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Landover Baptist Church - Where the worthwhile worship "the unsaved are not welcome (as jesus commanded*)".
... we think...but if you don't that's cool, cause we don't want to offend anyone''.
Yeah, that sounds like something jesus would say. lol. I guess you can't judge all protestants by this church, but I am sooo glad the Catholic Church has moved away from BS like this.
Mind-Altering Energy Drink Turns Senior High Bible Study Into Godless Sex Orgy
Nowdays, doctrine is more along the lines of ``we believe this,
It's not to avoid offending, its because Catholics believe that who you are as a person is more important than what church you go to, or if you even go to church. To me thats a hell-of-alot better than "we believe this and you have to too. Follow our rules! Here's some more laws!".
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(Cut to CBC, Christian Broadcsting Channel, Pat Robertson's channel. On TV. The logo appears on the screen. Pat Robertson and Susan are sitting together.)
Pat Robertson: You know, Susan, there, there's so many great... missionaries doing work... out there in the, in the, in parts of Africa and, and while we're trying to get Bibles to people all over the world, and what we need is the help of everyone out there so that we can continue these, these projects! (Subtitle: "To Pledge Call: I-800-555-2717") Now, listen to this, Susan! (Shows Sister Hollis on screen with some Ethiopians.) one of our missionaries in North Africa has made an amazing discovery! (Shows the green planet of Marklar.) A-a-a new planet in the, in the galaxy Alpha-Seti 6 that has intelligent life on it!
Susan: Amazing!
Pat Robertson: Now, we're not sure what these hyper-intelligent beings look like, but one thing is for sure, they've never heard... of Jesus Christ!
Susan: What can we do with the 600 club to help those poor aliens?!
Pat Robertson: W-what we need, Susan, is we need money to build an Interstellar Cruiser! (shows one on the screen.) Now, this spaceship will be able to travel through a worm hole and deliver the message and glory of Jesus Christ to those godless aliens! Send your money now! Amen!
coincidentally enough, this episode was on the night before last... the episode itself features Sally Struthers in the role of Jabba the Hutt and Starvin' Marvin acquiring an alien ship... pretty good episode.
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Usually, when a more advanced civilization comes into contact with a less advanced civilization, the less advanced civilization gets mostly assimilated.
If there are aliens out there with fabulously advanced technology who could crush us like bugs, THEY are going to be the missionaries and WE are going to be godless heathens that need saving... not the other way around.
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Pat Robertson: (On TV, CBC, Christian Broadcsting Channel.) Uh, God wants you to send us money! He needs you to send us money so we can help others!
Pat Robertson: You know, Susan, there, there's so many great...missionaries doing work...out there in the, in the, in parts of Africa and, and while we're trying to get bibles to people all over the world, and what we need is the help of everyone out there so that we can continue these, these projects! (Subtitle: "To Pledge Call: I-800-555-2717") Now, listen to this, Susan! (Shows Sister Hollis on screen with some Ethiopians.) W-one of our missionaries in North Africa has made an amazing discovery! (Shows the green planet of Marklar.) A-a-a new planet in the, in the galaxy Alpha-Seti 6 that has intelligent life on it!
Susan: Amazing!
Pat Robertson: Now, we're not sure what these hyper-intelligent beings look like, but one thing is for sure, and they've never heard...of Jesus Christ!
Susan: What can we do with the 600 club to help those poor aliens?!
Pat Robertson: W-what we need, Susan, is we need money to build an Interstellar Cruiser! (shows one on the screen.) Now, this spaceship will be able to travel through a worm hole in deliver the message and glory of Jesus Christ to those godless aliens! Send your money now! Amen!
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Pat Robertson: Now, our deflector shields are useless against four-ton torpedos and we really need your support on this one, folks! Here at the 600 club, we need your money to spread the word of Jesus and build more advanced deflector shields for our galactic cruiser! Call now and we'll give you this free pin! (Shows a small CBC logo pin.)
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Pat Robertson: Everyone, th-the word of God is going around the world and, and all your help is so greatly appreciated! W-w-what we need now is an Argon Crystal Laser! (Shows one on screen) You see, an Argon Crystal Laser can pierce thick space holes in a way that other lasers just can't! Send your money now! Ah, th-thank you!
