I'm a Republican and a Christian living in SF. They look at me like I'm some type of alien here.
I'm just curious, how do they know your political and religious affiliations?
I'm a Republican and a Christian living in SF. They look at me like I'm some type of alien here.
Where did Jefferson say that??
No...the real point is the fact that 'your' OPINION....is worthless when one can go to the very source of Christian Doctrine, the Word of God and comprehend the knowledge that God wanted to reveal to man.
Simply because God does not fit into your personal pigeon hole concerning what "He should" be like is the most revealing thing realized in your personal opinion. Of course no one knows the mind of God or everything that God knows, He reveals what He wants, when He wants and reserves knowledge that He does not wish to reveal.
The Bible is the word of God"
"How can you be sure it's the word of God?"
"Because the Bible tells us so"
"Why believe the Bible?
"The Bible is infallible"
"How do you know it's infallible?"...
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Nun...nun,nun,nun....is this the Twilight Zone...or am I to waste time on the parroted shopping list again....deja vu?
Today's liberal thought of the day.
Ad Nauseam Circular Argument.
You had your ass handed to you once via the actual doctrine found in scripture, that has never been found less than truthful....again this exact same parroted internet shopping list? Really? I have nothing to add, except to MOVEON.ORG
Living in the south I see tons of billboards from churches and other religious groups. Why is it so outrageous for an atheist billboard to exist?
They're not atheists, they're anti theists. Otherwise, they wouldn't be putting on this hateful display holiday season after holiday season.
They cannot tolerate the fact that no matter how you chose to celebrate the holidays, Christmas has a Christian religious root to it and it is sickening to the anti theists. They are 0 tolerant ass holes and deserve to be ridiculed.
Your ignorance truly knows no bounds.
Christmas does not, in fact, have Christian roots. It has Pagan roots ("pagan" being a term early Christians used for a variety of people with a variety of faiths).
As just about everyone knows, during the period of the early church, Christians co-opted the various winter festivals, rites, ceremonies, and traditions in an attempt to assimilate non-Christians into their own religion in order to grow their own numbers.
So they stole various traditions, repackaged them and spit them out as "Christmas." Ignorant, uneducated people don't know this because they hide that kind of information in books, which ignorant, uneducated people never bother to read. I'm sure not reading sounds VERY familiar to you.
Oh, and that Christmas tree you've no doubt smiled at every year thinking it has something to do with Jesus? That didn't turn up until the 17th century, but even that has Pagan roots because it comes from the Pagan tradition of decorating for winter rites with greenery.
There was a lot that went on before Christianity and Christianity stole, assimilated and co-opted a lot of it. Christianity is a cobbled-together Mutt religion, to put it in basest terms. It's just that you're ignorant - and willfully so - so you don't know about any of it.
Which is what makes you a zero-tolerant asshole who deserves to be ridiculed.
And which is also one of the many, MANY things that makes it so easy for me to ridicule you.
Merry Christmas.
You mean, aside from the whole, miraculous birth of the Christ, it is entirely pagan without any actual Christian significance.
Your ignorance truly knows no bounds.
Christmas does not, in fact, have Christian roots. It has Pagan roots ("pagan" being a term early Christians used for a variety of people with a variety of faiths).
As just about everyone knows, during the period of the early church, Christians co-opted the various winter festivals, rites, ceremonies, and traditions in an attempt to assimilate non-Christians into their own religion in order to grow their own numbers.
So they stole various traditions, repackaged them and spit them out as "Christmas." Ignorant, uneducated people don't know this because they hide that kind of information in books, which ignorant, uneducated people never bother to read. I'm sure not reading sounds VERY familiar to you.
Oh, and that Christmas tree you've no doubt smiled at every year thinking it has something to do with Jesus? That didn't turn up until the 17th century, but even that has Pagan roots because it comes from the Pagan tradition of decorating for winter rites with greenery.
