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Originally posted by obsidian468
Arguing religious or moral points is, honestly, only effective for one thing: starting wars.
Originally posted by obsidian468
So, I propose this, everyone agrees to disagree. Nobody is right, nobody is wrong.
Originally posted by obsidian468
Let's just close this thread, and be done with it. Arguing like children only brings down the quality of posts on these boards,
Originally posted by obsidian468
so let's just shake hands, and end it. A valiant effort to everyone. It's over.
Originally posted by James the Lesser
George Carlin baby! "If there is a country with brown people in it we will find it and we will bomb it!"
Or was it Dennis Leary?
Originally posted by saint4God
Originally posted by obsidian468
Arguing religious or moral points is, honestly, only effective for one thing: starting wars.
I'm going to disagree with you here for two reasons:
1.) If at least one party is open-minded enough to consider the other's frame of thought then serious consideration to their point can be made. Case in point, James and I have been back and forth for quite some time but he has opened up my perspective on a few things. I believe James is right when he says Pro-life violence is wrong and hypocritical. I do not believe he's right saying pro-lifers are killers, hypocrites and psychos.
2.) Wars start when people get angry and/or have an ulterior motivation such as power, money, land, selfishness, etc. I do not have in my Bible a command to go out and kill. In fact, mine says the opposite. Two places that come to mind are Exodus 20:13 (You shall not kill) and Matthew 5:43 (love your enemies)
Originally posted by obsidian468
So, I propose this, everyone agrees to disagree. Nobody is right, nobody is wrong.
That's a counterproductive concession to appease the masses, is it not? We're not making any "noise" here that's a bother to others. I'm not a fan of throwing my hands up and saying "Ah well, we're all going to die eventually anyway so who cares about anything". I'm being extreme in my example, but 'agreeing to disagree' is how it starts. At the end of the day though we differ, I hope James and others know I still love them.
Originally posted by obsidian468
Let's just close this thread, and be done with it. Arguing like children only brings down the quality of posts on these boards,
I agree we should not argue like children, rather discuss and explore as adults.
Originally posted by obsidian468
so let's just shake hands, and end it. A valiant effort to everyone. It's over.
Why? So another thread titled the same thing can pop up in it's place and we can start all over again? I'm impressed with the scope of discussion here and believe it's a valuable read for people on both sides (or sitting on) the fence.
I'm not trying to fight with the peacemaker, but sometimes there is value to these discussions and this is one of them that does.
[edit on 16-8-2005 by saint4God]
Originally posted by dollmonster
So why so much hatefulness in these people supporting the death penalty. What happened to forgiveness and redemption?
Originally posted by Full Metal
According to the bible a fetus isn't human. It isn't a human until it takes the "Breath of Life".
www.mwillett.org...
Originally posted by Full Metal
Before then it isn't even property unless you want to fine the person who punched your wife in the stomach causing the miscarrige for loss of Property.
Originally posted by saint4God
Originally posted by Full Metal
Before then it isn't even property unless you want to fine the person who punched your wife in the stomach causing the miscarrige for loss of Property.
Why does this statement want me to throw-up?
Originally posted by Full Metal
Hey it is evil to me to, why I don't follow the bible, something created by man for man.
Originally posted by Full Metal
The only thing God gave us were the 10 Commandments therefor one should only follow those, not all the other rules the church voted on. So sad that reason gays are evil is because the church voted Aye instead of Nay on that book of the bible.
People, the church, power, greed, pride, envy, gluttony, all corrupted the true God of Christiainity. Follow the words given to us by God, not the words corrupt people did.
Originally posted by zappafan1
So.... for a woman to say she wants the right to have sex with someone she doesn't want to have a child with..... that sounds OK to many here?
As for the Baby versus fetus thing..... if you saw the procedure of what is euphemistically called "partial birth" abortion you might have a second thought. By the way, partial birth abortion is a legal procedure, not a medical one.
Welfare is one of the biggest failures in America, and you want more of it?
In 35 years, over 50MILLION abortions. Think of what that's done to the economy...
When someone prayed to his/her creator, and asked "... why haven't you given us someone who would cure cancer, or alzheimers (or ????) and he replies: ".... I did on a number of occasions.. and they were aborted."