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Re: What have christians contributed to modern society? [Re: Innvertigo]
#3165140 - 09/22/04 02:09 PM (19 years, 7 months ago) |
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Your own country was founded on terrorism. Remember the British? God, you're so unversed. Be more like pinky - do your research, then post.
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Re: What have christians contributed to modern society? [Re: Tao]
#3165148 - 09/22/04 02:12 PM (19 years, 7 months ago) |
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I must have missed the meetings when the christians got together for make bombs....bummer.
wow the west invented mass warfare? you mean the wars thousands of years ago were fought one on one?
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Re: What have christians contributed to modern society? [Re: trendal]
#3165175 - 09/22/04 02:19 PM (19 years, 7 months ago) |
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But i hope you didn't miss the meeting where the Vatican turned a blind eye to the Holocaust.
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Re: What have christians contributed to modern society? [Re: DigitalDuality]
#3165183 - 09/22/04 02:20 PM (19 years, 7 months ago) |
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Don't forget aboot the child molestations, that was a bright day in Catholocism.
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Re: What have christians contributed to modern society? [Re: DigitalDuality]
#3165192 - 09/22/04 02:24 PM (19 years, 7 months ago) |
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Yeah, the Vatican should have broken out there tanks and fighter jets and homicide bombers to put a stop to that.
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Re: What have christians contributed to modern society? [Re: Stein]
#3165203 - 09/22/04 02:26 PM (19 years, 7 months ago) |
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you see if you kill someone for your beliefs it's a good thing and people tend to have sypathy for you and your cause.
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Re: What have christians contributed to modern society? [Re: Stein]
#3165219 - 09/22/04 02:28 PM (19 years, 7 months ago) |
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They seem to publicly downcry every other tragedy in the world. But oh yeah.. at the time they didn't like Jews too much did they? So i guess it wasn't a tragedy to them.
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Re: What have christians contributed to modern society? [Re: trendal]
#3165226 - 09/22/04 02:29 PM (19 years, 7 months ago) |
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Under the banner of serving God,,, I guess christians have contributed many many artistic and architectural advances over the centuries. They also burned a lot of ugly chicks at the stake.
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Re: What have christians contributed to modern society? [Re: Innvertigo]
#3165229 - 09/22/04 02:30 PM (19 years, 7 months ago) |
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but if you're a priest and jackoff on an alter boys back then they condemn you...bosh flim shaw religion is a such a scam.
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Re: What have christians contributed to modern society? [Re: Stein]
#3165258 - 09/22/04 02:38 PM (19 years, 7 months ago) |
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ha ha....jackoff bad / homocide good!!
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Re: What have christians contributed to modern society? [Re: ld50negative1]
#3166749 - 09/22/04 08:17 PM (19 years, 7 months ago) |
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If anything good comes out of TRUE christianity then it is only going to be good based on the teachings of the bible... of which in summation is love
The only love in the Bible that I can find is in the actions and teachings of Jesus as described in the four Gospels: Matthew, Mark, Luke, and John.
Much of the rest of the Bible is full of hatred, condemnation, intolerance, revenge, and bigotry on the part of God as well as people. It's also got some great descriptions of God inflicting pain, suffering, pestilences, swarms, diseases, and assorted other nastiness on entire populations indiscriminately.
Noah's flood supposedly killed by drowning not only those who 'deserved' so horrible a death, but also innocent children.
The death penalty (the anti-love if ever there was one), is required punishment for numerous transgressions. Most executions are to be carried out by stoning but a few require burning alive. In some cases, God performs the execution himself; Lot's wife, for example, when she looked the wrong way.
Premarital sex is also cause for execution by stoning as is prostitution and adultery. See Leviticus and Deuteronomy.
A direct example of the (lack of) love in the Bible:
Genesis 9:5-6 "And for your lifeblood I will surely demand an accounting. I will demand an accounting from every animal. And from each man, too, I will demand an accounting for the life of his fellow man. Whoever sheds the blood of man, by man shall his blood be shed."
