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Then you will know the truth, and the truth will set you free. (JN 8:32)
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You know wrong. The US governbment's contribution to the poor amounts to Euthanasia for the poor of Iraq and Afghanistan.
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Hey TW,
"As a Christian, one of the fundamentalist, Bible-believing unintellectuals that are held in such disdain by those of superior knowledge and learning..."
You're not to 'unintellectual' to spell "persecution complex".
Really, sort yourself out.
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Josh,
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Josephus_on_Jesus#Testimonium_Flavianum
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Josh, Thanks for the link to the "All about Archaeology" site.
Unfortunately, it provides absolutely no evidence for the existence of Jesus. The fact that Bethlehem exists as a real town, for example, is not evidence of the existence of Christ. This is what the web-site does.
Because Constantine built a Church of Nativity does not prove the nativity happened, and so on with each piece of this alleged "evidence". If you can point out one of their points that should be actually considered evidence, please do.
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Doesn't take long for some people to turn a tragedy like this into campaign against "muslims" and "lefties". Is there no limit to the depth some people will let their hate sink them?
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I wonder if "HarvestGrain" would be able to actually address the comments of HampsteadPete, rather than merely attacking the individual?
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You'd better boycott any bible-study aimed at wealthy people as well, seeing as Christ taught wealth was a sin.
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Egypt has received over $50 billion in military aid from the US since 1975. $1.3 billion annually. Military aid that would no doubt be used to persecute Christians. You lot ought to sort that one out.
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Seventh-Graders? Like, 12 years olds? It's hard to undertsand exactly wht this evidence means. Does it mean that without abstinence education, a 12 year-old in Virginia is twice as likely to initiate sex? What's going on in Virginia?
Be interesting to read the actual study.
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I applaud the self-esteem of folks like "Qatonchozeh" who feel they're qualified to condemn Bishop Tutu to hell. I guess you lot were hoping he was rounded up during Apartheid and sorted out?
How dare he point out that the religious have an unhealthy obsession with queers?
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Hello! I must point out the Counterfeit money analogy is wrong. People working in banks are indeed shown examples of counterfeit money.
http://www.lincolnberean.org/equipping/articles/tidings/2006/june/the-myth-of-the-counterfeit-money-analogy
Perhaps a better analogy would be to talk about wolf trackers in Hungary. They learn to recognise the manure of wolves, but not the manure of, for example, gypsies. So when a hunter is out looking for wolf, they only know the manure that they are meant to follow to lead them to the wolf. If they see unfamiliar manure, they will not follow in that direction. They know it will lead to something other than wolf.
So following the wolf manure is a better analogy for keeping faith!
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I must admit, when I read the title of this article, I was worried the Mexicans, or east European immigrants, were going to be blamed! It is a relief to see that it is the fault of condoms and Strip-Yahtzee games.
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We in Hungary are more than happy for American children to learn nothing of evolution, and all about intelligent design. As added bonus, it will not be long before other weirdo's with unscientific theories take advantage of American poplitical correctness and insist on teaching pseudo-science. This way, American science will be filled with theories that they were seeded by colonising spaceships from the Sirius star-system, that the world is being dragged across the sky on the back of a giant turtle, and all that stuff from the Matrix films.
Then, Europe will once again win all nobel prizes, and watch while America turns into Planet of the Apes!
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No answer? Are you serious? What's the relgious answer to starvation in Darfur?
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Chk's right! It's much better to have your head in the sand than to actually meet a challenge and deal with it!
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Typical - religious folk trash the humanists, and then expect them to solve all their problems! On a tiny message board no less!
Why not make a whole heap of food out of a basket of fish and bread? I heard that worked wonders one time.
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He still does a good job of speaking up for his belief system. I particularly loved this bit -
"And don't give me any of the "Where's the evidence" garbage argument".
Sums it all up in a sentence.
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I think it's great that Christinas are preaching about Logic now! Maybe one day, they'll undertsand what it means...
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I guess that'll be when the Humanists get some power. Religion's had thousands of years to stuff things up. We've only been around a little while. You can't expect us to fix up thousands of years of religious stuff-ups overnight!
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i've heard there's people out there that take the bible literally, word-for-word. I never knew we were supposed to take Matchbox20 literally as well. But hey, this Lane guy's a Youth Ministries Specialist!
So I guess I'll take the chorus from "Hang" literally -
And we always say, it would be good to go away, someday
But if there's nothing there to make things change
If it's the same for you I'll just hang
Goodbye cruel world! The new prophets, matchbox20, want us to hang ourselves!
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