God's warriors
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- mrdobolina0
I am proud to say that I owe about 400 dollars right now. I have mama's mortgage, but that was out of necessity for her to keep her place, she is paying it all on her own at this time, I dropped about 12 grand in a year to insure she wouldn't lose the house. This country needs to wake the fuck up.
- BonSeff0
dem monks and priests teached you real good
- automaticAb0
Cool. But have you ever stopped to ask yourself why a total complete stranger would basically humiliate himself to tell you about Christ and heaven. I don't generalize b/c I hate when that is done to me. I gather that by your response, you referred to my home as a gated community in the sky, and your right in part; I do live in a gated community by it's not in the sky, it's in Homestead a city about 40 mi south of Miami, FL. I don't even know you why would I look down on you. If that person did they are wrong for doing so. I always look at myself before others.
- Nairn0
omg with this thread.
- TheBlueOne0
I have a warranted prejudice against the supernatural cause the supernatural doesn't exist.
- mrdobolina0
nairn with the knowledge.
- planet010
So, no belief in a spiritual reality of any sort?
- flagellum0
that's a shame, tank. Sounds like you got a solid dose of dead religion, but was never introduced to Jesus.
- TheBlueOne0
Oh Hi Flagellum. I still have you you on "ignore" but just saying "hi" to be friendly and all that. Hope all is well...
- tank020
nono, the religion teacher was really cool. he let us listnen to lenny kravitz and than showed how its religious stuff in there and such..
nice guy.
- TheBlueOne0
Look...for me the Biblical tradition is just one of a vast kaledioscope of understandings in humanities past. There is nothing you can say that will prove otherwise to me. History itself is the record.
Religions have come and gone and what they shared in similarity have more to do with the inherent needs of the human species rather than anything resembling a transcendent Truth.
And christianity has a distinct history - a beginning point, a crisis period, an adoption by the Roman Empire (and secular success) and one day it will have an end. Christinaity pops up after about 105,000 odd years of man being around. If you want to extrapolate that belief forward and backward to give you some comfort facing the Void, knock youself out.
And Flegellum, don't bother arguing with me cause I have you on ignore and I've heard all the arguments since I was 12 years old otherwise. It's comic book fantasy interpretations of an otherwise spiritual book. American christianity is so lightweight...
- flagellum0
and I would never be so arrogant to assume that I could fully comprehend the relationship between determinism and freewill.
being a wee fallen human and all.
- TheBlueOne0
So, no belief in a spiritual reality of any sort?
planet01
(Aug 29 07, 09:01)For me the spiritual reality emerges and is embodied in the physical universe itself. no need to put it "somewhere else"...the spiritual is the same as the physical as is the mental..like prisms looking at the same light, depends how you turn it.
- BonSeff0
ok,
well lets bring this thread back full circle.
get with a church, surround yourself with like minded individuals and BAM. you are happy to know that you all are working to serve christ and the day to day is the same for the lot. you all have the same issues with money and what not.
so your attention is diverted from being a credit slave to a servant of the lord.
fuck man.
- flagellum0
blueONe: I think it has been more of a wave. We have to keep in mind that there have been philosophical trends which have caused us to force-fit the evidence into certain presuppositions. And the branch of science is a factor too. For instance, in Physics, the assumption of design never really left the table. In biology and related soft extensions of the hard sciences, design left the table in favor of philosophical naturalism. Now, in light of the last 50 years of discovery, it is back on the table. It's just that the religious elitists of the soft-sciences don't like it. They don't like this sort of change.
- TheBlueOne0
Blue - Why do you keep coming back to this?
incog
(Aug 28 07, 11:20)I dunno. The thread title and topic was "God Warriors" about an CNN expose about religious fundamentalists of different traditions using violence to impose political will based on religious teachings. I was staying on topic.
I could care less what how you worship whatever god you believe in, could care less if that leads you to engage in society in a positive and purposeful direction, but when relgiion backed by the state monopoly on violence gets together then I give a shit. And if all the "non-political" christian are blind to what the Dominionists and other whackjob christians in this country are doing and not policing them on your own turf well then it becomes my problem as well.
- flagellum0
cute quotes from insignificant Darwnists, won't do, blueOne. You actually have to furnish evidence for one's position. But I do love unilateral declarations of victory - happens every day in the Darwinist camp. :)
mimio: I am not prejudiced against things outside of matter as we understand it. Clearly, something beyond ourselves and all created matter, was responsible for our universe.
- tank0
well.
the bible is a good book,
but all stories in there are parabels and should be understood in a different way..jezus didn't heal the blind, the 'blind' were the non believers and he converted him.
lazarus didn't raise from the dead, but his faith did...i was raised very catholic, but from an early age i already got that.