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Pat Robertson: Uh, now, now stay with me on this one, folks! (shows Sally's ship on screen) Uh, Sally Struthers has a Taberian Junker which is, uh, the favourite ship of the hutts and she has trapped our, our, our new CBC ship in a, uh, Posetronic Tractor Beam. (pan to cue card holder. The cue card reads "Postronic Tractor beam so we're gonna need an Ionic Tractor Disruptor") Uh, so we're gonna need an Ionic Tractor Disruptor! Now, now, not a regular Ionic Tractor Disruptor, but a Negative Ionic Tractor Disruptor to, uh, help spread the word of Jesus! I will get the fuckin' idiot up here!
Not at all. It just means that those godless comm^H^H^H^Haliens haven't found Jesus/Allah/Cthulhu/Buddha/Coresh yet.
There are several SF short stories on the subject of mixing religion with space exploration, Arthur C. Clarke's The Star is probably the most well known. Another, whose author I can't recall right now, details the trials and tribulations of a space-faring merchant on an isolated planet populated by gentle lizards and what he has to put up with when a earthly priest comes along, teaching the aliens about original sin and getting killed in the process when the lizards take him a little bit too literally.
Damn right. Why can't those Linux fucktards just accept that being able to run a native Linux version of both the client and server programs of UT2K4 is a major issue. Linux should not be able to do this. That's why I hate them. Those bastards should not be able to run anything that also has a Windows version. They're all a bunch of jizz-slurping godless butt-pirates and they know it. How dare they run a game on Linux.
But walking barefoot is against the very spirit of the US Constitution! Dozens of American shoe factory bosses have invested many years of their time, and billions of dollars of other people's money, in creating a product that fulfils the ultimate objective of what a shoe is supposed to be: a source of revenue for the company directors. If a person goes barefoot, then they are denying those shoe company directors their birthright, which is to make as much money as possible!
Shoes are necessary to protect one of God's most precious creations, the delicate and beautiful white human foot, from disease and infection -- and also to prevent the decadence and chaos that would otherwise ensue if people were to go around exposing their naked bodies in public. A woman who goes barefoot is clearly a whore. What other parts of her body is she willing to expose? Her arms? Her legs? Her breasts? Her genitals? It is clear that there is a need for a well-defined rules and limits, otherwise we would descend into anarchy.
Going barefoot is a thoroughly un-American practice which takes the food directly out of shoe company directors' mouths. I don't think a person should be treated any more leniently if they go barefoot, than if they had stolen a pair of expensive shoes from a store!
So, patriotic citizens of the USA, I call upon you to wear your shoes with pride. Though they be made by children in Vietnam who are refused a drink of water if they are not working hard enough, much of the money spent upon them remains in the United States of America -- and besides which, the gooks are a bunch of Godless heathens, so they do not count as real people anyway. If you see any suspicious barefoot people in the streets, you should dial 911 immediately and report them as a potential terrorist, for the benefit of God-fearing Americans everywhere. God Bless America!
> How does Microsoft Intend to Survive?
Simple. DRM in BIOSes at the hardware level. Attacks on Linux via SCO etc at the OS level. FUD, loathing, and lock-in at the applications level. Patents, DRM, EULAs and DMCA at the legal level.
Remember the hidden APIs in Windows 3.x? They'll be at it again. Even better, Microsoft could put in "Trusted Computing safeguards" so they can Trust that only Microsoft's applications suite, IDE, etc will run. Bypass these safeguards, and it's charges under the DMCA and 20 years in max security prison as an evil godless communist hippie software pirate terrorist hacker for you, buddy!
Oh, and meanwhile they'll sue you for breaking the clause buried in the Longhorn EULA where you agree to only install Microsoft applications. Good luck in fighting off their army of rabid jackals with law degrees.
This isn't insightful. This is paranoid ranting with no connection to reality.
Microsoft is a monopoly and aims to continue as a monopoly. On this we agree. But there is not a snowball's chance in hell that the court or legislature (no matter how corrupted by money) would allow a monopoly to enforce that computers run only Microsoft software by means of an EULA, the DMCA or shotguns loaded with salt peter. And not even Microsoft is so ignorant and arrogant enough to try.
