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Old 12-29-2009, 01:57 PM
 
Location: Colorado Springs, CO
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Yeah and that would work except 80% of the people in this country believes they have the best wife, dog and religious belief.
Hey now...I DO have the best dog in the world and I am his god. This is what I think anyway...he has different ideas. I just know he thinks I worship him.

BEAGLE RULES

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Old 12-29-2009, 03:19 PM
 
Location: Florida
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I was looking for the exact quote but cannot find it but goes something like;

Intelligent people discuss ideas and concepts
Smart people discuss events and happenings
Dumb people just discuss other people

Kinda make one wonder where we fit in on this 3-tier ranking eh?


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Old 01-06-2010, 07:29 AM
 
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Yes it is kinda funny. Most of the bible is written in third person. In other words discussing other people. Very appropriate when evaluating that statement about dumb people.
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Old 01-06-2010, 08:50 AM
 
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I was looking for the exact quote but cannot find it but goes something like;

Intelligent people discuss ideas and concepts
Smart people discuss events and happenings
Dumb people just discuss other people

Kinda make one wonder where we fit in on this 3-tier ranking eh?
They quote I saw was something like;

Small minds discuss the past,

Mediocre minds discuss the present,

But Large minds discuss the future and how to improve things.
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Old 01-06-2010, 09:04 AM
 
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Look around you man!

People who hang their very being on a hereafter for which there is absolutely not a modicum of evidence are either already in charge of governments of the world or they're trying to gain control. 15,000 documented ways to worship a supreme being. Take just one of them, Christianity and add another 44,000+ denominations, conventions, sects, cults, beliefs of every description taken from every hearsay utterance in that ancient book.

We're lucky that there are not more who feel so strongly about it that they strap on C4 and detonate it.

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Old 01-06-2010, 09:22 AM
 
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Hitler was a nutball. I know all about the holocaust, having family not make it. He believed in god ( wasnt an atheist as some believe) so he was an extremist. I have yet to see a love thy neighbor concept from a religious person.
Oh it's bigger than that. Christians were told to walk the extra mile, turn the other cheek, love their neighbors as they loved themselves, if sued in court for their coat to volutarily give their cloak too, love their enemies, to pray for those who cursed and despised them and also...to be perfect. I might add one sidebar...donate 10% of everything they could get their hands on to the cause. I've never met one.
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Old 01-06-2010, 10:00 AM
 
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So then new doesn't alway = better.
It's just a matter of time. In the last nine years 10% of the people who claimed to be Christians have opted out. The Internet which connects the whole world to one another will finally be the downfall of the ancient "god beliefs."

The Truth Will Set You Free!!
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Old 01-06-2010, 10:19 AM
 
Location: Colorado
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So then new doesn't alway = better.
There was nothing new about religious people wiping others out.
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Old 01-06-2010, 12:26 PM
 
Location: Earth
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Got a point?
I don't hate it, I haven't heard anyone say that.
I cannot stand the hypocrisy, lies and lifestyles that contradict their bible.
I have to laugh at the belief system that's evolved around a book that was changed for political purposes and written by people who never met the god-man that it discusses.

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How about that Inquisition? The crusades?
Salem Witch trials?
Religious wars that occur today?
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BTW, Hitler was raised xian; catholic.
You don't get to pick and choose who you consider to be xian. They are self-proclaimed.

Hitler's Christianity
To deny the influence of Christianity on Hitler and its role in World War II, means that you must ignore history and forever bar yourself from understanding the source of German anti-Semitism and how the WWII atrocities occurred.

By using historical evidence of Hitler's and his henchmen's own words, this section aims to show how mixing religion with politics can cause conflicts, not only against religion but against government and its people. This site, in no way, condones Nazism, Neo-Nazism, fascist governments, or anti-Semitism, but instead, warns against them.

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Old 01-06-2010, 12:28 PM
 
Location: Earth
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Better than thousands of years ago.
Yes, we have running water and sewage.
And the internet!
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