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Originally posted by joehayner
If not giving money to someone who asks for it is evil, then most of the Democratic party would be going to hell anyway. People are selfish, it has nothing to do with political beliefs.
Most everything people do is a selfish act. If you give a homeless man money because it my be 'a test from above', then you are doing it just to please your maker, which makes it a selfish act. If you are only being good to go to heaven, then you might as well light yourself on fire now.(note: I'm not religious)
Religion teaches good morals, but gives you the wrong motivation to abide by them.
Anyway, back from religion, you really shouldn't judge your friends. Let them make their own mistakes, but don't try to drag them onto the same path as you. Afterall, what if you are on the wrong path? You can suggest things and stand up for what you believe in, (unfortunatly in your case) but that doesn't make you right in trying to make everyone think like you.
Do you get what I mean, Colonel?
I assume that it pleases God---ther is nothing selfish in that.
My friends are bound for Hell.
Originally posted by joehayner
My friends are bound for Hell.
See, you keep turning this into a theology debate. For them to go to hell, there would have to be a hell. I'm not saying there isn't, but I'm not saying there is. I refuse to conclude something so large and unknown as easily as you do. I just can't say, "well it's because of god."
For the longest time, mankind thought that the world was flat, the sun revolved around it, and that rain lighening thunder pestilince(sp?) flood drought day and night were all done personally by some omnipotent being(s). Is it not proven that the world is round, as well as those other things are wrong? I won't be so quick to conclude a supreme being exists. If I go to hell, then there is something horribly wrong with heaven, and I don't want to be there. Besides, I like it hot.
Originally posted by KrazyJethro
And for clearification, are you saying all Republicans are going to hell,
Yes
all Republicans and some Conservatives?
Yes