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- Khast, on 07/01/2009, -5/+51Most Christian sects have their flip-flop moments. Oh, oops there isn't anything in the situation that isn't in the New Testament, let's quote from the Old Testament. But when someone quotes the Old Testament with an unfavorable passage, they shunt and tell you that because Jesus died for your sins, the Old Testament is irrelevant. But will reference back to it when it favors their point in the future.
(Hell, this isn't just blowing smoke up your asses....just about every Christian I have ever known does this...and yes, Jack Van Impe on the TV does this too.) - bjenidles, on 06/30/2009, -3/+32Canadian mirror: http://watch.thecomedynetwork.ca/the-daily-show-wi ...
- inactive, on 07/01/2009, -4/+2710 Questions for the Religious Right:
I do need some advice from you, regarding some elements of God's Laws and how to follow them.
1. Leviticus 25:44 states that I may possess slaves, both male and female, provided they are purchased from neighboring nations. A friend of mine claims that this applies to Mexicans, but not Canadians. Can you clarify? Why can't I own Canadians?
2. I would like to sell my daughter into slavery, as sanctioned in Exodus 21:7. In this day and age, what do you think would be a fair price for her?
3. I know that I am allowed no contact with a woman while she is in her period of menstrual uncleanness - Lev.15: 19-24. The problem is how do I tell? I have tried asking, but most women take offense.
4. When I burn a bull on the altar as a sacrifice, I know it creates a pleasing odor for the Lord - Lev.1:9. The problem is my neighbors. They claim the odor is not pleasing to them. Should I smite them?
5. I have a neighbor who insists on working on the Sabbath. Exodus 35:2. clearly states he should be put to death. Am I morally obligated to kill him myself, or should I ask the police to do it?
6. A friend of mine feels that even though eating shellfish is an abomination - Lev. 11:10, it is a lesser abomination than homosexuality. I don't agree. Can you settle this? Are there 'degrees' of abomination?
7. Lev.21:20 states that I may not approach the altar of God if I have a defect in my sight. I have to admit that I wear reading glasses. Does my vision have to be 20/20, or is there some wiggle-room here?
8 . Most of my male friends get their hair trimmed, including the hair around their temples, even though Lev. 19 expressly forbids this: 27. How should they die?
9. I know from Lev. 11:6-8 that touching the skin of a dead pig makes me unclean, but may I still play football if I wear gloves?
10. My uncle has a farm. He violates Lev.19:19 by planting two different crops in the same field, as does his wife by wearing garments made of two different kinds of thread (cotton/polyester blend). He also tends to curse and blaspheme a lot. Is it really necessary that we go to all the trouble of getting the whole town together to stone them? Lev.24:10-16. Couldn't we just burn them to death at a private family affair? (Lev. 20:14) - gsadamb, on 07/01/2009, -3/+25Leviticus is the most hilarious book in the Bible.
New Testament has some gems too. Like where it says that women should keep their mouths shut while in church. How come I never saw that one enforced? - linkesslover, on 07/01/2009, -7/+28I like how religious people pick and choose between contradictory passages and religions to serve their purpose.
Don't be fooled. The religion has it's merits. But religious people use it as a means to power.
When's the last time you heard Bush quote Jesus when he said " If someone strikes you on the right cheek, turn to him the other also."
And when's the last time you heard a Christian moralizer say "Let he who is without sin cast the first stone?"
A means to an end. - inactive, on 07/01/2009, -2/+22God hates shrimp.
- MattJF317, on 07/01/2009, -3/+18"Governor Sanford of South Carolina joins the growing army of social conservatives who decided to get a jump on destroy their own marriage before same sex couples could do it to them" -- Peter Sagal, NPR: Wait Wait... Don't Tell Me!
- obeythefist, on 07/01/2009, -0/+11Jesus, you should try being a Mormon. They had to *change* the Book of Mormon when it turned out that DNA analysis proved that Native Americans are NOT descended from Hebrews who crossed the Atlantic in Old Testament times. They just ***** changed it.
- inactive, on 07/01/2009, -1/+12Actually, one of the main reasons I denounced my Christian faith is because I can't find one single shred of evidence for the Jesus of the Bible. Not one artifact or eyewitness account. Not even in the Bible.
Amazingly, we have not one Jewish, Greek, or Roman writer, even those who lived in the Middle East, much less anywhere else on the earth, who ever mentions him during his supposed life time. This appears quite extraordinary, and you will find few Christian apologists who dare mention this embarrassing fact.
After confronting a few Church members with this new knowledge for lack of evidence, it became painfully obvious that these people seem to have NO interest whatsoever in scientific debate. It seems all they care about is re-affirming their superstitious beliefs of disturbing stories of hell and damnation and devils and eternal suffering and ramming them down the throats of unsuspecting children.
