re: Here Was a Man..............

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whats the point

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They think it makes them look smart. It's not enough that they believe what they do....they have to try and talk down to everyone else as a means to make themselves feel better and fill their emptiness inside.

Kinda like people trying to look like they're rich by buying flashy shite and making fun of the old guy in the truck.....who could buy and sell them three times over but doesn't GAS enough to care or flaunt it.

Just ignore them and move on....we'll all have the answer to that question soon enough...

Didn't say that you don't have the right to disagree/post about it. I just don't see the need to be a dick about it.Why not just ignore the thread since the op wasn't trying to start a debate. I agree with Squatch , some people feel the need to feel smarter than others by belittling them or their beliefs

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and voice a doubt in the divinity of Christ or in the existence of God.

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I think every human being has doubts at some point in their lives. It does not mean we turn our backs...and any doubts I have ever heard have gone away. but in various points of our lives most people might have doubts. What Christ did for us is beyone human comprehension. Now, that does not mean I carry those doubts around me daily. There are no doubts in my mid, now. But I would be lying if I said there have never been any doubts.

Even Job questioned God as to why he allowed him to go through the trials that befell him. Jonah, when instructed to go to Ninevah turned and went in the opposite direction. Peter denied Christ three times....and the list goes on and on.

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I mean, how can an imaginary being damn someone, amirite?

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Yes, you are correct. Good think God is not imaginary.

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Paul ISASAINT

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Not a New Orleans Saint, I hope!

Venice didn't exist at the time.

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So many dickheads here. If you don't believe in someone's faith you don't have to try and tear it down. Kinda like if you have a kid that you believe is beautiful, I may think it's the ugliest piece of shite I have ever seen, but I won't tell you that. What's the point?

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That's ok. If my faith can't stand questioning of others it is't much of a faith.

Polite society says we should respect each others beliefs, but that might be too much political correctness. I don't believ as many on this board, but I would never mock what they believe...but as I said...it doesn't bother me TOO much!

Yeah it was Ravenna before it became Venice, which became the capital of the empire in the 4th-5th century.

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Paul ISASAINT


Not a New Orleans Saint, I hope!

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Paul was better than that...I believe there is a lost book of the Bible entitled "The Apostle Paul's Epistle to Those Queers in New Orleans" where he threatens to send in a legion of angels to castrate every priest in the city should they refuse to stop playing with alter boy ding dongs....

But I could be wrong.

Gata have faith...

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PR Department? 12 men made up of fishermen, a tax collector, doctor and one or two others? Ok. If you think that is a high powered PR department....

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Those were just the first publicists to handle the account...when others realized the power they could wield over people and the money and wealth that power meant they took up the oars and started rowing in the same direction. The follow on publicists were popes and priests and kings and charlotans of all stripes, each and every one with an agenda to further his or her own power and wealth.

You have to travel through Europe to really get a feel for the size and scope of the long con that religion has been playing for a couple of thousand years. When you are traveling long in the middle of no where and there is a massive, ornate church sitting on a hill top that is almost inaccessible and you learn that thing was built so that peasants could look up to their masters and be impressed with his wealth while at the same time the master could literally look down on his subjects while he ws praying you have to ask yourself if there is anything more to it than a straight sles job? And then you realize how many times the bible, supposedly written in part by God (or at least inspired by) explains how much better off poor people are than wealthy people it is abundantly clear that the poor are simply being hosed.

Finally go to the Vatican and have a look around at the wealth that has been stolen by the church from people who needed it to succor themselves and done so under a veil of lies so egregious that were there a hell anyone spreading them would certainly spend some time there and if your faith isn't demolished you will have witnessed a true miracle.

And of course now someone will come along and say that this is religion and the church and not God but to that I say frick God....if the count can't see that those representing him on earth are the worst people who ever shite between a pair of sandals and allows them to continue to perpetrate the single worse crime ever against humanity then he if he does exist (he doesn't) then he is culpable. He wiped all of mankind off the planet except for one family for being assholes yet he has ignored for centuries the theft of wealth and resources in his name? And y'all find this a positive thing and base a LOT of life decisions on being part of this criminal activity??? WOW....

By the way, Merry Christmas!!!!

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prove it

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I'm not a organized religion kind of guy, but in all fairness you can't prove that there's not either.