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[MrFun]

ooops

[Elok]

Sorry, had to get you back for the bit about hating to be allied with me in the "who goes to church" poll. Don't sweat it.

[MrFun]

ah -- ok

[Ben Kenobi]

d00d

Are you sure Molly is a chick?

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[DarkCloud]

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[The Emperor Fabulous]

Wow...I never expected those last four pages of posts...

Yay 'poly for putting back in me the faith that, yes, there ARE still those who debate in fun threads!

I loe you all...

[DarkCloud]

That's strange. I saw your post after I posted even though my page loaded in about 9.798 seconds!

[Elok]

Originally posted by Ben Kenobi
d00d
Are you sure Molly is a chick?

Does it matter? Besides, if you're gonna go calling yourself Molly, you should expect to be treated like a woman. Or is it one of those names like Ashley that some people cruelly name their sons in an attempt to revive ancient custom?

And you love me, EmpFab. Or Molly. I don't know who officially started this.

[alva]

Isn't Molly Bloom from James Joyce?

[Elok]

Oh, is that it? Never read Joyce, I wouldn't know.

[Monk]

Originally posted by alva
Isn't Molly Bloom from James Joyce?

yeah

[molly bloom]

Originally posted by MrFun


First off, your protests against the abuses of religion in terms of violence in the name of God is anachronistic. Did you know that today, the vast majority of Christians no longer advocate violenct slaughter in the name of God?


And as for your complaint about insult ridden posts -- you sometimes do that with your statements, such as "you can believe in anything, even Santa Clause . . ." as if to belittle our belief in something much more significant and meaningful -- God.

Oh, of course, you're right- the Balkans, Rwanda, Burundi, Northern Ireland- they're all arguments about the price of beer, or toffee apples.

I take responsibility for my own actions- the religionistas have this convenient get out clause of 'god made me do it' or 'it says I can do it in my 2000 year old book.'

As long as any religionista kills someone else in the name of a supernatural being, then my point about killing for Christ, or Allah, or Kali is relevant- besides which, the examples I gave from Christianity's history (god is love, right- except when you're killing Jews, or Muslims, or pagans) could easily be substituted by examples from Islam (Allah the merciful, the compassionate), or India's history, or virtually any religion- even the precursors of the Mennonites had a few big bloodbaths of their own in Germany, before they cleaned up their act.

http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/01445b.htm

I wasn't aware that describing god in terms of another mythical being was insulting- after all, Christianity's history is replete with the demeaning and belittling of other people's gods- from animists, to Hindus, to Muslims, you name it- the one true god is meant to supersede them all. 'I am the way, the truth and the light'- that's not exactly leaving much room for other gods, is it? And let's face it, even Christians dispute amongst themselves about whose variety of the Christian god is the best.

In any case, I was answering Kenobi's post and talking about personal discourtesy- ascribing faults to me based on my presumed place of birth.

By the way, Elok is clearly suffering some form of derangement if he thinks I'm female- according to his way of thinking, a certain poster in New York is a dead Russian or an opera, the Emperor Fabulous, is well, who knows, and Ben Kenobi is a character from a Star Wars film.

I love the remark about 'being expected to be treated like a woman'- that's soooo religionista.

I put it down to youth- or perhaps god made him do it.

[Ben Kenobi]

ascribing faults to me based on my presumed place of birth.

That was not the point of that argument. I just wanted to show you how your statement of intelligence was based on mere opinion, and not substance.

precursors of the Mennonites had a few big bloodbaths of their own in Germany, before they cleaned up their act.

The Munsterites are not Mennonites. The Mennonites come from the peace wing of the anabaptists, that outright disassociated themselves with the Munsterites.

If anything the Munsterites helped define Mennonites in what they believe, as their antithesis.

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