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Old 05-30-2003, 02:17 AM   #41
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Ever since I converted them to Christianity, actually. I now reap the fruits of my idiocy, and boy, are they sour.
Karma, anyone?

Anyway, I talked to the IPU, and she says you'll be fine so long as you feel bad about it.
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Old 05-30-2003, 06:04 AM   #42
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We started talking about organ donations today and I found out that the UAE doesn't allow people to donate their organs. :banghead: I'll try to die elsewhere.
Yikes! What's the dominant religion out there, Jehovah's Witness?
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Old 05-30-2003, 07:33 AM   #43
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However I'd say that Q of S will more likely lead a short life if honoring your father and mother lead to a long one as the Bible says.
That sounds like a testable prediction to me. Have theists done any work to see whether honoring one's father and mother leads to a long life, or would this make a good creation research project?
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Old 05-30-2003, 03:40 PM   #44
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However I'd say that Q of S will more likely lead a short life if honoring your father and mother lead to a long one as the Bible says.
Gee, jesus lived a short life, I guess that means he didn't properly honor his father & mother.
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Old 06-05-2003, 02:12 PM   #45
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Gee, jesus lived a short life, I guess that means he didn't properly honor his father & mother.
Absolutely right he didn't! When he said to his mom "Woman, what have I to do with thee?" , that showed a lack of respect (honor)

And another time: "I must be about my Father's business". It's fairly certain he didn't mean repairing a broken table leg, which was (reportedly) his father's business.
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Old 06-05-2003, 02:18 PM   #46
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The verse implies that you should not take advantage of impressionable children to feed them one of the 1200 contradictory atheist theories of who Jesus was, or wasn't, or one of your 12,000 distinct personal philosophies and sets of rules based on your unprovable belief there is no God.
You still know nothing about atheism, do you? I am an atheist, and I do not believe that no gods exist!!! Why are so many xians apparently unable to comprehend this simple fact?

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Old 06-05-2003, 02:36 PM   #47
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So here it is, and my question is whether my parents have any biblical justification for their theory that God has a special hate-on for the sin of deconverting a person. And that God, unable to pull out the biggest gun in his arsenal a second time, will instead find ways to torture me in this life. Is there any backing for this?
The second part is almost certainly nonsense, IMHO. As to the former, there's a passage about "whosoever offends one of these that believe in Me...", but it seems to me that it applies rather to members of the faith who drive people away.
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Old 06-05-2003, 03:32 PM   #48
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I should also check back in about seventy years time to let people know if Radorth's "QueenofSwords Dies Young" speculation turned out right or wrong.
That reminds me. I've got to call up my old uni housemate and gloat about his famous "in five years, evolution will be relegated to the dustbin of history, and all of the universities will be teaching creationism" prediction from five years ago.
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Why are so many xians apparently unable to comprehend this simple fact?
I think you should have learned by now that he's the king of willful ignorance.It's not really a matter of comprehension so much as willingness to comprehend.

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That reminds me. I've got to call up my old uni housemate and gloat about his famous "in five years, evolution will be relegated to the dustbin of history, and all of the universities will be teaching creationism" prediction from five years ago.
Please do! I would love to be a fly on the wall for that conversation. Be sure to report back to us after you've spoken with him.
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