Radorth

You're just being inane again Rhea. You well know I can just ask and I will recieve a dead fetus.

Rad

Rhea

Blah blah blah... the obligatory initial insult from radorth... blah blah blah...

Oh, here he is.... now we can discuss.

NOT LEGALLY.
You were complaining about a GOVERNMENT which REQUIRES you to get a license to kill a skunk, but DOES NOT REQUIRE you to get a license to "kill a baby". Assuming you are talking about abortion, the government DOES REQUIRE a license for it.


YOUR CLAIM and YOUR COMPLAINT are not truthful.

lpetrich

There had never been a Christian Democracy, the concept came from PAGAN Greece.

Radorth:
A noble and short-lived experiment, which Aristotle warned would fail if "Democratic behavior" were interpreted to mean behavior such as yours IMO.

It lasted for at least as long as ours. Also, does Radorth think that the word "democracy" comes from the Bible? The word "republic"? Or "senate"? Or "capitol"?

Ah yes, the "right" not to have to look at crosses, hear church bells, listen to a President use the word "God" or "Creator."

So if a Muslim politician says that the Bible contains lots of errors, that the Trinity is three gods and that Jesus Christ was only one of Mohammed's predecessors, you won't complain?

Biff baby, I could whine all day that I am prevented from watching TV because of uncensored and crass advertising,

Radorth, I thought that you right-wingers believed in free enterprise.

... labels horribly violent movies PG 13,

And the Bible is 100% G-rated from beginning to end? Imagine making a movie from many of its incidents -- it would be R-rated at least. Lots of horrible violence, some nudity, you name it.

Radorth

You're still being inane here. You are obviously choosing a legalistic interpretation in order to claim murder of third trimester babies is somehow OK. Thanks. I'd rather error on the side of reality.

From Weather's op-ed:

1) I have not been deluged with hate mail from the believers. In fact, I've received only one email that consigns me to hell. I have heard from a few Christians, but only that one was angry. The others were thoughtful and respectful. I hope we all find encouragement in that. I am a bit discouraged that the column did not reach as many on the Religious Right as I had hoped.

2) I have not lost my job. Besides the column for the Flyer, I teach at a university here in Connecticut, where I live. (I write for the Memphis Flyer because I lived in Memphis for many years, and people know me there.) I appreciate the concern of all of you who are worried about me.

3) It didn't take much courage to write the column, although I did think about it for a couple of days before submitting it. Maybe I'm dense, maybe I'm naive, but in my circle, which includes a lot of writers and very well-educated people, expressing nonbeliever views is an accepted practice, even in rooms where the vast majority are believers.

I'm sorry Rhea, but Weathers has some news for you. In REALITY (should you decide to face it) he is saying too many atheists are seeing persecution where there is none. You live next to a Mormon church I take it.

Rad

Yellum Notnef

I can't wait until Weathers see's all this.

Radorth

No and we don't teach parts of it, like Song of Solomon, to children under 18 either. They cannot make the distinctions in motives to interpret it fairly.

Hmmmm.....

Rad

Radorth

Me neither. I'm sure he'll make distinctions many atheists cannot make.

Rad

Biff the unclean

I'm just stating historical facts. If I'm subverting it, then so was Washington. If I had stated his case a little differently, you would have virtually nothing to say. I will choose slightly different wording in the future.
Slightly different and I'd have nothing to say? If slightly different meant that you told the truth for once I'd be absolutely speachless.

Ah yes, the "right" not to have to look at crosses, hear church bells,
If they effect my property values and disturb the piece of my community why should they get a free ride? If I put up a 50 ft neon gallows (more tasteful than a cross because it's victims die quickly) on the side of my house wouldn't my neighbors have the right to complain? If every Sunday morning at nine o'clock and 10 o'clock if I honked my cars honk again and again and again I'd get a ticket. The cities sign on the lamp post says so. The lamp post in front of the RC church's bell tower.

listen to a President use the word "God" or "Creator."
Not something he should be doing if he is speaking officially.
Tell me, when an Atheist President is elected and at the beginning of every speech, and the end, and whenever he speaks to congress or on TV about the military, he went out of his way to tell you that there isn't any god, to get real and stop being such a jerk about this superstitious nonsense--do you think that that would be appropriate behavior for a president? Or should he just keep his religious beliefs to himself?

A majority of Christians put up with these violations of their "rights" as well because they recognize they ain't in heaven yet and there is a price we all pay for freedom.
I noticed that you put the word "rights" in quotes. I'll take that to mean that you realize that nothing you mentioned was a right

You see yourself as living amongst some poor persecuted minority on a crusade against Christian oppression, but actually all you want to do is remove freedoms and the long-standing traditional rights from others.
Yas suh, mista Charley. We uppity Atheist-niggas ain't gonna bother nobody, no suh. We's just suffelen along, as soon as we's gets a drink from the Atheist-nigga wadda fountain.

Rhea

Blah blah blah .... obligatory radorth insult... blah blah blah...
YOU said. It was appalling that this country allows an abortion to happen without a license. It. Does. Not.

Can you refute that?

YOU. Said. "you need a license to kill a skunk but not a baby."
That.
Is.
Wrong.

Can you refute that, or do you want to try waving your hands at a tangent again?


You said, "he discovered christians were not all alike."

YOU.
Said.
That.

And I said, but weathers never made any such claim. So how could this have been a discovery? Your quote of him SHOWS that he didn't think of all christians as fundamentalists. That he in fact didn't interact with many but was surprised not to have reached the fundamentalists out there.

YOU. Said. he thought all christians were alike until he just discovered otherwise.

YOU.
LIED.

(again)

Hedwig

*raises her hand* At least that's how it was explained to me when I asked why they had to take the standing cross off my grandfather's grave.