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NO IT ISN'T! I'm sure most kids do so at one point or another. I know I have!
but you're evil
Yes, but wishing your own parents dead is a very grave offense!
but what if your parents are very sick , and have no hope of surviving, and only suffer a lot of pain?
<Kassiopeia> you don't keep the virgins in your lair at a sodomising distance from your beasts or male prisoners. If you devirginised them yourself, though, that's another story. If they devirginised each other, then, I hope you had that webcam running. Play Bumps!No, wait, play Slings!
I think an excerpt from a letter from Gorky to Stalin should explain a little bit why atheists like to twist the scriptures to their own ends. I have never met one Christian who would do that to a child but I suppose it is important to the cause of atheism to paint all Christians with a broad brush.
No, the issue here is whether these guys were "true" Christians. I have no problem accepting Gorky and Stalin as "true" atheists (not typical atheists, but atheists nonetheless). But too many Christians use the "he ain't no Christian" argument.
It is entirely possible to be a "true" Christian and support the beating or execution of children. Indeed, the Bible commands it.
It may not be typical, but it is compatible with belief in Christianity.
I think an excerpt from a letter from Gorky to Stalin should explain a little bit why atheists like to twist the scriptures to their own ends. I have never met one Christian who would do that to a child but I suppose it is important to the cause of atheism to paint all Christians with a broad brush. I could just as easily (and dishonestly) call all atheists minnions of Stalin or Mao Tse tung, but I won't stoop to their level of debate. Here is the excerpt:
but nowhere is it written how to be a good Atheist, the bible does describe how to be a good Christian, so you couldn't possible stoop, or rise, to our level of debate
<Kassiopeia> you don't keep the virgins in your lair at a sodomising distance from your beasts or male prisoners. If you devirginised them yourself, though, that's another story. If they devirginised each other, then, I hope you had that webcam running. Play Bumps!No, wait, play Slings!
I have never met a Christian who supports that. And a 'true' Christian does not kill his kids. I can call myself an orange blossom but that does not mean I will turn into an orange. It was Jesus himself that said his name would be misused by people claiming to be doing God a favor. It is just as fair for me to blame atheists for all the murders that people like Stalin committed as it is to accuse Christians of condoning this. I have studied the Bible for about 25 years and I never once felt justified by scripture to beat a kid like that. You mix the old testament with the new and forget that the Bible makes a division there. That is dishonest.
so you're saying that "true" Christians have to ignore those parts of the bible, like killing your children?
<Kassiopeia> you don't keep the virgins in your lair at a sodomising distance from your beasts or male prisoners. If you devirginised them yourself, though, that's another story. If they devirginised each other, then, I hope you had that webcam running. Play Bumps!No, wait, play Slings!
“I give you a new commandment, that you love one another. Just as I have loved you, you also should love one another. By this everyone will know that you are my disciples, if you have love for one another.”
- John 13:34-35 (NRSV)
Yes, but wishing your own parents dead is a very grave offense!
NO IT ISN'T! I'm sure most kids do so at one point or another. I know I have!
So something is moral because lots of people do it! Wow, what incredible moral logical! I am speechless.
'There is a greater darkness than the one we fight. It is the darkness of the soul that has lost its way. The war we fight is not against powers and principalities, it is against chaos and despair. Greater than the death of flesh is the death of hope, the death of dreams. Against this peril we can never surrender. The future is all around us, waiting, in moments of transition, to be born in moments of revelation. No one knows the shape of that future or where it will take us. We know only that it is always born in pain.'"
G'Kar - from Babylon 5 episode "Z'ha'dum"
Well, I don't think anyone thinks those are okay . I think religions have been forced through a painful, but ultimately beneficial, evolution in two ways. 1 - from within in that the Bible has been reshaped by various religious thinkers through the ages who have questioned and reshaped biblical tenets in a more modern context. 2 from outside in that judeo-christian religions have been forced to reconcile their beliefs/tenets with the surrounding society at large. The exceptions, of course, are the fundy wackos and theocracys.
Just my .02
Have a nice day..
Dave
"Perhaps a new spirit is rising among us. If it is, let us trace its movements and pray that our own inner being may be sensitive to its guidance, for we are deeply in need of a new way beyond the darkness that seems so close around us." --MLK Jr.
Many of the punishments and consequences, etc, some of you are referring to is the Law of Moses, which if I remember correctly ended with the first coming of Jesus.
And he's not God in the flesh, he's the Son of God. Different people, in my religion.
Many of you are misinterpreting the Bible, or picking the worst examples to use. What about the ones being meek,humble, love thy neighbor?
The Crusades, Inquisition, etc, happened after the Crucifixion, i.e. during the Dark Ages, or the Apostasy, where the true gospel and church of Christ had been taken off the face of the earth.
If this is just another attempt to demonize religion and Christianity in particular, you haven't succeeded IMO.
I'm not trying to demonize anything. The diplomat asserted the gentleman in the article weren't true Christians. I want to know why that is, and how the heck he is qualified to make such an assertion. I'm sure those men would likely think he or you isn't a true Christian either, so what's the definition, and who can determine it?
Boris... exactly... nice evasion, but the question needs to be answered.
So something is moral because lots of people do it! Wow, what incredible moral logical! I am speechless.
So you are saying that killing kids for cursing is moral?
And actually, YES, I am saying something is moral because lots of people do it. The whole basis for morality is what people think is right and wrong. If a lot of people are doing something openly that means they think it is right. Therefore society treats that action as moral. Morals are more a democracy than you think.
“I give you a new commandment, that you love one another. Just as I have loved you, you also should love one another. By this everyone will know that you are my disciples, if you have love for one another.”
- John 13:34-35 (NRSV)
I don't want to go too much into my own personal religious beliefs, unless someone wants to discuss it with me privately, so this may sound conceited, holier-than-thou, the only true church of Christ, that has all his gospel restored, is the LDS(Mormon) church. And in my church, we are firmly opposed to child/spouse abuse, neglect, rape, murder. If it had been a Mormon who had done such a thing, he would have been SEVERELY punished, like excommunicated(kicked out). We wouldn't tolerate it, like the Catholic priests are tolerated. Like I said, this sounds conceited when it hasn't been explained.
Have you ever seen K-PAX? You remember the part where they are talking about right and wrong, and Kevin Spacey says(paraphrased, not exact words), "Everyone being in the universe is born knowing right from wrong."
Many people who call themselves Christian or "true christians" do so only so they can hide behind it. THEY know whom they are serving - God or Satan, and I believe they will one day be judged because of what they did.
Morals are not a democracy, IMO: People may try to change things to fit in with a changing society that is leaning away from God, but my morals stay the same: man changes, God does not.
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