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The Reasons why "Just Following Jesus" Doesn't work
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RE: The Reasons why "Just Following Jesus" Doesn't work
March 4, 2016 at 6:51 pm (This post was last modified: March 4, 2016 at 6:52 pm by TheRocketSurgeon.)
This is why I get so frustrated by the fundies who ask "where is your documentation?", but don't want to actually read the books, take the classes, and apply the amount of work it would take in order to understand the subject... they never provide proof of their own claims, expecting us to take them on fiat and complaining when we demand those proofs before accepting the claims, but when the situation is reversed, when you finally get tired of their requests for you to provide FOR them what is available to them in any library in the United States (and much of it online, nowadays), you already know they'll just ignore it as if you hadn't presented anything.

I sometimes think fundies exist just to make smart people develop facial tics.
A Christian told me: if you were saved you cant lose your salvation. you're sealed with the Holy Ghost
I replied: Can I refuse? Because I find the entire concept of vicarious blood sacrifice atonement to be morally abhorrent, the concept of holding flawed creatures permanently accountable for social misbehaviors and thought crimes to be morally abhorrent, and the concept of calling something "free" when it comes with the strings of subjugation and obedience perhaps the most morally abhorrent of all... and that's without even going into the history of justifying genocide, slavery, rape, misogyny, religious intolerance, and suppression of free speech which has been attributed by your own scriptures to your deity. I want a refund. I would burn happily rather than serve the monster you profess to love.

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RE: The Reasons why "Just Following Jesus" Doesn't work
March 4, 2016 at 8:27 pm
(March 3, 2016 at 9:08 pm)Stimbo Wrote:
(March 3, 2016 at 3:39 pm)Rekeisha Wrote: The difference is God is alive.  He has a mind and a will and emotions. Then out of His creativity He made all things, including human beings that have minds wills and emotions.

How do you know these things>

I think this one's multiple choice:

A. "It says so in THIS book!"
B. "I feel it in my womb!"(or something)
C. "The Voices in my Head Tell Me So"
D. "The Voices in my Head Tell Me So...AND it say so in this book."

I'm going with D.
Yep...D feels right. Right? Undecided
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The Reasons why "Just Following Jesus" Doesn't work
March 4, 2016 at 9:07 pm
You forgot personal revelation!!! [emoji13] She saw Jesus in a burrito...and it was good.
Nay_Sayer: “Nothing is impossible if you dream big enough, or in this case, nothing is impossible if you use a barrel of KY Jelly and a miniature horse.”

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RE: The Reasons why "Just Following Jesus" Doesn't work
March 4, 2016 at 9:22 pm
Holy Guacamole....It's the Son of God.
That's it. I'm changing my answer to T (for Tortilla!).

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RE: The Reasons why "Just Following Jesus" Doesn't work
March 4, 2016 at 9:52 pm (This post was last modified: March 4, 2016 at 9:52 pm by Minimalist.)
Let's not forget...

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/02/25...59963.html



Quote:Bird Turd Jesus: Ohio Man Jim Lawry Says Dropping On His Windshield Is Image Of Christ


Holy shit.
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RE: The Reasons why "Just Following Jesus" Doesn't work
March 4, 2016 at 10:02 pm
And last, but not least - a classic.

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The Reasons why "Just Following Jesus" Doesn't work
March 4, 2016 at 10:17 pm
That one never gets old, lol
Nay_Sayer: “Nothing is impossible if you dream big enough, or in this case, nothing is impossible if you use a barrel of KY Jelly and a miniature horse.”

Wiser words were never spoken. 
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RE: The Reasons why "Just Following Jesus" Doesn't work
March 4, 2016 at 10:21 pm
um . .

if I find a human butt of similar appurtenance, can I post it here, or does it go to A69 ??
 The granting of a pardon is an imputation of guilt, and the acceptance a confession of it. 




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RE: The Reasons why "Just Following Jesus" Doesn't work
March 5, 2016 at 2:41 pm
(March 4, 2016 at 10:21 pm)vorlon13 Wrote: um . .

if I find a human butt of similar appurtenance, can I post it here, or does it go to A69 ??

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A Christian told me: if you were saved you cant lose your salvation. you're sealed with the Holy Ghost
I replied: Can I refuse? Because I find the entire concept of vicarious blood sacrifice atonement to be morally abhorrent, the concept of holding flawed creatures permanently accountable for social misbehaviors and thought crimes to be morally abhorrent, and the concept of calling something "free" when it comes with the strings of subjugation and obedience perhaps the most morally abhorrent of all... and that's without even going into the history of justifying genocide, slavery, rape, misogyny, religious intolerance, and suppression of free speech which has been attributed by your own scriptures to your deity. I want a refund. I would burn happily rather than serve the monster you profess to love.

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RE: The Reasons why "Just Following Jesus" Doesn't work
March 5, 2016 at 2:43 pm
No, the biggest problem with just following Jesus is that guy has been dead a long, long time. Whoever it may be those people are following, it can't be the biblical Jesus.
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