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well obviously you do care weather she does it or not you preffer that she doesnt.
my advice would be debate it out with her, then after you do that tell her that its been debated and right now nothign is going to change. and ask her to stop, since she obviousl isnt doing any good and as i said you cant excuse anyones evil. catholic muslim baptist or atheist basically people were usign the problems of the catholic church to bash christiananity and religion in general so one must lay the evil where it comes from individual people.
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I've been to many different christian churches, as well as various Jewish celebrations so I'm talking from personal experience. If I changed my atheist beliefs - which doesn't seem like it would happen - I'd go back to being Cathoilic - they're not in your face about religion. They don't preach that anyone that doesn't believe like they do is going to hell. They don't preach hatred to others who don't follow what they believe (like some so-called Christians do towards homosexuals) . They don't recruit or go door to door like some annoying sales person. You may disagree with the catholic religion - but I doubt you know very much about it other than what you're spoon fed. I've heard too many stereotypes and ignorant statements about the Roman Catholicism.
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I completely agree with everything you said. However, I might consider creating my own religion: Holy Church of the Divine Goddess. In my church all the sheep... errr... followers would worship me as their goddess, hand over 10% of their gross income and wealth, and do my bidding, which would include persecuting anyone that I don't like (on that particular day). Also, I would have an order of men devote themselves to me completely. They would have to give up every comfort and satisfaction (yes, sex with women other than the goddess herself) in order to completely devote themselves to my happiness and pleasure. Yeah... that would do it. |
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05-26-2003, 12:32 PM | #1126 |
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see what i said bout power and it corrupting
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yea i know if some how i got a postion of power like the pope id totally abuse it *pope gets drunk and passes out on playboy playmate*
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Thanks for asking about the anniversary party - it was great! They were really pleased and touched by it - we came up with 50 memories for the 50 years of marriage and wrapped up little things (like shells for the memories of trips to the beach) and then talked about them. It was very personal and a really nice tribute to them.
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Now the thread is somewhat centered around Christianity because I"m a Christian and it just seems like people tend to quote me and other Christians and ask us questions, so we try our best to answer them. (and I've been gone for 3 days and have 10 pages to catch up on!!!) Oy!
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Sadly, many, many Christians are obnoxious (just like many, many non-Christians are), and they also tend to be obnoxious in this area. But for ME (and I hope for them, too), I will talk to a person about God because of my love for Him and my appreciation for all that He's done in my life, and because I care about people, and I want to share what God has done in my life with anyone that is interested. That's my SOLE motivation, same as my motivation to share Tolkien, except God has blessed me on a much larger scale than Tolkien has
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. I should be doing the laundry, but this is MUCH more fun! Ñá ë?* óú éä ïöü Öñ É Þ ð ß ® ç Ã¥ â„¢ æ ♪ ?* "How lovely are Thy dwelling places, O Lord of hosts! ... For a day in Thy courts is better than a thousand outside." (from Psalm 84) * * * God rocks! Entmoot : Veni, vidi, velcro - I came, I saw, I got hooked! Ego numquam pronunciare mendacium, sed ego sum homo indomitus! Run the earth and watch the sky ... Auta i lómë! Aurë entuluva! Last edited by RÃan : 05-26-2003 at 04:33 PM. |
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Now why don't we get in the news????
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. I should be doing the laundry, but this is MUCH more fun! Ñá ë?* óú éä ïöü Öñ É Þ ð ß ® ç Ã¥ â„¢ æ ♪ ?* "How lovely are Thy dwelling places, O Lord of hosts! ... For a day in Thy courts is better than a thousand outside." (from Psalm 84) * * * God rocks! Entmoot : Veni, vidi, velcro - I came, I saw, I got hooked! Ego numquam pronunciare mendacium, sed ego sum homo indomitus! Run the earth and watch the sky ... Auta i lómë! Aurë entuluva! Last edited by RÃan : 05-26-2003 at 04:51 PM. |
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There is such thing as a REASONABLE faith chosen by an intelligent person, IOW. BTW, those that object to the circular argument of: 1- "the Bible is God's word - 2- why? - 3 -because it says it is!" don't think the implications through very well - it is indeed a circular argument and therefore invalid, but then, why don't Christians believe that EVERY book that says it's God's word is indeed God's word? They must have some other sensible reason!! Really now!! The way some of you talk, you make it seem like any random person could write down a few sentences of stuff, include the line "this is the word of God" in it ..... and Christians would believe it!! If you're going to object to a "blind faith", then please listen to why the Christians here think they do NOT have a blind faith.
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The study of particle physics explains how the universe was created. |
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2) Disagree. Would you say Khamul is "judging and recruiting people"? He's Baptist, if I remember correctly. 3) Do you mean "join" Catholicism, or "join" Christianity? 4) Y'know, a lot of people say much the same regarding Catholicism and the Pope. All depends on whether you grew up Catholic or Protestant, I guess. See, Lief? Even atheist Catholics. (just kidding, JD) I'm not expressing a kind of "favouritism" for one type over another; well, actually, I do have a personal "favouritism" towards the Catholic church and similar denominations; but what I mean is, I'm not condemnig specific denominations, while ignoring others. My point is that none of the denominations (including non-denominational) are without sin; but none are without
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No, the existence of fossils prove that living things can be fossilized (sp?). Now, what is actually CONTAINED in the fossil record will tend to support one theory or another, and frankly, because of the huge LACK of transitionary forms, the fossil record supports the theory of creation by intelligent design more than the theory of evolution, wouldn't you say? Thousands of fossils appear in the fossil record fully formed ... hmmm ... The miniscule amount of fossils that have been considered to possibly be transitional forms have either been (1) proven to be faked, or (2) are v. debatable (sp? - too tired to spell today...). Evolutionists expected to see simply scads of these transitional forms, but were disappointed, because they weren't there, so they had to come up with things like (oh, I forget the term) - whatever the term is for macro evolutionary changes happening in fits and starts, and hey, when all the massive changes took place, they mysteriously took place in such a short time that they didn't appear in the fossil record.... sounds like cooking the books to me.... Anyway, I'm not following my own advice about moving the evolutionary things to another thread, but it really pushes my buttons when people say that the theory of evolution is PROVEN - honest biologists will say only that there is a lot of evidence to support it. And honest biologists will also admit that there is plenty of evidence that supports creation by intelligent design (INCLUDING the fossil record, which supports intelligent design more than evolution!) Anyway, I'll let you have the last word here, if you want, and then let's move any further evolution/creation discussion to the evolution thread, please. And re particle physics - "The study of particle physics explains how the universe was created." - no, the information gained from the study of particle physics is used to build a THEORY of how the universe was created.
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Secondly, the term you are looking for is "Punctuated Equilibrium." Thirdly, I agree with you that the fossil record of Evolution is not fact, or law - it is theory, however small scale evolution is definately fact. |
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