How New Testament Fundi Christians Bless Atheists, Roman Catholics And Others

Two bare assertions, Ringo. How about some evidence. What's good for the goose is good for the gander. No?

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BUZSAW B 4 U 2 C Y BUZ SAW.
The Immeasurable Present Eternally Extends the Infinite Past And Infinitely Consumes The Eternal Future.

Where's your evidence for those assertions, Coragyps?

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BUZSAW B 4 U 2 C Y BUZ SAW.
The Immeasurable Present Eternally Extends the Infinite Past And Infinitely Consumes The Eternal Future.

Is there any indication that this doesn't mean 'more than just the church'? Why would you assume Jesus is only asking that you give to fellow church members? Reading on:

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Matthew 5:43—44 (NRSV):

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'You have heard that it was said, "You shall love your neighbour and hate your enemy." But I say to you, Love your enemies and pray for those who persecute you, ...

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Certainly the ones to whom Jesus' followers are to give and the ones for whom they are to pray cannot be a group restricted only to fellow members of his followingthe 'church', unless you wish to interpret Jesus as implying that fellow members will be 'those who persecute you'.Jon

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Love your enemies!

What I've done is question your assertions.Jesus told his followers two thousand years ago to feed the hungry. Why would governments be doing it today if the fundies were already doing it?And why would United Empire Loyalists, fugitive slaves and war resisters come to Canada if the U.S. was such a fundie paradise?How about some answers?Edited by ringo, : Spellingg.

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If you have nothing to say, you could have done so much more concisely. -- Dr Adequate

Have any jobs for those seeking to turn knowledge into wisdom?"Hell is Texas" is one of the three movies filmed here, other than The first few minutes of Midnight Cowboy and then Hangar 18.Appropriate title, as all here are trapped in ignorant redneck hell, admitting it or not.

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The idea of the sacred is quite simply one of the most conservative notions in any culture, because it seeks to turn other ideas - uncertainty, progress, change - into crimes.
Salman RushdieThis rudderless world is not shaped by vague metaphysical forces. It is not God who kills the children. Not fate that butchers them or destiny that feeds them to the dogs. It’s us. Only us. - the character Rorschach in Watchmen

Hi Frako, I think you mean 'more radical ideas of the Quoran'.'Wives' are married to husbands.

Maybe I'm missing something. Is it wrong to profit from owning land where there's oil? Or is it only wrong for Native Americans but not for white Texans?

Untrue Buz, I ask for evidence.And you never provide the evidence.How do "New Testament Fundi Christians Bless Atheists, Roman Catholics And Others"?Evidence Buz, where is the evidence?

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Anyone so limited that they can only spell a word one way is severely handicapped!

But today you do work and vote to make Christian morals obligatory. Except communism.Jesus's don't-be-a-prostitute agenda had nothing to do with government, nor was it obligatory. It was merely a voluntary condition to be a follower of Jesus and (later) a member of the Apostles' Church.Nowadays a good Christian will of course vote to make it illegal. But of course he won't vote to make communism compulsory. Indeed, he will not voluntarily turn his own church into a communist society.

Wow, that's a broad brush. And an enormous straw man.But I thought that you were yourself a member of the secular left, or at least member of the secular more-left-than-Buzsaw. As such, as the guy who used to post here as Nemesis Juggernaut, you must know very well why the thing you quoted is nonsense. It's not that we "have no idea what to make of those same quotations", and it's not that we "can't fathom why people today would make religious faith an essential part of their everyday lives".Edited by Dr Adequate, : No reason given.

In the telephone book. Yellowpages.com would also work.

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Wow, that's a broad brush. And an enormous straw man.

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But I thought that you were yourself a member of the secular left, or at least member of the secular more-left-than-Buzsaw.

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I'm secular, not a leftist. It's obviously a reference to those who cannot differentiate or those who refuse to. Obviously not all Christians could be roundly indicted in the first portion of the quote, just as not all secularists could be compartmentalized in the latter portion of the quote. It's a generalization of the extremes.If that does not encompass you then it should be of no consequence to you.

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"Reason obeys itself; and ignorance submits to whatever is dictated to it" -- Thomas Paine

Well, stop me if I'm wrong, but I thought that you were to the left of, for example, Buzsaw.I don't call myself a "leftist", but I bet he would. No it isn't.It says that "the secular left" don't understand this.Suppose that I said that "the religious right" don't understand why priests shouldn't sodomize choirboys.Then you call me on this, and I say "It's obviously a reference to those who cannot differentiate or those who refuse to".But that is not an excuse for a generalization.If I say: "Such-and-such a thing is true of this group" and then when I'm called on this say: "oh, except the exceptions", then what does this tell you except that I am a lazy stupid bigot?Edited by Dr Adequate, : No reason given.Edited by Dr Adequate, : No reason given.

This is probably the stupidest argument on the whole internet.If someone says that Jews eat babies in their secret religious rituals, then if I am a Jew and I do not eat babies, then according to you there is no reason why I should protest. It "should be of no consequence to me".Therefore, I cannot legitimately protest against any libel against the group that I belong to, because it should be "of no consequence to me" if it was false. I would only have a reason to protest against it if it was true.Ony a Jew who eats babies should be concerned enough to say: "Jews don't eat babies".The only good reason I'd have to point out that I don't fit your stereotype is if I actually do.Wow, you've got me coming and going. Either that or you're an idiot.Edited by Dr Adequate, : No reason given.

Um...isn't that going a bit too far? I don't see how being a communist nation would benefit my lot in life, nor that of my church. In fact, whom would it benefit??Edited by Phat, : No reason given.