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Post by dsummoner on Nov 25, 2013 15:07:35 GMT -5
My pleasure, my friend. History is absolutely fascinating for what we can learn from it and for understanding why certain 'things,' now, are as they are. I agree so much. Actually the wonderfulness of the collective human intelligence is pretty amazing. I have a lot of fun with it. My particular interest in religion is not one of practice (my standards of proof are beyond stringent) but rather one of evaluation of the role of religion in forming and shaping societies (or the lack of such a role).
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Post by com6063 on Nov 25, 2013 15:08:25 GMT -5
Thank you, but what is their mailing address? Do they have a local branch in the DC metro area? You can contact the heroic and legitimate Afghan Taliban through the following. If they do have a local branch in the DC metro, you can bet your last dollar that the 'civil religion' state is hellbent on oppressing, suppressing, depressing, regressing and annihilating it. I like the "Voice of Jihad" on their web site; gives it a nice touch.
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Did you see it, did you see that paratroopers roll?
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Post by Foggy Dewhurst on Nov 25, 2013 15:11:20 GMT -5
Islam is not a religion period. I'm not going into a diatribe as to why. There is plenty out there to read..
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Post by dsummoner on Nov 25, 2013 15:24:41 GMT -5
You can contact the heroic and legitimate Afghan Taliban through the following. If they do have a local branch in the DC metro, you can bet your last dollar that the 'civil religion' state is hellbent on oppressing, suppressing, depressing, regressing and annihilating it. I like the "Voice of Jihad" on their web site; gives it a nice touch. You are now on 'the list.'
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Post by Moses on Nov 25, 2013 15:31:23 GMT -5
I agree so much. Actually the wonderfulness of the collective human intelligence is pretty amazing. I have a lot of fun with it. My particular interest in religion is not one of practice (my standards of proof are beyond stringent) but rather one of evaluation of the role of religion in forming and shaping societies (or the lack of such a role). It is interesting and important.
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Post by Desert Cowboy on Apr 16, 2014 18:33:40 GMT -5
I'm 'Deist', as were many of the founders. I don't need saving... or adherence to ecclesiastical dogma set down by some itinerant apostle or a hermit monk in sack cloth and ashes living in a cave somewhere who crapped in an unwashed bucket his entire life. I don't assign gender to God, as I believe God to be beyond any 'personage'. To know that God is... is enough. I have been places... 'seen things on this Earth that are witness to the creator. Or... simply look into the night sky. God created all of that. God is beyond our limited imagination... or comprehension, yet God exists. To acknowledge that is enough.
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Post by Cuchulain on Apr 16, 2014 21:23:10 GMT -5
Christianity dead in the UK? Or just in a persistant vegetative state?
I saw an item somewhere on the net about a Muslim Mullah talking to an Anglican Vicar in front of a church in the UK saying words to the effect that his (the Vicar's) church would, in the fullness of time, become a mosque, because the Muslims were reproducing and the Christians were not.
Once they reach the tipping point, how will it be any different in the UK than it is now in Syria or Egypt?
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Post by Deleted on Apr 17, 2014 12:32:24 GMT -5
Christianity dead in the UK? Or just in a persistant vegetative state? I saw an item somewhere on the net about a Muslim Mullah talking to an Anglican Vicar in front of a church in the UK saying words to the effect that his (the Vicar's) church would, in the fullness of time, become a mosque, because the Muslims were reproducing and the Christians were not. Once they reach the tipping point, how will it be any different in the UK than it is now in Syria or Egypt? I suppose that this could be said about any region in any country. <shrug>
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Post by bullmikey on May 30, 2014 13:29:24 GMT -5
God is everywhere. You don’t need a church or a middleman to broker your soul to you. It belongs to you already.
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Post by bullmikey on Jul 8, 2014 7:14:32 GMT -5
At my age I find myself talking to God every day. It’s true, I’ve never had much use for organized religion. God is everywhere. Why do I need a broker to sell me what I already have?
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Post by aponderer on Jul 8, 2014 7:59:22 GMT -5
Source: Interesting. In many ways it is a surprise that this did not happen sooner, given that secularism, long ago, gelded Christianity to a mere religion of the cafeteria variety (i.e. rather than scriptural commandment from a 'higher' authority, it has become a 'I do what I want and how I want it' lifestyle choice that plays a second fiddle to one's secular lifestyle choices). It would be interesting to know if decline in 'typical Sunday congregations' has been varied or continuous, in regards to rate, as a function of time and the factors that have been correlative. Have sales of prayer rugs in the UK increased during the same time period?
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Post by bullmikey on Apr 30, 2015 14:27:52 GMT -5
God didn't invent religion, men did.
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