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I think you & Co. are so pissed about the cartoons because you intimately recognize that is a real and sometimes weird face of your faith. :|\\
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Anyone else get the impression that this von Capo guy is trying way to hard?
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Dan san, Tak (Dangling and jingling the playground keys) |
Dan San?
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If you really believe in this idea, I ensure you that is wrong. But if you are proclaiming that, only to lure sympathy from others forum's members, shame on you. About the panorama: If you & Co. are so gentle to recall the beginning of this thread, it was about how christians institutions were infiltrating the government, and the threat that it represent for the minorities. This was the intro or presentation. The second step, it is about to explore the christian psyche. It is how interpretates and reacts in the real world. It is why you people think in a very particular way. It is about your faith and what fundament those beliefs. It is too, how you people interact with the rest of us (you know, amoral, gays, atheists.... whatever you consider as the scum of society. :rotfl::rotfl::rotfl: I choose pics and cartoons because a simple graphic scores thousands of words. Additionally, your uproar, draws an interesting parallel with the Danish Mahomet cartoons. :yep: This phase is almost complete. And appreciate your collaboration. Thank you. |
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Are you trying to create another bump thread here or just need a soapbox since no one else will listen to you? I'm sorry that I didn't take the time to read you rentire post since its filled with the same old garbage. So what is this, the new bump thread? -S |
Now a must read article: :yep::yep::yep:
Some extracts from: ---> http://www.secweb.org/index.aspx?action=viewAsset&id=39 The Strategies of Christian Fundamentalism By Joseph R. Kiefer II """ Fundamental Christianity--a religion that controls its devotees through diminishing their human potential and promoting powerlessness in their lives. From its early days to the present, this particular strand of religion has employed the strategy of inducing fear and guilt into its followers and would-be-converts to generate a powerful belief system wherein the follower is forbidden by conscience to examine truth as presented by any other source. This incarceration of the human spirit crushes self-acceptance and incites intolerance of those who aren't captive to the same beliefs. """ """ As Cookson (1997) points out, examples of fundamentalists persecuting others who hold divergent beliefs persist in modern times. Christian clergy have advocated the stripping of constitutional rights and securities from those who do not accept and venerate the god of the Christians. The religion of Wicca is one example of a religion scorned by intolerant fundamentalists. """ '''' Paradoxically, many Christian fundamentalists themselves raise the cry of persecution while sparring in defense of their perceived right to proselytize around the globe. In the Statement of Conscience issued by The National Association of Evangelicals (NAE) is found: "Religious liberty is not a privilege to be granted or denied by an all-powerful State, but a God-given human right" (as cited in Lawton, 1996, p. 54). Apparently, many fundamentalists do not realize this argument is a double-edged sword, and that this statement applies these liberties to others as well as to themselves. """ '''' Not only are fundamental Christians taught they are powerless over their conditions, but they receive the message from their leaders that it is a sin to look elsewhere for assistance or understanding to life's problems--that the church and the Holy Bible contains all the answers they will ever need. Philosophy professor Jean Mercier states: Fundamentalists read their own books and none other; they consider knowledge from other sources useless and dangerous since it creates only doubt and confusion. (1995, p. 68) """ '''' Children are especially vulnerable. From the cradle, fundamentalist parents condition their children into belief. Young children do not question adults when it comes to matters of belief versus fact; they simply, more often than not, accept statements of belief as fact, especially when that is how the information is presented. Richard Dawkins, the Charles Simonyi Chair for the Public Understanding of Science at Oxford University, contends that evolutionary rationales ensure children believe what they are told as a method of survival (as cited in Krasny, 1997). He further compares religion to a communicable virus and expounds upon it thusly:There's an additional factor in the virus theory, which is that those viruses that are good at surviving will be the ones that are more likely to survive. So, if the virus says, "If you don't believe in this you will go to hell when you die," that's a pretty potent threat, especially to a child. Or, if it says, "When you become a little bit older you will meet people who will tell you the opposite of this, and they will have remarkably plausible arguments and they'll have lots of what they'll call evidence on their side and you'll be really tempted to believe it, but the more tempted you are, the more that's just Satan getting at you." (Krasny, 1997, p. 61) '''' |
Oh von Capo you are so going to hell. Burn baby Burn! :rock:
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