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rug (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Nov-23-08 12:26 PM Original message |
There's more to religion in general, and Christianity specifically, than pronouncements on sex. |
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MNDemNY (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Nov-23-08 12:27 PM Response to Original message |
1. Made-up shit is made-up shit. |
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rug (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Nov-23-08 12:28 PM Response to Reply #1 |
2. Your point? |
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MNDemNY (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Nov-23-08 12:33 PM Response to Reply #2 |
5. Religion needs to go the way of the flat-earthers. |
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rug (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Nov-23-08 12:35 PM Response to Reply #5 |
8. Why? And would you include free market claptrap in your jettisoned fairy tales? |
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MNDemNY (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Nov-23-08 12:39 PM Response to Reply #8 |
12. "Not all bs is religious"-true "Not all things religious are bs" -false. |
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rug (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Nov-23-08 12:50 PM Response to Reply #12 |
19. Which premise? That there is a God? |
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MNDemNY (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Nov-23-08 12:59 PM Response to Reply #19 |
24. ? Have you proof? Of course not. Can I prove a negative? of course not. |
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rug (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Nov-23-08 02:08 PM Response to Reply #24 |
33. There's no onus on anyone. It is a standoff. |
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Odin2005 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Nov-23-08 02:19 PM Response to Reply #33 |
41. Religion is inherently political, it is a tool of social control. n/t |
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MNDemNY (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Nov-23-08 03:23 PM Response to Reply #41 |
71. Some enjoy the "high". |
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MNDemNY (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Nov-23-08 03:22 PM Response to Reply #33 |
70. No value that can not be derived elsewhere.Any "religion" outside ones own "heart" is corrupt. |
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rug (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Nov-23-08 03:30 PM Response to Reply #70 |
77. Religion confined to oneself is psychosis. |
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Odin2005 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Nov-23-08 06:27 PM Response to Reply #77 |
99. Religious belief IS psychosis. |
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rug (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Nov-23-08 07:58 PM Response to Reply #99 |
109. I don't name myself after a denizen of Valhalla. |
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Odin2005 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Nov-23-08 08:42 PM Response to Reply #109 |
113. Hey, I'm Norwegian-American and like Nordic Mythology, that doesn't mean I think Odin is real! |
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LanternWaste (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Nov-23-08 02:40 PM Response to Reply #5 |
53. Much like all imagined, human-constructs |
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MNDemNY (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Nov-23-08 03:28 PM Response to Reply #53 |
76. Do not tie philosophy and the arts with religion, |
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Odin2005 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Nov-23-08 06:30 PM Response to Reply #76 |
100. Exactly |
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JerseygirlCT (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Nov-24-08 08:16 PM Response to Reply #76 |
128. Well that's pure nonsense |
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spoony (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Nov-24-08 06:52 AM Response to Reply #1 |
119. Ah, R/T discourse at its finest. |
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LearnedHand (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Nov-23-08 12:29 PM Response to Original message |
3. I agree, but it's unfortunate that the most vocal... |
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LaurenG (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Nov-23-08 12:32 PM Response to Original message |
4. I always liked that one |
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SidDithers (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Nov-23-08 12:33 PM Response to Original message |
6. meh...who cares...nt |
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Deep13 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Nov-23-08 12:34 PM Response to Original message |
7. So they promise what they cannot deliver, too. |
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TexasObserver (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Nov-23-08 12:36 PM Response to Original message |
9. But 95% of religion isn't about doing any of those good things. |
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rug (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Nov-23-08 12:40 PM Response to Reply #9 |
13. I'm not so sure about that. |
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TexasObserver (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Nov-23-08 01:05 PM Response to Reply #13 |
28. Religions have almost nothing to do with anything good or positive. |
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rug (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Nov-23-08 02:19 PM Response to Reply #28 |
42. Ah yes, I read you often in GDP. |
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undeterred (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Nov-23-08 12:41 PM Response to Reply #9 |
15. Where did you come up with 95%? |
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TexasObserver (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Nov-23-08 01:03 PM Response to Reply #15 |
27. It's probably closer to 99.9% that has nothing to do with good works. |
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undeterred (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Nov-23-08 01:52 PM Response to Reply #27 |
32. yeah, I can tell you're an expert |
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Odin2005 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Nov-23-08 06:33 PM Response to Reply #32 |
101. Who needs to be an expert? Any non-deluded person with half a brain can se that... |
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JerseygirlCT (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Nov-23-08 02:58 PM Response to Reply #9 |
