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Author Topic:   Jihadists must die, --- but our real enemies are the Qur’an and Bible.
vimesey
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Message 118 of 375 (759114)
06-09-2015 7:17 AM
Reply to: Message 117 by Faith
06-09-2015 6:43 AM


Re: "But the second stone, up for grabs."
Funny how unbelievers think they know so much better what Jesus meant than us Bible believers.
Don't try to pull that. If you are relying on your book to justify treating some people as less than other people, then you get to be challenged on what the book says. You don't get a free pass to do what the hell you like, just because your particular interpretation (being the one espoused by your particular Christian denomination out of around 20,000 of them) of your book says it's fine.
The moment you treat one other human being in a shitty way, because of what you believe about your book, you are gonna get questioned, and legitimately so.

Could there be any greater conceit, than for someone to believe that the universe has to be simple enough for them to be able to understand it ?

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vimesey
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Message 125 of 375 (759131)
06-09-2015 8:47 AM
Reply to: Message 119 by Faith
06-09-2015 7:44 AM


Re: "But the second stone, up for grabs."
I know what the Bible means, unbelievers don't. That's the simple truth.
Nope. Not unless you can prove it. Until you can, it's an opinion, and when it comes to them, yours are no better than mine or anyone else's.
I'm a sinner God saved. I don't throw stones at other sinners, I want them to be saved too.
I'm a sinner who has no interest in being saved, if it involves adopting your world view. I believe that to do so would make me a less good person. I like the quotation from Mylene Farmer: "Si le Ciel a un enfer, le Ciel peut bien m'attendre." (Roughly "If Heaven has a hell, then Heaven can go swivel.")
We do not treat anyone as less than anyone else.
You would deny gay couples the right to marry. That is treating them as less than hetero people. Fewer rights = treating someone as less.
The devil has been plotting this for years
Never met the guy, so I wouldn't know. (It does puzzle me, though, how an omnipotent and benevolent God would put up with someone pissing in his sand box. I mean, free will to people, to sin on their own, that I would understand, but putting up with someone actively messing up your beautiful creation ? I'd show the guy the door faster than Gloria Gaynor).

Could there be any greater conceit, than for someone to believe that the universe has to be simple enough for them to be able to understand it ?

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vimesey
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Message 127 of 375 (759133)
06-09-2015 9:09 AM
Reply to: Message 126 by Faith
06-09-2015 9:02 AM


Re: "But the second stone, up for grabs."
It's astonishing just how often it doesn't.

Could there be any greater conceit, than for someone to believe that the universe has to be simple enough for them to be able to understand it ?

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