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This thread was created to bring a local new story to light, which can be viewed below:

JACKSON, Ohio (AP) — An Ohio school district decided Tuesday night to keep a portrait of Jesus hanging in the school where it's been 65 years, denying a federal lawsuit's claim the portrait's display unconstitutionally promotes religion in a public school.

The Jackson City Schools board offered a constitutional justification of its own in voting 4-0 to keep the portrait up in its middle school, saying it must protect students' free speech rights. The vote drew cheers and applause from the dozens of people gathered in the elementary school gymnasium.

Read all of it here: http://news.yahoo.com/ohio-school-b...xzBHB0A3N0b3J5cGFnZQR0ZXN0A1Rlc3RfQUZD;_ylv=3

I posted his here @ NP to see what ppl had to say on the issue. As it turns out, this sparked many debates. I've considered closing this thread but after multiple suggestions, I decided to keep it open. Feel free to join in the topics but per forum rules, please refrain from obscene, threatening, rude, or insulting posts.
 
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Well, let's see . . . . If you really don't have any idea of my age from the stuff in my postings, let's look at what I can't be. If I were 12 (like you didn't mean as an insult), I would have been two years old when I joined NP and started posting, as I'm sure you've noticed by my avatar.
OK, so it was some teenager. How old was that teenager? Perhaps she was underage. And couldn't she go to another pharmacy?

When you go to a Halal store and ask for booze or Bacon or Ham, what do you do when they say NO and then tell you politely to GFU. What do you do then?

Do you go screaming and complaining to the MSM and the Courts and Obama, that you were denied service?
 
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Took me a while to find this thread someone dust it off.
 
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That's a lot of dust collected here:
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Animism Religion:
  1. the attribution of a living soul to plants, inanimate objects, and natural phenomena.
  2. the belief in a supernatural power that organizes and animates the material universe
 
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Egyptian judoka who lost to israeli Ori Sasson refused to shake hands at end of fight and gets booed, very disgraceful behaviour , Rio Olympics 2016
 
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With the speed of light, Islam brings us back to the dark ages...
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A thread "The bible is Fake" (what I don't approve, only some mistakes are in it), esp about bible and theism - atheism, has been here recently on namepros, but for some reason it has been closed.
I found that thread interesting, because it wasn't about Islam vs. christianity, what this thread here is apparently about.

Link to that thread about bible theism - atheism (that's closed probably because some people in the thread didn't respect each other, because of difference of opinion, and went a bit too far.
That (closed) thread is found here =>
https://www.namepros.com/threads/is-the-bible-a-fake.966819/
BTW. you can't add new messages to hat thread anymore.
Here you can
 
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according to some people, this is the world that a being who knows everything, is all-powerful and loving came up with. :hilarious:
 
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according to some people, this is the world that a being who knows everything, is all-powerful and loving came up with. :hilarious:
According to some people, we came here by accident.

It's intelligent design or you're an accident.
 
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makes more sense that there's no meaning than that a 'loving god' is letting people be tortured, abused, molested, murdered, raped, and on and on.
 
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makes more sense that there's no meaning than that a 'loving god' is letting people be tortured, abused, molested, murdered, raped, and on and on.

Its a place of test. Everyone who has caused any harm will face justice in the end. If you really look at the signs with an open mind you will realize that everything in this universe cannot just happen by accident.
 
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Just got back from visiting the "Ark Encounter" in Kentucky and the Creation Museum. Great trip. Both are online if you're interested.....
 
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I’m a big fan of Religiousless.com
 
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There's no free will, so nobody should face any punishment from any god.
Everything in the world is the product of chain reactions that you can't control. Even if you mull over a decision for a very long time, that doesn't mean you're in control. Your conscious contemplation is just a part of the chain reaction.
If you're contemplating something like..whether or not you should marry someone..then a bunch of thoughts will arise in your head (you can't control which ones do), and the logical and emotional parts of you will determine which chains of thought you follow (you can't choose how logical or emotional you are, or how your logic and emotions function). In the moment, you get to experience the decision-making process, but no god can hold you responsible for the result.

