Don't ask, don't tell, don't persueFollow

The government, however, is not atheist. It's secular.

'Cause otherwise Alma's gonna talk about putting dog balls in his mouth. Or something like that.

Does the DADT repeal apply to teabagging Labradors?

You guys needed two separate rules not to suck dog balls?

Edited, Dec 13th 2011 1:18pm by Jophiel

We have to have a safety briefing about the possible dangers involved with taking Power Point classes. "You might fall asleep and hit your head on the desk, so the danger present is low."

Did you already go through your session about the dangers of breathing and not breathing, and the situations in which one of the two is appropriate?

Christianity didn't the old Jews did, Christianity was derived from Judaism, and was split in the mid times into catholic and protestant. The Muslims are also split from old jews, although their split took some time after Christ was around, hence their having one more prophet. This is why they only observe christ as a vessel of the word of god, or a prophet if you will.

All three worship the same god. Each fragment is preceded by a prophet. Christ for the Christians, and Muhammad for the Muslims who for all we know could have been the second coming of christ and anyone not muslim missed the cut and are doomed to a life of servitude to satan.*

Then again... it could just be a @#%^ing sweet 3 part novel by a bunch of old dudes trippin on opium sipping lead laced wine.

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Maybe thats why thay call Christians infedels. Perhaps because Christians did not progress with Christ they view them as inferior to bear the name of Christ. Perhaps Christianity stopped being about the faith and about something else. Christ returned and tended his flock, wouldn't that be ironic.

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Edited, Dec 13th 2011 6:56pm by rdmcandie

Did I miss another Kelvy religious hypothetical?

I bet it ended with him typing out some long winded post about how we're all dumb.

No, and you are loading the question with the word "imagined". I think the idea of a single omnipotent G-D can be deduced by logic alone.. just read some Plato's Republic or Cicero's The Nature of the Gods. It is not a far stretch.. But of course these views agree that the true nature of such an entity would be unknowable; which I totally agree with as well. What threw me for a loop is that in all of history no culture or group every really created a religion out of this G-D unless you count concepts like the Druidic Annwyn or the Dao; but those concepts are based on abstract mysticism and mystery; which are concepts that I once had great agreement with.. but these are all very clearly people reaching for something obtainable and they knew it... and any other culture that claimed that there was one "king" god always inevitably has the notion being tainted with human flaws.. lacking what those logical mind like Plator and Cicero knew had to be an all or nothing total omnipotence and omniscience.
Now you have the YHWH god appearing on the scene claiming to be just that. I understand that it is tempting to believe that some Hebrew just made this whole thing up; but if you really look at it free from presupposition you would see how ridiculous it would be to think that the things that the Old Testament is saying is actually something that a bunch of Hebrews made up.. The OT time and time again speaks against man, against his ways, against religion, and declares the same thing that Plato deduced; that a True God is truly unknowable. This seems like a logical fallacy; "Well, I guess someone as smart as Plato must have made it up" you may say; but why would someone that is trying to get recruits for any kind of religion profess doctrine that is the exact opposite of what people do when they are trying to get converts for a cult??? Circumcision? really? No statues to bow to?? really? Restriction after restriction to something that you cannot even see?? At least Hindus and Buddhists get some bodily good and a lot of good dances and parades out of what they do; and at least confusions and Taoists get to take some of the credit for the ways that they behave and can at least be proud of themselves.. but no; not in the religion of YWWH God.. He takes ALL of the credit... and to top THAT off; the entire BIBLE is just FULL of records of how much people hate following the laws of YHWH God and how much that even YWHH's Chosen People cannot even follow all of His crazy rules and statues... WHAT KIND OF RELIGION IS THIS??
TO wrap this up.. I then entire point of the OT was the following: To preserve the Word of YHWH and thus preserve the culture of the people from which the Messiah would come.. and from that to go out into the nations and try to give them a chance to be able to face toward this unknowable God and actually fulfill the entire purpose of our creation.. There is no other way. God is not going to appear to everybody like He did to Abraham; He is not going to blind us with a flashing light as He did to Paul; those people were part of the plan and have a special place in it.. We; all of us unworthy flawed creatures are the goal. To actually have the faith to even WANT to believe really is enough; if we reach out with our hearts and admit that we are created by Him and that without Him we are dust.. that is enough to get the process of eternal salvation started..

So no, that is not why I am implying that God and the Anointed One must be the right one.. I am implying this because nothing else makes any sense and that only through an indwelling of the Spirit from God's Anointed One can anyone every ever ever believe any of this seeming total nonsense. It can never ever be proven to someone who does not seek faith and who only has faith in the finite things of this world out of fear, greed, and arrogance.
I pray for you all that you would give your souls that chance for salvation.. for as many have told me on this forum.. there is no god.. once we die that's it.. there is only nothingness.. To quote CS Lewis:

MotherFUCKER stop using semicolons and learn basic punctuation

Nah, semicolons are just God's way of saying "trying too hard"