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    Quote Originally Posted by Phantasmal View Post
    I accept his love, I like his teachings of love and taking care of others, but I doubt he was literally resurrected from the dead, I think it is just mythos, it was symbolic.
    And, yet it was life, death and resurrection that was his purpose for coming. To be that final sacrifice for our sins and offer us life. This was his example of complete selfless love and taking care of us...forever.

    This is My commandment, that you love one another as I have loved you. Greater love has no one than this, that he lay down his life for his friends.
    John 15:12-13
    Abortion rights dogma can obscure human reason & harden the human heart so much that the same person who feels
    empathy for animal suffering can lack compassion for unborn children who experience lethal violence and excruciating
    pain in abortion.

    Unborn animals are protected in their nesting places, humans are not. To abort something is to end something
    which has begun. To abort life is to end it.



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    Quote Originally Posted by Stretch View Post
    As long as posters put religious threads up on the Political Forum, religious posts will be posted. You (nor I) are Holy Ghost Jr. We don't know just exactly whose hearts are being touched by God's Word. People can see from the thread titles what the subject will be. Nobody is forced to look at any thread. I bypass many just from the seeing the topic on the subject line. Judging from most of the language and in-your-face insults flying around here, I don't see many snowflakes complaining of being "threatened".
    Several of us have mentioned how in their personal lives some Christians have used the threat of damnation to try to convert them. Christian children are raised in that mindset. It doesn't bother me at all since I know there is no Hell; it just seems a poor way to entice ppl to believe as you do. Fear is not the best motivator.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Stretch View Post
    And, yet it was life, death and resurrection that was his purpose for coming. To be that final sacrifice for our sins and offer us life. This was his example of complete selfless love and taking care of us...forever.

    This is My commandment, that you love one another as I have loved you. Greater love has no one than this, that he lay down his life for his friends.
    John 15:12-13
    Again, that’s your belief. I don’t see Jesus in the same light as you do.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Phantasmal View Post
    I accept his love, I like his teachings of love and taking care of others, but I doubt he was literally resurrected from the dead, I think it is just mythos, it was symbolic.
    As well as based on the cult of Mithras, who was a god worshiped in the East in the times before Jesus. The cult itself was co-existent with early Christianity.

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    Quote Originally Posted by ThatOwlWoman View Post
    Oh good. I'll save Evince a seat next to me on that bus. lol

    (See post to Stretch about Jesus not knowing who the fuck you are.)
    Jesus is max aware of everyone; even ignorant fools like you.

    What is it about the idea of a supreme creator that has you morons so rattled?
    Free speech is cool as long as it jibes with our program.

    -- The Left


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    Quote Originally Posted by ThatOwlWoman View Post
    As well as based on the cult of Mithras, who was a god worshiped in the East in the times before Jesus. The cult itself was co-existent with early Christianity.
    Osiris story is also very similar, along with several other godman myths, they were quite common at the time.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Granule View Post
    Jesus is max aware of everyone; even ignorant fools like you.

    What is it about the idea of a supreme creator that has you morons so rattled?
    Followers like you.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Phantasmal View Post
    Followers like you.
    What is it about followers like me that has you so rattled?
    Free speech is cool as long as it jibes with our program.

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    Quote Originally Posted by ThatOwlWoman View Post
    Several of us have mentioned how in their personal lives some Christians have used the threat of damnation to try to convert them. Christian children are raised in that mindset. It doesn't bother me at all since I know there is no Hell; it just seems a poor way to entice ppl to believe as you do. Fear is not the best motivator.
    This is why I quote Scripture. People aren't stupid. I'm not giving my own human opinion. Every living person has to deal with life and death.
    Abortion rights dogma can obscure human reason & harden the human heart so much that the same person who feels
    empathy for animal suffering can lack compassion for unborn children who experience lethal violence and excruciating
    pain in abortion.

    Unborn animals are protected in their nesting places, humans are not. To abort something is to end something
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    Quote Originally Posted by Phantasmal View Post
    Again, that’s your belief. I don’t see Jesus in the same light as you do.
    I know that. I understand your view.
    Abortion rights dogma can obscure human reason & harden the human heart so much that the same person who feels
    empathy for animal suffering can lack compassion for unborn children who experience lethal violence and excruciating
    pain in abortion.

    Unborn animals are protected in their nesting places, humans are not. To abort something is to end something
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    Quote Originally Posted by Granule View Post
    What is it about followers like me that has you so rattled?
    Not rattled, just bemused that you see yourself as a representative of your God.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Granule View Post
    What is it about followers like me that has you so rattled?
    You are faux Christians and scary.

    It’s like Ghandi said and I’ll paraphrase, I like Jesus, but not his followers.

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    Quote Originally Posted by ThatOwlWoman View Post
    Not rattled, just bemused that you see yourself as a representative of your God.
    There are some on this forum who claim to be Christian and they do rattle me because of their beliefs and how hateful they are

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    Quote Originally Posted by Phantasmal View Post
    There are some on this forum who claim to be Christian and they do rattle me because of their beliefs and how hateful they are
    That's so true. In the old days they would have been the ones tying ppl to stakes and setting them on fire for being heretics.

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    Quote Originally Posted by ThatOwlWoman View Post
    That's so true. In the old days they would have been the ones tying ppl to stakes and setting them on fire for being heretics.
    They would crucify Jesus.

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