May 3, 2012 -- 6:51PM, theinterpreter wrote:

May 3, 2012 -- 6:15PM, G.flower wrote:

Who cares what anyone worships or not, as long as they follow the laws of the land and don't try to push it on anyone else?

With theinterpreter, none of us care if he worships a time lord with a space ship as long as he doesn't push it on anyone else or insist his god is going to kill everyone else. His reality isn't one that anyone else shares. I hope as some point he will get that and start writing science fiction instead of posting it here.

God is going to kill the bad guys in the Battle of Ar Mageddon

There was a guy during the reign of Marcus Aurelius who preached 'Ar Mageddon' in the Campus Martius. Marcus was no stranger to to the millenarianism and eschatology of the second century, but many rulers would have taken the line that such alarmist preachings constituted a threat to public morale and order, to say nothing of the implied insult to the present incumbent on the imperial throne, and would have executed him instantly. But Marcus constantly emphasized tolerance, and his leniency to charlatans is often cited.

This particular nut-job foretold that the sign of Armageddon would be when he fell from a tree and turned into a stork. He then set it up that he fell from a tree (without of course injuring himself) and, by sleight of hand, released a stork from a voluminous cloak. It was the most obvious conjuring trick, and the prestidigitator was hauled before the emperor for sentencing. Marcus took the line that the man was a harmless lunatic and instantly pardoned him. 

I guess one should follow Aurelius' example and pardon our modern-day 'Ar Mageddon'-preaching lunatics.

May 3, 2012 -- 10:31PM, G.flower wrote:

May 3, 2012 -- 7:28PM, Tpaine wrote:

May 3, 2012 -- 6:51PM, theinterpreter wrote:

May 3, 2012 -- 6:15PM, G.flower wrote:

Who cares what anyone worships or not, as long as they follow the laws of the land and don't try to push it on anyone else?

With theinterpreter, none of us care if he worships a time lord with a space ship as long as he doesn't push it on anyone else or insist his god is going to kill everyone else. His reality isn't one that anyone else shares. I hope as some point he will get that and start writing science fiction instead of posting it here.

God is going to kill the bad guys in the Battle of Ar Mageddon

Make up your mind. Is God going to kill all the bad guys in your fantasy or are the Christians going to kill them?

Yep, he's wobbled back and forth on that one.

God carries out His wishes through His followers.

May 4, 2012 -- 4:50PM, theinterpreter wrote:

The fish population is not increasing. Scientists used to say all the fish in the sea would die by 2050. Now they say 2048. So the rate of decline is increasing. God said all the fish in the sea will die, so they will, and sooner rather than later.

You have a problem. When you make a false statement and somebody corrects you, you never take the correction into account. You just repeat the false statement again and again. You should try learning something for a change.

May 4, 2012 -- 5:05PM, Ken wrote:

May 4, 2012 -- 4:46PM, theinterpreter wrote:

God carries out His wishes through His followers.

I see. He's a very weak god, isn't he? He can't do anything by himself. Unless somebody does things for him, they don't get done.

He is following the star trek directive. He only interferes when necesary.

May 4, 2012 -- 5:28PM, theinterpreter wrote:

May 4, 2012 -- 5:05PM, Ken wrote:

May 4, 2012 -- 4:46PM, theinterpreter wrote:

God carries out His wishes through His followers.

I see. He's a very weak god, isn't he? He can't do anything by himself. Unless somebody does things for him, they don't get done.

He is following the star trek directive. He only interferes when necesary.

He's a wimp. A real he-man god with big cojones wouldn't follow some wishy-washy touchy-feely girly-whirly liberal directive from a limp-wristed pinko space opera.