quote:Followers of the teachings of Jesus Christ have NEVER commited an attrocity in the history of mankind, by the nature of said teachings.
Controversial aside - George W. Bush is therefore not a Christian. See: Sermon on the mount.
BTW, if you really think the above statement is true, then Communists never committed atrocities, either. Marx certainly wasn't too big on the "let's murder/kill/enslave everyone who bugs us" idea.
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Also, the "These people weren't Christians, by definition!" pretty much makes the arguments in Northern Ireland mute...
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ROTFLMFAOSMIPIMP!!!!
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quote:Originally posted by Tahna Los: ROTFLMFAOSMIPIMP!!!!
I only understand what it means upto here: ROTFLMFAO but the rest...
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Wild guess says that the "SMIPIMP" is "So Much I Pissed In My Pants". But I just made that up, so I don't know if that's what he meant, or not.
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Bingo.
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Well, I think Mel Brooks was right. The only way to fight such an evil is to ridicule it. (Springtime for Hitler).
Someone needs to start a campaign on the public webwaves to make these people appear as foolish to the general public as we see them now.
1) Giant publicity campaign. Every free-thinker in the world mails a copy of the Bible to Greenland, where they are entombed in permafrost. We call it the "hell freezes over" policy. The exact opposite of book burning.
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I come from a small town in BC called Abbotsford. I attended a Christian high school, and can therefore state (quite categorically), that I've been pretty much immersed in Christianity, the church, and its dogma.
However, during my 15th year, I came to a sudden discovery.
The majority of Christians aren't what you would consider true Christians. ie: They don't make the grade either because of ulterior motives (attend church for social/economic reasons), or for other reasons do not exist in a state of grace.
But they are still Christians. You can't just arbitrarily kick them out of your little group because you don't approve of their actions. Actually, by my count, they outnumber the ones you espouse to by 2:1. You have to include them, because we objective observers do. And therefore, as a general rule, Christianity has a pretty poor track record.
Myself, at the age of 15 I decided that someone with a high IQ, who professed to follow the scientific method, had no business believing in things he could not see evidence of. Yes, it's lonelier. But it is also intellectually honest.
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You can't just arbitrarily kick them out of your little group because you don't approve of their actions.
Hardly arbitrary.
You have to include them, because we objective observers do.
Says who?
Christianity has a very specific, very thorough definition. You can't just change it because you don't like it.
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Treknophyle: Abbotsford a small town? Bah. 100k people ain't small from where I'm standing
But Abbotsford is most certainly in the heart of BC's mini bible-belt. It's like the road dips 20 degrees southward in latitude as one heads out to Hope and then returns to a more comfortable clime of Canadian reason.
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Saltah'na
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Do they include those of Presbyterian, Protestant, Catholic, and Greek Orthodox denominations?
What about all that infighting among Protestants and Catholics in Ireland? They follow the teachings of Christ, yet they get into fights almost every single year. Do you have the guts to tell all of them that they are not Christians because they don't follow YOUR idea of what Christians are?
Ask any Christian the same question, and ask them if members of these various denominations are Christian. Everything does not come down to a very narrow point of view that is yours, Omega. It's called "having an open mind".
-------------------- "And slowly, you come to realize, it's all as it should be, you can only do so much. If you're game enough, you could place your trust in me. For the love of life, there's a tradeoff, we could lose it all but we'll go down fighting...." - David Sylvian FreeSpace 2, the greatest space sim of all time, now remastered!
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