Life in the desert sure is dull.
And camels are scared.......!
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And camels are scared.......!
Dutch Uncle
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How do you know what is God's word and what is man's word?
Dutch Uncle
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ROFLMAO.
Speaking of camels:
A Captain in the foreign legion was transferred to a desert outpost. On his orientation tour he noticed a very old, seedy looking camel tied out back of the enlisted men's barracks. He asked the Sergeant leading the tour, "What's the camel for?"
The Sergeant replied, "Well sir it's a long way from anywhere, and the men have natural sexual urges, so when they do, uh, we have the camel."
The captain said, "Well if it's good for morale, then I guess it's all right with me."
After he had been at the fort for about 6 months the captain could not stand it any more so he told his Sergeant, "BRING IN THE CAMEL!!!"
The sarge shrugged his shoulders and led the camel into the captain's quarters. The captain got a footstool and proceeded to have vigorous sex with the camel. As he stepped, satisfied, down from the stool, and was buttoning his pants he asked the Sergeant, "Is that how the enlisted men do it?"
The Sergeant replied, "Well sir, they usually just use it to ride to town and pick up women..."
Okay, that was funny.
LMAO!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Noking
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Poop-Pi, I'm laughing at you.
There is no reason for you to demand other Christians adopt your Protestant biblical literalism and Protestant biblical inerrancy. Protestants are a minority sect of world Christianity, and tyranny of the minority is not sound theological doctrine.
IBDaMann
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Now you are disparraging Islam. Islam mandates that all must be assimilated, by the sword if necessary (in a "mostly peaceful" way of course).
That's why they made up that whole Holy Spirit thing. When someone asks you how to prove that a particular bit of scripture is the true word of god, you can tell them that you "just know" because the Holy Spirit is telling you so.
As a kid I never grokked that trinity thing, and I still do not.
Will this cause another schism ? Well. I think for the males affected by this decision there are bound to be lots of painful ruptures requiring four stitches. As for women, I hear they will have to "fork" out for costly, Papal "Licker (sic) Licenses" ( and that's sure to leave a bad taste in a lot of mouths !).
Dachshund
Dutch Uncle
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The concept of the Trinity took a few hundred years to formalize. IMO, the books of the Bible were selected from hundreds to push a specific premise and ideology. Early Christians believed all sorts of things after the Crucifixion. Jesus was seen as a great rabbi by all budding Christians but not as being divine by all. There were fights among the Christians even as they were fighting both the Romans and conservative Jews. In short, all of the Jesus-is-divine crowd killed off those Christians who didn't believe Jesus was divine.
The main story of Jesus was to bring everyone closer to God, but the Jesus Fan Club often acts like those Christians of old killing off anyone who doesn't accept their specific beliefs.
The Catholic bible is also a bit different from the Bible used in Protestant denominations. There are a few extra chapters in the Old Testament of the Catholic Bible. This doesn't change the overall religion too much, but it is noticeable.
Several Catholic beliefs also stem from paganism -- like the practice of having saints they pray to or revere.
Protestantism still has some legacies of paganism as well, but they are more muted.
Granted, when one looks at the systematic corruption of the RCC in its attempts to protect abusive priests, it can inspire a lot of doubt in the faith overall. Francis might just be a more brazen representative of how corrupted the Church has become. Of course, the RCC's relationship with socialism goes back a lot further than Francis. And the RCC has historically made excuses for everyone from Nazies to Maoists.
The trinity was an attempt to pretend Christianity in monotheistic. It failed .
Christians overall are usually more tolerant of others than Muslims are at least.
Granted, Muslims tend to be firmer in keeping their societies from becoming depraved.
Dutch Uncle
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How so? Jews believed in angels. It wouldn't be a big step for them to make Jesus have angelic or supernatural powers. It's just another step to make him the Son of God since Lucifer had already been designated God's #1 angel until he revolted. Of course, that's the myth, not provable fact.
Dutch Uncle
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Bullshit. You're speaking from ignorance. You're doing the equivalent of looking at the Westboro Baptists assholes and claiming they represent mainline Christianity.
Uh no. I'm looking at how most Muslim-majority countries are run. Maybe you thought I was talking about American Muslims, but I was referring to Muslims globally.
Look into the lack of minority rights in many Muslim-majority countries.
The legends about the virgin birth, the amazing star, the raising of a dead man, and the resurrection are all borrowed from both prior religious beliefs among the "heathens" of that region, and pagan religions like Mithraism that were contemporary to Jesus's time. Judaism wasn't the only faith practiced in that area of the world where "east meets west." One interesting thing about the Mithra religion is that eventually the Xtians, who saw it as a rival to their own budding cult, managed to eventually suppress and stamp it out.
ETA: I see that Sister Stench gave you a groan for your factual description of how the trinity came to be. Some of us do not care for truth. lol
Dutch Uncle
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Islam is the fastest growing religion in the world, but the countries where it is growing are among the poorest, most ripped off parts of the planet. Compare those nations today to non-colonial Euro and North American nations 100-200 years ago. Those poorer nations will catch up a lot faster than ours did. Nonetheless, the vast majority of Muslims are as peaceful and with the same goals as most other humans: take care of their families, find happiness and be left alone by hostile forces.
Dutch Uncle
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There's the man and the legend that grew up around him be it Jesse James, FDR or Jesus. There's no doubt in my mind a lot of the stories "proving" the divinity of Jesus were found post-mortem.
Try telling a kid there's no Santa Claus, it's all a big lie and they'll be pissed at you. Explaining that Santa is really the love parents have for their child would make the child happy. Both are true, but one is negative and the other is positive. I favor the latter approach.
OTOH, some children are insane and need medication.