Microsoft's real life abuses are egregious enough to piss off most folk if we just point them out. We don't have to invent fantasies about the machinations of Evil Bill and his minions.
> How does Microsoft Intend to Survive?
/. know better than anything I said in the last paragraph. We can see what Microsoft is trying to do. Hell, they've told the world! One Microsoft Way. It's not just their business address, it's their business strategy. We know that Gates and his minions, along with the ??AA and Congress, have possibly already won this. Have possibly already crippled the most important technological advance in history - the general-purpose home computer - and turned it into a content pipe to drain our wallets while only letting us run what they allow us. On the machines we buy and pay for! We see what's happening, but we're the minority. (I for one have been in the minority all my life. one light, one mind, flashing in the dark, blinded by the silence of a thousand broken hearts...) And when we try to tell people about this, they think we're raving paranoid lunatics.
Simple. DRM in BIOSes at the hardware level. Attacks on Linux via SCO etc at the OS level. FUD, loathing, and lock-in at the applications level. Patents, DRM, EULAs and DMCA at the legal level.
Remember the hidden APIs in Windows 3.x? They'll be at it again. Even better, Microsoft could put in "Trusted Computing safeguards" so they can Trust that only Microsoft's applications suite, IDE, etc will run. Bypass these safeguards, and it's charges under the DMCA and 20 years in max security prison as an evil godless communist hippie software pirate terrorist hacker for you, buddy!
Oh, and meanwhile they'll sue you for breaking the clause buried in the Longhorn EULA where you agree to only install Microsoft applications. Good luck in fighting off their army of rabid jackals with law degrees.
> People, Businesses, Universities, and others will not be able to afford to upgrade their systems to use Longhorn.
Can they afford not to? Since Office Longhorn will (because of Trusted Computing again) only run on Windows Longhorn, and will have incompatible file formats with any previous version, and after a certain date they'll only ship Longhorn, once you buy one new machine, you have to replace them all. (They've done it before, remember?) Intel, AMD, NVidia, and ATi, among others, will love them for forcing the installation of the latest CPUs and graphics cards even in the office. Intel and AMD, in particular, will be ecstatic to add the "features" to their CPUs that will help Microsoft to do all this.
Over the last few years, it's seemed Microsoft has this plan: Make consumers believe that lock-ups and crashes are normal consequences of owning a computer and not a result of poor OS design. Make them believe that viruses and other malware are normal consequences of surfing the internet and not a result of poor browser design. Make them believe that you really do need a 2 GHz chip to run the OS and a word processor (plus a top of the line graphics card for that paperclip). Make them believe that the only thing that can replace Windows, Office or Microsoft anything else is the next version, that nothing else is an "enterprise ready solution". In short, take credit for everything good that happens, and shift blame for everything bad onto something else.
And we here on
Maybe that's the clearest sign that Micros~1 has won.
Microsoft Windows Longhorn. Projected Release Date: 1984.
Crusades were about money trade routes, and land (read more money, and the flow of money) not religion. The only time it got religious for the Muslims was when the Chrisitans raided pilgrims, then it became PERSONAL for the Caliphate. The Dome of the rock was erected the 2nd time they kicked us out to say, fuck you and don't come back. The sad part is the the Hun's offered the Pope and the Edward the Black price a chance to have a Mongol/Christian partnership to devide the Middle East, unfortunatly the Pope through the Hun's were godless barbarians.
I am hereby calling for a boycott of this godless German corporation! How dare they attack the rights of an heroic American corporation like SCO?
> more likely to get a godless hippy than a bible basher.
A godless hippy and a bible basher both have one thing in common - lack of a mind. Where the latter believes the universe is ruled by an invisible supreme entity and is thus beyond his control or understanding, the former accepts that the universe is beyond his control or understanding as his basic premise. The result is the same.
A fun theory, but do you really believe it? If you did a study, do you think you'd find anti-GM sentiment to be related to pro-religious sentiment? My gut says no. If you asked someone for a stereotype of a anti-GM protestor, I think you'll be much more likely to get a godless hippy than a bible basher.
Atheist \A"the*ist\, n. [Gr. ? without god; 'a priv. + ? god:
cf. F. ath['e]iste.]
1. One who disbelieves or denies the existence of a God, or
supreme intelligent Being.
