Regarding the Existence or Absence of God

[daniel_m]

Originally posted by darkhorse




These are great.

They nicely demonstrate what passes for logical discourse among atheists. Christians are mental midgets, snicker snicker.

You know what? I have to smile though.

You have no idea what's coming to you. And I'm talking about in this lifetime, let alone what's on the other side.

The church is currently in a state of disrepair, going through a period of weak kneed introversion and emotional based anti-intellectualism that has lasted for a century or so and is peaking right about now. This is why the only Christians you hear about these days are the ones that are easy to knock, the televangelist types and the end of the world types and that idiotic Left Behind series.

Enjoy the lull while it lasts, because it won't. Things change when the baton is passed from one generation to the next. You think you hate Christians now? Just wait until the church goes on the offensive and the intellectual roots of the church come back to the forefront. When the garbage is taken out and the new leadership takes hold, you will find yourself running into 'dumb Christians' more informed than you and smarter than you on every street corner. You will find them pushing our 'nonsense' on every television station and in every newspaper.

I don't go for all that pan reconciliation crap, because I know this is a war. It really and truly is. Christians vs atheists, Men vs monkeys, truth vs lies. We will give no quarter and take no quarter. You think one darkhorse is bad? Get ready to choke on an army of guys like me, backed with a sea of money and a sea of connections too. Get ready to be crushed. Maybe not ten years, maybe not even twenty or thirty, but believe me, it's going to happen.

I suggest you sign up for hate control classes in advance- you are gonna need them. Bad.

Dark, you're scaring me with stuff like this. Boy, if Churchhill ever met you I bet he'd wish he reserved that 'riddle, mystery, enigma' line for you.

As usual, when it comes to matters religious, you are dead wrong. Yours is a dying bread dark - and all you other religious kooks on here - you've had your moment in the sun.

Hopefully you'll all stop the religious crap you've been posting, that way I won't have to weigh in and destroy all your pathetic arguments.

 

[daniel_m]

no offence darkhorse, but you are dead wrong on this point.
I know it is called usury however, the idea that usury is defined as excessive intrest is a modern one.

Forget breakin, darkhorse will never give up his fantasies. Just like every other Christian - hell, like every other 'true believer'(jew, muslim, christian) - he'll embrace the bits he likes and creatively 'interpret' the ones he doesn't.


Of course you cannot have a strong economy of any kind with out a return on investment. That is the reason christians choose to ignore this law. Up untill the 1500's (75% of the time christianity has been around) you could have been excomunicated for charging anyone any amout of intrest. Read any history of the banking system that goes back that far.


Right on! In fact the entire history of the catholic church is replete with such idiocy. It even tried to ban the use of Arabic numerals - calling them "numbers of the devil". (they preferred the archaic Roman numerals)

 

[stu]

Originally posted by breakin
stu - dante did not write the bible why does it mater how he described hell?? Isnt The Inferno just a poem or do you view it as gods word???

I didn't say Dante wrote the Bible , read the sequence of posts more carefully. I was simply being irritating, jumping on Faster's wagon hoping rs7 would talk to me like he used to. You see it gets lonely 'cause all I do is trade and don't live in a god like fantasia. But hell, lonely is good too.

 

[stu]

Originally posted by darkhorse


I We will give no quarter and take no quarter. You think one darkhorse is bad? Get ready to choke on an army of guys like me, backed with a sea of money and a sea of connections too. Get ready to be crushed. Maybe not ten years, maybe not even twenty or thirty, but believe me, it's going to happen.

I suggest you sign up for hate control classes in advance- you are gonna need them. Bad.

Have you any idea what that sounds like. What kind of person are you? One minute completely rational next you come out with that!
Take up trading or something, get your mind off that stuff. It's your consciousness which causes your ranting. and as Einstein once said "You cannot solve a problem with the same consciousness that created it". Your problem is your god.

 

[Gordon Gekko]

Giordano Bruno
(1548-1600)

Born near Naples, in a place called Nola (Campania), Bruno was one of the new breed of scientists who shunned the stilted philosophy of Aristotle; and, thus, came afoul the doctrines of the church. At first he was part of the church (entirely necessary in those days if one was to receive any kind of an education), a Dominican; but not for long. He fled Italy for Geneva and then went to England, that enlighten country, were he taught for awhile (Oxford). He eventually (1585) returned to Europe and traveled extensively, seemingly to avoid his holy pursuers. In 1592, Bruno was arrested by the ecclesiastical authorities (The Inquisition) and put on trial for his beliefs, beliefs based on the real world such as those of Copernicus, and which he would not recant. After a seven year trial, Bruno, in an act which forever branded the church as an intolerant institution, at Rome, was put to death by burning.

http://www.blupete.com/Literature/Biographies/Science/Bruno.htm

 

[daniel_m]

Originally posted by stu


Have you any idea what that sounds like. What kind of person are you? One minute completely rational next you come out with that!

Stu, I think dark must have got his hands on one of Al Qaeda's training videos. ...so we better get ready Militant Mormonism!

 

[stu]

Originally posted by daniel_m


Stu, I think dark must have got his hands on one of Al Qaeda's training videos. ...so we better get ready Militant Mormonism!

you right there dude

It maybe time to think about a preemtive strike before the weapons of mass distruction he threatens us with are used.

Call in the trader allies.
Darkhorse, if you allow the trader inspectors unhindered access into your territory , it may be possible to redeem yourself.

 

[rs7]

Originally posted by stu


. I was simply being irritating, jumping on Faster's wagon hoping rs7 would talk to me like he used to. You see it gets lonely 'cause all I do is trade and don't live in a god like fantasia. But hell, lonely is good too.

Yo, Stu,

What's up? Let's talk! (But let's pick another topic...something either useful or humorous).

Rs7

 

[daniel_m]

Originally posted by thunderbolt
The answers are all there in the bible--maybe just not the answers PEOPLE WANT TO HEAR. This is all I will post on this topic unless you all want to hear more.

oh... please man..PLEASE DO! tell me about your bible dude..i'd love to talk about it with you (but you'd better get ready to go home with your tail between your legs..)

 

[stu]

Originally posted by rs7


Yo, Stu,

What's up? Let's talk! (But let's pick another topic...something either useful or humorous).

Rs7

Hi rs7,

err well unfortnately i only know how to be skeptical critical and synical . Unfortunately this leaves me in a sort of intellectual desert area. I love to trade and I want to travel the world and help poor people. Also I like horses and puppy dogs.
However erm..well perhaps you go first

ps. thanks for talking to me dude