THE SOUTH SHALL RISE AGAIN!!!

[Ogie Oglethorpe]

No seriously, I'm fascinated by paradoxes such as pro-Confederate Americans who do their patriotic duty by enlisting into the military for the United States of America.

Unsurprisingingly you conflate regional pride with advancement of rebellion agenda.

[Ben Kenobi]

Don't be so sanctimonious. Oh wait, that would involve you undergoing a prefrontal lobotomy.

Good, I must be doing something right if it pisses you off.

[MrFun]

Unsurprisingingly you conflate regional pride with advancement of rebellion agenda.

Isn't pride a sin in the eyes of God?

[Ogie Oglethorpe]

A) The concept of God and sins against Him in this thread heretofore was nonexistant. The idea of patriotism and love of country was being questioned. Or shall we conflate those as well with God's will.
B) With respect to the question Pride as it relates to self image and self pride are typically the vices described as a sin. In the case of regioanl pride (really simply a preference of a geography), one would be hard pressed to give that an assignment of one's self or one's self image. Course, I suppose if you wish to go down that path, Gay Pride week does seem sinful from a self image perspective.

[MrFun]

Course, I suppose if you wish to go down that path, Gay Pride week does seem sinful from a self image perspective.

I hear that hell is very warm, year round.

[MrFun]

B) With respect to the question Pride as it relates to self image and self pride are typically the vices described as a sin. In the case of regioanl pride (really simply a preference of a geography), one would be hard pressed to give that an assignment of one's self or one's self image. Course, I suppose if you wish to go down that path, Gay Pride week does seem sinful from a self image perspective.

But part of one self's image, is based on where they came from, and where they live.

[giblets]

MrFun, you're a Christian, correct? Do you think there is any chance that conservative Christians are right and homosexuals really are going to hell?

[MrFun]

MrFun, you're a Christian, correct? Do you think there is any chance that conservative Christians are right and homosexuals really are going to hell?

No, I seriously don't think so. The God I believe in, is one of love, unconditional acceptance, and forgiveness as personified by Jesus Christ.

[Ogie Oglethorpe]

I hear that hell is very warm, year round.

Not according to Dante.

[Ogie Oglethorpe]

MrFun, you're a Christian, correct? Do you think there is any chance that conservative Christians are right and homosexuals really are going to hell?

Only because they are prideful gits.

[Ben Kenobi]

No, I seriously don't think so. The God I believe in, is one of love, unconditional acceptance, and forgiveness as personified by Jesus Christ.

Wow. That's level 6 already.

[giblets]

No, I seriously don't think so. The God I believe in, is one of love, unconditional acceptance, and forgiveness as personified by Jesus Christ.

Is he the same God as the one in the Old Testament who told the Hebrews to:
"1: "When the LORD your God brings you into the land which you are entering to take possession of it, and clears away many nations before you, the Hittites, the Gir'ga****es, the Amorites, the Canaanites, the Per'izzites, the Hivites, and the Jeb'usites, seven nations greater and mightier than yourselves,
2: and when the LORD your God gives them over to you, and you defeat them; then you must utterly destroy them; you shall make no covenant with them, and show no mercy to them.
3: You shall not make marriages with them, giving your daughters to their sons or taking their daughters for your sons.
4: For they would turn away your sons from following me, to serve other gods; then the anger of the LORD would be kindled against you, and he would destroy you quickly.
5: But thus shall you deal with them: you shall break down their altars, and dash in pieces their pillars, and hew down their Ashe'rim, and burn their graven images with fire.
6: "For you are a people holy to the LORD your God; the LORD your God has chosen you to be a people for his own possession, out of all the peoples that are on the face of the earth. (Deuteronomy 7)"

is this the God of love, unconditional acceptance and forgiveness? Or a different god? Or is this a work of fiction?

[molly bloom]

Good, I must be doing something right if it pisses you off.

Oh, it is to laugh.

Try to find out the difference between 'observation' and 'irritation'. They're in separate parts of the dictionary.