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Post by ironbite on Jul 20, 2009 22:59:39 GMT -5
Heh........I doubt I'll get that bad.
Ironbite-for one I don't like to spend half an hour on my posts.
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Post by wackadoodle on Jul 20, 2009 23:02:44 GMT -5
Sounds like he's acknowledging that it would be weird to not mention god considering the audience. Modern presidents get attacked for not sticking a 'god bless america' in every other speech.
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Post by schizophonic on Jul 20, 2009 23:05:52 GMT -5
Heh........I doubt I'll get that bad. Ironbite-for one I don't like to spend half an hour on my posts. That's a lie. with how slow you type, that post probably took 20 minutes alone. Amaranth--I'm stealing your gimmick. Deal.
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Post by kristine on Jul 20, 2009 23:14:23 GMT -5
Heh........I doubt I'll get that bad. Ironbite-for one I don't like to spend half an hour on my posts. Ahhh...but do you fall asleep in the middle of them? Sounds like he's acknowledging that it would be weird to not mention god considering the audience. Modern presidents get attacked for not sticking a 'god bless america' in every other speech. Yeah, it hardly seems like the 'dedicated the nation to god' that the RR post said it was. It seems more like proud but desperate prayer - "please, GOD, let this work!.."
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Post by ironbite on Jul 20, 2009 23:22:21 GMT -5
Heh........I doubt I'll get that bad. Ironbite-for one I don't like to spend half an hour on my posts. That's a lie. with how slow you type, that post probably took 20 minutes alone. Amaranth--I'm stealing your gimmick. Deal. The infection is spreading. Ironbite-MWAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!
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Post by lonelocust on Jul 21, 2009 0:51:17 GMT -5
Sounds like he's acknowledging that it would be weird to not mention god considering the audience. Modern presidents get attacked for not sticking a 'god bless america' in every other speech. Yeah, but that's probably enough for the RR crowd to be able to see what they want to see. Washington's statements that touched on God were always rather ambivalent. I think the best one is the one where he says something about how the effect of "refined education on peculiar minds" can produce morality without religion, but that it's unwise to believe the masses can be moral without religion. I think he would probably change his mind in light of the data we now have where the more atheist countries have less crime (not necessarily with a causal relationship, but certainly with a correlative relationship), but it's a pretty clear statement that smart educated special people can have morals of their own, but that most people need religion for it. Let me not be as lazy as RR and fail to Google: "Whatever may be conceded to the influence of refined education on minds of peculiar structure, reason and experience both forbid us to expect, that national morality can prevail in exclusion of religious principle.It is substantially true, that virtue or morality is a necessary spring of popular government. The rule, indeed, extends with more or less force to every species of free government. Who, that is a sincere friend to it, can look with indifference upon attempts to shake the foundation of the fabric?"
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Post by tinyjeebus on Jul 21, 2009 11:30:00 GMT -5
"When we let the few push us around, we get what we don't stand up for."
It always amazes me how they shift from being the moral majority to a persecuted minority and back again as it suits them:
America is a Christian nation until everyone else disagrees with them, then all of a sudden They's persimacutin' us!
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Post by kristine on Jul 21, 2009 14:28:39 GMT -5
The infection is spreading. Ironbite-MWAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA! I actually saw someone on RR doing that today... You saw someone "MWAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!"?
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Post by Sigmaleph on Jul 21, 2009 15:09:10 GMT -5
Rapture Ready is ironbiting? I'm not sure if that's a good or a bad thing
I don't affix my name to the end of my posts, I have this small type thing
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Post by schizophonic on Jul 21, 2009 15:13:41 GMT -5
I was looking at random quotes yesterday and saw one of the RRs going off about how pagan symbols shouldn't be allowed in military cemeteries...so yeah. Yeah, seen that before, and without even going to RR for it. Ridiculous. Though it makes me curious as to what they consider "pagan" symbols, given their tendency to label a lot of things that aren't TRUE CHRISTIAN iconography as pagan, satanist, or whatever else they already hate.
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Post by The Lazy One on Jul 21, 2009 15:13:45 GMT -5
I actually saw someone on RR doing that today... You saw someone "MWAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!"? What, MWAHAHAHAHAHAHA-ing? The Lazy One- or affixing their names to end of their posts like Ironbite?
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Post by schizophonic on Jul 21, 2009 15:25:35 GMT -5
Rapture Ready is ironbiting? I'm not sure if that's a good or a bad thing I don't affix my name to the end of my posts, I have this small type thingI dunno. Ironbitism tends to be mutually exclusive with Raptardism. Right now, there is a battle in that poster's brain it cannot possibly survive...Ibby's stupid is just hat powerful. Amaranth--Though technically, I've been using the name comment thingy since the OLD White Wolf board, where I followed it up with "The Eleventh Wonder of the World" and some quippy comment.
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Post by Admiral Lithp on Jul 21, 2009 15:26:49 GMT -5
That really is a ridiculous & disrespectful stance. People can't have their religion's symbol on their grave? Oxenschite.
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Post by Admiral Lithp on Jul 21, 2009 15:53:09 GMT -5
What, MWAHAHAHAHAHAHA-ing? The Lazy One- or affixing their names to end of their posts like Ironbite? The name thing That's just scary.
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Post by Paradox on Jul 21, 2009 15:53:27 GMT -5
"And when you pray, you must not be like the hypocrites. For they love to stand and pray in the synagogues and at the street corners, that they may be seen by others. Truly, I say to you, they have received their reward. But when you pray, go into your room and shut the door and pray to your Father who is in secret. And your Father who sees in secret will reward you."
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