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July 21, 2014 at 3:37 am
(This post was last modified: July 21, 2014 at 3:38 am by StealthySkeptic.)
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RE: Theocracy
July 21, 2014 at 7:19 am
These people are scary as shit......
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: Theocracy
July 21, 2014 at 8:01 am
(This post was last modified: July 21, 2014 at 8:02 am by Dystopia.)
(July 21, 2014 at 3:37 am)StealthySkeptic Wrote: This is from my conversation on BahaiForums, and I have to say I was massively weirded out by it. Basically, a lot of Baha'is there think that a Cataclysm will cause the end of the current international society, after which the Baha'i Administrative World Order will become the new world government that everybody will turn to and everybody will never have any problems or criticisms and hold hangs and sing happy songs to God for all eternity.
You are a good member and I appreciate your threads, but I stopped reading after this paragraph (the first), not because I wasn't going to enjoy the thread, but because I'm sick of these religious crazies, form the moment I saw ' Baha'i Adminstrative World Order will become the new world government' I quit reading into further stupidity. And they say Baha'i are different and special, the true faith
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RE: Theocracy
July 21, 2014 at 8:08 am
(This post was last modified: July 21, 2014 at 8:13 am by StealthySkeptic.)
(July 21, 2014 at 7:19 am)Rhythm Wrote: These people are scary as shit......
They're nice people, but I always worried about encountering Baha'is who held theocratic ideas.
(July 21, 2014 at 8:01 am)Blackout Wrote: (July 21, 2014 at 3:37 am)StealthySkeptic Wrote: This is from my conversation on BahaiForums, and I have to say I was massively weirded out by it. Basically, a lot of Baha'is there think that a Cataclysm will cause the end of the current international society, after which the Baha'i Administrative World Order will become the new world government that everybody will turn to and everybody will never have any problems or criticisms and hold hangs and sing happy songs to God for all eternity.
You are a good member and I appreciate your threads, but I stopped reading after this paragraph (the first), not because I wasn't going to enjoy the thread, but because I'm sick of these religious crazies, form the moment I saw 'Baha'i Adminstrative World Order will become the new world government' I quit reading into further stupidity. And they say Baha'i are different and special, the true faith
Yeah, well they couch in terms that basically mean, "All (Abrahamic) religions are equal but some are more equal than others." Also it seems that Rhythm has joined the forum and schooled someone on the use of the transitive law. Thanks buddy!
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RE: Theocracy
July 21, 2014 at 8:46 am
(July 21, 2014 at 8:08 am)StealthySkeptic Wrote: They're nice people, Neighbors are often quoted as saying the same about serial killers. LOL, point being, it's debatable.
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: Theocracy
July 21, 2014 at 8:58 am
(July 21, 2014 at 8:46 am)Rhythm Wrote: (July 21, 2014 at 8:08 am)StealthySkeptic Wrote: They're nice people, Neighbors are often quoted as saying the same about serial killers. LOL, point being, it's debatable.
Very true, pedo priests tend to be really nice people
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RE: Theocracy
July 21, 2014 at 11:03 am
"Too long."
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RE: Theocracy
July 21, 2014 at 11:23 am
(July 21, 2014 at 8:58 am)Blackout Wrote: (July 21, 2014 at 8:46 am)Rhythm Wrote: Neighbors are often quoted as saying the same about serial killers. LOL, point being, it's debatable.
Very true, pedo priests tend to be really nice people
Well at least the Baha'is I know are definitely not serial killers lol.
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RE: Theocracy
July 22, 2014 at 7:55 am
(This post was last modified: July 22, 2014 at 7:56 am by Sen McGlinn.)
(July 21, 2014 at 8:01 am)Blackout Wrote: ... I'm sick of these religious crazies, form the moment I saw 'Baha'i Adminstrative World Order will become the new world government' I quit reading into further stupidity.
It is a stupid idea, but it is not what the Bahai teachings say. On the contrary, the separation of church and state is one of the cornerstones of the Bahai principles. The Bahai founding figures had a definite vision of how a world federal government would work, and they had a plan for how the Bahai community would administer itself, internally, as a religious community. They are very obviously two different things, but the less knowledgeable or less intelligent Bahais sometimes mash them. One is called the Bahai world Commonwealth (capital C), the other is the commonwealth of nations - and mixing up the Bahai texts that refer to one or the other causes a lot of confusion. I have linked to a blog article that summarises the nature of the two commonwealths in the Bahai literature. All the references there are links to sources that give more context.
Enjoy
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RE: Theocracy
July 22, 2014 at 8:07 am
I'm still supremely skeptical of any set of doctrines that can be hand-washed away by saying "Those stupid members of <insert religion here> just don't get it".
In every country and every age, the priest had been hostile to Liberty.
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