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Post by Deleted on Oct 12, 2011 15:18:36 GMT -5
Rarely have I found that level of conversation between believers and non-believers. As I've said in one of numerous unremarked posts I've written on this thread, religion is non-negotiable even in discussion. They really don't want to discuss the merits of their faith, for doing so would require them to discuss the merits of their core being. It is what I have always found dangerous about religion; a person often cannot extricate themselves from it even temporarily. Thus challenging religious belief is the same thing as challenging them personally. Thus discussions like this often result in believers lashing out or drowning out atheists with heaps of "praise the lords" and other platitudes. I saw this just last week on a thread about astrology. I'd said that I can't explain why I believe in astrology any more than a Christian can explain why he believes what he does, and did any Christians want to take a swing at it. <crickets> and when I asked a second time, the single reply that came back was snippy and condescending. lol...
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Post by femmefatale on Oct 12, 2011 15:23:02 GMT -5
That remark kind of defined me and I believe in God.
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Post by Deleted on Oct 12, 2011 15:23:17 GMT -5
Yeah, you are prickly. Maybe you have a skewed view of Christians and it is you who needs the adjustment not them. Yeah, that must be it.
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Post by weltschmerz on Oct 12, 2011 15:26:16 GMT -5
Considering people are over there on the "God Loving People" thread making rules on a public message board in an attempt to insulate themselves from non-believers, I think my last post has been proven to be correct. They do not want to be questioned, and one has to ask why. -------------------------- Shirina, we don't have to ask why. We know why.
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Post by weltschmerz on Oct 12, 2011 15:27:49 GMT -5
Um, yeah they do. I think is call a Bar. ------------------------- What a spectacularly offensive thing to say!
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Post by Deleted on Oct 12, 2011 15:28:50 GMT -5
L'Chayim!
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Post by Shirina on Oct 12, 2011 15:29:11 GMT -5
Wrong. Their views were made quite plain to me, so I am not misinterpreting their words. So I would ask you how I would "readjust" myself in the face of such unfounded yet very clear accusations? Should I agree with them even in the face of their ignorance?
Please, by all means, explain it to me.
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Post by mmhmm on Oct 12, 2011 15:29:49 GMT -5
In addition, an atheist does not have organized churches and events to belong to or participate in. There is no sense of belonging for an atheist that comes with being a member of a church or religion ... so not only do atheists forfeit a paradise, we forfeit many benefits to religion here on earth. Um, yeah they do. I think is call a Bar. Quite untrue, Snerdley. I don't drink and have no reason to go to any bar. The brush in your fingers is far too broad.
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Post by Tosh on Oct 12, 2011 15:38:44 GMT -5
Ladies please calm down, if you start making this too personal it will implode, I had to threaten to kill two moderators to keep this thread. Don't blow it. Anyway lets get back to me me me. p.s. Adolf Hitler was a Christian and he was a very very bad man, he thought the bible said kill the Jews, don't know were he got that from, the NT probably.
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Post by Deleted on Oct 12, 2011 15:41:24 GMT -5
The Old Testament is where all of the Jews are killed.
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Post by Deleted on Oct 12, 2011 15:43:05 GMT -5
Ladies please calm down, if you start making this too personal it will implode, I had to threaten to kill two moderators to keep this thread. Don't blow it. Anyway lets get back to me me me. p.s. Adolf Hitler was a Christian and he was a very very bad man, he thought the bible said kill the Jews, don't know were he got that from, the NT probably. I resent your inference that the ladies are out of control.
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Post by Deleted on Oct 12, 2011 15:44:57 GMT -5
Oh wait, maybe just one is.
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Post by Shirina on Oct 12, 2011 16:00:49 GMT -5
Oh, and by the way, I'm sure everyone here remembers when I wrote a post not more than an hour ago outlining several ways in which Christians are trying to impose their values onto a nation that is supposedly free. Snerdley called it "BUNK." I find that hysterical considering just a few threads down, there is a Christian doing EXACTLY what I claimed was happening: From Mrs. Himself: As a Christian I am deeply offended by the new Hardees restaurant ad that features 2 gold cows and call their hamburger god. I have written then an e-mail that it is an abomination to Christians causing us to sin. If you have seen the ad and feel the same way, I would urge you to contact the company.