There was a lot that went on before Christianity and Christianity stole, assimilated and co-opted a lot of it. Christianity is a cobbled-together Mutt religion, to put it in basest terms. It's just that you're ignorant - and willfully so - so you don't know about any of it.
Which is what makes you a zero-tolerant asshole who deserves to be ridiculed.
And which is also one of the many, MANY things that makes it so easy for me to ridicule you.
Merry Christmas.
"that incarnate deity sacrificing his life for his creation" thing sort of fucks with the pagan pattern, doesn't it.....
Actually, the very second you can provide proof of the bible being the word of god instead of a group of allegorical stories collected by humans which were then shuffled and reshuffled several times by humans where humans decided what books did and didn't matter based on what best fit the designs and agendas of those making those decisions, you might have even the tiniest germ of a point. But, since you can't, you don't have a point at all.
Faith is defined as, "belief without evidence." Which is what you do. You believe without evidence. That's fine for you. But for you to come in here and spout scripture verse and claim it to be the true word of god is asking far too much for those of us who can think and reason.
You don't know what my relationship with god is, or if I have one. You don't know if I think a relationship between science and religion is an apotheosis or antithesis. All you know for certain is that I'm not a BLIND follower like you.
And the BEST part of that is the fact that we worship the same god. I just worship god while you worship a bronze-age hippie who claimed to be the Messiah but by all prophecies ever written wasn't anything LIKE the Messiah, thus condemning to hell Christians who worship a false prophet - by everything told in their religious dogma (see you in hell, buddy).
And then, of course, there's THIS:
First, nobody had their ass handed to them via the "actual doctrine found in scripture." Because? Well, because not everybody sees what you see, believes what you believe, or is bound by the kind of extreme zeal you have for allegorical stories.
Second, what domer said was not a list. It was an example of circular logic that you don't recognize even when you engage in EXACTLY what he said. And I mean EXACTLY.
We've gone around EXACTLY like this before, Ralph. I tell you something about the bible, you tell me it's the word of god, I say, "Prove it," and you say, "It's the word of GOD!", likely while sweating, red-faced with that little white spittle forming at the corner of your mouth that religious extremists get when screaming at someone who thinks and reasons.
What domer showed is the child-like attempt at argument that you, yourself, have used on this forum and in fact use in the part of your proselytization that I quoted above. "It's the word of god because it's the word of god. So there. Infinity."
And the fact that you went after domer for pointing out your own immature thought pattern on that? I actually laughed so hard my wife came to find out what was so funny.
Finally, the story of Adam & Eve, Eden, the expulsion and everything else is allegory. It's not intended to be taken literally, it didn't actually happen. Even Cardinals, priests, reverands, pastors and other "men of the cloth" recognize that.
Not you, though. You take it as fact without evidence because, and I know you'll love this, "it's the word of god".
To which I ask you, how can you be sure it's the word of god?
No religious Ties shall ever be required as a Qualification to any Office or public Trust under the United States.
Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof.
What domer showed is the child-like attempt at argument
"That incarnate deity sacrificing his life for creation" fucks with the rational mind.
You mean, aside from the whole, miraculous birth of the Christ, it is entirely pagan without any actual Christian significance.
"that incarnate deity sacrificing his life for his creation" thing sort of fucks with the pagan pattern, doesn't it.....
this will probably come as a surprise to the typical brainless atheist, but we don't actually believe that Christmas trees have anything to do with Jesus.....the Christmas we celebrate doesn't have anything to do with paganism......that would be the Christmas you atheists have tried to paste over the real thing to hide what its about.......
Which early Christians actually didn't pay much attention to and didn't really see the point in celebrating? Yeah, it's entirely Pagan without any Christian significance.
Shoehorning in a birth that took place sometime in July (by best estimates) doesn't suddenly give the holiday Christian roots. It just means Christians needed to force information into what already existed.
then you don't stand a chance......
That's Easter, dumb ass.
I'm a Jew, and even I knew the difference.