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April 3, 2024 at 8:27 am
"Honest guy"
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teachings of the Bible are so muddled and self-contradictory that it was possible for Christians to happily burn heretics alive for five long centuries. It was even possible for the most venerated patriarchs of the Church, like St. Augustine and St. Thomas Aquinas, to conclude that heretics should be tortured (Augustine) or killed outright (Aquinas). Martin Luther and John Calvin advocated the wholesale murder of heretics, apostates, Jews, and witches. - Sam Harris, "Letter To A Christian Nation"
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April 3, 2024 at 7:48 pm
Flying pigs are more probable than honest politicians. Even good rap is more likely.
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April 4, 2024 at 9:38 am
I was recently reading Ronald Reagan's biography and there are many things that belong in this topic. Like
Quote:The interior secretary [James Watt], a conservative Christian, suggested to a House committee that long-term conservation was a waste of time. “I do not know how many future generations we can count on before the Lord comes,” he said. Watt lambasted his opponents as un-American. “I never use the words Democrats and Republicans,” he declared. “It’s liberals and Americans.”
Well, Watt, it has been 40 years and he still hasn't come.
teachings of the Bible are so muddled and self-contradictory that it was possible for Christians to happily burn heretics alive for five long centuries. It was even possible for the most venerated patriarchs of the Church, like St. Augustine and St. Thomas Aquinas, to conclude that heretics should be tortured (Augustine) or killed outright (Aquinas). Martin Luther and John Calvin advocated the wholesale murder of heretics, apostates, Jews, and witches. - Sam Harris, "Letter To A Christian Nation"
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April 4, 2024 at 11:37 am
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'Left Behind' author says pre-rapture End Times Bible prophecies have been fulfilled: ‘Be ready’
New York Times bestselling author Jerry B. Jenkins is urging Christians to be ready because, he says, the pre-rapture End Times prophecies have been fulfilled.
With war breaking out between Israel and Hamas, Jenkins believes Christians are watching and living through the prophetic timeline.
"It's clear, we're heading for something and it seems sooner than ever now,” he told CP. “The prophecies do say that Israel will be attacked from all sides, which seems like that's happening now. And then it says that the Great Bear of the North and the great army from the East will also attack.
"Dr. LaHaye, who's now been gone for seven years, he believed that the bear was Russia, and the army from the East was China. And I think there's some real evidence for that. We really need to keep an eye on that.”
"Nobody knows the day or the hour, not even the Son of Man. He (Jesus) didn't know, so it's sort of folly for us to try to predict the day or the hour. But also, I think all the prophecies have been fulfilled that need to be before the rapture, so it could be today,” Jenkins added.
“In God's economy of time, Scripture says, 'A day is 1,000 years and 1,000 years is as a day to God.' So if He waits one more day, in His economy of time, in His mercy, that could be a thousand more of our years. So we would have a lot of time to get people ready. But that's the line we walk. It could be today. It could be way past our lifetimes. But we need to be ready,” he urged.
https://www.christianpost.com/books/left...ecies.html
Wow, it could be today, but it could also be in over 1000 years. Can't go wrong.
teachings of the Bible are so muddled and self-contradictory that it was possible for Christians to happily burn heretics alive for five long centuries. It was even possible for the most venerated patriarchs of the Church, like St. Augustine and St. Thomas Aquinas, to conclude that heretics should be tortured (Augustine) or killed outright (Aquinas). Martin Luther and John Calvin advocated the wholesale murder of heretics, apostates, Jews, and witches. - Sam Harris, "Letter To A Christian Nation"
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April 4, 2024 at 11:53 am
How many "Go" signals have we had for "the Rapture" so far?
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April 4, 2024 at 12:47 pm
I guess that all those other times Israel was ‘attacked from all sides’ was just for practice.
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‘But it does me no injury for my neighbour to say there are twenty gods or no gods. It neither picks my pocket nor breaks my leg.’ - Thomas Jefferson
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April 6, 2024 at 11:42 pm
Private Palm Beach County school cancels autism week after pastor says activities 'demonic'
Disturbed families at a Lake Worth Beach-area private school are weighing leaving the school after its Autism Awareness Week was canceled by its pastor who called the activities "idolatry and demonic" in a school-wide email.
"If Jesus Christ led Trinity, would HE have an Autism Awareness Week? Of course not! Why? Because anything that exalts itself above the name of Christ should be brought down," Baker wrote.
"The world, in its rejection and hatred of Christ, often devises programs such as 'Autism Awareness' (and cultural figures like the Easter Bunny and Santa Claus, etc.) to get the benefits of His teachings (compassion, kindness, feeling love, and self-worth) without acknowledging Jesus as the ultimate authority and the source of all life," he wrote in the email to the school.
https://www.palmbeachpost.com/story/news...202803007/
teachings of the Bible are so muddled and self-contradictory that it was possible for Christians to happily burn heretics alive for five long centuries. It was even possible for the most venerated patriarchs of the Church, like St. Augustine and St. Thomas Aquinas, to conclude that heretics should be tortured (Augustine) or killed outright (Aquinas). Martin Luther and John Calvin advocated the wholesale murder of heretics, apostates, Jews, and witches. - Sam Harris, "Letter To A Christian Nation"
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April 7, 2024 at 12:23 am
If this pastor raised his IQ by 1,000 points, he still wouldn't be smart enough to be considered stupid.
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April 7, 2024 at 12:32 pm
(April 6, 2024 at 11:42 pm)Fake Messiah Wrote: Private Palm Beach County school cancels autism week after pastor says activities 'demonic'
Disturbed families at a Lake Worth Beach-area private school are weighing leaving the school after its Autism Awareness Week was canceled by its pastor who called the activities "idolatry and demonic" in a school-wide email.
"If Jesus Christ led Trinity, would HE have an Autism Awareness Week? Of course not! Why? Because anything that exalts itself above the name of Christ should be brought down," Baker wrote.
"The world, in its rejection and hatred of Christ, often devises programs such as 'Autism Awareness' (and cultural figures like the Easter Bunny and Santa Claus, etc.) to get the benefits of His teachings (compassion, kindness, feeling love, and self-worth) without acknowledging Jesus as the ultimate authority and the source of all life," he wrote in the email to the school.
https://www.palmbeachpost.com/story/news...202803007/
Via Autism Awareness Week, this private school would have had the opportunity to acknowledge the authority of Jesus by reminding the students that whey they do for the least (those with autism spectrum disorder) they do for their Lord. I suppose Pastor Baker fails to see the irony of his decision.
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RE: Stupid things religious people say
April 15, 2024 at 11:52 am
I'm not sure where to begin with this one, but here's Pastor Mark Driscoll (of the infamous "How Dare You?" sermon) providing his commentary on some of the goings-on at the Stronger Men's Conference that just took place in Springfield, Missouri.
Christian men eating their own, bones and all, I suppose.
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