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Old 01-18-2003, 11:04 AM   #71
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the reason seebs is more rational than radorth

1. if seebs contradicts himself, he says hey i was wrong oops.

2. radorth says,"you evil persecuting atheists i never said that. and ignores the posts that actually quote what he said.


i am not persecuting you radorth. you just keep lying.
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Old 01-18-2003, 11:38 AM   #72
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If I wasn't called to so many gratuitous witch-hunts and smear campaigns I could respond. But I'm sure the choir will take your word for it. You count on it, which is why you never provide any examples.
The thread in question

You were saying?

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You know, all folks have to do to make "the problems with Radorth" go away is just agree to disagree and stop misquoting and insulting me. I would then have no reason at all to hold up mirrors, would I?
What does this have to do with your not-so-mysterious silence in the evolution discussion in question? Answer: nothing. It's just another of your red herrings.

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How unfortunate that only one brave moderator put a stop to some of this nonsense. It's the way of the world- the good people do too little and the bad ones get away with too much. And virtually no good deed goes unpunished.
Hah! Now I'm a 'bad person.' Why? Because I won't let Radorth get away with pulling his typical Radorthian antics.

Rad, you post, on average, 8 posts a day. But your last post in the thread in question was three days ago...and you've been posting actively in other discussions since then. And your last post in that thread certainly wasn't a 'final post in this discussion from me' post.

So why the silence?

[cue Radorth bitching and moaning about how he's persected in 3...2...1...]
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Old 01-18-2003, 11:55 AM   #73
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But at least they admitted Darwin was wrong.

Does that mean that if "you" admit that you wrong about something that everything else you post can be discounted as erroneous also...which the majority of folks eventually seem to be deciding is the case after attempting to have a rational discussion with you?

If I wasn't called to so many gratuitous witch-hunts and smear campaigns I could respond.

Muhahahahahah! I love reading your stuff. I keep complimenting you on what a wonderful "jokester" you are and you never fail to live up to my expectations of you.

Long ago I suggested that you were doing great harm to your chosen religious faith dogma and to please continue doing what only you seem to be able to do so well. I wish to thank you for continuing along the path you have chosen in these forums...exposing the negative face of Christianity. Good for you. Please continue! I love to laugh...and you keep me in stitches.
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Old 01-18-2003, 12:17 PM   #74
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I guess you believe God saves and loses people at will. I don't agree, and neither does the scripture, ....
Please explain The Book Of Job ?
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Old 01-18-2003, 01:13 PM   #75
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Um, Radoth, most people on this forum don't think God exists at all. Which is why True Christians can cease to be True Christians -- there is no god to stop them.

Interesting assumption, though.

[Gratuitous Insult]And you wonder why so many people snicker at you[/Gratutious Insult -- after all, a post addressing Radoth wouldn't be complete without one!]
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Old 01-18-2003, 04:15 PM   #76
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I suspect this another Rad-baiting Infidels Inquisition thread, full of inane, insincere, pedantic and rhetorical questions, and bad for the SecWeb. We'll see.
Excuse a "newbie" for asking what is probably a dumb question: Rad, there are so very many boards frequented by people of various theist beliefs, why are you hanging out here anyway?
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I seriously doubt you will ever hear anyone but a mature Christian talking about the intrinsic worth of each person, and saying we are all "valuable and precious specks of dust."
I am Jack's mild surprise.

Last time I checked, Christian's do NOT believe that we are ALL valuable and precious. The only people who are valuable and precious are those who are saved by the grace of Christ. All the rest of us are just plain ol' dust waiting to be wormchow and, eventually, fuel for the fires of hell. The only people who I've found the believe in the "valuable and precious" state of a human being are those Norman Vincent Peale positive-thinker types.

Oh yeah, I almost forgot: don't you think that loving "self (and other's) for God's sake" is kind of, well, sick and wrong? My mother, a devout Christian, always taught me that I should never do something because someone told me I should - if your heart isn't in it, it's not worth doing. If I were God, I'd be pissed off that you were opening your heart to someone simply because I said so! I'd want to know why you, as a True Christian, didn't just do it because it was the right thing to do, instead of "God said so."
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I am Jack's mild surprise.

Last time I checked, Christian's do NOT believe that we are ALL valuable and precious. The only people who are valuable and precious are those who are saved by the grace of Christ.
Christian ideas of self-worth are very strange to me. On the one hand, we're all filthy sinners that deserve nothing better than eternal punishment, and are saved from it only by the infinite grace that we don't deserve. On the other hand, we are also "special" creatures who were created in God's image and are his ultimate creative triumph (and depending who you talk to, we obviously didn't come from no stupid, dirty ape!).
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He does not say in general that we filthy rags. He says "all our righteousness is as filthy rags."

It's as simple as loving the sinner and hating the sin, to me. I don't know why people would find that hard to grasp. Why should a loving, just God do any different? Is it that the world measures a person's value based solely on what they contribute? God hands out rewards based on works I suppose, but he hands out salvation for free because we have intrinsic worth.

That is why I don't call people names. It is like saying "You personally are worthless." I don't believe that at all because Jesus died for each of us, and made a way to save every person, no matter how bad they are or think they are. Unfortunately many of the secular "humanists" here don't think that way, and really have no good reason to think that way.

I do.

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Can you explain "love the sinner, hate the sin" a litte more clearly, please? As a filthy, tricksey homosexual, I hear that one a lot - but no one seems to have a good grasp as to what it actually means, and how Christians are supposed to handle the situation.
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