| 1 year ago :: Mar 27, 2012 - 3:57PM #351 | |
I'm a better prophet than you are. |
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| 1 year ago :: Mar 27, 2012 - 4:14PM #352 | |
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You guys are all such delightful rays of sunshine......... |
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| 1 year ago :: Mar 27, 2012 - 4:55PM #353 | |
But the world would be much more peaceful without people.
A tyrant must put on the appearance of uncommon devotion to religion. Subjects are less apprehensive of illegal treatment from a ruler whom they consider god-fearing and pious. On the other hand, they do less easily move against him, believing that he has the gods on his side. Aristotle
Never discourage anyone...who continually makes progress, no matter how slow. Plato.. "A life is not important except in the impact it has on other lives" Jackie Robinson |
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| 1 year ago :: Mar 27, 2012 - 5:54PM #354 | |
"When it shall be said in any country in the world, my poor are happy; neither ignorance nor distress is to be found among them; my jails are empty of prisoners, my streets of beggars; the aged are not in want, the taxes are not oppressive; the rational world is my friend, because I am a friend of its happiness: When these things can be said, then may the country boast its constitution and its government." -- Thomas Paine: The Rights Of Man (1791)
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| 1 year ago :: Mar 27, 2012 - 6:11PM #355 | |
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Occasionally, I am reminded how glad I am that I don't buy into the messages of a middle eastern death cult. How it allows me to view the world in a different view. One not of death and destruction. By the gods I am glad that I don't view the world through Christian colored glasses anymore.
Yesterday, in America, 100 million gun owners did nothing.
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| 1 year ago :: Mar 27, 2012 - 6:19PM #356 | |
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Yes ALL, My thought on that subject
A tyrant must put on the appearance of uncommon devotion to religion. Subjects are less apprehensive of illegal treatment from a ruler whom they consider god-fearing and pious. On the other hand, they do less easily move against him, believing that he has the gods on his side. Aristotle
Never discourage anyone...who continually makes progress, no matter how slow. Plato.. "A life is not important except in the impact it has on other lives" Jackie Robinson |
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| 1 year ago :: Mar 27, 2012 - 6:24PM #357 | |
"When it shall be said in any country in the world, my poor are happy; neither ignorance nor distress is to be found among them; my jails are empty of prisoners, my streets of beggars; the aged are not in want, the taxes are not oppressive; the rational world is my friend, because I am a friend of its happiness: When these things can be said, then may the country boast its constitution and its government." -- Thomas Paine: The Rights Of Man (1791)
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| 1 year ago :: Mar 27, 2012 - 7:01PM #358 | |
The question is, what if the Christians are wrong? What if they chose the wrong book and the Qur'an, the Bhagavad-Gita, or the Tao-te-Ching was right and Muslims, Hindus, or Taoists are God's chosen people and the Christians are exterminated?
"When it shall be said in any country in the world, my poor are happy; neither ignorance nor distress is to be found among them; my jails are empty of prisoners, my streets of beggars; the aged are not in want, the taxes are not oppressive; the rational world is my friend, because I am a friend of its happiness: When these things can be said, then may the country boast its constitution and its government." -- Thomas Paine: The Rights Of Man (1791)
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| 1 year ago :: Mar 28, 2012 - 3:40AM #359 | |
I believe you are entirely right, ATGNWT! Christianity, like most of the other religions of the 'Book', are essentially death cults. One only has to examine the misery and horror they have generated over millenniums, and the misery and horror they yet hope will engulf the planet. One can ask any believer in this muck as to what the point of it all is only to find that they seem utterly unable to respond to such a simple question. The reluctance, I think, lies in the fact that they know in their heart of hearts that the answer would show up, not just the vacuousness of the whole charade, but their own latent narcissism. Mark Twain, I think, summed it up nicely when he wrote: 'Man is a marvelous curiosity...he thinks he is the Creator's pet...he even believes that the Creator loves him; has a passion for him; sits up nights to admire him; yes, and watch over him and keep him out of trouble. He prays to him and thinks he listens. Isn't it a quaint idea?"
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| 1 year ago :: Mar 28, 2012 - 3:46AM #360 | |
Or if the only religion was a religion along the lines of Jainism. |
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