The religious discussion thread

[Archangel]

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.

 

[GILSAN]

Sane liberals? Can't be true.

Hard to believe... ain't it?

On the other hand (comparatively speaking, of course), if you truly believe someone like Palin would be good at being president of the United States and would make the world a better place, I'm sure she would welcome your international support. Invite her over to talk about it. In fact, I'll use my as yet unbestowed Freedom Party authority to appoint you as the Commander and Chief Palinite of the "We love Sara" Madeira Island chapter. She might even like your island so much she stays there, God willing.

As long as you know how to do a good job at reading a teleprompter and answering the easy questions at press conferences, it seems that being President is not all that difficult, since you have all those advisers around, thinking for the President and writing all the speeches, including school speeches for 6 year olds. :red:

Naturally I'm talking about a Democrat President. A Republican will have a much, much tougher time, because the Liberal Media will no longer kiss ass with soft questions, as they do with a Democrat in the White House

As to the "appointment of Gilsan as the Commander and Chief Palinite of the "We love Sara" Madeira Island chapter", sounds very exciting. Next time you see Sarah Palin from where you live, perhaps you could exercise your influence and tell her that YES, I accept the offer, and YES, she is very welcome to drop by here in our Island, where a barrel of some good Madeira Vintage awaits her.

Oh and if you decide to make the voyage with her, my offer still stands except for one slight change. There will be 2 barrels waiting for you, for having convinced her to come over :wave:

In fact, since there are less than 40 good Christians in the WBC sect, maybe you wouldn't mind taking them in for a while. too? They are a mild, tax-exempt group of morally upstanding and tolerant Christians who represent nothing and are harmless to the society they live in.

Thanks, but no thanks. The Liberals can keep those.

 

[enlytend]

Yes I'd read that news a few days back. So if Atheists don't believe in anything why do they need a monument? I've no problem that they want to erect a monument, but why put it next to the Ten Commandments?

Will they place one next to a Mosque next time? I'll bet not. They'd be too shit scared they would get their throats slit in a wink of an eye? What a bunch of hypocrites.

Atheists believe in science.

Why would they even want to put one next to a mosque This is in front of a county courthouse, not a church.

 

[GILSAN]

Atheists believe in science.

So does the rest of the world, as well as maths, history, geography, etc.

Why would they even want to put one next to a mosque This is in front of a county courthouse, not a church.

Why did they put up a monument, when they don't believe in monuments. They only did it to spite the Christians... sort of like, if you can't beat them, join them, or rub it in their faces. Bloody Hypocrites

 

[DU]

Why did they put up a monument, when they don't believe in monuments. They only did it to spite the Christians... sort of like, if you can't beat them, join them, or rub it in their faces. Bloody Hypocrites

An atheist is someone who rejects (or doesn't believe) in the existence of deities. I don't think that it means they don't believe in monuments.

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I've no problem that they want to erect a monument, but why put it next to the Ten Commandments?

Will they place one next to a Mosque next time? I'll bet not. They'd be too shit scared they would get their throats slit in a wink of an eye? What a bunch of hypocrites.

It's in a "free speech" zone on govt property. You can't just erect statues, monuments or signs anywhere you want.

Islam had no place in this article, no mention in this article yet you manage to once again write something nonsensical based on some prejudice of hatred you hold. I don't know why you do this but I pray that your God is a forgiving one

 

[verbster]

Originally Posted by enlytend View Post
"Atheists believe in science."

So does the rest of the world, as well as maths, history, geography, etc.

No, they don't. What they (including Palin) believe is that the Earth was created a few thousand years ago....that humans and dinosaurs lived at the same time and a whole bunch of other "truther" beliefs.

 

[rajitha]

WORKSOFRELIGION.COM (Vatican Bank) What do u all think about this domain

 

[Archangel]

Terrible domain/no value, not even reg fee/sorry you wasted your money registering it.

WORKSOFRELIGION.COM (Vatican Bank) What do u all think about this domain

 

[GiftedDomains]

An atheist is someone who rejects (or doesn't believe) in the existence of deities. I don't think that it means they don't believe in monuments

I believe that God wanted to fart but accidentally sharted 13.8 billion years ago (also called big bang theory).

What am i? a shartist?

 

[verbster]

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I believe that God wanted to fart but accidentally sharted 13.8 billion years ago (also called big bang theory).

What am i? a shartist?

You've solved the mystery of dark matter and dark energy, but raised a new mystery...what would God's fart smell like? Heaven?

And God promised men that good and obedient women would be found in every corner of earth. And then he made the world round . . . . and laughed, and laughed and laughed.

 

[GiftedDomains]

its all pretty simple actually

isaiah 63:15

Look down from heaven, and behold from the habitation of thy holiness and of thy glory: where is thy zeal and thy strength,the sounding of thy bowels !!! and of thy mercies toward me? are they restrained?

