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Mormons: We are Christians, too

SPEAKING OF GOD BEING A WOMAN--- THAT IS ENTIRELY POSSIBle. With the male dominated oppresion of biblicaly based cultures they may have altered the scriptures to say it was a he and that adam came first (of course, women insist that adam always comes first). WHY? DNA evidence shows that the male chromosome is a mutation--so woman came first. Also, looking at the two sexes, it is obvious that man has the extra bone that woman craves, and woman appears to have lost one. (Where god apparently didn't finish healing her after taking it to make her a man, because she keeps bleeding.)  (Jun 29, 2009 | post #12752)

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Mormons: We are Christians, too

Concerned NOT in Brasil is just worried that someone speaking truth that would counter his absurd beliefs will actually get read. So he blathers on and on and eon and eon, with eternally long posts to make what others say go away in his sight.  (Jun 29, 2009 | post #12751)

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1st black female rabbi spent years searching

Abraham converted from fiction to non-fiction. Unfortunately, the religious that committed his conversion forgot to erase the part of the story where he saw and spoke with YHWH face to face, and shared food with him, while his angels of destrution went to Sodom and Gomorrah. Hey, so you think we can still include some of the Native American legends into the Genesis? Spiderwoman, and the twins are very compelling tales.  (Jun 29, 2009 | post #311)

Atheism

Do any atheists go to church? If so, why?

I ate a moldy pickle once. It made me turn green , my hair stand on end, and my mouth shrink down to the size of a dot. Do you want a piece?  (Jun 29, 2009 | post #141)

Atheism

Do any atheists go to church? If so, why?

Jaw drop] Talk about showing ignorance. 1> Genetic engineering does not make new life forms, it only alters the already existing ones. 2> Creationism is a specific belief set based solely on Christian version of creation: God spoke the heavens and the earth with all that is in them into existence in 6 days and on the 7th had a nightmare. It is one of the most unnatural, superstitious, and ignorant explanations of creation ever conceived by any religion or folklore--ever! At least the theories of abiogenesis have actual observations pointing to the "EMERGENCE " of life, and evolution by change, emergence, natural selection--lots and lots of evidence for that. The only evidence creationism has is the Bible, unfortunately human writing and recorded history goes back longer than the bible (or the christians) are willing to admit. Intelligent Design is just another title for the same Bibg Lie, but because of it's title some agnostics accept it as they perceive that their may be an intelligence involved. But the the geological, biological, archeological, written human histories, and more PROVE that the bible is at best cheap folklore, and at worst THE BIG LIE. 3> Budhism most certainly is a religion, several religions in fact: tibetan-budhism (Lama-budhism) Shinto-budhism, Hotei-budhism, even Hindu-budhism, and just plain budhism as the first budha wrote and started. Of course, the first Budha (Prince Ghatama) declared that god was ego--therfore, budhism has no gods as your unnatural religion would describe them.  (Jun 29, 2009 | post #140)

Atheism

Do any atheists go to church? If so, why?

OHH! Well, that explains it! Since god is not magic he does not exist, because everything is magic and magic is in everything--everyw here. If you read my posts, you wouldn't think I was an atheist unless you weren't one. Jesus said, "You have no idea how evil you are. You don't know what it is you worship. Your god is a lie and the father of all lies--a lie from the beginning." Judaism, christianity, islam, and satanism all worship the same devil--but those first 3 heads of the beast ignorantly call it God.  (Jun 29, 2009 | post #139)

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American Prejudice & Bigotry Towards Atheism

Sounds like a lie to me, obviously a bent study. How did they determine enough truly non-religious people to make their conclusion. Or did they just use religious people who did n't go to church and therefore had no support structure.....who probably left their church due to a previous life let-down.  (Jun 29, 2009 | post #201)

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Mormons: We are Christians, too

