Trent

Good one. So because I say that I think that people are being disrespectful to Pajarito when I see him as trying to provide honest answers... I'm biased. Even thought I'm not what you would consider a "good Christian"? Wow. Please, go on with your totally objective explanations of why someone's beliefs are "stupid". Oh, hello again!

I guess he addressed that in his reply. Yet another reasonable, honest reply to someone who attacks his beliefs. How mature of him. Strange to find that here, huh? Total cop-out and completely untrue. Why don't you just say that you're building straw-men around Pajarito's posts? This is typical for someone who hasn't bothered to understand, won't bother to listen, or enjoys perpetuating ignorance of people's beliefs because it makes them feel smart to look down on someone with faith. Just because you may have gotten confused by the bible, doesn't mean everyone does. Oh, hello again!

If his answers would be the same, why write it twice? Maybe he feels he can't put it more articulately than someone already has? Why don't you ask him? It seems to me that he TRIES to answer almost every question that he's asked. Where? Besides saying that we're all sinners and will all be judged (including himself), how does he condemn people? Where does he say that everyone but people who believe like him will burn in hell? Maybe a better question is, why do you feel condemned? It is 100% better than you saying his beliefs are stupid. Your argument would be childish, unsubstantiated, and petty. His explanations are an attempt to address an issue, whereas your "stupid" comment would be something to get someone angry... and it doesn't seem to anger him. And if it doesn't bother you that he MAY be right, what is it exactly about this one guy's opinion that bothers you so much. He doesn't force you to read his posts. He seems to just address questions and topics that have to do with his beliefs, and the myriad misconceptions about Christianity. If you don't believe in it, then what do you care what he thinks about what happens to us when we die? Oh, hello again!

I haven't seen him tell people that they will rot in hell. I haven't seen him (in my opinion) look down on someone because of their beliefs. Everything I've seen him post leads me to think he is nothing like those "fire and brimstone" Christians or the "stone the infidel" zealots. I don't get that sense at all. The only reason I posted anything at all is because I see people get really cheap and ugly with him all the time, and I think he does a great job at keeping cool and really trying to answer the often purposely inflammatory comments by people. Oh, hello again!

You guys are ridiculous. Pajarito spends a lot of time trying to seriously answer questions and cheap shots at his beliefs and all you guys do is whip yourselves up into a self-righteous frenzy. I have never seen Pajarito condemn or attack anyone here for what they think, only to say that in HIS belief that those people will be judged. If you don't believe as he does, what do you care then? Is it maybe some kind of underlying feeling in you all that he MAY be right that worries you so you react with venom? Or maybe you're just THAT antagonistic that you have to, in most cases ignorantly, try to sneak in a "gotcha" on something you don't understand and probably will never understand. He's NOT preaching here, just responding to what you guys write with things from the bible and his beliefs that illustrate WHY he thinks the way he does. He's not trying to convert anyone, he doesn't seem too defensive, and I think he does a really good job of stating his case. Does it offend you THAT much that he is a Christian? Anyway, like I've said before... it doesn't take much testicle to attack a Christian who's REALLY trying to live by the Word. PS- Just to head off the BS that will inevitably come from me posting this... NO, I'm no better than anyone. NO, I'm not a great Christian. Oh, hello again!

Their past actions in no way lead me to believe that talking to them (AGAIN) will lead to any reduction in the tensions or deaths in region. Heck, their CURRENT actions don't even lend themselves to that belief. Oh, hello again!

I'm not saying that at all. In fact, I'm saying what you say here: Why would the world see Hamas as anything but what they've spent decades being? Spots changed or not... it's still a leopard. Oh, hello again!

I'm sure those targeted by the IRA don't feel slighted by that at all, right? Do those who disagreed with their tactics still see them as murderers there? Oh, hello again!

So because Fatah (and seemingly our own gov't) is just as bad as Hamas... we should support Hamas? Talk about a choice between 2 devils. So one guy sent a message to Israel? Has Hamas stuck to that message? Seems like they're just wanting to play the enemy of my enemy game against Fatah to me. What will they do when they have no more internal opposition? We'll see... I have a feeling it's too dangerous for them to back off the "push Israel into the sea" mentality... but who knows... maybe the terrorists have reformed and gone legit. Really. You just fed from a different spoon. That doesn't have anything to do with what is actually going on. Actions speak louder. Oh, hello again!

So you'd have no problem with murderers running a country as long as they were elected? Just because some group got elected once doesn't mean everything they do is ethical and that they should be treated with utmost respect. You must have some inside info on Hamas to know that while they say Israel must be wiped off the planet that they really mean, we can make it work with Israel peacefully. Until the actions speak louder than that rumor, I say bullshit. Oh, hello again!

