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RE: End of Times and career
October 6, 2016 at 7:35 am
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Probably has something to do with modern life cutting into the religious marketshare. Providing the services people once sought out from god, and actually delivering them for a change.
Why pray for rain when you can buy irrigation? Why pray for peace of mind when you can take it in 200mg doses? Why appeal to god to punish the wrong-doers when your courts are working overtime? Why cry unto heaven for your life, or the life of your child, when you can just go to the ER?
I am the Infantry. I am my country’s strength in war, her deterrent in peace. I am the heart of the fight… wherever, whenever. I carry America’s faith and honor against her enemies. I am the Queen of Battle. I am what my country expects me to be, the best trained Soldier in the world. In the race for victory, I am swift, determined, and courageous, armed with a fierce will to win. Never will I fail my country’s trust. Always I fight on…through the foe, to the objective, to triumph overall. If necessary, I will fight to my death. By my steadfast courage, I have won more than 200 years of freedom. I yield not to weakness, to hunger, to cowardice, to fatigue, to superior odds, For I am mentally tough, physically strong, and morally straight. I forsake not, my country, my mission, my comrades, my sacred duty. I am relentless. I am always there, now and forever. I AM THE INFANTRY! FOLLOW ME!
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RE: End of Times and career
October 6, 2016 at 7:50 am
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And then give God™ the credit anyway.
At the age of five, Skagra decided emphatically that God did not exist. This revelation tends to make most people in the universe who have it react in one of two ways - with relief or with despair. Only Skagra responded to it by thinking, 'Wait a second. That means there's a situation vacant.'
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RE: End of Times and career
October 6, 2016 at 8:25 am
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Yeah, but that's habitual behavior. Most of them don't actually think that god took hold of the scalpel, they just have a compulsion to be seen and heard saying such pious things. In case gods listening, maybe.....but more likely, in case someone else is.
See, I operate on the assumption that no one is as crazy/stupid as they make themselves out to be. Maybe I'm just a natural optimist. 
I am the Infantry. I am my country’s strength in war, her deterrent in peace. I am the heart of the fight… wherever, whenever. I carry America’s faith and honor against her enemies. I am the Queen of Battle. I am what my country expects me to be, the best trained Soldier in the world. In the race for victory, I am swift, determined, and courageous, armed with a fierce will to win. Never will I fail my country’s trust. Always I fight on…through the foe, to the objective, to triumph overall. If necessary, I will fight to my death. By my steadfast courage, I have won more than 200 years of freedom. I yield not to weakness, to hunger, to cowardice, to fatigue, to superior odds, For I am mentally tough, physically strong, and morally straight. I forsake not, my country, my mission, my comrades, my sacred duty. I am relentless. I am always there, now and forever. I AM THE INFANTRY! FOLLOW ME!
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RE: End of Times and career
October 6, 2016 at 12:09 pm
You guys are really condescending elitists, plus you've just plain got it wrong about people around the world. I'm sure that those christians in China, Africa and other places around the world accept your concern for them (or lack of concern) as they continue to take a bigger and bigger chunk of world power and influence. You guys really think that you're what it's all about. A woman at the church I attend has a college degree and owned a business in China. She was doing quite well financially and is no superstitious savage. She was baptized with an underground group of christians at the risk of losing her business. Open up your eyes and see that there's a whole world out there full of intelligent people who are making things happen and they are not from the western world.
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RE: End of Times and career
October 6, 2016 at 12:11 pm
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If she believes in vicarious redemption through the blood sacrifice of your demi-god...then she's a superstitious savage. Doesn't mean she can't be a nice person too, numbskull. If she decides to risk her business for her superstitious, savage beliefs, then that...is her own business. I'm certainly not going to tell her she can't, or criticize her for being willing to assume risk. Who said that there wasn;t a world full of intelligent people out there making things happen...plenty of which not from the western world?
Who are you talking to, what are you talking about? Get your shit together.
I am the Infantry. I am my country’s strength in war, her deterrent in peace. I am the heart of the fight… wherever, whenever. I carry America’s faith and honor against her enemies. I am the Queen of Battle. I am what my country expects me to be, the best trained Soldier in the world. In the race for victory, I am swift, determined, and courageous, armed with a fierce will to win. Never will I fail my country’s trust. Always I fight on…through the foe, to the objective, to triumph overall. If necessary, I will fight to my death. By my steadfast courage, I have won more than 200 years of freedom. I yield not to weakness, to hunger, to cowardice, to fatigue, to superior odds, For I am mentally tough, physically strong, and morally straight. I forsake not, my country, my mission, my comrades, my sacred duty. I am relentless. I am always there, now and forever. I AM THE INFANTRY! FOLLOW ME!
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RE: End of Times and career
October 6, 2016 at 12:15 pm
(October 6, 2016 at 12:11 pm)Rhythm Wrote: If she believes in vicarious redemption through the blood sacrifice of your demi-god...then she's a superstitious savage. Doesn't mean she can't be a nice person too, numbskull. If she decides to risk her business for her superstitious, savage beliefs, then that...is her own business. I'm certainly not going to tell her she can't, or criticize her for being willing to assume risk.
Thanks Rhythm. You've shown me the light.
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RE: End of Times and career
October 6, 2016 at 12:26 pm
(October 6, 2016 at 12:09 pm)Lek Wrote: You guys are really condescending elitists, plus you've just plain got it wrong about people around the world. I'm sure that those christians in China, Africa and other places around the world accept your concern for them (or lack of concern) as they continue to take a bigger and bigger chunk of world power and influence. You guys really think that you're what it's all about. A woman at the church I attend has a college degree and owned a business in China. She was doing quite well financially and is no superstitious savage. She was baptized with an underground group of christians at the risk of losing her business. Open up your eyes and see that there's a whole world out there full of intelligent people who are making things happen and they are not from the western world.
Hm, Red Christian China, I wonder what it will be like.
"Open up your eyes and see that there's a whole world out there full of intelligent people who are making things happen and they are not from the western world."
A heretic tells us to open our eyes? Really?
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RE: End of Times and career
October 6, 2016 at 12:37 pm
Plenty of smart people believe in, and risk themselves for, stupid bullshit. Aside from having a misguided sense of courage, I don't see why they deserve praise.
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RE: End of Times and career
October 6, 2016 at 12:45 pm
(October 6, 2016 at 12:37 pm)KevinM1 Wrote: Plenty of smart people believe in, and risk themselves for, stupid bullshit. Aside from having a misguided sense of courage, I don't see why they deserve praise.
Okay. You're zooming into my example of a christian from China who is not the stereotype that previous posters were trying to create for those receiving christianity throughout the world. The point I was making is that the people who are coming to Christ around the world do not not meet the image that you're all trying to portray. In fact, many of those parts of the world are gaining power and influence in the world.
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RE: End of Times and career
October 6, 2016 at 12:53 pm
Aside from China, not really. And it'd be really interesting to see the numbers re: education level vs. accepting Christianity there.
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