59. How did you arrive at that number?nt |
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TexasObserver (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Nov-23-08 06:49 PM Response to Reply #59 |
106. Observation. Ever notice any of those church buildings on every corner? |
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JerseygirlCT (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Nov-26-08 03:52 PM Response to Reply #106 |
150. And? |
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verges (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Nov-23-08 03:24 PM Response to Reply #9 |
73. IMHO you have it backwards. |
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TexasObserver (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Nov-23-08 06:50 PM Response to Reply #73 |
107. NO, I have it right. MOST of the religious in the US are Republicans. |
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rug (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Nov-23-08 07:59 PM Response to Reply #107 |
110. Obama got 54% of the Cathoic vote. |
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TexasObserver (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Nov-23-08 08:04 PM Response to Reply #110 |
111. Not the ones that take that stuff seriously!! |
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rug (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Nov-23-08 08:16 PM Response to Reply #111 |
112. True, he only got the Catholics who juggle in the back of the church during Communion |
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JerseygirlCT (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Nov-24-08 08:17 PM Response to Reply #107 |
129. Statistics? |
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Warren Stupidity (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Nov-23-08 12:38 PM Response to Original message |
10. We have a religion forum for this sort of stuff. |
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rug (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Nov-23-08 12:46 PM Response to Reply #10 |
16. If you want to remove al threads about religion from GD, that's fine with me. |
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Warren Stupidity (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Nov-23-08 12:48 PM Response to Reply #16 |
17. rams have horns and does eat oats |
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rug (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Nov-23-08 04:45 PM Response to Reply #17 |
89. But little lambs eat ivy. |
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TWiley (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Nov-24-08 05:47 AM Response to Reply #16 |
118. Why not simply post this crap in the right forum in the first place? |
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rug (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Nov-24-08 04:22 PM Response to Reply #118 |
124. There's no evangelizing. It's balancing the crap in GD about religion. |
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TWiley (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Nov-25-08 05:15 AM Response to Reply #124 |
134. You speak untruthfully about Religion |
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timtom (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Nov-23-08 02:30 PM Response to Reply #10 |
50. Can you name ANY "ism" |
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Warren Stupidity (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Nov-23-08 03:22 PM Response to Reply #50 |
69. yeah sure |
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timtom (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Nov-23-08 05:25 PM Response to Reply #69 |
93. So, you think that all those you have named |
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Warren Stupidity (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Nov-24-08 07:50 PM Response to Reply #93 |
125. You just changed the terms of your question |
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Marrah_G (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Nov-25-08 02:36 PM Response to Reply #50 |
146. I've never seen my religion termed hypocritical before |
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saltpoint (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Nov-23-08 12:38 PM Response to Original message |
11. Hi, rug. There certainly is more to Christianity than pronouncements |
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rug (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Nov-23-08 12:49 PM Response to Reply #11 |
18. Religion is easier to mock than Larry Craig's defense. |
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saltpoint (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Nov-23-08 12:55 PM Response to Reply #18 |
21. Yes. I take the view of many other DUers on incidents like the Craig |
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LeftishBrit (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Nov-23-08 12:41 PM Response to Original message |
14. Important point |
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rug (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Nov-23-08 12:52 PM Response to Reply #14 |
20. You're absolutely right. These core beliefs are not at all exclusive to religion. |
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buckettgirl (608 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Nov-23-08 12:56 PM Response to Reply #14 |
22. These principles |
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JerseygirlCT (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Nov-23-08 03:02 PM Response to Reply #22 |
62. It sure would be a far different world if we did |
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JerseygirlCT (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Nov-23-08 03:00 PM Response to Reply #14 |
60. I think they miss |
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Sarah Ibarruri (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Nov-23-08 12:56 PM Response to Original message |
23. Why aren't Christians following Jesus? American evangelical Christians certainly aren't. nt |
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anonymous171 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Nov-23-08 12:59 PM Response to Original message |
25. The "religious" right only reads the old testament and certain parts of the new testament. |
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blue sky at night (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Nov-23-08 01:02 PM Response to Original message |
26. we are also reading it.... |
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rug (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Nov-23-08 02:10 PM Response to Reply #26 |
35. I din't know there was a common lectionary. |
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Lydia Leftcoast (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Nov-23-08 03:41 PM Response to Reply #26 |
82. Episcopalians heard it today, too |