And show the world that terrorizing your way to the top works? Good idea. Oh, hello again!

According to this guy... people who claim our mid-east policy is to blame are giving them what they want. Makes a nice cover for what they really want, total annihilation of the infidels. Would it make you feel played to believe that? Or would you be willing to believe that there are different motivations on a micro and macro levels? So if Iraq is causing the terrorism, why are the British doctor Muslims bombing their own country? Did someone burn their houses down? Oh, hello again!

BUT BUT the Bush girls did it FIRST!! Waaaaaahhhhh! Oh, hello again!

And apparently the terrorist like that!! Oh, hello again!

I know, but why try to shine a positive light on something that HAS no positive side?? Just to be contrarian? Oh, hello again!

YES!! Those HUMANITARIANS!! They MUST be good guys after all! Forget all the bombings and murders. Glad he's out, but to thank the group that has killed so many is foolish. Does Hamas need brownie points or just more sympathizers? Oh, hello again!

What picture would that be? The one where we just need to volunteer to die so that we don't offend any of these nutjob jihadis? Did Joe Jihadi's mom not touch him enough as a kid? Can Dr. Phil work with those who think there's a political end to islamic terrorism to help us understand them? Is the bigger picture "peace at any cost"? No thanks. Just nice to see one paper print what many people, with more expertise in the matter than you or I, have been saying for a LONG time. Just because it's popular to say that it's the WEST'S fault that they want to kill us doesn't make it so. The fact that you have no argument but to try to impeach the source suggests that you're upset that what you think may be wrong. Why not consider that and respond on a "WHAT IF this guy is for real" basis. Wouldn't that be more open-minded?? Oh, hello again!

CHA CHING!! Like money in the bank! What do I win?? Huh?? The guy didn't mention you at all. Why does the fact that some large groups' way of life is completely incompatible with ours make people uncomfortable?? Why avoid calling it as you see it at all costs? I can see it now... we'll be negotiated to death by someone who just can't see the forest... Oh, hello again!

LIES!!! It HAS to be whitey's fault! Down with the MAN! Oh, hello again!

Deafening silence... I just thought this needed a bump. Maybe some who disagree every time this is brought up? Where are you? I'm betting the reply, if any, is something like, "That PROPAGANDA from that RAG is not worth responding to..." Just my bet though, it might change a mind....... nahhhhhh! Oh, hello again!

http://www.cnn.com/2007/WORLD/asiapcf/06/29/china.seafood.ap/index.html So since we found bad stuff in several Chinese imported foods, China all of a sudden finds bad stuff in ours and now we'll negotiate it into safety? Something stinks. Politics over reality. Chinese food products either have contaminants or not. Our stuff either has contaminants or not. What is negotiating gonna do to fix that? Oh, hello again!

Turnabout is fair play I guess. He called someone a dirty name and that got him fired so now he's trying to turn it around on them. Not surprising. Unfortunately, people have such a damn itchy trigger finger on their PC guns nowadays. EVERYTHING is either racist, sexist, homophobic, etc etc. Someone will ALWAYS be offended. Insanity continues. Oh, hello again!

Not buying the OPINIONS of PAID experts. This world has gone mad. Seriously. He NEEDS a vagina or he's gonna DIE??? Gimme a break. All the treatment he's gotten so far is entirely too much. It shoulda been thrown out day one. What's next, someone in the loony bin thinks he's a god so we have to fund a church to be built for him? After all, he might die if it doesn't happen. This is insane. Oh, hello again!

??? You haven't presented a logical reason yet as to why taxpayer money should fund this surgery. The MAN is a convicted killer. Why should he get elective surgery? And that judge's decision was WRONG in my opinion... and that of MANY others. This world is truly going mad. Liberalism truly is a mental disorder apparently. Like someone said. If THIS bullshit is okay, what's next for our poor darlings in prison? Law and order has nothing to do with it. Let the MURDERER save up his money from stamping license plates and get the surgery on his own when he gets out... IF he gets out. Until then... HE'S IN PRISON WHERE THEY TAKE AWAY SEVERAL BASIC LIBERTIES AS A RULE. Nice hyperbole. It's nuts to try to make this a lynch mob. People don't want to pay for a sex change on a murderer or anyone else. Simple. Like I said. Apparently there's a few people who think this dude is entitled and deserves this elective surgery... band together and pay for it then. Don't spend someone elses money on it. Oh, hello again!

That's almost the dumbest thing I've ever heard. Nice stretch. Did you pull something while typing that?? Oh, hello again!