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Christians: how do you sleep at night?
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RE: Christians: how do you sleep at night?
February 22, 2015 at 5:51 pm
(February 22, 2015 at 4:38 pm)professor Wrote: Satanists seem to only rail against Jesus Christ.

People involved in UFO abductions report in their encounters that the UFO entities rail and blaspheme ONLY Jesus Christ.
These entities are demons posing as aliens.

That's because Satanism and UFO abductions are mostly from Westernized countries with a Christian heritage. It's natural that Satanism invented in a Christian culture will define itself in Christian terms. It's also natural that hallucinations in a Christian culture may include elements of Christianity. (Most UFO abductions can be explained easily as hallucinations.)
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RE: Christians: how do you sleep at night?
February 22, 2015 at 6:02 pm
(February 22, 2015 at 4:57 pm)Drich Wrote: If 'religion' doesn't follow what the bible says, then is the God of the bible who commands us through the bible obligated to follow the precepts in a given religion?

Rather is he obligated by what non biblically relevant priests/leadership says concerning who goes to heaven?

Or does God retain full authority despite what a given religion says and follow through with what he has told us in scripture?

Thought crime rephrase:
In mat 5 (where Jesus identifies thought crimes) he only does so to show the futility of trying to follow religious law. He is making it impossible to be found righteous according to the law. Which show point a good Jew to the second part of the law. Atonement. Once you have atonement for sin 'thought crime' becomes a non issue.

The bible is the only source of anything we know about your god, so if there's something in the bible that doesn't fit with what he wants, he's obligated to fix it. As it stands, there's no way to know exactly what he wants because the holy text is faulty.

Normally if we see someone making a scenario that other people can't escape from, and punishing them for not following in line, we call it evil. setting a standard too high for people to reach, and saying they're wretched for not being able to meet it is wrong.
Poe's Law: "Without a winking smiley or other blatant display of humor, it is impossible to create a parody of Fundamentalism that SOMEONE won't mistake for the real thing."

10 Christ-like figures that predate Jesus. Link shortened to Chris ate Jesus for some reason...
http://listverse.com/2009/04/13/10-chris...ate-jesus/

Good video to watch, if you want to know how common the Jesus story really is.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=88GTUXvp-50

A list of biblical contradictions from the infallible word of Yahweh.
http://infidels.org/library/modern/jim_m...tions.html

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RE: Christians: how do you sleep at night?
February 22, 2015 at 6:37 pm (This post was last modified: February 22, 2015 at 6:37 pm by watchamadoodle.)
Those who oppose infant baptism argue that a person should be allowed to choose after reaching the age of reason. However, in adult baptism the person is also not free to decide. The person has probably been taught from childhood that Christianity is true, so he/she is choosing between heaven and hell - get baptized and follow Jesus or go to hell. So it is the same whether we baptize infants or adults. Indoctrination removes the choice either way.
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RE: Christians: how do you sleep at night?
February 22, 2015 at 7:00 pm
I think it's worth pointing out that baptism isn't some sort of irreversible surgery that forever changes a person's character (like the capping process in The Tripods). It's just water and a few 'magic' words.
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: Christians: how do you sleep at night?
February 22, 2015 at 7:05 pm (This post was last modified: February 22, 2015 at 7:05 pm by Norman Humann.)
It's a funny thing, baptism. I've been taught that you have to say the exact words in the exact order, otherwise the whole thing just doesn't count. Imagine that, you can't get into heaven because some lousy preacher had one glass of service wine too many that day. I'd be pissed.
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RE: Christians: how do you sleep at night?
February 22, 2015 at 7:14 pm
Norm, could you just dump all the stuff you learned from religionists and read the bible for yourself?
Think if it as a spiritual enema.
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RE: Christians: how do you sleep at night?
February 22, 2015 at 7:17 pm
(February 22, 2015 at 7:14 pm)professor Wrote: Norm, could you just dump all the stuff you learned from religionists and read the bible for yourself?
Think if it as a spiritual enema.

The 'don't wear mixed fabrics' and 'stone adulterers' parts too, or should I just call them metaphorical?
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RE: Christians: how do you sleep at night?
February 22, 2015 at 7:19 pm
"Spiritual enema" is probably the best description of the bible I've ever heard.
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: Christians: how do you sleep at night?
February 22, 2015 at 8:24 pm
Stimbo, a wow moment- we agree- happy new year!

Ah Norm, start in the New covenant, time is late.
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RE: Christians: how do you sleep at night?
February 22, 2015 at 8:29 pm (This post was last modified: February 22, 2015 at 8:29 pm by Cyberman.)
A World of Warcraft moment?
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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