"as long as they follow the first rule of being a good MUSLIM, hate all Jews, that's all that counts to be in the club." Lol... nice. When you wrote that, did you really think you were offering anything but ignorant, empty hatefulness? You should be ashamed of yourself.
The problem is you guys already believe it is, right? Didn't someone the other day say it was public opinion caused by journalists that lost us Vietnam and was what was harming the effort in Iraq? I've said the whole time a politician doesn't have to listen to crap once he's elected; he just needs to lead according to the principles on which he ran. Those on the right here at JU seem to believe that it is inevitable that politicians are going to bow to public opinion, so it appears to
You don't even have to get into the morality of stem cell research. Federal funding of anything usually ends up a big feeding frenzy for waste and mismanagement. I see little point of taking revenue from state and private research to be bled dry by federal vampires.
P.S. Interestingly enough, while you don't find the word "Palestine" in the Koran, you most certainly find it in the KJV of the old testament in Joel 3:4. I'm not sure what the word is in the Hebrew original (maybe "PhLShTh"?): "Yea, and what have ye to do with me, O Tyre, and Zidon, and all the coasts of Palestine? will ye render me a recompence? and if ye reco
heh, there's lots of things that are very clear in the Christian Bible that don't end up so clear. When you read "Thou shalt not suffer a witch to live" it takes a bit of doctrinal explanation to clear up why we no longer stone wiccans. As for the words, Do Isrealis call Palestine 'Israel' or 'canaan'? It seems to me there is a necessity for a second name since Israelis themselves don't want a one-nation solution, right? I'm not understanding your gripe. After all, the wor
"1. The Quran refers to Canaan as the land G-d gave to the people of Israel, but the "Palestinians" insist that it be called by the name the Greek and Roman pagans gave to it." That's a doctrinal thang, just like Christians here have. Some, believe it or not, consider Islam a religion ONLY for Arabs. Not white people, not black people, not turk
Threatening spanking while the threatened is leering at a Claudia Black avatar is more like an invitation than a threat... "Thou art like the harpy, which, to betray, dost with thine angels face, seize with thine eagle's talons. Toads, beetles, bats, light on you. Thou didst drink the stale of horses and the guilded puddle which beasts would cough at. T
"I didn't say it wasn't preferable to the alternatives, Baker. I think you missed my larger point, which is rare for you, I must admit. I wasn't postulating on whether he should or should not have been executed. I was stating that, in my opinion, it's not justice." No, I got that, but then you said: "How is the killing of ano
To me it is like a doctor working on a sick patient. He finds that the patient has the "Islam" gene. He's tempted to blame it, but when he looks closer he finds that millions of people walk around with that gene and aren't sick. So, he looks deeper. He finds that a virus interacts with that gene, and sometimes Christian genes and Sikh genes and every other kind, and makes people sick. He may or may not be able to cure the sickness, but at least he's pinned down the real cause. <
"Maybe you wouldn't read like such a pathetic loser if that pimple on your ass hadn't turned out to be a brain tumor. Your clue meter is reading zero, lets see if this registers: Get lost, creep!" oooo... burn... if only you had a few dozen animated emoticons you might have been able to say that without even NEEDING to string together so much tir
" Is this the best you can do? Copy one of my most popular articles?" Popular?!??! As if your sad, has-been philosophy responsible for the deaths and misery of millions actually had enough followers to be popular. Go and not worship your nothingness as I laugh derisively at your St. Dawkins and St. Sagan, scrawling pictures of them as monkeys w
"What's this 'we' shit? You're the only one I see blappin' her lips here....." Oh, you CUR, you INSOLENT WHELP! *wind machine kicks in and the cape I borrowed for EoIC starts flowing dramatically* You don't deserve my wrath, so I will toss you to my minions who will emasculate you and hang your dangly parts from the gate of my g
Gid, you don't believe in self defense? The necessity of war? If so, isn't it just a sliding scale from that point on?
When the leader of Kuwait invades another nations and commits the kind of wholesale atrocities that Hussein kids committed on Kuwait I might see the equation. His evils bled out in the form of supporting Palestinian terrorism, invading other nations, threatening Israel with missile attacks, etc. It's great that Iraqis have a better hope of living without sanctions and putting something better together, but in the end few gave a damn until he started annexing other nations as Iraqi property.<br
Looks like some damn fine games in there to me. I don't see consoles any less plagued by genre titles, even more so, frankly. I still play PC titles from the late 90's, and the ones that can be modded are even more so. If anything the lack of innovation in such lists just shows that these game review sites don't bother to go out and find much. I don't even have to pay for the mods, either. There are console games that stand that test of time, but the consoles themselves rarely do.
"but then I'm not a religious person either..." ...at least I can admit I'm snotty...
We are the nation of "Dancing with the Stars", American Idol, Paris Hilton and Oprah worshipers, Scientology, etc. How could anyone think we are stupid...
Dunno why they rushed it, frankly. Wasn't he in the middle of another trial? I remember reading that he would complete that one before he was excecuted. I always had a dim hope that he'd be sent to Kuwait to face his crimes there, as well.
Lulabelle: I'm trouble that you don't seem to understand what I am saying. Over and over you appear to be rebutting that the Catholic Church celebrated pagan holidays and no one is saying that. The Church forbade people from celebrating pagan holidays. Once they saw that the holidays were so entrenched that people were going to celebrate them nonetheless, they decided to recast them as Christian holidays. That's why we have the remnants of the Yule log, the Saturnalia decorations, th
"Baker that is Jeremiah Chap 10 (not 1) and it's not really referring to a Christmas tree but I do agree with you that it's a pagan practice as stated in Jeremiah." Typo. And it probably wouldn't be referring to anything Christmas since Jesus hadn't been born yet. <TABLE cellpadding=8 width="95%" align=center bgColor=#FFF394 class="mb
The church stance on christmas trees early on (and later in the case of some protestant denominations) is based on the Bible: "Jeremiah 1: Thus saith the LORD, Learn not the way of the heathen, and be not dismayed at the signs of heaven; for the heathen are dismayed at them. For the customs of the people are vain: for one cutteth a
He's short tempered like I am snotty. You just have to accept it... lol My point though is once you accept killing as valid in certain circumstances, like self defense and "justifiable" war, then it is just a sliding scale. I think you share some of my qualms about the moral authority of the "Church", so to me it is tough to use them as a guide. People don't believe me, but abortion isn't necessarily a religious issue with me. I don't hold with many traditional religious id
I'm pro-life and pro-death penalty. Sure, to many it is a contradiction, but like you say not much more so than when I see someone who is "pro-choice" and anti-death penalty. How do you really weigh the killing of a child (which, while debatable, is what people like me consider a "fetus" to be), and the killing of someone who has committed an offense against humanity grave enough to merit death? I have a lot of respect for people like the Amish and others who are totally, completely d
I guess what will eventually clarify it for you is seeing how ex-members come back and flood the forums, or go off the deep end as much as they can just to irritate and distract. It's no fault of yours, but when people saw lots of articles being uploaded that were irreverent and not immediately digestible they jumped to conclusions. I did, anyway, and for that I apologize.
Nah, there's nothing for you to feel bad about. I wouldn't say they are adverse, especially after I read about you and what you do. Maybe it is a testament to how utterly absurd people can be naturally that it isn't always easy to tell the difference between art and "life". A troll is kind of what it sounds like. A thing that lives under a bridge who generally forces everyone to weather their existence in order to make use of the resource. You know someone is going to be there, and
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