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GoodSpud (153 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Nov-23-08 01:21 PM Response to Original message |
29. Would anyone like to offer me a moral justification |
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rug (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Nov-23-08 02:14 PM Response to Reply #29 |
38. Actually, current theology doesn't couch it as punishment. |
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walldude (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Nov-23-08 03:11 PM Response to Reply #38 |
65. And the ones who don't? The Jews, the Hindu's The Buddhists? |
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rug (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Nov-23-08 03:16 PM Response to Reply #65 |
67. Only Christian fundamentalists hold this view. |
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walldude (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Nov-23-08 03:32 PM Response to Reply #67 |
79. Then you people need to wrestle control of your religion |
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JerseygirlCT (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Nov-23-08 03:41 PM Original message |
No one has control of the religion to wrestle |
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Lydia Leftcoast (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Nov-23-08 03:43 PM Response to Reply #79 |
84. As I have told countless people, the liberal Christian denominations have no |
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GoodSpud (153 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Nov-23-08 03:41 PM Response to Reply #67 |
83. So was Jesus misquoted in your original post then? |
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rug (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Nov-23-08 05:08 PM Response to Reply #83 |
91. But they're not condemned. It's the result of their own choice. |
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Warren Stupidity (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Nov-25-08 08:13 AM Response to Reply #91 |
138. They aren't condemned? Yes they are. |
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JerseygirlCT (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Nov-23-08 03:38 PM Response to Reply #65 |
81. Much of Christianity is not definitive on who and who is not |
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walldude (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Nov-23-08 03:09 PM Response to Reply #29 |
64. Please, according to most "Christian" religions |
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rug (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Nov-23-08 05:39 PM Response to Reply #64 |
95. Not true. Ignorance is not a virtue. |
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Odin2005 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Nov-23-08 01:28 PM Response to Original message |
30. That doesn't make it any less a load of BS. |
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rug (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Nov-23-08 02:15 PM Response to Reply #30 |
39. See #33, er, Odin. |
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bobbolink (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Nov-23-08 01:31 PM Response to Original message |
31. Matthew 25 is my all-time fave. |
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saltpoint (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Nov-23-08 02:26 PM Response to Reply #31 |
47. bobbolink, just an observation here from my admittedly remote outpost |
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maryf (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Nov-23-08 05:26 PM Response to Reply #47 |
94. Hear, hear! |
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hfojvt (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Nov-23-08 02:09 PM Response to Original message |
34. they read that in the Presbyterian church today too |
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rug (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Nov-23-08 02:16 PM Response to Reply #34 |
40. The positive value of reigion is too often overlooked. |
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EFerrari (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Nov-23-08 02:13 PM Response to Original message |
36. rug, I got this from Frank Schaeffer today. Check it out: |
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Vickers (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Nov-23-08 02:21 PM Response to Reply #36 |
43. "This is our Thanksgiving of hope." |
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EFerrari (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Nov-23-08 02:36 PM Response to Reply #43 |
51. Frank can turn a phrase. He's an amazing entertainer, imho. n/t |
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rug (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Nov-23-08 02:23 PM Response to Reply #36 |
44. I'm not ready to say Obama's election was theologically significant. |
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EFerrari (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Nov-23-08 02:24 PM Response to Reply #44 |
46. I don't think that way, either, but Frank makes some good points. |
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laconicsax (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Nov-25-08 10:15 PM Response to Reply #44 |
148. So being opposed to same-sex marriage on religious grounds is meaningful? |
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saltpoint (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Nov-23-08 02:39 PM Response to Reply #36 |
52. Whoa. Powerful and excellent. |
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EFerrari (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Nov-23-08 02:49 PM Response to Reply #52 |
55. Hi there, Old Crusoe! |
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saltpoint (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Nov-23-08 02:53 PM Response to Reply #55 |
56. They're here alright. I can't walk into a drug store without hearing |
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Sophree (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Nov-24-08 11:33 PM Response to Reply #36 |
132. Wow! |
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Iggo (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Nov-23-08 02:13 PM Response to Original message |
37. Jesus Fucking Christ! |
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rug (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Nov-23-08 02:24 PM Response to Reply #37 |
45. You sound like the Romans guarding the tomb. |
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Iggo (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Nov-23-08 02:27 PM Response to Reply #45 |
49. I have no idea what that means, nor do I want one. |
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ZombieHorde (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Nov-23-08 04:51 PM Response to Reply #45 |
90. Now that's funny. Great post. |
