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Theodoric Member Posts: 9201 From: Northwest, WI, USA Joined: Member Rating: 3.2 |
CLOUD STILL HANGS OVER ROBERTSON`S MILITARY SERVICE
What can be asserted without evidence can also be dismissed without evidence. -Christopher Hitchens Facts don't lie or have an agenda. Facts are just facts "God did it" is not an argument. It is an excuse for intellectual laziness. If your viewpoint has merits and facts to back it up why would you have to lie?
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dwise1 Member Posts: 5952 Joined: Member Rating: 5.2
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My 24/7 duty office (I had swing shift) had a TV with cable, so I would sometimes watch CBN for fun -- I had also been a "fellow traveler" of the Jesus Freak movement c. 1970, so I had a background.
When he was running for President a reporter asked him a "gotcha" question of whether a Jew (or any other non-Christian) could be saved and Robertson answered that a Jew could be saved if he obeyed every single part of the Law throughout his life. That mollified the reporters and most hearing that report, but I had eyes to see and ears to hear (ie, I had heard what they actually taught about that). The fundie teaching he used was that obeying every single part of the Law unfailingly was humanly impossible, which is why accepting the Christ was the only practical solution. IOW, he had effectively lied to that reporter. I spoke with a believer at the time and even he was fooled. Their reactions to modern technology were hilarious. Whenever the topic of computers came up, the screen dripped paranoia. I remember his co-host panicking as he pointed out, "Do you know that they even have computers that can talk!" The TI-99A home computer with a voice attachment made him have to change his shorts? Priceless! In the following decade, one of his producers wrote an insider exposé: Salvation for Sale. Looking for it at a Crown bookstore, I asked the clerk, "Do you have 'Salvation for Sale'?" He replied, "No, but there's a church a couple blocks down the street." I was starting to learn about "creation science" at the time I would watch CBN so that was how I first saw creationists in action. Taught me everything I needed to know about them; from my page, Why I Oppose Creation Science (or, How I got to Here from There):
quote: At least we can thank him for his contributions to the growth and spread of atheism through his horrible example (eg, Pat Robertson controversies).
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Tanypteryx Member Posts: 4451 From: Oregon, USA Joined: Member Rating: 5.0
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Theodore John Kaczynski (May 22, 1942 – June 10, 2023)
Stop Tzar Vladimir the Condemned! What if Eleanor Roosevelt had wings? -- Monty Python One important characteristic of a theory is that it has survived repeated attempts to falsify it. Contrary to your understanding, all available evidence confirms it. --Subbie If evolution is shown to be false, it will be at the hands of things that are true, not made up. --Percy The reason that we have the scientific method is because common sense isn't reliable. -- Taq
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nwr Member Posts: 6412 From: Geneva, Illinois Joined: Member Rating: 4.5
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I did not want to honor the unabomber.
For that matter, I did not want to honor Pat Robertson, who also died recently.--> -->Fundamentalism - the anti-American, anti-Christian branch of American Christianity <-- <--
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xongsmith Member Posts: 2587 From: massachusetts US Joined: Member Rating: 6.4
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Tanypteryx posts the wikipedia on the Unabomber...
Ted Kaczynski - Wikipedia HOLY SHIT WAS THAT A HUGE WIKIPEDIA ARTICLE! i found him very interesting but seriously flawed.a terribly colossal waste of a mind. "I'm the Grim Reaper now, Mitch. Step aside." Death to #TzarVladimirtheCondemned! Enjoy every sandwich! - xongsmith, 5.7dawkins scale
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xongsmith Member Posts: 2587 From: massachusetts US Joined: Member Rating: 6.4 |
died June13th, natural causes.
Cormac McCarthy - Wikipedia My favorite still is Suttree. But Tommie Lee Jones was great in No Country For Old Men."I'm the Grim Reaper now, Mitch. Step aside." Death to #TzarVladimirtheCondemned! Enjoy every sandwich! - xongsmith, 5.7dawkins scale |
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xongsmith Member Posts: 2587 From: massachusetts US Joined: Member Rating: 6.4 |
Glenda Jackson - Wikipedia
died June 15th. impressive career in acting and in politics! Edited by xongsmith, : forgot date "I'm the Grim Reaper now, Mitch. Step aside." Death to #TzarVladimirtheCondemned! Enjoy every sandwich! - xongsmith, 5.7dawkins scale
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Phat Member Posts: 18348 From: Denver,Colorado USA Joined: Member Rating: 1.0 |
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xongsmith Member Posts: 2587 From: massachusetts US Joined: Member Rating: 6.4 |
hey Phat - ya beat me to it!
another long page Tony Bennett - Wikipediafrom Wiki: Bennett died at his home in New York City on July 21, 2023 at the age of 96, following a seven-year battle with Alzheimer's disease. His death was announced by his publicist. In a statement, his family stated that he kept singing to the end and that the last song he ever sang was "Because of You."[161][162][56] Upon his death, Bennett was hailed as the "champion" and "legendary interpreter" of the "Great American Songbook". Edited by xongsmith, : added wiki link as Phat is still presumably unable "I'm the Grim Reaper now, Mitch. Step aside." Death to #TzarVladimirtheCondemned! Enjoy every sandwich! - xongsmith, 5.7dawkins scale
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Dredge Member (Idle past 103 days) Posts: 2850 From: Australia Joined: |
Another Loony-Left feminist bites the dust. Good riddance.
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Dredge Member (Idle past 103 days) Posts: 2850 From: Australia Joined: |
Cardinal George Pell was a great man who would have made a great Pope.
https://newsweekly.com.au/...witness-of-cardinal-george-pell
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Boof Member (Idle past 275 days) Posts: 99 From: Australia Joined:
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Mate, you really need to throttle back a bit. If you want to wind people up you have to be at least slightly believable.
Saying you admire a kiddy-fiddler gives the whole game away that you are just here for the LOLs.
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Dredge Member (Idle past 103 days) Posts: 2850 From: Australia Joined: |
Boofter writes:
George Pell was a kiddy-fiddler? Says who?
Saying you admire a kiddy-fiddler
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Dredge Member (Idle past 103 days) Posts: 2850 From: Australia Joined: |
Boofter writes:
That's sounds funny coming from someone who still has Michael Jackson posters on his bedroom walls.
Saying you admire a kiddy-fiddler
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Percy Member Posts: 22504 From: New Hampshire Joined: Member Rating: 4.9 |
It was a complicated process, but Pell was ultimately acquitted.
--Percy
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