JoeWeber
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John, most aren't doing it under threat. They are mostly decent folks who don't know jack about the belief system they belong to or the book they are supposed to worship. My guess is that, at best, most think that Deuteronomy is what gets into the well water after a nuclear bomb blast.
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Oh, I don't know. I guess I'd be without druthers if a hurricane smited Texas or Florida.
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Time for Florida to start crying for some of that bloated government agency disaster relief.
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No kidding. No wonder the Borg are angry all the time.
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Spiting Russian threats that they would be crossing a "Red Line", Germany is sending their Taurus long range cruise missile to Ukraine. It's a true bunker buster and has a 310 mile range. Say goodbye to the Kerch Bridge.
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How freaking far down the rabbit hole do you need to be for this to make sense?
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Yes, and that's important to remember. I think there are a whole lot of decent folks who use the community of Christianity to be even better decent folks. That's great and worthy of admiration. But I don't think that without Christianity many would be terrible people completely careless of the fates of their fellow humans. It's just a tool that makes them feel better and be more effective being who they already were.
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Alright, I agree with the corrections. The real issue is that we need to understand that they aren't telling us the truth. We're all mostly agreeable to the idea that Muslims are permitted in the Koran to lie to infidels in defense of the faith and for that we scorn them. But somehow, we are able to ignore that is the same privilege Christians claim. That needs to be called out at each opportunity.
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I too am all for people taking comfort in whatever will make the one life they will ever have more pleasant. Unfortunately for too many believers like Jay and Ron, no matter how they protest, the truth is they will never be happy until you and I believe it too.
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The effort would be a waste of time. You don't want to be educated, and it shows in every post you make.
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The existence of God is easily provable to anyone who first opens their mind to the existence of God and accepts the Bible as his Word.
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So you think we should organize our lives around a bundle of vague implications? Can you understand why that's a non-starter for more and more people all of the time?
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I know you were quoting him. Please try to explain what he meant, which you believe, in a way that doesn't rely on the listener believing something before they're told what they are being asked to believe.
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Then why did you post this: "In sin did my mother conceive me" as if it were a truth of the Christian faith? Either it means that the act is sinful in and of itself or it is sinful because everything we do is sinful owing to our being made sinners before our eyes first saw light.
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He is stating that by command of a god no human is born innocent but instead are sin criminals; scapegoats for a supreme being who are further commanded to fix themselves before the penalty for simply coming into existence gets a whole lot worse. Furthering the misery is the knowledge that your sinful existence is a consequence of your mother engaging in perfectly natural activities that few amongst us have the will power to resist. Such twisted thinking is obvious nonsense to anyone not brainwashed to receive it as knowledge.
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This is the essence of the twisted Christian world view.
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Not so, he has a whole book filled with proofs. Deuteronomy 32:35, John 3:16, Floyd 2.0, it's all there for the believing.
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You wont be here tomorrow. You have nothing in a real world conversation and you know it.
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I already have my dress ready. And yes it is a dress.
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How much for the Christopher Columbus hat? You can leave it to someone you think you love but you have to know that it'll eventually end up at a garage sale if it wasn't loaned out for a school play and never returned. With me, you'll know that I'll be wearing it, maybe sailing between islands, maybe giving speeches at sailing seminars, but it won't be desecrated by being passed around at a homeless camp and used as a wind block when melting crack into a pipe.
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On the plus side, even if they can’t come up with a straight answer, at least we have the Christians arguing with each other.
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Which I take to mean that if you needed to take orders to kill and performed your duty, that as long as you were a true believer your soul would remain pure.
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I don’t think so but I’m all eyes to read why you believe, in the context of this conversation, you needed to make the claim.
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Are you referring your nations imperfect rulers and their identified enemies?
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Had I asked instead in the name of God and Country would your answer be the same.
