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Originally posted by junglejake
The same way those idiots can carry signs that say, "God hates gays John 3:16". (I'm assuming; the website seems to be down)
No, I don't think so, it was an over reaction I had only just discovered it then, and was more than a little ______ off.
There are those who use religion to further their own agendas. Because they exist, do you really believe that it should be banned outright? Make it illegal because a select few (whom the media loves to spotlight, in the case of those claiming to be "Christian") abuse it?
Just because something has the potential for abuse doesn't mean it is evil. In fact, it often is because it has a capacity for good that it gets corrupted.
Originally posted by junglejake
Just because something has the potential for abuse doesn't mean it is evil. In fact, it often is because it has a capacity for good that it gets corrupted.
Originally posted by yeahright
I could easily go to work on the knees of any of these whack jobs with a fungo bat and comfortably take what I had coming to me in the next life.
(pp. 28-29)
Whichever he adopts, your main task will be the same. Let him begin by treating the Patriotism or the Pacifism as a part of his religion. Then let him, under the influence of partisan spirit, come to regard it as the most important part. Then quietly and gradually nurse him on to the stage at which the religion becomes merely part of the 'cause', in which Christianity is valued chiefly because of the excellent arguments it can produce in favour of the British war-effort or of Pacifism. The attitude which you want to guard against is that in which temporal affairs are treated primarily as material for obedience. Once you have made the World an end, and faith a means, you have almost won your man, and it makes very little difference what kind of worldly end he is pursuing. Provided that meetings, pamphlets, policies, movements, causes and crusades, matter more to him than prayers and sacraments and charity, he is ours -- the the more 'religious' (on those terms) the more securely ours. I could show you a pretty cageful down here
Originally posted by apex
well, it seems they hate the UK as well:
www.godhatesfags.com...
Ends off saying god hates the queen. Now no flaming for saying this, but I don't really find it all that offensive as they think it should be.
Still, if God loves them as much as they seem to think he does, You'd think god would give them a faster web site.
Wait, are you saying you like Blair?
Originally posted by zysin5
I only agree with the part that Bush is bad. The rest of their message goes into the recycle bin.
Originally posted by SpeakerofTruth
[edit on 19-4-2007 by SpeakerofTruth]
Originally posted by clearwater
They're hate ridden nut balls - homophobia implies frustrated erotic impulses.
Must be the tiny, itsy, bitsy hard drives....
homophobia implies frustrated erotic impulses.
Originally posted by wu kung
Whoa.
Yeah, that's some stuff right there.
But, seriously, who really cares?