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Atheists... Your life is pointless

 
 
Arella Mae
 
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Mon 5 Dec, 2005 12:37 am
I think the point is if people would take more responsibility for their actions there wouldn't be such a great problem.
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timberlandko
 
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Mon 5 Dec, 2005 12:42 am
Now, that I can agree with.
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Arella Mae
 
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Mon 5 Dec, 2005 12:45 am
No offense Timber, but I may faint. Laughing
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timberlandko
 
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Mon 5 Dec, 2005 01:44 am
NP, Momma Angel - and don't worry a bit - takes some doing to offend me, and I just don't see that coming from you. Tick me off once in a while, but offend me? Not likely ... trust me Mr. Green
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Joe Nation
 
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Mon 5 Dec, 2005 04:13 am
Quote:
I think the point is if people would take more responsibility for their actions there wouldn't be such a great problem.
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Now, that I can agree with.


Good. Then we are all agreed that the phrases:

It must have been God's will.
Whatever the Lord decides.
It's in the Lord's hands now.
We are leaving it up to Jesus.

won't be used to evade responsibility.

Joe(As well as the Devil made me do it.)Nation
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Arella Mae
 
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Mon 5 Dec, 2005 08:08 am
Being a Christian, non-Christian, non-believer, etc., doesn't give anyone license to shirk their responsibility.

We are all accountable for our own actions. I think you will find that phrase means (at least to me) that once we do what we are supposed to do, the outcome is left up to God.
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Setanta
 
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Mon 5 Dec, 2005 08:32 am
Free will resulting in Presbyterianism . . . ah, the worst of both worlds ! ! !
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Wilso
 
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Mon 5 Dec, 2005 09:41 am
Joe Nation wrote:
All I know is what I read in the papers:

Catholic News

And there is this from the BBC/Bloomberg Networks

(Emphasis mine)

Vatican Says Condoms Don't Block HIV, BBC Reports (Update2)
Oct. 9 (Bloomberg) -- The Roman Catholic Church has urged followers in developing countries not to use condoms to prevent the spread of HIV by telling them the contraceptives have holes that allow the virus to pass through, the BBC reported.

The church's assertion is made in a British Broadcasting Corp. documentary, ``Sex and the Holy City.'' It airs Sunday, four days before the 25th anniversary of Pope John Paul II's papacy. The show questions the pope's teachings on sex and his influence on the developing world, including the church's ban on contraception, according to the BBC's Web site.

In the program, Cardinal Alfonso Lopez Trujillo, head of the Vatican's Pontifical Council for the Family, backs the church's stance. He says sperm cells, as well as the smaller virus cells that cause AIDS, ``can easily pass through the `net' that is formed by the condom,'' Steve Bradshaw, a reporter on the program, writes in today's U.K.-based Guardian newspaper.

The World Health Organization said an intact condom is impenetrable to the cells and that ``consistent and correct'' condom use cuts the risk of HIV infection by 90 percent, according to the program. The church's warning on condoms risks adding to a pandemic that has killed more than 20 million people, the organization told Bradshaw.

Catholic populations have declined in the developed world and increased in developing countries. Africa accounts for 12 percent of the total Catholic population of about 1 billion, double the percentage 25 years ago, according to the Catholic News Service.

`Laced With AIDS'

The church's position has forced an AIDS teaching center in Kenya to stop distributing condoms, with some priests saying the contraceptives ``are laced with HIV/AIDS,'' the center's director, Gordon Wambi, said in the documentary, according to Bradshaw. In another scene, a Catholic nun advised a choirmaster infected with HIV against using condoms because they couldn't stop the virus from infecting his wife, Bradshaw wrote.

The WHO, a United Nations agency, said women in particular suffer a loss of human rights when they are denied protection from HIV. ``Condoms need to be more widely accepted, available and used,'' according to the WHO Web site.

Sub-Saharan Africa is the region most affected by AIDS, the United Nations Joint Program on HIV/AIDS said on its Web site. Last year, about 2.4 million people died of AIDS in the region, where 29.4 million people are infected with the virus, the agency said. More than a quarter of the adults in four African countries -- Botswana, Lesotho, Swaziland and Zimbabwe -- are HIV-positive.

