Message boards :
Politics :
Religious Thread [10] - Closed
Message board moderation
Previous · 1 . . . 24 · 25 · 26 · 27 · 28 · 29 · 30 · Next
Author | Message |
---|---|
![]() ![]() Send message Joined: 29 Sep 06 Posts: 6418 Credit: 8,893 RAC: 0 ![]() |
... and then there are the professional preachers Jesus warned us about: ...They like to walk around in flowing robes and be greeted in the marketplaces, and have the most important seats in the synagogues and the places of honor at banquets. They devour widows' houses and for a show make lengthy prayers. Such men will be punished most severely'. Reads very much like a description of many nowadays preachers & church pastors... Account frozen... |
![]() ![]() Send message Joined: 21 Nov 03 Posts: 4793 Credit: 26,029 RAC: 0 |
Please don't get me started critisizing the Mormon church: Church leaders sitting front and center seperated from and facing their 'followers'... Church leaders demanding tithings from their 'followers'... Church leaders requiring a dress code of suit and tie from their 'followers'... I won't even mention the 'New Americas' and 'Zionism'... If the church works for you, great... But somehow it all seems to be a little arrogant and yuppie-like to me... Of course, now that I've 'insulted the prophet' with simple facts, 'something terrible will happen to me'... Why? Because the prophets doctrine says so... I wonder if Jesus would have made such a statement... ;) ![]() |
MrGray ![]() Send message Joined: 17 Aug 05 Posts: 3170 Credit: 60,411 RAC: 0 ![]() |
I believe the truth lays in waiting in books. Not in people. "Be who you are and say what you feel, because those who mind don't matter and those who matter don't mind." - Dr. Seuss |
![]() ![]() Send message Joined: 29 Sep 06 Posts: 6418 Credit: 8,893 RAC: 0 ![]() |
seems you have not researched enough. There is no dress-code, there is no demand of the tithing (except what the Bible says): they don't even have and want control about whether or not you pay full tithing or just a part, and within the last 13 years I never heard such thing like Zionism there, or "New America". Of course, when I visit the house of God (or any place or event dedicated to the God I believe in) I dress properly to pay respect - it's my own decision to show respect to the Lord wearing the best and cleanest outfit when I go worship Him. If my best and cleanest outfit at hand is just Blue-jeans and sweatshirt I go there wearing Blue-Jeans and sweatshirt, if my best and cleanest outfit at hand is suit and tie I'll wear suit and tie, that simple. Of course, now that I've 'insulted the prophet'... I haven't seen that you insulted Mr. Gordon B. Hinckley, or any other president of the Church of Jesus Christ of the Latter Day Saints before him in person, nor that you insulted the church - you just pointed some things out you may have seen and found worth to criticize. Account frozen... |
MrGray ![]() Send message Joined: 17 Aug 05 Posts: 3170 Credit: 60,411 RAC: 0 ![]() |
I usually wouldn't do this but Thorin and Jefferey have bailed me out on a number of occasions so here goes my little ditty: When discussing religions it's important to be kind and considerate in order to move forward in sharing data. I know I am no one to talk, but I've learned that talking down to others about race and religion is a fire ball waiting to be thrown. I better wrap this up so I don't get accused of ranting and/or spamming... We all have our beliefs. We all, well most of us, have their religions. In order to understand each other we need to know about others religions. Every religion I know of has had it's moments in the sun and it's turn to wear the black hat. Some more than others, have had a sorted past, worthy of a good roasting. But maybe we can all act nice so we can learn. Wording is key. You can say the same thing in many different ways. (Something I'm still trying to work on.) No matter what God you believe in, you believe in Him or Her because you see a better way of living for all man kind. Together. Wow I type fast. Better shut up now. :x "Be who you are and say what you feel, because those who mind don't matter and those who matter don't mind." - Dr. Seuss |