I'd be happy to be proven wrong about this. But so far I haven't been.
http://www.nobeliefs.com/exist.htm - sulthernao, on 07/01/2009, -4/+14Except he voted to impeach Bill Clinton 'declaring Clinton's behavior to be "reprehensible."'. Sorry, hypocrites don't deserve sympathy.
- rmxz, on 07/01/2009, -0/+10Numbers has some shockers too. Like Moses's command:
"Now therefore, kill every male among the little ones, and kill every woman who has known a man intimately. 18 But keep alive for yourselves all the young girls who have not known a man intimately."
http://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=number ...
Scary when people start going to such biblical passages to justify real-world actions. - inactive, on 07/01/2009, -4/+14Thanks for quoting wikipedia but you should have checked out the part where he voted against gay marriage and gay adoption.
- rocknog, on 07/01/2009, -4/+13He would've been great, in my opinion, if not for his vehement opposition to gay marriage, gay adoption, and even gay civil unions.
- joshmoney, on 07/01/2009, -1/+9"Homosexuality is strongly correlated with significantly higher levels of promiscuity and significantly lower life expectancies"
"Homosexuals have a significantly lower life expectancy"
"A lifestyle that is correlated with a significantly lower life expectancy"
"It is one of the most negatively correlated lifestyles"
How many times are you going to make the same stupid arguments in one comment? Who are you trying to hypnotize? Oppressed and enslaved Africans also had lifestyles that "correlated with a significantly lower life expectancy." Think about that for a minute and see if anything clicks...
/Oh, and tool is not spelled with a c - realeskimopimp, on 07/01/2009, -4/+12You don't get to be a libertarian when it serves your purpose and then support the Federal ban on gay marriage, or abortion, etc.
- Decimit, on 07/01/2009, -0/+7And the scary thing is, thats not the most ignorant thing about mormons.
- KillTheAcademy, on 06/30/2009, -3/+9redonculous
- termerjur, on 07/01/2009, -1/+7...religulous.
- sulthernao, on 07/01/2009, -2/+8And Sanford committed adultery which is against the law in South Carolina.
- pintomp3, on 07/01/2009, -0/+6Do the libertarians have any heroes who aren't religious fundamentalists or racists?
- consonance, on 07/01/2009, -0/+5Aren't Mormons the people who believe God is a physical being who lives on another planet?
- mgri, on 07/01/2009, -0/+4Nice one buddy.
- ajonsey, on 07/01/2009, -1/+5Nope, loves 'em.
That why he doesn't want you eating them.
Why God should care what we put in our mouths, we will never know. - wtrwlkr, on 07/01/2009, -0/+4Well, at least Fox got Sanford's political party right this time.
- felman87, on 07/01/2009, -1/+5Don't know much about John Stewart but Jon Stewart isn't.
- Szandor, on 07/01/2009, -2/+6Clinton shouldn't had to have been under oath in the first place.
When the ***** is Cheney going to be under oath? - joshmoney, on 07/01/2009, -1/+5"People who ***** men in the ass aren't born with their penis inside another man's ass." Really? Apparently you were born with something stuck up yours. Unless you can prove that this single behavior is the reason that homosexuals supposedly have shorter life spans then your entire argument is fallacious. (which you can't, and don't recite that debunked Cameron study) Regardless of whether or not they actually do, Gay people face more external social pressure and persecution than other groups, which can lead to higher levels of stress, as well as a more destructive lifestyle. Perhaps if there were less people like you around keeping them from getting married and adopting kids, they wouldn't feel the need to live as social outcast...
/btw, Overweight people, smokers, and football players all have shorter lifespans. Do you suggest we ban them from adopting kids too? - Megatronz, on 07/01/2009, -2/+6I lol'd so hard at your 6th grade level writing skills.
Correlation does not imply causation. - iamacyborg, on 07/01/2009, -0/+3What the ***** is this comment supposed to mean? Tell me, I am perplexed.
- gimpbully, on 07/01/2009, -0/+3"No, it's because they're promiscuous and have a lot of anal sex. They have more anal cancer, and various STDs."
Straight folks have anal sex. Should the government ban that? Are you arguing government intervention, you "libertarian"?
what about lesbians? - ArvinJA, on 07/01/2009, -13/+16Old Testament - Common ground for kooks (Christians, Jews and Muslims).
- gimpbully, on 07/01/2009, -2/+5this guy lied too, but it's okay because he wasn't under oath? He abandoned his post and lied about it. To claim he's morally superior to clinton is a fabrication.
- SirVenro, on 07/01/2009, -2/+5What about gay children?
- iriemeditation, on 06/30/2009, -6/+9All i know is that that video player SUCKS!! It won't buffer and it won't f***ing play either! I don't watch TV, but I will check out episodes that are online... and Stewart & Colbert are the worst (video-player wise, they're the best otherwise!)
