He also said "It is finished" on the cross. Indeed, but I've just looked out the window, and yep, 'heaven' and earth are still there. No sign of them passing away right now... You don't have all your puzzle pieces put t
Stupid people have the right to represent themselves just like anyone else. This is true and should close the argument. While allowing 'fools' a voice in dictating national policy might not initially seem the best way of doing things, I am reminded of what Churchill said, " No one pretends that democracy i
No wonder Marx is so big in the intelligensia -- he said, "Religion is the opiate of the masses." I feel rather strange leaping to the defence of Marx(!), but looking at that quote in context he also described religion as "the heart of a heartless world", so he wasn't meaning to demean religious thinking in quite the same way as the wikipedia-q
This may offend, but perhaps that's why America has had to bail Britain out of two world wars? Actually no. Britain needed American help in winning these wars because in WW1 Britain and her allies, and Germany and her allies were fairly evenly matched militarily until 1917, and in WW2 the German armed forces
We've let scienc nearly convince us that religion is myth Religion is a myth. However, you're using the word 'myth' in its modern sense of something false that people (wrongly) believe in, kind of like a snopes.com urban legend, whereas originally everybody understood that a myth was a story, but also believed that a powerful 'truth' could be f
But you are a smart person Thank you you know all the reasons I do and most likely many more w
How can anyone really argue rationally with this? If one believes, as I do, that 'Satan' represents an Iron Age myth in which primitive people with less knowledge, but more imaginative genius than modern man, were able to 'personalise' the whole realm of evil, then the whole notion that the problems of the world are the works of the 'Prince of Darkness' is ultimately meaningless. Of course, if we are limited to arguing as if we all agree that the Bible is God's inerrant and literally true word,
Guess who you've been listening to? I can't guess, you'll have to tell me. Do you think that's what I'm doing? I did notice you took what I said out of context here to give this reply. Now this would be a deliberate thing h
We don't have to break the law, or aid those who break the law, to be obedient to God. In fact, He forbids it. Yes, I accept this. But wouldn't the 'logic' of christian charity compel you to want to change the laws to bring all those poor people in? I'm not advocating this myself, but I'm genuinely intrigued at the intellectual mechanisms by w
German almost became the national language of the USA. Actually an urban legend - there is even a snopes.com page about this. Link In reality there was never any vote about making any language the national language of the United S
In the end, for all the talk about legal and illegal, it comes down to a perfectly understandable human reaction of feeling that you (or your nation) have worked hard for the wealth and privilege that you have, and of feeling disinclined to share this good fortune with others. Let them instead make their own good fortune, if they can. This is a realistic point of view; it may in fact be genuinely for the best for all concerned, in as much as
Virtually every other country on the planet has at least one If by this you mean an 'official' language, I'm not sure that that is true. Here is a link with information on which countries do and do not have official languages. Link I
Picking that which makes your point but leaving anything out that doesn't quite jive with it. I can see that you are not familiar with the truth here There is some truth in what you say about picking and ch
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Of course, this being an AP report, they had to temper this good news with a body count, but what else can we expect from the MSM? Of course. It's called fair and balanced reporting. If they do it right you'll be pissed off about the 'body count' and those who apparently don't want to hear any 'good news' fr
Remember the Pharisees were the most influential of the Jewish sects at that time. They did all the "right things" supposedly but were hypocritical, self righteous and the foremost persecuters of Jesus. We read in scripture of their murderous plot not only against Jesus but also against Lazarus (get rid of the evidence). No Jesu
ya know Chak sometimes I think you are just being cranky. Not so. You are quite sure of the things you believe, and I believe with equal sincerity that the fundamentalist strain of christianity that you follow is a fairly narrow (but vibrant!) spiritual path, that ignores much of the collected experience an
are you sure they do not kill you FIRST then make you serve probation? You mean they shoot you, then your probation officer fixes you up with a 'dead-end job'?
just remember that French antipathy towards the US is part of a larger effort to create the EU as the counter to US influence on the world stage. I don't think this is true. Actually what you have described is a vision of the EU entertained by some in the French political class. You will find very little support for the idea of the EU as
I sometimes think peope have good manner, but not always the kindness. Does that make the good manners fake? Could be, but that's the beauty of 'good manners': even when practised as an insincere obligation, they can still have the same positive effect. The person giving up their seat for an elderly passenger may be motivated by the joy of helping oth
In the older christian traditions, men and women would go out into the desert to get closer to God. Later they got together in communities to lead 'useless' lives of prayer and devotion to God. I would be one that would not agree with this. James said it best. "Faith without works is dead."
Very interesting article, Doc. The passionate love/hate relationship between France and the US is something that interests me too and I have written on it before. You explain why you chose Bernard-Henri Lévy - the fact that he seems to not "snipe around the edges" but to "put a whole new slant" on the situation, and you are right that he gives a fascinating insight into what one section of French intellectuals feels about the US. It would, however, have been just as
the practice of just sitting. *shakes head* there is so much work to do out there Sodaiho There is indeed, as you say, so much work to do out there. And your point about the self dropping away when yo
Unbelievable... The Chinese administration is even more reprehensible than I thought it was. Wow... China is certainly no kind of democracy in any sense that we understand it in the west. Nevertheless one reason the Chinese authorities give for carrying out 90% of all the executions in the world is " If ca
I clicked on your link and found that they are releasing an EP called "Who the f**k are Arctic Monkeys" Point proven, perhaps? And when you're young being rude is one of this things just to see how far they can go and get away with it. <
"And the love of many will grow cold." Perhaps the sifting of the wheat from the chaf? Could be. But which are you and how do you know?