Catholic leaders in Africa today said they'll do more to fight the spread of the virus, while continuing to oppose the use of condoms, according to Agence France-Presse.

``Using condoms as a means of preventing AIDS can only lead to sexual promiscuity,'' Dominique Bulamatari, the archbishop of Kinshasa, capital of the Democratic Republic of Congo, was cited by AFP as saying in the Senegalese capital, Dakar, at the Symposium of Episcopal Conferences of Africa and Madagascar.

Last Updated: October 9, 2003 11:37 EDT

(Twelve per cent of a billion would be 120 million African Catholics.)

Joe(Continue to avert your eyes)Nation



The Catholic Church is one of the most dangerous organisations in existence. They've got to be stopped. They should be classed as terrorists and outlawed.
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Wilso
 
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Mon 5 Dec, 2005 09:52 am
Intrepid wrote:
Wilso wrote:
And here I am thinking how pointless it is to spend a lifetime trapped in an idealogical prison of superstition. Very sad indeed.


Not a prison, my friend. For we hold the key to our "prison".


Too bad it's the key to eternal blindness.
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Arella Mae
 
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Mon 5 Dec, 2005 10:07 am
Wilson,

Seems we have different keys.
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rosborne979
 
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Mon 5 Dec, 2005 10:49 am
Momma Angel wrote:
Wilson,

Seems we have different keys.


Or, you simply like the accomodations in your cell. Smile
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Intrepid
 
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Mon 5 Dec, 2005 09:44 pm
Wilso wrote:
Intrepid wrote:
Wilso wrote:
And here I am thinking how pointless it is to spend a lifetime trapped in an idealogical prison of superstition. Very sad indeed.


Not a prison, my friend. For we hold the key to our "prison".


Too bad it's the key to eternal blindness.


Is that why you are wearing the shades? :wink:
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Wilso
 
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Sun 11 Dec, 2005 08:49 pm
It's because the sun is shining asshole.
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Wilso
 
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Sun 11 Dec, 2005 08:52 pm
That child in the picture has never been to a church in her life, and will be free to explore the world without the shackles of pathetic fear you freaks instill in your own children. Is her life pointless?
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Arella Mae
 
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Sun 11 Dec, 2005 09:04 pm
Wilso,

I would probably be one of those that you call a freak because I am a Christian.

Your child's LIFE IS NOT POINTLESS! I have never said it was and I told the starter of this thread I didn't think he was right doing that!
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Intrepid
 
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Sun 11 Dec, 2005 10:49 pm
Wilso wrote:
That child in the picture has never been to a church in her life, and will be free to explore the world without the shackles of pathetic fear you freaks instill in your own children. Is her life pointless?


No, her life is certainly not pointless. I just hope that you allow her to explore the world without the shackles of pathetic fear of what you fear. Calling those whom you disagree with freaks shows a bit of the moral fibre that you will instill in that lovely child.
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cicerone imposter
 
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Sun 11 Dec, 2005 11:19 pm
That intrepid can talk about "shackles" is the epitome of hypocrisy.
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Arella Mae
 
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Sun 11 Dec, 2005 11:27 pm
cicerone imposter wrote:
That intrepid can talk about "shackles" is the epitome of hypocrisy.


Shocked Shocked Shocked Shocked Shocked Shocked Shocked Shocked

Perhaps C.I., you might want to refer to the Liberal Hypocrisy thread and a few of the things you have said? Just a thought.
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edgarblythe
 
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Mon 12 Dec, 2005 05:50 am
For sure, CI.
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cicerone imposter
 
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Mon 12 Dec, 2005 10:50 am
MA, YOu are so far out in la-la land, nobody can talk sense to you anywhos. You are a homophobic bigot that crawls on this earth without understanding how to treat your neighbors as equal humans. You're not a christian by any stretch of the imagination; you are a woman ogre.
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