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Post by big_electron on Jan 30, 2010 5:37:27 GMT -5
Who was his therapist? Dr. Dobson?
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Post by big_electron on Jan 30, 2010 5:30:46 GMT -5
Basically the idea (posited by a priest named Arius) is that Jesus and God were not the same entity, but distinct with Jesus as a lesser being created by God. This went against the idea of the trinity in which the two are the same and separate, and sort of co-existed. It was deemed heretical, but it was one of the major rifts in the church and helped define some of the political and foreign actions of the late Roman Empire and the Byzantines as they sought to crush the belief. They had limited success, as I understand that Sir Isaac Newton, among others, was an Arian or something like it. Obviously it has no connection to Nazi Aryanism. So instead of Jesus being the son of God the Father, Jesus is the parasitic twin of God the Father?
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Post by big_electron on Jan 28, 2010 23:47:48 GMT -5
I'm a big football fan. To non-americans, I don't mean soccer, I mean American Football.
I'm trying to compile a list of atheist athletes.
What I have so far:
Robert Smith, former running back for Minnesota Vikings Lance Armstrong, bicyclist Jonathan Edwards, T&F athlete from UK
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Post by big_electron on Jan 28, 2010 23:36:08 GMT -5
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Post by big_electron on Jan 28, 2010 23:18:51 GMT -5
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Post by big_electron on Jan 28, 2010 23:14:49 GMT -5
Note that the original Tea Party was not about a tax, but they were protesting the repealing of a tax. Tea from Britain was supposed to be exempted from a new tax, which would allow their tea company to become richer and more powerful.
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Post by big_electron on Jan 20, 2010 6:38:25 GMT -5
Figured it would happen when the bitch who the Dems chose to replace Kennedy stopped campaning after she got the nom. Ironbite-idiot. She quit campaigning after nomination? (Too bad Skyfire isn't here to revel in it)
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Post by big_electron on Jan 16, 2010 18:46:42 GMT -5
Obama - good job
Congress - disappointing
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Post by big_electron on Jan 14, 2010 7:32:55 GMT -5
I have to ask:
What exactly is Arianism? I've heard of it before, but never knew exactly what it is.
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Post by big_electron on Jan 13, 2010 8:06:52 GMT -5
Fair and Balanced? How many members of the GOP work for them now? Mike Huckabee, Karl Rove, John Bolton, Newt Gingrich, now Sarah Palin, and Roger Ailes is chief of FAUX News.
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Post by big_electron on Jan 13, 2010 5:41:36 GMT -5
What Reid did is not politically correct of him at all. But history is not always pleasant! He was just stating facts, something sad but true.
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Post by big_electron on Jan 12, 2010 8:54:14 GMT -5
A lot of it is former JW's. I saw a video of people marching around the Watchtower building with signs, "You lied in 1914, 1927, 1941, 1975. As for their crazy theology, it has to be from people who have been in a long time, then when they learned this, couldn't take it anymore.
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Post by big_electron on Jan 12, 2010 7:55:43 GMT -5
@dv:
Maybe not entirely accurate, but it's not all bullshit either. I remember as a teenager (I'm 37 now), when I was still a Christian myself, I was told things like JW's believe that Jesus is actually an angel, blah blah blah.
Actually I have seen some of the tracts they left in my door. They use Bible verses, but those verses are cherry-picked. Everyone knows that you can make the Bible say ANYTHING by cherry-picking verses. I'm sure they do this so that they can say they believe the Bible, but in actuality, they believe what their betters tell them to believe. Read only the verses they tell you to read, then shut the Bible and don't read anymore!
When you see some of the beliefs that they harbor, then you know that all this is not entirely false. My favorite example is that they believe that Christ returned invisibly in 1874. However, reading from the Catholic and Protestant canon, specifically the book of Revelation, you would get the idea that Christ's second coming will be obvious and unmistakable.
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Post by big_electron on Jan 11, 2010 23:56:56 GMT -5
Note to Distind: we need a round 2 to decide this. We take the top 2 vote takers, and people pick one or the other.
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Post by big_electron on Jan 11, 2010 23:42:52 GMT -5
Yeah, about the not reading the Bible part? Witnesses have a meeting segment every week dedicated to just that. Not saying it's not a cult, because it most certainly is. But at least get it right as to why. Spreading misinformation just discredits the person spreading it. By the way, something that's been bothering me for a while: the faith's adherents are called Jehovah's Witnesses, what's the religion itself called? Jehovah's Witnessing? The Truth. Seriously. Actually it's official name is Watchtower Bible and Tract Society, and their "churches" are called Kingdom Halls. @dv: you said it's a cult. What strikes you as cultish? What should I be telling people that I'm not? You and others have said I'm saying things I shouldn't. Now fill me in as to what you want said about them.
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