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HalfMooner
Dingaling
Philippines
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 Posted - 01/23/2009 : 19:42:35 [Permalink]
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Originally posted by Kil
Originally posted by filthy
Yep, Jewish, although he doesn't seem to work at it very hard. He does, however, come off as a believer.
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What I read has him coming of as pretty much agnostic. And that is not unusual for Jews of my generation.
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You lucky dogs. People hear "secular Jew" and don't even blink. "Secular Christian" tends to sound like an oxymoron. Yeah, I know and sympathize. It's your Jewish culture. Being seen as a Jew is something that you don't reject, for valid historical reasons. I'd be the same way, if "my people" had gone through the troubles of the Jews. As it stands, there's really not a corresponding sense of Christianity being an ethnic thing.
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Hittman
Skeptic Friend
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Posted - 01/25/2009 : 11:58:47 [Permalink]
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This is the best they can come up with? Nearly everything on the list was satire and expression of opinion. Not a single item prevented anyone of worshiping, or caused anyone any physical pain. Not one.
Not only is it ridiculous, it's lazy. An hour or two on the internet would have easily turned up examples of real persecution of Christians, mostly by people with different superstitions. Of course, limiting the list to atrocities in Muslim countries wouldn't have been nearly as impressive to the audience they're trying to reach.
BTW, the best way to deal with something like Prop 8, The Musical, is to do a counter piece that's better. Good luck with that.
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HalfMooner
Dingaling
Philippines
15831 Posts |
Posted - 01/25/2009 : 15:30:59 [Permalink]
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Originally posted by Hittman
BTW, the best way to deal with something like Prop 8, The Musical, is to do a counter piece that's better. Good luck with that. |
LOL! Any fundy who could do a good musical would be under immediate suspicion.
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Hittman
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filthy
SFN Die Hard
USA
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 Posted - 01/26/2009 : 03:55:26 [Permalink]
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Originally posted by Hittman
True dat. They'd probably demand he prove he's not gay.
Saw Avenue Q last week. What a great show. Not christian, though.
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Heh, at the rate some of the big-name hypocrites have maneged to accidentally out themselves over the last, few years, that might be a difficult jury to convince. I'm reading that lecherous Ted Haggard has some more problems along that line, this time involving a 17 year old.
I wonder; why does their own sexuality, be it hetero or homo, terrify them so?
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Brother Boot Knife of Warm Humanitarianism,
and Crypto-Communist! 
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Hittman
Skeptic Friend
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Posted - 01/26/2009 : 17:13:31 [Permalink]
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I can only guess.
Prohibiting anything pleasurable is pretty common – time and resources spent on pleasure don't fill church coffers. And prohibiting something as basic as sex guarantees the followers will fail – and there's only one place to go for forgiveness.
So when the leaders give in to their urges, they've got to be terrified that someone will find out. I don't know why, though – they just do a forgiveness song and dance and the suckers lap it up.
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H. Humbert
SFN Die Hard
USA
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Posted - 01/26/2009 : 18:35:06 [Permalink]
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Most religious sexuality morality has its foundation in property rights. Because men passed wealth to their children, they wanted women who they could be certain were virgins so that they could guarantee that any offspring produced were their own. That's why Muslim women cannot be left alone with a man who isn't a member of her immediate family, or why in the bible the penalty for a woman who was raped was death. A woman whose chastity is suspect is of no economic value, and is thus worthless.
Homosexuality was considered an unnatural abomination, but then so were physical disfigurements and diseases. Cripples, for example, weren't allowed in temples to worship because they were considered "unclean" and cursed by god.
In modern times, none of these religious prohibitions make any sense. They are clung to only by the misguided, the ignorant, and the morally corrupt. But such is the power of religious tradition over the minds of men.
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Another top 10 -- cry me a river!
