(In response to a post concerning Muslim and Baptist groups working towards cooperation)
Because that is exactly whae Paul did with the Greeks. He engaged in harmonious dialogue with them everywhere he went, to present a better way. Blah, blah, blah.
What a load of crap. These people need the Gospel. The need to be confronted with its sting and offended with its implications. The need to hear the good news clearly before its too late for some of them.
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Which is why Paul is the true author of what is commonly called Christianity. He invented the Christ as we know him. He sucked up to the Romans, and was probably mentally unstable - persecuting Jesus's followers, and then taking over the Jesus movement and making it into another religion separate from Judaism. Jesus, after all, lived and died a Jew.
Xotan - Exactly!
He also abolished jewish customs that would seem unpalatable to the modern culture he acted in (circumcision springs to mind, also the complex dietary laws of judaism). A Christian not knowing much of the book he deifies, how _unusual_.
Because that is exactly what Mohammed did with the infidels. He engaged in harmonious dialogue with them everywhere he went, to present a better way. Blah, blah, blah.
What a load of crap. These people need the Qur'an. They need to be confronted with its sting and offended with its implications. The need to hear the good news clearly before its too late for some of them.
Do you like that one better?
Even though I find all religious debate rather pointless, kudos to the interfaith people for trying to make the world a better place by eliminating hostility. And, as usual, boo to the fundies. The sooner they get off this planet, the better for the rest of us.
Faulty "logic" like that is why I think it would be best if fundies were deprived of oxygen until all biological functions, other than decay, cease.
BTW. If you were actually stupid enough to preach at me? I would make you cry.
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@ John_in_Oz:
So true. Pointless, really, when you stop to consider that Batman is always going to win."
Yeah, I know. How else would Spiderman wallow in self-pity and angst?
"The need to be confronted with its sting and offended with its implications."
Okay Faulty, you're going to hell for being a self-righteous phoney.
Offensive enough for you?
Unfortunately when Baptists and Muslims get together they can get a little too
Like when the Southern Baptist convention teamed up with Muslims at a Cairo conference on population and development in 1994 to try to ban birth control.
(source: The Milwaukee Sentinel - Aug 27, 1994)
Sting? Implications? Which version of the bible were you reading? I clearly remember the gospels being the most dreary, dry, boring stories ever written. The bible as a whole has pretty much no replay value.
No, they fucking don't.
Nor does anyone else.
> The need to be confronted with its sting and offended with its implications.
You don't really want me to take this sentence out of context, do you?
"What a load of crap. These people need the Gospel."
The people of the Czech Republic don't. It's the least religious country in Europe. They don't like being told what to do, least of all by religion.
They were once part of the Soviet Union after all.
We in the UK don't like to be told what to do by religion. We have the Church of England instead. Right-wing Fundamentalist Christianity? You can fucking keep it, USA. Thus:
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Religion has no right to tell we Atheists what to do. It's a vile poison that has no right to exist in my clean, secular country.
We in the UK have seen what it's done to your country, everyone on Ruptured Retards: destroyed it. 'Faulty'? How perfectly fitting for you, who believes in a so-called 'religion' that's full of FAIL.
The need to be confronted with its sting and offended with its implications.
Of course! Why else would you call it "the good news"? No doublethink here, no, sir!
Well, I can arrange a trip for you.
Your flight to Iran leaves in 4 days. Be sure to pack some extra GOSPEL! I hear that place is full of people just begging to be brow-beaten into believing different fairy-tales by your faulty ass.
Yeah that's right. Fuck the U.N. , wouldn't want to talk to each other in an arena of respect.
What do we want? Armagedom
There's Biblical prophecy of a thousand year peace too, y'know. That must be after the Rapturites are removed
@ John_in_Oz
Spiderman... beat Batman? I'm almost offended at the mere idea!
...Though my best friend's toddler brother thinks Spiderman is the good guy and Batman is the villain, so his action figures of both end up in epic battles.
The awesome part is that Batman STILL wins them. Even toddlers recognise Bats' awesomesauceness.
As for the quote, bleh.
If it's "stinging" and "offensive," then how in the world is it "good news"?
John: Spider-Man could totally kick Batman's ass.
If they´re offended with its implications, they´re not likely to convert. And by the way, it´s not ironic. Paul INDEED debated and dialogued with the Greeks. He considered himself a philosopher, in order to approach to them.
Confused?
So were we! You can find all of this, and more, on Fundies Say the Darndest Things!
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