trim your sidewalks.I'm more of a unitardian
Is America headed in the right direction?
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The only people who blather on and on about God, Jesus and the Bible more than Evangelical Christians are Atheists.
If you've read anything on here, you may have noticed that God, Jesus and the Bible are rarely ever mentioned in a context other than sarcasm.
Most of us don't give a shit if you worship Jesus or a head of cabbage. But coming on here to play the poor victimized, oppressed Christian is absurd.
I do like cabbage.
* embraced by many cultures
* besides the occasional eye watering gas emission, I never annoy people by talking about it
* good source of fiber
* inexpensive to acquire, nor have I ever felt compelled to pay more than the asking price at food lion
* I believe in it...mainly because I can see it, smell, and eat it
* has been around well before mithras
* I can easily grow it myself and not have to rely on other people to provide it for me (although I do like how the grimy Thai place down the street cooks it)
* it's a true vegetable
Soup. The answer is soup with cabbage and pasta. mmmm soup....
There are extremists within Buddhism, so yes it does.
Like many of us here, at one time or another I have been tortured with church and right wing religion (Grew up in the town Billy Graham went to school in...) and was beaten over the head with Scripture and exposed to my first Right Wing hypocrites. Believe me, I fluent in many different Scriptural verses. When taken in context, they are often helpful in dealing with lifes challenges, just like the teachings of the Buddha.
But when taken out of context, they are as dangerous as anything on the planet. Just like many other teachings.
Fixed.
Sooo...agnostic it is? Having grown up a preacher's kid who can never remember having ever "believed," that has always seemed to me to be the most reasonable path, although i've found athiesm's rage against the machine appealing at times..
Actually it does indicate growth and learning. What was once a blind faith built upon a 3000 year old book started to fall apart as I learned more about science and other, earlier religions from the Messopotania. Region. Even in it's simplist form of geology (potential of Black Sea filling being the historical reference) and the flood mythology of all religions prior to Judeo-Christian mythology (Ziusudra, Gilgamesh, and Hindu flood mythology). It is very easy to start piecing together historical reference points in the bible to occurrences known prior to biblical timeline. The more you step away from one religion and become a student to study all, the pillars on which religion is built become painfully weak.
Your rhetoric is strong and very familiar to those of the die hard church goers. As for it being easy to misinterpret, who is to say that your interpretation is correct? There are many, many hypocrisies and conflicting statements within the bible that makes for very difficult reconciliation. And what of the missing books? I cannot remember off hand, but there are a few references to other books, which seem to be missing. Things such as the Dead Sea scrolls which mirror some of the missing books, but contradict future books. (I'm on my phone and too lazy to source it)
I think JK answered that sufficiently.
You are associating two very separate things here.
1. Historically, most countries that call themselves socialist are far from it. The USSR was a dictatorship. Venezuela is in large part, a dictatorship. What most here and most supporting Bernie as referencing the Western European nations with very, very progressive tax structures that use those funds for the benefit of all citizens. Socialist (single payer) health-care provides cheaper, better healthcare to the citizenry because the drive for profit is curtailed. Socialist infrastructure (fully government funded), good roads and rail systems, safe bridges, levees, etc. That is all funded by higher taxes. Something like 30% of the bridges in the US are structurally deficient (http://www.infrastructurereportcard.org/a/#p/bridges/conditions-and-capacity). We have one of the highest homeless rates and worst metal care rates in the developed word. All of this is paid for by taxes. Giving as an individual is nice, but it doesn't cut it when it cones to keeping a nation functioning.
2. Jesus might not have been political, but by definition of what socialism is, he was it.
......the larger problem is humanity
Well, that. We're pretty psychotic.......the larger problem is humanity
It's a convenient excuse and an easy explanation.
kind of like how a lot of x-tians justify their bigotry with the bible.
"christian principals"
I'm just saying. I've got 50 pieces of silver and can easily acquire a goat... I mean, I'm just following the book verbatim.
Make it a cow, and you've got a deal.
That's not what the book says. I can have (marry) a raped daughter for 50 pieces of silver and a goat. I'm just trying to follow the book verbatim.
And while we're at it, I will come down there and stone you, because your moto gear is of more than one material.
Oh right, because the jews weren't allowed to bargain shop.
Not according to the book. It had a price. I'm just reading what the book tells me. There is no other interpretation that can be had. Just what the book says. Only silver and a goat for you.Oh right, because the jews weren't allowed to bargain shop.
I'm not sure why you are challenging this though, because I'm just going to be stoning you when I get there, so...
Sounds like somebody gets a free trip to the Bong Shed - lucky bastard....
I seem to recall the book saying something about He who is without sin casting the first stone. Remove thine plank from thine eye fornicator! I remember the shenanigans of your former avatar! Does Jesus have thine hoodie?
I read the popular parts of the book and asked Jesus for forgiveness. He told me that all of those horrible things i did in the past are forgiven. Now shut up and stop avoiding the rocks.
hey stoney, which is the part that allows me to take 'squeeb as a slave?
It's in Leviticus. If you want a slave they have to be foreigners. I suggest Mexico or Canada. MMike is available I suppose.
you're foreign enough. BACK TO WORK.
Can I get a couple nice 19 year old Swedes?
how do you handle slaves for inheritance tax purposes? 3/5?
You render unto ceaser, duh.
Shane covered it.
tell that to the jesus people
To those Christians who dismiss the violent and weird shit in the Old Testament, as well, old and not applicable to modern christianity, let us not forget that the new testament says in reference to the bible Part I.
It is easier for Heaven and Earth to pass away than for the smallest part of the letter of the law to become invalid." (Luke 16:17 NAB)
"Know this first of all, that there is no prophecy of scripture that is a matter of personal interpretation, for no prophecy ever came through human will; but rather human beings moved by the holy Spirit spoke under the influence of God." (2 Peter 20-21 NAB)
Don't you give facts per The Book! The interpretation of The Book is a right provided by my religion and the Constitution. Which was written by Jesus.