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Quote: Originally Posted by 2manymustangs OR the situation with Siegfried & Roy... God gave us dominion over the animals... Animals actions have nothing to do with human behavior and morals, apples and oranges... I think the official story is the the tiger was "protecting" the guy that got attacked. Weird. ...the Australian guy that got a sting ray tail to the heart. Although in some regard animals are similar to...

Quote: Originally Posted by thatguy Earth is classroom, learn all you can so You can "graduate", as it were. That was my lesson to my 17 year olds in a nutshell last week. Today's was about the importance of families.

Quote: Originally Posted by Oldelmn8tr I still don't get why such atrocities are allowed to happen, that is one thing that is always avoided. If he is so great and powerful why does he allow so much pain to innocents???? I know who are we to question, but I don't think that I will ever get past this one aspect. Faith is great but when you are getting raped or physically tortured or slowly eaten alive by cancer I think a little...

Quote: Originally Posted by kurtis500 And again, more of the same. The problem with stories like this is that they are way off base and have no bearing on Christianity. Trying to make Christianity look irrelevant by attacking the people who believe it is called ad hominem. All these stories in this thread about so-and-so did this or Christianity did that MAKES NO DIFFERENCE on whether Christianity is TRUE or FALSE. Those kind of arguments...

Quote: Originally Posted by Lucky or in my instance -- Condoms lmao Fixed it for ya..

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Quote: Originally Posted by kurtis500 This post is a prime example of the A-typical uneducated misunderstanding about what Christianity is. Very simple question here: When has anyone said that belief in God is essential to lead a good moral life? And better yet, where in orthodox CHristianity is such a view believed? Or do you assume this from your experiences? Pretty much our point. We can lead a good moral life but still be sent to hell by...

Quote: Originally Posted by HOOLI Angie. What about the book did you like? I'm looking for a response here that falls into the realm of possibility that the plot could hold merit, that there is a chance that there could be truth behind it. When you watched it, aside from the acting and change in ending..did you walk away from the book and movie thinking that it could have some truth to it, or . . . Did you just enjoy it for the...

Santa actually was real so to speak. St. Nick or Santa Claus was Saint Niklaus. Some old dude running around Germany putting candy in everybody's shoes that were left on the doorsteps. So at least in that instance it started with something true and turned into the big tale of the Jolly Fat Man. Now as for the Bible; you reference and everybody keeps referencing about a book written thousands of years ago. I won't even start with the...

Quote: Originally Posted by Beer:30 She asked the church if she could work in the kitchen for minimum wage. They said no. She asked if she could do it for ONE-HALF minimum wage. They said no. Wow. After my grandma got her teaching cert., the priest came over and ordered her to teach for the Catholic school for $50/mo., not the $300/mo for the public school she wanted. My grandfather tried to throw the priest out, but grandma didn't want...