JoeB131
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You didn't answer the questions.
Yes, I did. You were just too stupid to understand the answer.
Then why isn't "Mexico", burning?
It is... Again, this is where you are just stupid, and I'm not sure how addressing your profound ignorance is in the lease bit productive.
Yes, that was the point, your statement of there were more people with STDs then, when there were not antibiotics, would have dramatically cut the birth rate (if your statement was correct).
The one in three number was from the headlines the other day, over 110,000,000 people are infected with STDs. So much for the progressives teaching children how to have sex will cut or eliminate "diseases" and high, unmarried birth rates.....
Besides your numbers being absolute bullshit, it's kind of hard to measure something that happened centuries ago when they had no tests for it, and usually something else killed you before the STD did.
To the point, before Progressives introduced welfare, social security, etc, the average lifespan of an American was 62. Today it's 78.
Constantine requested assistance from Rome, the call went out for help. Because there were poor communications, it turned into a cluster. That does not change the fact that the muslims were attacking and assistance was requested.
First, the Byzantine Emperor who requested help was not named "Constantine".
Second, the request for help got changed to "Taking the Holy Land" by Pope Urban II, who was trying to regain his street cred after the German Emperor set up an anti-Pope.
If you are prepared to do battle with evil, you can read the book of Jubilees and find out why it was important for the livestock to be slaughtered.
I am amazed, that you, a mere mortal man, can declare the LORD was "wrong", based on your thousands of years analysis of a situation that has little evidence of exactly what happened. (It is one of the reasons that I choose to believe the LORD, because there are so many of you, with different names, and different faces, but still, with the same "belief" that you know everything about the earth, based on what other "men" said, or limited fossilized clues)
Saul also went to witches (a direct sin against the LORD). Saul, also thought "he" knew better than the LORD (sound familiar). The LORD left Saul as king, but blessed David. Saul showed his butt, and he was "spanked".
Jubilees isn't in the bible. Frankly, I'm not that concerned about the livestock, I'm more concerned that all the babies were slaughtered.
Second, the whole "Witch of Endor" thing was AFTER Saul had lost God's favor and even after Samual died. (Yet, amazingly, this witch was able to raise Sam's ghost!) Of course, since there are no witches and never were, it just makes it comedic... until you consider all the innocent women who were tortured and murdered because they were accused of witchcraft.
The BSA was a group formed to promote set values. Why should they want people in the group that "choose" to live in a way that mocks and ridicules those values? They wanted the problems gone, and did so, unfortunately way too many were not punished by the law for their crimes against boys.
The BSA has been hijacked by the religious loons, and ought to be recatagorized as a hate group at this point.
So you are bearing false witness against priests? You did not say that you were suspicious, you implied these men were "molesters".
My opinion is they were... but I wasn't going to test the theory by being alone in a room with one.
There are problems in the Catholic Church. There are problems where ever there are "men" (this is the proper term for the race of men, including women) in power. However, the Catholic Church has been one of the best institutions for "good" on the planet. Have there been problems? Yes. Will there continue to be problems? Yes. Now, name me one other institution that has done the types of charity, the outreach, the building of schools, and hospitals in areas where they are not invited (for believers, and non-believers alike). Name me one other institution that had people break away to form so many other churches, with the majority of them, doing similar works. Name me any "atheist" organization that does a fraction of what the Catholic Church does.
The Catholic Church has done nothing but spread ignorance, oppression and stupidity, and it hasn't done one good thing, not even once by accident.
The tortured body of the CHRIST, is to remind us, that G*d sent HIS only begotten SON to us, and that our sins are represented in those horrendous wounds portrayed by the image of the crucifixion. I don't believe there is any other image that demonstrates how truly ugly our sins are. Also, that the CHRIST, willingly, was tortured, and died for "our" sins, that we would have a chance at redemption. HE is the only way! HE sent the HOLY SPIRIT to us to give us the gifts of: Knowledge, Counsel, Wisdom, Understanding, Fortitude, Piety, and Joy of Piety. What "man" can compare with those gifts?
It tickles me, how people like you want to beat up on other peoples' beliefs, but, can offer nothing that comes close to what the CHRIST offered. Your way leads to sin and eternal death. HIS way leads to peace and eternal life.
The sin Jesus came down to erase was that a talking snake talked a rib woman into eating a fruit from a magic tree...
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Do you have "evidence" of this? Why do their "rich" come to this country to have medical procedures done, if their health care is so great? Why are their people, still, trying to emigrate here, if their countries are better? Why aren't Americans flocking in droves to those countries, if they are such an improvement over this country?
First, Europeans aren't really flocking here anymore. That's why Romney lost. Not enough White People. Heh, heh, heh...
Second, a health care system that is only good for douchebags with money is not a good system. It has to be good for everyone.
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Those countries brought the baggage of European royalty with them. All the corruption that was in Europe with the system of peons, lords, royalty were taken to those countries. They rebelled, but the mindset is still there: (it is parallel with your beliefs) an elite group of people are "fit" to rule, and everyone else obeys. The "church" is just another "pawn" in those countries. Those countries did not have a group of "educated" (Biblical knowledgeable, also) men that worked extremely hard for their wealth (not inherited), that came together and beat out a plan of gov't that would reduce the chances of the same mindset that crippled Europe. They did not have a George Washington, that when appointed as "President" chose not to elevate himself above "all" men, and thus, set a precedent for the rest of the Presidents to follow.
And yet, here come the people like you, of the mindset that the "intellectual elite" should be the ruling class, and everyone else should "obey". I just cannot see how you get there.
Oh, now you see, I love how you make excuses for the Church, which was for the most part, joined at the hip with the elites that ran these countries. Macros, Duvilier, the Junta in Argentina (Buds with the new Pope!)
Generally, the more religious a country is, the more ass backwards it is.