 

[eyedomainous]

Proof we are evolving... BELIEF IN EVOLUTION UP SINCE 2004

An atheist is someone who rejects (or doesn't believe) in the existence of deities.

In other words... An atheist is a person without any imaginary friends. :lol:

 

[DU]

In other words... An atheist is a person without any imaginary friends. :lol:

I have lots of imaginary friends.. I just don't call any of them omnipotent.

 

[verbster]

I have lots of imaginary friends.

That's what happens when you spend too much time on a computer.

Enjoy your friends while you can. Pretty soon they'll disappear like the Christmas presents you outgrew.

 

[Theo Goodman]

Best interview ever

http://www.buzzfeed.com/andrewkaczynski/is-this-the-most-embarrassing-interview-fox-news-has-ever-do?sub=2469190_1427852

 

[GiftedDomains]

Best interview ever

http://www.buzzfeed.com/andrewkaczynski/is-this-the-most-embarrassing-interview-fox-news-has-ever-do?sub=2469190_1427852

american interviews with 'moslems' are always funny :D

[ame="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MHEpgv2lGOc"]Ahmadinejad: Bin Laden Is in D.C. - YouTube[/ame]

 

[GILSAN]

american interviews with 'moslems' are always funny :D

Ahmadinejad: Bin Laden Is in D.C. - YouTube

I would say that Ahmadinejad has walked all over and embarrassed American interviewers virtually every time.

 

[verbster]

I would say that Ahmadinejad has walked all over and embarrassed American interviewers virtually every time.

Yeah, he really kicked ass when denying the holocaust.

 

[GiftedDomains]

haha, ahmadinejad is actually not a genius or the god of rhetorics or something.
its just that these interviewers (mostly american interviewers) and the people who prepare the questions are soooooo dumb, even i could kick their ass in an interview with my broken english. asking the same dumb questions over and over again,,,, of course he is prepared. plus seams like these interviewers don't even know the difference between the countries, terror groups, ethnic groups, etc. etc. they always embarrass theirselves with lack of knowledge and stupidity and they don't even realize it. of course ahmadi also had some valid points, just like normally every side has some valid points and some unjustified ones.

there are a lot of other questions which could have put ahmadinejad in difficult and uncomfortable situations, they were just never asked the way they should have been asked.

even the counterquestions were dumb.
for instance when ahmadinejad asked "is killing a policeman seeking for democracy?".
a simple "are you saying that all the political activists, reformists, etc. who are now in your prisons or karoubi and mousavi who are under house arrest, ..they all killed your policeman?" instead of "no obviously not, its a crime". DUMBO

anyway, this interview was old, and there is a new 'president' anyway.
just for laugh (the Bin Laden part lol)

 

[GILSAN]

Yeah, he really kicked ass when denying the holocaust.

I really detest Ahmadinejad for his denial of the holocaust, but what I and GiftedDomains are saying is that the American interviewers haven't a clue on how to interview and corner him. They ask dumb questions and keep repeating the same dumb questions in a different way.

A good example of the above video interview was the last question that Stephanopolous asked about whether Bin Laden was living in Iran at the time of the interview. That was pitifully embarrassing. What did he get out of insisting on that question? That Bin Laden was living in New York :lol:

haha, ahmadinejad is actually not a genius or the god of rhetorics or something.
its just that these interviewers (mostly american interviewers) and the people who prepare the questions are soooooo dumb, even i could kick their ass in an interview with my broken english. asking the same dumb questions over and over again,,,, of course he is prepared. plus seams like these interviewers don't even know the difference between the countries, terror groups, ethnic groups, etc. etc. they always embarrass theirselves with lack of knowledge and stupidity and they don't even realize it. of course ahmadi also had some valid points, just like normally every side has some valid points and some unjustified ones.

there are a lot of other questions which could have put ahmadinejad in difficult and uncomfortable situations, they were just never asked the way they should have been asked.

even the counterquestions were dumb.
for instance when ahmadinejad asked "is killing a policeman seeking for democracy?".
a simple "are you saying that all the political activists, reformists, etc. who are now in your prisons or karoubi and mousavi who are under hourse arrest, ..they all killed your policeman?" instead of "no obviously not, its a crime". DUMBO

anyway, this interview was old, and there is a new 'president' anyway.
just for laugh (the Bin Laden part lol)

Agreed. I could never have explained it better myself. The insistence of wanting to know if Bin Laden was living in Iran was so embarrassing :red: that it became laughable. But there were others, like Larry King who also got frustrated because he had a really hard time getting anything out of him.

 

[verbster]

Some American journalists do their research and conduct great interviews. Unfortunately, you are correct about the stupid questions. Also, unfortunately, most prime time stuff is cut down to the 6th grade level of simplicity. . . not to mention, many who deliver the news are not good at interviews. Most can't even interview their own politicians, let alone get a straight answer.