2. A godless person. [Obs.]
I am a disbeliever. I am without belief. Agnostic is this:
Agnostic \Ag*nos"tic\, n.
One who professes ignorance, or denies that we have any
knowledge, save of phenomena; one who supports agnosticism,
neither affirming nor denying the existence of a personal
Deity, a future life, etc.
I do deny the existence of a personal Deity, a future life, etc. by default as I have no reason to believe them because the burden of proof lies with the theist. I think I am actually closer to atheist.
I'm agnostic btw, but I figured I should pipe in (whether you like it or not) about how wrong it is to think that the Christian God would not reveal evidence of His existence to men.
"18The wrath of God is being revealed from heaven against all the godlessness and wickedness of men who suppress the truth by their wickedness, 19since what may be known about God is plain to them, because God has made it plain to them. 20For since the creation of the world God's invisible qualities--his eternal power and divine nature--have been clearly seen, being understood from what has been made, so that men are without excuse." -- Romans 1:18-20 (NIV)
Is the fish happy that he is about to become dinner? Does the fish symbolize something?
Obviously a reference to the Godless nature of Free Software, with the fish symbolising Christianity.
(Posted anonymously because of the large number of humourless zealots on both sides of that equation.)
The first amendment states in part: "Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free practice thereof,". I think it's pretty clear that "respecting an establishment of religion" was exactly what Congress intended. This becomes especially clear when you put it in its historical context. This was the time of the "red scare". Communism was the demon of the day. The characteristic that (predominantly Christian) Americans most despised about communism was its official adoption of Atheism. In reaction to that, and to gain political favor at home, Congress made several moves to officially distance the US from the "godlessness" of communism. Freedom of religion is something the US already had (at least officially), so there was nothing to be gained by pushing neutrality or freedom. What the politicians needed in order to win votes was to take a decidedly pro-religious stance, and to favor mainstream religion as much as they could get away with, constitution be damned. "In God We Trust" on the money was another facet of this same effort.
Some will argue that these are OK because they don't specify which god. But seriously, who really believes that Congress intended anything other than the Judeo-Christian God? And how many gods are actually named "God"? (Note the capitalization in the Pledge of Allegiance) To put it in perspective, "one nation under gods" doesn't specify which gods, and "one nation under goddess" doesn't specify which goddess. So by the same argument those should also be considered neutral and clear of any First Amendment complications. Right? Somehow I suspect that the people who are defending the "God" addenda are the ones who would howl the loudest if either of those phrases were in the Pledge. And they should howl about it because those are clearly biased against monotheistic and patriarchal religions, and also against atheism, agnosticism, and just simple non-religiousness. It's just that if they could see past their own religious bias they would be howling about it now because of the clear bias against polytheistic religions, matriarchal religions, atheism, etc. That "In God We Trust" and "under God" deprecate the views of those who do not believe in any gods is particularly hard to counter since it's pretty obvious from the historical context that this is exactly what they were intended to do.
So, regardless of any court's ruling, it is as clear as the nose on your face that the presence of "under God" in the Pledge of Allegiance as well as "In God We Trust" on the currency is now and has always been unconstitutional.
I believe the only reason these continue to be is that they are political land mines that can blow up in the face of any politician who dares to try to set it right, or even just to speak the truth about it.
This is why there can be no honest politicians. As long as the majority of the populace is unable to be honest even with themselves and put truth above popularity, no honest man can ever be elected.
i thin you ppl ovearacting to spieware, like godless unchistian liberels who hate companies becuz oprah is a repubicans.
Shit, that explains why he looked like such an idiot the other night during his press conference. Now that I know about this liberal plot to use their foreign contributors (and godless union labor) to build TVs in order to corrupt his holy message, I'm going to vote for him! I can't imagine I could be duped like that! I always knew he was telling the truth about everything. I mean, him and Mel Gibson on the planet at the same time? It must be a sign from God. I'm going to sell this TV and get an American-made one -- uh wait -- can I do that?
For gosh sakes, what's the problem with trying to be more environmentality friendly?
Government interference in the market maybe? It's just a short step away from godless communism.
9 out of 10 times people will vote with their wallet. I mean, look at all the conservative-leaning consumers filling their SUV gas tanks with Wahhabist saudi oil. If brainless fascists don't support each other, who will??