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Iggo (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Nov-24-08 02:16 AM Response to Reply #45 |
114. Oh wait. |
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Fleshdancer (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Nov-23-08 02:27 PM Response to Original message |
48. nice |
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TWiley (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Nov-23-08 02:43 PM Response to Original message |
54. Utter BoolShit is what say. |
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rug (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Nov-23-08 03:20 PM Response to Reply #54 |
68. Speaking of bullshit, this reads like a 19th century nativist tract. |
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TWiley (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Nov-24-08 05:40 AM Response to Reply #68 |
115. huh? You do not even present a decent strawman argument. |
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verges (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Nov-23-08 03:35 PM Response to Reply #54 |
80. Just because someone says they are Christian |
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Odin2005 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Nov-23-08 06:36 PM Response to Reply #80 |
102. "No True Scotsman" Fallacy. n/t. |
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TWiley (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Nov-24-08 05:42 AM Response to Reply #80 |
116. Christians self identify ..... they use God to justify their hate and prejudice |
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verges (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Nov-24-08 11:58 AM Response to Reply #116 |
122. Then they are not following the teachings of Christ |
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Warren Stupidity (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Nov-24-08 07:54 PM Response to Reply #122 |
126. see above re stunning hypocrisy |
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TWiley (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Nov-25-08 05:18 AM Response to Reply #122 |
135. oops, where is the conference which determines what is "Christian" |
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Lydia Leftcoast (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Nov-23-08 03:45 PM Response to Reply #54 |
85. What kind of crazy-ass Christians have you been hanging around with anyway? |
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TWiley (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Nov-24-08 05:43 AM Response to Reply #85 |
117. Which part are you referring to? I happen to think it is totally accurate. |
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Lydia Leftcoast (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Nov-24-08 09:21 AM Response to Reply #117 |
120. There's an old proverb that goes |
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TWiley (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Nov-24-08 11:40 AM Response to Reply #120 |
121. Now wait a minute. |
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Lydia Leftcoast (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Nov-24-08 02:02 PM Response to Reply #121 |
123. OK, I will take your points one by one |
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JerseygirlCT (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Nov-24-08 08:23 PM Response to Reply #123 |
130. Lydia, for what it's worth - |
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TWiley (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Nov-25-08 05:45 AM Response to Reply #123 |
136. Thank you Lydia |
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Lydia Leftcoast (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Nov-25-08 09:34 AM Response to Reply #136 |
141. OK, I don't know what your problem is |
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TWiley (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Nov-25-08 11:39 AM Response to Reply #141 |
142. I like to think my "problem" is rational thought. |
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Sophree (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Nov-26-08 12:50 AM Response to Reply #136 |
149. You do seem determined to misunderstand |
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Odin2005 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Nov-23-08 06:37 PM Response to Reply #54 |
103. I completely agree with you. |
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GoneOffShore (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Nov-23-08 02:56 PM Response to Original message |
57. No flame from me - a dedicated atheist |
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JerseygirlCT (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Nov-23-08 02:57 PM Response to Original message |
58. That's my favorite. |
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Taverner (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Nov-23-08 03:01 PM Response to Original message |
61. It also says this! |
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rug (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Nov-23-08 03:28 PM Response to Reply #61 |
75. You don't like organic food? |
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Taverner (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Nov-25-08 02:36 PM Response to Reply #75 |
145. I love organic food. It's the human dung I can do without. |
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Name removed (0 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Nov-23-08 03:09 PM Response to Original message |
63. Deleted message |
rug (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Nov-23-08 03:24 PM Response to Reply #63 |
72. Nice name. |
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ismnotwasm (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Nov-23-08 03:13 PM Response to Original message |
66. Hey, it's ok |
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Recursion (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Nov-23-08 03:24 PM Response to Original message |
74. That's in the Reformed churches' lectionary for today too |
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Midlodemocrat (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Nov-23-08 03:30 PM Response to Original message |
78. Thanks for posting this, rug. Some of us get it. |
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rug (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Nov-23-08 04:43 PM Response to Reply #78 |
87. Yeah, but now I have another book to read. |
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Midlodemocrat (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Nov-23-08 05:43 PM Response to Reply #87 |
97. LOL. Goofball. |
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ZombieHorde (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Nov-23-08 04:37 PM Response to Original message |
86. the goats on his left |
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rug (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Nov-23-08 04:44 PM Response to Reply #86 |