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Re: What have christians contributed to modern society? [Re: DigitalDuality]
#3166771 - 09/22/04 08:22 PM (19 years, 7 months ago) |
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DigitalDuality said: So i guess we can give credit to Arabs for many things too. Let's see , where should we start.
Um, ok, I guess we could. I don't see how it would pertain to the topic at hand, perhaps if a thread existed called "What have arabs contributed to modern society", it would be a bit more appropriate. You certainly can't post this cloptrop in the thread about MUSLIMS, as these things existed before a horny camel fucked an ugly arab prostite and she shat out Mohammed.
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Re: What have christians contributed to modern society? [Re: trendal]
#3166782 - 09/22/04 08:24 PM (19 years, 7 months ago) |
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As a group, what have they contributed? What has theology in general contributed, though all of the following also applies to Christians specifically: == We have already compared the benefits of theology and science. When the theologian governed the world, it was covered with huts and hovels for the many, palaces and cathedrals for the few. To nearly all the children of men, reading and writing were unknown arts. The poor were clad in rags and skins -- they devoured crusts, and gnawed bones. The day of Science dawned, and the luxuries of a century ago are the necessities of today. Men in the middle ranks of life have more of the conveniences and elegancies than the princes and kings of the theological times. But above and over all this, is the development of mind. There is more of value in the brain of an average man of today -- of a master-mechanic, of a chemist, of a naturalist, of an inventor, than there was in the brain of the world four hundred years ago. These blessings did not fall from the skies. These benefits did not drop from the outstretched hands of priests. They were not found in cathedrals or behind altars -- neither were they searched for with holy candles. They were not discovered by the closed eyes of prayer, nor did they come in answer to superstitious supplication. They are the children of freedom, the gifts of reason, observation and experience -- and for them all, man is indebted to man. -- Robert Ingersoll == Edit: typo
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Re: What have christians contributed to modern society? [Re: trendal]
#3166790 - 09/22/04 08:26 PM (19 years, 7 months ago) |
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Great art.
I'm no christian, in fact I find their dogma to be far too uptight, but I still find their contribution to worldwide culture to be profound.
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Re: What have christians contributed to modern society? [Re: Diploid]
#3166791 - 09/22/04 08:26 PM (19 years, 7 months ago) |
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-------------------- To call humans 'rational beings' does injustice to the term, 'rational.' Humans are capable of rational thought, but it is not their essence. Humans are animals, beasts with complex brains. Humans, more often than not, utilize their cerebrum to rationalize what their primal instincts, their preconceived notions, and their emotional desires have presented as goals - humans are rationalizing beings.
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Re: What have christians contributed to modern society? [Re: retread]
#3167580 - 09/22/04 10:29 PM (19 years, 7 months ago) |
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you truly do have some built up tension and hatred towards various groups don't you?
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Re: What have christians contributed to modern society? [Re: Innvertigo]
#3167592 - 09/22/04 10:31 PM (19 years, 7 months ago) |
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Innvertigo said: They've caused death, bigotry, racism, selfrightousness and hypocrisy. But just like all religions, the message is disrupted by the radicals in each.
original thread BTW
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Re: What have christians contributed to modern society? [Re: trendal]
#3167611 - 09/22/04 10:34 PM (19 years, 7 months ago) |
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The christians of today are wolves in sheeps clothing. the illuminati has hi jackets the religion and now all americanized christians worship money hate and satan and dont even relise it
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Re: What have christians contributed to modern society? [Re: retread]
#3169266 - 09/23/04 09:04 AM (19 years, 7 months ago) |
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ummmm, i rather think that one could not characterize thomas jefferson as a christian... maybe a deist, but not a christian...
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Re: What have christians contributed to modern society? [Re: trendal]
#3170634 - 09/23/04 03:50 PM (19 years, 7 months ago) |
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I believe there was probably only 1 Christian ever. Christian church, like any other human organization, is but a huge miss.
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