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03-12-2003, 01:26 AM | #11 |
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Is it just me, or is Jesus flashing gang signs in all of those pics?
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03-12-2003, 01:34 AM | #12 |
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he's making a bunny in the middle one
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03-12-2003, 05:48 AM | #13 |
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If it matters to you Mal my grandfather was a prisoner in Auschwitz and Dachau. He was one of the few to make it out alive. One day we were watching a documentary on the Holocaust and actually saw a picture of my grandfather in one of the camps. I never saw him react in such a way. It was very traumatic for him to see himself there ... again.
What would be the purpose of someone attempting to prove the non-existence of Hitler, a man widely photographed, who actually lived, who negatively affected the lives of literally millions of people (many of those by murdering them), who wrote a book, who even the Church doesn't deny existed? We certainly have more proof for the existence then of your Jesus. Perhaps you could get back to us with that "overwhelming" proof and no doubt you could find similar "proof" by doing a google search to find information about Holocaust deniers. Be sure to get back to us. Is it really any surprise to you that people who require extraordinary proof for extraordinary claims wouldn't be sympathetic to this question? It's possible Hitler did not exist, but highly unlikely given the wealth of physical evidence. It's possible Jesus existed, but highly unlikely given the absolutely poverty of physical or other credible evidence. You believe in Jesus, but potentially disbelieve in the existence of one of the worlds most notorious, bigoted, egomanical, genocidal maniacs ...... things that make you go hhhhmmmmmmmm...... :banghead: :banghead: Brighid |
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Don't you think it is suggestive that Mal turned to Hitler for a comparison to Jesus?
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03-12-2003, 06:34 AM | #15 |
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Maybe Jesus was a martial artist, and that hand thing he does in those pics was a type of fist he invented.
Yeah, this theory's got some legs now that i think about it... the long robes were used to entangle and distract, and his divinity powered his Hyper-Holy-Fire-Fist-Of-Uber-Death. He could also remove his halo and throw it, shuriken-style. "Think not that I am come to send peace on earth: I came not to send peace, but a sword." "Here are two swords, Lord!" "That is enough... for my Whirling-Blades-Of-Semitic-Fury attack!" Edit: My memory of the bible has been confused with the videos we were forced to watch in Christian Ed at school... I don't even know if any part of the above passage is in that book, I just put in what I could remember. |
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Nah...Gangsta Disciple yo.
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It's early so this probably won't come out right... but I am wondering what exactly malook means when saying "Hitler did not exist".
We have person (A) currently known as Hitler. (A) did various things in his life, say events (B) and (C), to keep it simple. Now malook could say we don't actually know that Hitler existed, while we do know that (A) existed, as we have proof of him, in the fact that (B) and (C) did occur and we have proof and witnesses to them. We equate (A) with Hitler because that's what we were told. So it possible that Hitler did not exist because he actually wasn't (A). But given the German perchant for genealogy, we could probably find Hitler's birth record or baptism record, negating that. Now with Jesus, the bible tells us that person (D) was Jesus, and he did (E) and (F). This however doesn't equate with Hitler, as we have no outside evidence that (E) and (F) occurred. So it doesn't really matter if you call person (D) Jesus or Jimbo or Stan, we still got nothing. |
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