88. If that's what it meant I'd say ninety novenas. |
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Warren Stupidity (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Nov-24-08 07:56 PM Response to Reply #86 |
127. yes what is it with goats? |
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TexasObserver (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Nov-23-08 05:19 PM Response to Original message |
92. I see it got moved to the Religion and other Fairy Tales Forum |
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rug (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Nov-23-08 05:42 PM Response to Reply #92 |
96. Why are you so interested in fairy tales? |
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TexasObserver (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Nov-23-08 06:45 PM Response to Reply #96 |
104. Because I learned them in church, just as you did. |
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rug (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Nov-23-08 07:56 PM Response to Reply #104 |
108. Burning your hand on a stove does not teach you what fire is. |
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Lydia Leftcoast (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Nov-23-08 06:06 PM Response to Reply #92 |
98. Or as we EXPERIENCE them |
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TexasObserver (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Nov-23-08 06:48 PM Response to Reply #98 |
105. Oh, I believe in God. I just don't believe God and religion are connected. |
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trotsky (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Nov-24-08 10:53 PM Response to Original message |
131. Why is it that so many liberal believers get caught up in the black-and-white, |
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rug (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Nov-25-08 12:52 AM Response to Reply #131 |
133. I don't think it's black and white. |
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trotsky (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Nov-25-08 08:48 AM Response to Reply #133 |
140. That's the magic of the bible. |
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rug (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Nov-25-08 01:40 PM Response to Reply #140 |
143. Seems to me you're the only one engaging in black and white thinking about religion. |
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trotsky (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Nov-25-08 05:30 PM Response to Reply #143 |
147. Well with your own reasoning laid out logically like that, |
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Warren Stupidity (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Nov-25-08 07:37 AM Response to Reply #131 |
137. Even worse good people who choose to turn away from |
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rug (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Nov-25-08 08:16 AM Response to Reply #137 |
139. This should set you off for a good twenty minutes. |
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JerseygirlCT (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Nov-26-08 04:00 PM Response to Reply #131 |
151. I don't think it's the liberal believers indulging in the black and white |
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trotsky (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Nov-26-08 06:52 PM Response to Reply #151 |
152. Are you kidding? That's what the OP was all about. |
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JerseygirlCT (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Nov-26-08 09:50 PM Response to Reply #152 |
153. No, that's really not what the OP was all about |
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trotsky (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Nov-26-08 10:04 PM Response to Reply #153 |
154. Oh, of course not. |
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JerseygirlCT (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Nov-26-08 10:15 PM Response to Reply #154 |
155. No, I don't |
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trotsky (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Nov-26-08 10:22 PM Response to Reply #155 |
156. Fantastic! |
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JerseygirlCT (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Nov-26-08 10:32 PM Response to Reply #156 |
157. I apologize for the overstatement |
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trotsky (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Nov-26-08 10:37 PM Response to Reply #157 |
158. So just because someone believes that certain people will be tortured for eternity, |
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JerseygirlCT (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Nov-27-08 08:47 AM Response to Reply #158 |
159. You're just reading what you want to, Trotsky |
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trotsky (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Nov-27-08 09:31 AM Response to Reply #159 |
160. No, I'm getting insulted because you're insinuating. |
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JerseygirlCT (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Nov-27-08 01:30 PM Response to Reply #160 |
161. But |
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trotsky (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Nov-28-08 09:02 AM Response to Reply #161 |
162. What the heck is with the strawmen? |
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rug (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Nov-28-08 10:15 AM Response to Reply #162 |
163. Concrete thinking and strawmen don't mix. |
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trotsky (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Nov-28-08 04:14 PM Response to Reply #163 |
164. I didn't bring the strawmen - so far, you two have. |
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rug (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Nov-28-08 07:28 PM Response to Reply #164 |
165. Religion affects everyone in the world, not simply you. |
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trotsky (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Nov-28-08 07:43 PM Response to Reply #165 |
166. Neither do personal slams. |
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Marrah_G (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Nov-25-08 02:33 PM Response to Original message |
144. My religion looks favorably upon sex and unfavorably on telling others how (or when) to do it |
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struggle4progress (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Nov-30-08 03:57 AM Response to Original message |
167. Ubi caritas et amor Deus ibi est |
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rug (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Nov-30-08 11:35 PM Response to Reply #167 |
168. Beautiful, |
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