I'm curious why you have not mentioned that Dr. Joseph Lowery -- a supporter of gay rights -- was the other pastor invited to speak at the inauguration. Both he and Warren spoke. It sounds like you would rather complain about Warren, than admit that Lowery's appearance is actually an advancement of gay rights.
Obama has always promoted a plurality of ideas in the intellectual marketplace. I am getting the impression that a lot of people who voted for Obama, didn't really expect him to actually listen to the other side....
It is mainly notable as it relates to the GPP's mildly humorous comment about religious people believing death is not forever. It's also notable because it is another case of a preacher's kid going off the deep end, when in theory, those kids ought to be angels. I say this as a preacher's kid who went off the deep end, too, although I didn't try to hurt anybody but myself.
It took about 20 seconds of research, by the way, since this article is a supporting article to one of the main articles, and it says the father is a "Reverend", and it doesn't take long on Google to find out where.
Lot, however, is considered to be a particularly good servant of god because he grabbed up his family and fled, never looking back, as he was told. DO AS YOU ARE TOLD, that is the message... And Lot is not forgotten.
I agree, Lot is not forgotten. Perhaps I should have said, "Compared to Moses, Lot is barely remembered...". Lot's story is told in four chapters of Genesis, whereas Moses appears in multiple books.
I disagree that Lot is remembered as a "particularly good servant." The OT tells how he offered his daughters to a crowd of gang-rapers (Genesis 19:8), had sex with his daughters (Genesis 19:33), took the best land for himself (Genesis 13:10-11), etc. He's remembered as a barely good servant. The kind of guy you think, how is he a good man???
I know the OT well, thanks. If we were comparing Abraham and Moses, then perhaps we'd have something going here. Lot, however, is not on the same level as either of them. Perhaps I should have qualified my statement by saying, "Compared to Moses, Lot is barely remembered...".
You can't be serious. Moses is a revered religious leader for Christians, Jews, and Muslims -- in other words, the majority of the religious world. Lot is barely remembered, and it's not for anything good.
For what it's worth: "Prosecutors contend that Daniel stole his father's key to the lockbox where the gun was kept and retrieved the semiautomatic pistol along with a copy of the sci-fi video game 'Halo 3' that his parents had confiscated from him before the shooting." (link)
"The Court must enter a finding of guilty on the counts set forth in the indictment. That being said, it's my firm belief as a human being - and not as a jurist - that Daniel does suffer from a serious defect of the mind.
"This Court's opinion is that we don't know enough about these video games. In this particular case, not so much the violence of the game because I believe in the Halo 3, what it amounts to is a contest to see who can shoot the most aliens who attack.
"It's my firm belief that after a while the same physiological responses occur that occur in the ingestion of some drugs. And I believe that an addiction to these games can do the same thing. The dopamine surge, the stimulation of the nucleus accumbens - the same as an addiction. Such that when you stop, your brain won't stand for it.
"The other dangerous thing about these games, in my opinion, is that when these changes occur, they occur in an environment that is delusional. Because you can shoot these aliens, and they're there again the next day. You have to shoot them again. And I firmly believe that Daniel Petric had no idea, at the time he hatched this plot, that if he killed his parents, they would be dead forever."
During the first day of testimony on Monday, his father, the Rev. Mark Petric, said his son had apologized to him and he has forgiven Daniel, who was 16 at the time of the shootings. The elder Petric told Lorain County Common Pleas Judge James Burge, who is hearing the case instead of a jury, that Daniel told him and his wife, Sue Petric, to close their eyes because he had a surprise for them. According to prosecutors, Daniel Petric then shot both of his parents, killing Sue Petric and wounding Mark Petric. When he came to a few moments later, Mark Petric said, he saw that his wife wasn't moving, and Daniel was trying to place a 9 mm handgun in his hand.
So the son was trying to frame the father for murdering the mother. Seems to indicate that he knew death was permanent...
All it did was make me realize how much of the world was being hidden from me by adults, and it got me to read some childbirth books in the library to confirm the rumours.
Clearly, the library is a source of disturbed thinking and flagrant immorality!
One of my earliest exposures to pornography was quite by accident, in a library, and thanks to the U.S. Government. Somehow I stumbled upon the Report of the Commission on Obscenity and Pornography, which describes pornography in surprising detail. It also says porn ain't so bad. I was a kid -- a voracious reader, but still a kid -- and thought to myself, what the heck? It didn't really interest me until I was a little older.
(Aside: not unlike the dissenting attorney generals noted in the social-networking article, then-President Nixon issued a statement against the report.)
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I'm curious why you have not mentioned that Dr. Joseph Lowery -- a supporter of gay rights -- was the other pastor invited to speak at the inauguration. Both he and Warren spoke. It sounds like you would rather complain about Warren, than admit that Lowery's appearance is actually an advancement of gay rights.
Obama has always promoted a plurality of ideas in the intellectual marketplace. I am getting the impression that a lot of people who voted for Obama, didn't really expect him to actually listen to the other side....
The real question for Obama voters -- will he still respect us in the morning?
...is available here (unlike the odd "preview" of the speech noted in the /. text).
It is mainly notable as it relates to the GPP's mildly humorous comment about religious people believing death is not forever. It's also notable because it is another case of a preacher's kid going off the deep end, when in theory, those kids ought to be angels. I say this as a preacher's kid who went off the deep end, too, although I didn't try to hurt anybody but myself.
It took about 20 seconds of research, by the way, since this article is a supporting article to one of the main articles, and it says the father is a "Reverend", and it doesn't take long on Google to find out where.
I agree, Lot is not forgotten. Perhaps I should have said, "Compared to Moses, Lot is barely remembered...". Lot's story is told in four chapters of Genesis, whereas Moses appears in multiple books.
I disagree that Lot is remembered as a "particularly good servant." The OT tells how he offered his daughters to a crowd of gang-rapers (Genesis 19:8), had sex with his daughters (Genesis 19:33), took the best land for himself (Genesis 13:10-11), etc. He's remembered as a barely good servant. The kind of guy you think, how is he a good man???
I know the OT well, thanks. If we were comparing Abraham and Moses, then perhaps we'd have something going here. Lot, however, is not on the same level as either of them. Perhaps I should have qualified my statement by saying, "Compared to Moses, Lot is barely remembered...".
You can't be serious. Moses is a revered religious leader for Christians, Jews, and Muslims -- in other words, the majority of the religious world. Lot is barely remembered, and it's not for anything good.
When they did that here, some people actually took of 2-3 months over a summer. It was a cubicle ghost town for July and August....
Notably, the boy's father is a minister. The church has not updated the web site, obviously.
For what it's worth: "Prosecutors contend that Daniel stole his father's key to the lockbox where the gun was kept and retrieved the semiautomatic pistol along with a copy of the sci-fi video game 'Halo 3' that his parents had confiscated from him before the shooting." (link)
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So the son was trying to frame the father for murdering the mother. Seems to indicate that he knew death was permanent...
Clearly, the library is a source of disturbed thinking and flagrant immorality!
One of my earliest exposures to pornography was quite by accident, in a library, and thanks to the U.S. Government. Somehow I stumbled upon the Report of the Commission on Obscenity and Pornography, which describes pornography in surprising detail. It also says porn ain't so bad. I was a kid -- a voracious reader, but still a kid -- and thought to myself, what the heck? It didn't really interest me until I was a little older.
(Aside: not unlike the dissenting attorney generals noted in the social-networking article, then-President Nixon issued a statement against the report.)
There, fixed that for you.