldn't have taken issue with your points. If you think I take it too seriously, ponder the response people here give to folks who come in and say Christianity is a cancer, or Judaism. I just think Muslims who work hard, raise their families right alongside us, are our doctors, etc., deserve the same friggin b
'Are you "that sure" they're not working on it?' For a hundred years? Damn, that's patience and secrecy... Are you sure the "Jews" aren't out to get you? Paranoid much? Qestions like that could be painted about anyone. Are you 'that sure' there isn't a Zionist plot to take over the world? <TABLE cellpadding=8 width="95%" al
No, again, infallibility means: 1 : incapable of error : UNERRING 2 : not liable to mislead, deceive, or disappoint : CERTAIN 3 : incapable of error in defining doctrines touching faith or morals Your definition is just meant to leave a loophole so that when mistakes are made you can preserve the stigma of infallibility.
"It is absolutely wrong to sell Indulgences and Pope Leo did not do so. " Mkay, Lula. It's impossible to talk to you if you just lie and say that things that happened didn't. I might as well be arguing with a holocaust denier. As a rule I don't do things like that, because it is basically like arguing with someone who claims the sky is never b
"An omnipotent god who creates a world like ours isn't to be praised. It's to be blamed, for they cast the vast majority into endless torment and suffering on a whim. Anyone who would do such a thing isn't worthy of our obedience. They're worthy only of our pity." And an omnipotent God that imposed peace and justice would be a bully. You believe
To be 100% fair, I do feel my testosterone drop when I listen to Barry Manilow or Panic! at the Disco. I guess it depends on what you call "gay". In the 14 year-old, "That's so gay" definition, well, yeah, they're gay. But come on, " Ravi Shankar"??? That guy's seed produced Norah Jones. Male heterosexuality owes the man a lot for that. It's a load of crap. To me it looks like the guilty dog barking, frankly. He keeps singing "Help me fight these feelings" with a really, well, ga
"It means we change. Our morals, values and ethics change over the years." So does the Bible's version of God. Yesterday you invade other nations and kill every man, woman, child, and goat because they worship other Gods, tomorrow you look to the beam in your own eye. Yesterday you sacrifice animals to a vengeful God that delights in blood sac
"Since I already answered you in part on my thread I'll be brief here. You are blaming God for the evil havoc that Satan has caused. God is the God of order. It's Satan who is the god of confusion and chaos. You are blaming the wrong god." While I don't agree with Cacto, I have to take issue with that. You have said that 'everything' is part of
"...but the 10 wants very, very much to kill you, and them." So hundreds of thousands of Americans are bloodthirsty and want to create mayhem for decades, but just... haven't bothered? Not even so much that they'll create, say, an anti-Jew militia, or a little getaway in Idaho, or a Branch Dividian style compound, or even the lone bomber? <b
" Then how come we never hear them speaking out forcably against the 10%?" I do. Just like the article I posted. I wonder how many of them you miss? I wonder how many you missed after 9/11. My personal feeling is you don't see it because you are only interested in the stuff that backs up your biases.
"It's HIS word period." No, it's words in a book attributed to Him. Often it is a narrative of events concerning God that doesn't even have any 'stamp of approval' in terms of inerrancy, like most of the Old Testament history.
'I live my life in fear of what I see coming. What you deny and ignore because it's beyond the scope of your self-imposed rosy worldview. You're so blind, and only because you wish to be." You can expect the same kind of dire things from other groups as well. Eventually SOMEONE is going to cause great death and mayhem, there can be little doubt.
Such as: "I won't backpeddle from my earlier position; I do think islam is a cancer....granted, my understanding of the faith itself is somewhat narrow, but Islam has brought chaos and death to pretty much all points of the compass, wherever it has cropped up. That's enough for me." How many attacks in the US in the last 100 years that
"Now, if I had actually SAID that ALL Muslims were evil, this may have had more impact on my views. " But you'll still stand behind your assertion that Mr Jasser's religion is a 'cancer'? "And yes, I admit that muc
"His church would be "his" people. " Then before "the judgment", there'd be no way to really define the Church, would there? After all, all Christian flavors consider themselves "His" people. Until He makes the final distinction, it's your word against theirs, right? I know you'll say its "His" word against theirs, but in the end you're
Noam Chomsky estimated that 200 Iraqi children a day were dying under the pre-war sanctions. Other articles I read estimated that a million Iraqi children were starving in 2000. There were lots of ludicrous numbers tossed around that people now forget, in favor of much smaller numbers that are supposed to make us feel just as bad. Sadly, I remember those numbers. So when someone says "50,000" Iraqis, I think to myself, wow, that's a lot less than would have died had the sanctions con
An interesting, On-Topic, article . I wonder how many such articles, such organizations , slip past rightwinger while he is wondering if they are building bombs. A shame we address American Muslims, that are far more apt to write articles like that than build bombs, by insulting them over and over as if they are somehow not one of us. It's shameful.<br
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