You don't know history. Public hospitals were first started in western civilization well before the existence of christians: Egyptians, Jews, Greeks, Romans, Persians, Druids, Wiccans, all the way back to the tribal civilizations. There are also the vedics of India, and many more. Christians, are actually what stopped public healthcare until the grip of christian oppression was broken. Public education was started by Germans who were not of any religion. Jews also believed in public religious education. Egyptians educated the public on an as needed basis. Christians are the only major religion that oppressed education of the masses and oppressedd any and all knowledge that did not glorify their god. Welfare--was started by the socialists, in modern society. Moreover, every tribe and community andd country that has survived for more than one generation depended on welfare. The Chinese even altered the traditional way the cook food for the welfare of their elderly--before christianity existed. Human rights--were completely trampled by Christians. It is, in fact, Napolean who introduced human rights to Europe thru his propaganda campaign to overthrow the oppression of professed christian rulers. His propaganda introduced human rights, civil rights, free enterprise, and others to rile the people to rise up. Later, he oppressed them. Ended slavery--in fact, Christians instituted slavery in America, and it was deists who influenced it's demise. Value of human life--Is that what you call the crusades, the inqusition, the witch trials, etc, etc.. Oh yeah, don't forget the Nazis--they were Christians. Or are you referring to anti-abortion radicals who would prefer that there be many more unwanted children in the world to be abused and tormented by their evil parents many of which are often christian. the right to a fair trial--Again, you don't know history at all. The right to a fair trial was intorduced by deists, who in fact, called christianity the most unnatural, superstitious, and ignorant of religions. They had to introduce the right to a fair-trial because the christians of europe often tortured and killed people without hearing them, especially if they were in rebellion against some church. The things you mention are humanist, perhaps you are a humanist at heart, but confused as to what Christian is--deceived by their appeal of love. Like "an angle of light", but how does it lead to such bondage to ignorance.  (Jun 29, 2009 | post #12741)

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Mormons: We are Christians, too

Not to mention needy and clingy. Perhaps a little psychotic?  (Jun 29, 2009 | post #12737)

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Mormons: We are Christians, too

Dang it! Now I did a typo! That first line in the last post should read: Direct translation is "...your god, is only one gods;..."  (Jun 29, 2009 | post #12736)

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Mormons: We are Christians, too

OOPS! I mis-tranlated it. Direct translation is "...your god, is only gods;..." So the correct translation would be "...your god, is only one of the gods;..."  (Jun 29, 2009 | post #12735)

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Mormons: We are Christians, too

Oh yeah, also regarding the gods. A jewish scripture also in the ot, properly tranlated: "Hear, oh Israel, YHWH your god, is only one god; do not have other gods before me. For YHWH, your god, is an angry, jealous, vindictive, judgemental god." Sounds excessively egotistical--doesn 't it?  (Jun 29, 2009 | post #12734)

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Mormons: We are Christians, too

Actually, if there was even one honest christian in the world, then they'd confess to the actual tranlation of their scriptures--in which almost every reference to god, or the use of the word god is in the plural. In every language it is written in: Hebrew, Aramaic, Greek, even Latin. Furthermore, Jesus quoted a scripture which your fundie liars will not consider part of the "real" bible, "Your scriptures say that 'You are gods.'" The old testament refers to Elohim = the gods in general; Eloah (Allah) the word for my god or your god or that god or this god; Adonai = the lesser gods, later termed the lesser god (believed to be Jesus by lying christians) and another word which means the greater gods, and was often used in place of the Jewish name for their god. Jesus said, "You have no idea how evil you are. You don't know WHAT it is you worship. Your god is a lie and the father of all lies--a lie from the beginning." In other words, you worship the devil. And many of you think, "Well, if the devil makes me feel this good, then he is pretty damn nice." Sort of like "an angel of light"--right ?  (Jun 29, 2009 | post #12733)

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Mormons: We are Christians, too

Now, conced in Brasil (but located in Oslo, Norway) are you a scientist or even scientific? As you can see, if you look, that the archelogical and scientific evidence against the Bible makes it look like the same kind of folktale that the book of mormon is. Furthermore, if you compare it to The Tibetan Book of the Dead, The Popul Vuh, The Ayurveda, etc, etc--then it especially seems to have been written as the podunk uneductated vagabond trash lore that it really is. Strangely, Moses was supposed to have received the best royal education Egypt had to offer, but when you compare it to Egypt's scriptures, it is apparent that it was actually written by an uneducated, but not illiterate slave (Joshua perhaps?).  (Jun 29, 2009 | post #12732)

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Mormons: We are Christians, too

All of the cities you mentioned were never in question, they are from times that have historical record. All of the scriptures you mentioned were written well after the time of recorded history. It is the cities of judeo oral history and folklore, which is what Moses supposedly wrote down and called Genesis, that are in question--and have no evidence of their existence.  (Jun 29, 2009 | post #12731)