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Thread: Love
Post: Love
| If I speak in the tongues of men and of angels,
but have not love,
I am only a resounding gong or a clanging cymbal.
If I have the gift of prophecy and
can fathom all mysteries and all knowledge,
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November 9, 2018 at 5:19 pm |
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Thread: Adoring Skeptics
Post: Adoring Skeptics
| All evangelical religions desire skepticism in unbelievers because there is little chance of converting someone who has absolute faith in their beliefs.
A person must examine their beliefs and, throu... |
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FadingW |
Religion
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May 30, 2011 at 1:46 am |
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Thread: Prayer and the Fiery Furance
Post: Prayer and the Fiery Furance
| "and Nebuchadnezzar said to them, 'Is it true, Shadrach, Meshach and Abednego, that you do not serve my gods or worship the image of gold I have set up?... if you are ready to fall down and worship th... |
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FadingW |
Christianity
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May 30, 2011 at 1:25 am |
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Thread: Jesus for President
Post: Jesus for President
| Seeing as elections are coming up in America, I am wondering if Jesus ran for President of the USA, would he actually win?
There are a lot of people who claim Jesus is the most important person, but ... |
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FadingW |
Christianity
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May 20, 2011 at 1:58 am |
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Thread: What is God?
Post: What is God?
| There can exist certain definitions of 'god' such that anyone is forced to admit that 'god' exists.
A trivial example: 'god' as a concept.
What do you generally accept as god for the purposes of di... |
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FadingW |
Religion
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May 20, 2011 at 1:38 am |
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Thread: Half of Americans believe U.S. Christians persecuted
Post: RE: Half of Americans believe U.S. Christians pers...
| Ah yes, the piteous lament of the rulers.
Why is it persecution when bigots are made to meet the consequences of their actions, but when bigots freely act as their smallness desires it is not conside... |
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Christianity
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May 14, 2011 at 12:03 am |
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Thread: Teach the Controversy
Post: Teach the Controversy
| Supporters of intelligent design rely on a masquerade of propriety by suggesting that scientific freedom and rigor demand equal time for ID.
Yet how many ID supporters would accept classes teaching s... |
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FadingW |
Religion
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May 13, 2011 at 11:52 pm |
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Thread: Real Christians
Post: Real Christians
| It it sad to see how common it is that christians dwell in inconsistency:
preach family values, divorce sick wife
preach forgiveness, demand the death penalty
preach charity, denigrate welfare
pr... |
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FadingW |
Christianity
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May 13, 2011 at 11:36 pm |
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Thread: This is unexpected.
Post: RE: This is unexpected.
| I looked up satanism a while back and to this day I am somewhat puzzled.
It appears to be a creed based on what people actually do. Why bother ritualizing what is commonplace?
For me it seems that i... |
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FadingW |
Religion
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May 13, 2011 at 11:21 pm |
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Thread: The End is Neigh
Post: RE: The End is Neigh
| Nay, I say to you. Nay.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pQiXPHhZ4Go
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Christianity
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May 7, 2011 at 12:09 pm |
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Thread: How can anyone be okay with Hell ?
Post: RE: How can anyone be okay with Hell ?
| Hell is acceptable for those that believe God has no obligations towards human beings, neither moral, nor otherwise.
That the root of a belief system is responsibility going only one way does not spe... |
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Religion
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May 7, 2011 at 3:02 am |
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Thread: Is God always "just"?
Post: RE: Is God always "just"?
| Religious people are married to the idea of a just god, even if it means defending genocide as justice.
That is because the alternative would be to admit to worshiping an immoral entity, not realizin... |
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Religion
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May 7, 2011 at 2:54 am |
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Thread: Universalism
Post: RE: Universalism
| People who disbelieve in universalism fear that spreading this idea will cause other people to be destroyed by accepting the ineffectual.
It's like how you might feel about peddlers in homeopathy.
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FadingW |
Christianity
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May 7, 2011 at 2:49 am |
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Thread: In general, a man with religion is better than an atheist.
Post: RE: In general, a man with religion is better than...
| Most people of the world throughout history were religious...
How did that less dangerous thing turn out?
Remember that Abraham, the man of faith, is admired by the religious for attempting to murde... |
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Atheism
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May 7, 2011 at 2:14 am |
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Thread: The End is Neigh
Post: The End is Neigh
| Speaking of the end of the world:
"'I tell you, I will not drink of this fruit of the vine from now on until that day when I drink it anew with you in my Father's kingdom.'" Matthew 26:29
Look out f... |
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Christianity
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May 7, 2011 at 1:40 am |
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Thread: I Had a Dream
Post: I Had a Dream
| For many christians, personal testimony, personal experience is a really big deal.
But does personal experience really prove anything?
Isn't it at best like an ink blot test which reveals more abou... |
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FadingW |
Christianity
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April 30, 2011 at 11:35 am |
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Thread: Proposed: The United States is NOT a christian nation.
Post: RE: Proposed: The United States is NOT a christian...
| The really big problem with claiming America as a christian nation is that America has hardly a sparkling history.
You run into the pickle of having to explain how a christian nation supported slaver... |
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Christianity
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April 27, 2011 at 11:55 pm |
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Thread: No morals!?
Post: RE: No morals!?
| The irony is that christianity actually needs 'morality in people who don't believe in God' to be true.
Christianity suggests that God will judge everyone.
Christianity suggests that God is fair.
I... |
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Christianity
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April 27, 2011 at 11:49 pm |
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Thread: Amoral Inaction
Post: Amoral Inaction
| I was reading an article a while back about natural disasters and the immorality of any god, unworthy of worship, even should a god exist at all.
The idea was that inaction in the face of terrible su... |
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Religion
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April 27, 2011 at 11:35 pm |
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Thread: Is God always "just"?
Post: RE: Is God always "just"?
| A word like 'justice' becomes meaningless if it is defined that someone is always just no matter what. |
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April 27, 2011 at 11:20 pm |