To get to contact us, just search for Hardees Restaurant and it will come up on the list.
Don't scoff at this, your name can be removed from His book. See Exodus 32:34 on.notmsnmoney.proboards.com/index.cgi?board=mentalhealth&action=display&thread=15339Wow! Now we have blasphemy laws in this country? When did that happen? You know who else has blasphemy laws? Nations governed by Muslim extremists. I guess tyranny is fine as long as its YOUR tyranny.
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Post by Tosh on Oct 12, 2011 16:04:13 GMT -5
Christians did not get the term " Jesus killers " from the Jewish scriptures.
p.s.
Jews do not like THEIR scriptures being called the Old Testament, it is The Testament to them, and it is THEIRS after all.
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Post by weltschmerz on Oct 12, 2011 16:06:50 GMT -5
As a Christian I am deeply offended by the new Hardees restaurant ad that features 2 gold cows and call their hamburger god. I have written then an e-mail that it is an abomination to Christians causing us to sin. ---------------------- Wait....what? Causing you to sin? How?
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Post by Deleted on Oct 12, 2011 16:07:37 GMT -5
Christians did not get the term " Jesus killers " from the Jewish scriptures. p.s. Jews do not like THEIR scriptures being called the Old Testament, it is The Testament to them, and it is THEIRS after all. Ok. I'm just saying that the New Testament is all love and peace and stuff and the old Testament is all fire and brimstone and people are killed left and right with murder and genocide.
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Post by Tosh on Oct 12, 2011 16:11:03 GMT -5
Wasn't that Kool Aid chap a Christian, what version of the bible was he reading ?
Did he cut out love thy neighbor and insert kill thy neighbor ?
Very strange man.
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Post by Deleted on Oct 12, 2011 16:11:51 GMT -5
As a Christian I am deeply offended by the new Hardees restaurant ad that features 2 gold cows and call their hamburger god. I have written then an e-mail that it is an abomination to Christians causing us to sin. ---------------------- Wait....what? Causing you to sin? How? Thats what I'd like to know how??? also..pictures please. ;D
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Post by weltschmerz on Oct 12, 2011 16:16:09 GMT -5
Good thing Mrs Himself doesn't live in Quebec. She'd be spending ALL her time composing e-mails about being offended as a Christian.
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Post by weltschmerz on Oct 12, 2011 16:17:17 GMT -5
It says "There's probably no God, so stop worrying and enjoy your life"
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Post by Deleted on Oct 12, 2011 16:18:18 GMT -5
It says "There's probably no God, so stop worrying and enjoy your life" I'm more offended by the God'damn French.
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Post by weltschmerz on Oct 12, 2011 16:18:55 GMT -5
Ooooh, I like this one!
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Post by weltschmerz on Oct 12, 2011 16:19:51 GMT -5
I'm more offended by the God'damn French. -------------------- I was not aware that God damned the French. Is it in Leviticus or Corinthians?
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Post by Deleted on Oct 12, 2011 16:20:48 GMT -5
I'm more offended by the God'damn French. -------------------- I was not aware that God damned the French. Well, something happened to them.
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Post by Tosh on Oct 12, 2011 16:21:49 GMT -5
To a degree I agree with you, although the love and peace stuff in the NT came from the Jewish scriptures.
Jesus said himself he preached nothing new and he was right.
There are few facts about Jesus we can be reasonably sure of, he existed, he was a Jewish preacher and he died on the cross.
All the rest is pure guesswork.
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Post by Cj on Oct 12, 2011 16:25:12 GMT -5
Apple!
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Post by weltschmerz on Oct 12, 2011 16:29:01 GMT -5
Well, FYI, Christians really like sex. A lot of sex. --------------------- Especially the priests.
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Post by Deleted on Oct 12, 2011 16:32:26 GMT -5
Apple! ;D
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Post by tom on Oct 12, 2011 16:32:58 GMT -5
What is this thing with the Americans about the French ?
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Post by Deleted on Oct 12, 2011 16:33:38 GMT -5
What is thing with the Americans about the French ? Its not just the Americans eh...just sayin
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