![]() ![]() Send message Joined: 21 Nov 03 Posts: 4793 Credit: 26,029 RAC: 0 |
you just pointed some things out you may have seen and found worth to criticize. That was my only intent... For the most part, Mormons are very nice people, I just don't agree with all of their religious ways... ;) ![]() |
![]() ![]() Send message Joined: 29 Sep 06 Posts: 6418 Credit: 8,893 RAC: 0 ![]() |
you just pointed some things out you may have seen and found worth to criticize. I have seen no other intent - maybe I seem to guess your intents well enough already :) Account frozen... |
MrGray ![]() Send message Joined: 17 Aug 05 Posts: 3170 Credit: 60,411 RAC: 0 ![]() |
Interesting data: BBC's God on the Brain Write-up http://www.divx.com plugin required. BBC's The Bible Code: http://joox.net/cat/44/id/1574304 . "Be who you are and say what you feel, because those who mind don't matter and those who matter don't mind." - Dr. Seuss |
![]() ![]() Send message Joined: 29 Sep 06 Posts: 6418 Credit: 8,893 RAC: 0 ![]() |
Interesting data: I already knew them, but think that this "Bible Code" is nothing than pure nonsense. Account frozen... |
![]() ![]() Send message Joined: 21 May 01 Posts: 7404 Credit: 97,085 RAC: 0 ![]() |
Interesting data: Thorin/Zwerg..and I disagree about almost everything under the sun. But this 'Bible Code' has been shown to be such a far fetched bit of trickery. Some skeptics have gone through the phone books or 'Mein Kampf' and so forth and found everyone's name in it using the same methodology. They've gotten 'prophecies' from it proving this or that about....(fill in the blank) that have come true. Founder of BOINC team Objectivists. Oh the humanity! Rational people crunching data! I did NOT authorize this belly writing! ![]() |
![]() ![]() Send message Joined: 29 Sep 06 Posts: 6418 Credit: 8,893 RAC: 0 ![]() |
Wenn aber Christus, der gesagt hat: "Du sollst nicht töten!" an seinem Kreuz sehen muß, wie sich die Felder blutig röten; wenn die Pfaffen Kanonen und Flugzeuge segnen und in den Feldgottesdiensten beten, daß es Blut möge regnen; und wenn die Vertreter Gottes auf Erden Soldaten-Hämmel treiben, auf daß sie geschlachtet werden; und wenn die Glocken läuten: 'Mord! und die Choräle hallen: "Mord! Ihr sollt eure Feinde niederknallen!" Und wenn jemand so verrät den Gottessohn-: Das ist keine Schande. Das ist Religion. (Kurt Tucholsky, dt. Schriftsteller, 1890-1935) Attempt of a Translation (by me): But when Christ, who "You shall not kill!" has said, must see from his cross how fields become red; when the pastors bless the cannon and air-plane and pray that from the sky blood shall rain; When God's representatives on Earth drive soldier-sheep to be slaughtered; When bells ring "Murder!", and chorales clang: "Murder! You shall let your foes go bang!" And when someone thus betrays God's own son -: That's not a mess. That's religion. Account frozen... |
![]() ![]() Send message Joined: 3 Apr 99 Posts: 9659 Credit: 251,998 RAC: 0 |
Well... I just wonder how will the lawyers be paid if he wins? A lifetime supply of manna from heaven? :-O State Sen. Ernie Chambers Sues God Chambers Aims To Make Point About Frivolous Lawsuits POSTED: 1:52 pm CDT September 17, 2007 UPDATED: 10:23 am CDT September 18, 2007 OMAHA, Neb -- State Sen. Ernie Chambers is suing God. He said on Monday that it is to prove a point about frivolous lawsuits. Chambers said senators periodically have offered bills prohibiting the filing of certain types of suits. He said his main objection is that the constitution requires that the doors to the courthouse be open to all. "Thus anybody can file a lawsuit against anybody -- even God," Chambers said. Chambers said he decided to file the lawsuit after a suit was filed in early September in federal court against Lancaster County Judge Jeffre Cheuvront. He's the judge who was hearing a sexual assault case in which the plaintiff wants to use the words rape and victim during her testimony. Chambers lawsuit, which was filed on Friday in Douglas County Court, seeks a permanent injunction ordering God to cease certain harmful activities and the making of terroristic threats. The lawsuit admits God goes by all sorts of alias, names, titles and designations and it also recognizes the