If someone has uncontrollable violent thoughts and has a strong urge to beat their spouse or something..but they always resist the urge..that doesn't mean they deserve a reward, and the guy who beats his wife deserves punishment. There just happens to be a line in the mind of the first person that they don't cross.Either it's been there since they were born, or at some point in their life they learned why they shouldn't cross it. But you can't control what you're born with or what you learn. If someone noticed that you were a violent child and tried to help you be less violent, but it didn't work and you never "grew out of it" as an adult, how is it your fault that it didn't work.. They tried to help you, but it didn't click in your brain. It doesn't mean you deserve punishment.
If the guy who beats his wife never learned how to be better, the only thing that makes sense is to keep him from hurting people and help him improve. Some people do horrific things, and it's probably nearly impossible to help them, but maybe in the future.
 
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There's no free will, so nobody should face any punishment from any god.
Everything in the world is the product of chain reactions that you can't control. Even if you mull over a decision for a very long time, that doesn't mean you're in control. Your conscious contemplation is just a part of the chain reaction.
If you're contemplating something like..whether or not you should marry someone..then a bunch of thoughts will arise in your head (you can't control which ones do), and the logical and emotional parts of you will determine which chains of thought you follow (you can't choose how logical or emotional you are, or how your logic and emotions function). In the moment, you get to experience the decision-making process, but no god can hold you responsible for the result.

If someone has uncontrollable violent thoughts and has a strong urge to beat their spouse or something..but they always resist the urge..that doesn't mean they deserve a reward, and the guy who beats his wife deserves punishment. There just happens to be a line in the mind of the first person that they don't cross.Either it's been there since they were born, or at some point in their life they learned why they shouldn't cross it. But you can't control what you're born with or what you learn. If someone noticed that you were a violent child and tried to help you be less violent, but it didn't work and you never "grew out of it" as an adult, how is it your fault that it didn't work.. They tried to help you, but it didn't click in your brain. It doesn't mean you deserve punishment.
If the guy who beats his wife never learned how to be better, the only thing that makes sense is to keep him from hurting people and help him improve. Some people do horrific things, and it's probably nearly impossible to help them, but maybe in the future.

Saying there is no free will is like saying there is no air. If any person physically hurts another person without their consent they absolutely deserve punishment. If you hurt children or animals there is a special place in hell for you.

The only chain reaction that comes from violence is you being handcuffed by law enforcement followed by being locked up in jail.

How do you help someone not abuse their spouse? You can’t help a sociopath. They aren’t capable. Are you kidding me? You’re basically saying people that hurt others can’t help it? We should try to help them get better? Wow..... this type of thread shouldn’t even be allowed. How does this thread help sell or discuss domains.
 
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Probably pretty difficult to help someone as fucked up as that, I don't know. But if it we knew it was possible to change them, we would. And I also said "keep him from hurting people." Duh.

"Saying there is no free will is like saying there is no air."
What a great argument.
Come back ahen you have a good argument that we have free will.


That’s because Norway’s prisons operate on a very different framework than those in most countries, including the U.S.

There are no life sentences in Norway. The longest sentence a person can receive is 21 years, although that can be extended by five year increments indefinitely if authorities decide that the prisoner has not been rehabilitated.

That’s the sentence that Anders Breivik, who killed 77 people in a mass shooting and bombing received. Most Norwegians were satisfied with the sentence because of an overarching belief that the prison systems goal isn’t punishment, but rather rehabilitation.

Are Hoidal, who heads Halden prison, told the Guardian:

Everyone who is imprisoned inside Norwegian prisons will be released — maybe not Breivik, but everyone else will go back to society. We look at what kind of neighbor you want to have when they come out. If you stay in a box for a few years, then you are not a good person when you come out. If you treat them hard… well, we don’t think that treating them hard will make them a better man. We don’t think about revenge in the Norwegian prison system. We have much more focus on rehabilitation. It is a long time since we had fights between inmates. It is this building that makes softer people.

The emphasis on making prisoners “softer” through prisons that offer many of the amenities of real life — short, of course, of freedom — is costly.

https://thinkprogress.org/the-u-s-has-a-lot-to-learn-from-norways-prisons-681fd194b6e1/
 
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People think they have great morals and then tell you they love the idea of REVENGE and PUNISHMENT. Even ETERNAL PUNISHMENT.
 
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