- fiatjustitia, on 07/02/2009, -1/+4"What does that have to do with any thing. Stop making idiotic comments."
How are my comments idiotic? I cited a verifiable source of information to back up what I'm saying. I posted that because you apparently think that gay marriage will harm society, and I showed you a specific example of a state that has so far maintained a stable way of life due to the lowest divorce rate in the nation that also has gay marriage.
"they're not serious challenges to my arguments."
So when someone *does* present a serious challenge to your arguments, you utilize tactics I haven't seen since the third grade to skate around making an actual response.
but honestly, it doesn't surprise me when you say things like this in other threads:
"Yes, women should be in the kitchen! It works out best for everyone."
http://digg.com/arts_culture/Do_Women_Belong_in_th ... - gijoel, on 07/01/2009, -0/+3♫Dumb, dumb, dumb, dumb, dumb.♫
- inactive, on 07/03/2009, -0/+3Now, the next thing you have to do, is to present the yardstick you use in order to decide if your interpretation is the correct one and what other interpretations are incorrect, can you do that?
The bible isn't a salad bar so you can't pick and chose what parts you want to believe in, while telling everyone to ignore other parts. It's all or nothing.
I mean, WTF do you get the authority to speak, really?
Funny how the religious only interpret the Bible anyway they seem fit. Funny how they interpret it to justify their intolerance, their own politics, their hypocrisy and the self-righteous bullsh1t they impose on others huh? - Szandor, on 07/01/2009, -1/+4Totally. Traditional marriages have such a ***** stellar record of domestic tranquility and psychologically healthy children.
- inactive, on 07/01/2009, -0/+3The alleged Jesus was already dead before Josephus was born.
Do you understand what evidence is? - pintomp3, on 07/01/2009, -1/+3If you were opposed to abortion and were a libertarian, you would choose not have an abortion but not make that decision for others.
- inactive, on 07/01/2009, -0/+2actually nazi, the proper response to the starving artist is: shut the ***** up moron.
- gimpbully, on 07/02/2009, -1/+3They are morally equivalent, very specifically.. if we're talking about defining terms..
I never claimed them to be legally equivalent - inactive, on 07/01/2009, -0/+2@ micahgoulart
Unlike the mythical Jesus, a real historical figure like Julius Caesar has a mass of mutually supporting evidence.
@ sonnybobiche
Josephus was not an eyewitness, so whats your point?
Heres mine: If one of your loved ones was on trial for a horrible crime and all the "evidence" the cops had was hearsay from what someone said someone else said, would you agree to 30 years hard labor or eternity in hellfire?
I'm sure I'll get an intellectual answer - gimpbully, on 07/01/2009, -1/+3"Gay marriage is silly. What you want the government to sanction polygamous marriage too?"
luckily it's none of your business if homosexuals want to marry.
luckily gays aren't polygamous.
got any further brilliant arguments?
"Traditional marriages are far more stable than long term homosexual relationships, and heterosexuals have a far higher average life expectancy, and far lower levels of promiscuity, than homosexuals."
what does this have to do with anything? Your assertion that traditional marriages are "far more stable" is unfounded. Promiscuity is a trait of the individual. Life expectancy simply cannot be tied to a single factor. - Decimit, on 07/01/2009, -0/+2@rgranger
Wow! You managed to not make any sense and sound like a douche bag at the same time. - charlie55, on 07/01/2009, -2/+4he should take a couple shots at obama for believing marriage is for man/woman because of the bible. obama is a christian, which means he is a ***** lunatic.
- fiatjustitia, on 07/01/2009, -1/+3@coolestguy
you unbelievable bigoted tool.
Massachusetts legalized gay marriage, and guess what? They have the lowest divorce rate in the nation:
http://www.cdc.gov/nchs/data/nvss/divorce90_04.pdf
Oh, and be sure to check out the fact that the highest divorce rates are reported from states that are mostly conservative/republican. - ladysherwood, on 07/01/2009, -0/+2its a pity so far your responses have not answered any of your questions, just snarky remarks. because I'm curious too. befuddling people with their own belief system is sometimes the highlight of my day. it always puzzled me growing up that there is a difference to what we should take literally from the bible and what was supposed to be metaphoric, and we should just be able to tell the difference from birth or something. so stupid.
- Elranzer, on 07/01/2009, -0/+2This scandal brings a new perspective to all of these pro-Sanford comments from this article a couple months ago...
http://digg.com/politics/Newsweek_Gov_Mark_Sanford ... - inactive, on 07/01/2009, -0/+2@ TheHungerArtist
Your "response" is not a rebuttal. Please respond to my points, or don't respond at all. These ad hominem attacks only give the impression that you disagree because you want to. If you have any disagreements with what I said, state them. Otherwise, would you be so kind as to not click "Submit Comment" next time? Thank you. -
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