fact that the defendant is omnipresent. In the lawsuit, Chambers said he's tried to contact God numerous times. "Plaintiff, despite reasonable efforts to effectuate personal service upon defendant 'Come out, come out, wherever you are,' has been unable to do so,'" Chambers said. The suit also requests that the court, given the peculiar circumstances of this case, waive personal service. It said that being omniscient, the plaintiff assumes God will have actual knowledge of the action. The lawsuit accuses God "of making and continuing to make terroristic threats of grave harm to innumerable persons, including constituents of Plaintiff who Plaintiff has the duty to represent." It says God has caused "fearsome floods, egregious earthquakes, horrendous hurricanes, terrifying tornadoes, pestilential plagues, ferocious famines, devastating droughts, genocidal wars, birth defects and the like." The suit also says God has caused "calamitous catastrophes resulting in the wide-spread death, destruction and terrorization of millions upon millions of the Earth’s inhabitants including innocent babes, infants, children, the aged and infirm without mercy or distinction." Chambers also says God "has manifested neither compassion nor remorse, proclaiming that defendant will laugh" when calamity comes. Chambers asks for the court to grant him a summary judgment. He said as an alternative, he wants the judge to set a date for a hearing as expeditiously as possible and enter a permanent injunction enjoining God from engaging in the types of deleterious actions and the making of terroristic threats described in the lawsuit. "I'm trying to maintain a shred of dignity in this world." - Me ![]() |
![]() ![]() Send message Joined: 29 Sep 06 Posts: 6418 Credit: 8,893 RAC: 0 ![]() |
I think it's just great. The court will be in a dilemma: either they accept God to be a real person (or institution), then they have to accept the case and judge the "defendant" - or they refuse to judge over this case (despite of the heavy accusations against the "defendant") claiming God does not exist. I don't want to be in that jury's position :o) Account frozen... |
![]() ![]() Send message Joined: 21 May 01 Posts: 7404 Credit: 97,085 RAC: 0 ![]() |
Well... I just wonder how will the lawyers be paid if he wins? A lifetime supply of manna from heaven? :-O I think that's hilarious. I wonder if The Flying Spaghetti Monster is listed as one of God's many aliases. Founder of BOINC team Objectivists. Oh the humanity! Rational people crunching data! I did NOT authorize this belly writing! ![]() |
![]() ![]() Send message Joined: 21 Nov 03 Posts: 4793 Credit: 26,029 RAC: 0 |
I wonder if The Flying Spaghetti Monster is listed as one of God's many aliases. Maybe as a fallen alias... ;) ![]() |
MrGray ![]() Send message Joined: 17 Aug 05 Posts: 3170 Credit: 60,411 RAC: 0 ![]() |
Solar Mythology - Origins of Religious Belief Very interesting, but not the highest quality video. "Be who you are and say what you feel, because those who mind don't matter and those who matter don't mind." - Dr. Seuss |
![]() ![]() Send message Joined: 21 May 01 Posts: 7404 Credit: 97,085 RAC: 0 ![]() |
I wonder if The Flying Spaghetti Monster is listed as one of God's many aliases. Word on the street is he made a big *splat* when he landed.... :-P Founder of BOINC team Objectivists. Oh the humanity! Rational people crunching data! I did NOT authorize this belly writing! ![]() |
![]() ![]() Send message Joined: 21 Nov 03 Posts: 4793 Credit: 26,029 RAC: 0 |
Word on the street is he made a big *splat* when he landed.... And there you have it, the spaghetti monsters version of the 'big bang'... ;) ![]() |
![]() Send message Joined: 30 Jul 03 Posts: 7512 Credit: 2,021,148 RAC: 0 ![]() |
Word on the street is he made a big *splat* when he landed.... ...that would be the Vatican kitchens after of propane explosion. Account frozen... |
![]() ![]() Send message Joined: 21 Jun 01 Posts: 21804 Credit: 2,815,091 RAC: 0 ![]() |
|
©2025 University of California
SETI@home and Astropulse are funded by grants from the National Science Foundation, NASA, and donations from SETI@home volunteers. AstroPulse is funded in part by the NSF through grant AST-0307956.