I wonder, since when have public speaking and spelling been the de-facto standard for intelligence? Your arguments are so typical of liberals...assassinate the messenger, destroy the message. A person criticizes liberals, you start trashing whites, Christians, and Americans. Who's the rascist here? I am a white, bible-thumping American, and I can assure you I have no trouble spelling, and the rascism I see on a day-to-day basis comes straight from "minorities" to young white guys like me. I say "hi" in the hallway at work, and they look at me like they want to stick a knife in my gut. Racism would be all but dead in America if it weren't for the liberals and liberal organizations like the NAACP, etc.
Well I certainly hope so. Take a look at this little clause:
"UCITA section 816 allows software vendors to place disabling codes in software and to activate them remotely (such as by sending an e-mail) to shut down a customer's use of the product."
Hmm, that's nice. Add this to proprietary hardware and hard drive copy protection, and you've got your customers in a frigging prison. Here's the number to the congressional switchboard: (202) 224-3121. Call Phil Graham and Kay Bailey Hutchison (the Texas Senators) and let them know how you feel. Thank God for Free Software.
So you are saying that these poor people couldn't keep their genitalia from hopping from person to person? I don't want to spam this forum to death, but I cannot stand ignorant fools such as yourself bashing Christianity.
I'm not even going to respond to that, it speaks for itself.
Could you please tell me how a force that strives to "create sentient entropy machines to change matter from one form to another" (whoa!, bit too much Sci-Fi lately?) can do so without any guidance? In a universe with no God, there is no "purpose" to anything. Most "pagan belief systems" are the most short-sighted of all..."Earth Mother", "Mother Nature", "Goddess of Nature". All is gauged by how it relates to Earth. And of course, MY pleasure.
Oh, thanks for asking: I'm pretty cozy at the moment.
You know, "Mother Earth" is going to be burnt to a crisp by a red giant in a few Mill, so I don't think I will be worshipping "it". Giving Palestine back to it's rightful owners would entail kicking that monstrosity Arafat and all his followers out and giving it back completely to Israel. If you believe all gods are myths, and "Mother Earth" is "god", then you believe in survival of the fittest. In which case, you are a jumbled mass of hypocrisy and contradiction.
"In a less enlightened time statements like this could have been fatal."
That's true, but now they simply make you look like a fool.
I am so tired of seeing this bogus argument! I don't want to get into a general discussion about religion, but you are clearly talking about Christianity. A person who claims to be a prophet/healer KNOWS they are a charlatan if they ask for money. Have you ever heard the story of how Jesus threw over the bowls of the money-changers? Probably not.
"Talking breathily until people are in a frenzy, then hitting people on the forehead and saying they're healed, collecting a lot of money, then leaving town before people realize the sick weren't healed or were healed of things they weren't even afflicted by isn't a sign of the existance of a god, but can easily be used by a charlatan to get them to give them money."
I'm sorry, but that has got to be the most idiotic rebuttal of religion I have ever seen. Were you raised by MTV? I could say that all medicine is bogus just because some crooks decied to sell sugar pills on an infomercial, and that that isn't a sign of the existence of modern medicine. Of course it's not, it's the sign of a crook. There are always bad apples in any organization, and one-way skepticism isn't going to ferret out the truth.
L. Ron Hubbard, before he started Scientology, stated that the best way to become rich is to make your own religion. I am disappointed, however, in so many of these posts. Slashdot readers are (I thought) supposed to be at least semi-intelligent, yet they bash religion (especially Chrisitanity) clearly without ever having examined it thoroughly. Did anyone know that Larry Wall planned on being a Christian missionary?
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"because it had been substantivly disproved in case law"
LOL. Oh dear...Christians everywhere, abandon your faith..."case law" has substantivly disproved the Bible.
Correction: I have no trouble spelling, unless it's the word "racism"...
Ah, well, you got me there. Perhaps I simply never use that word, since I consider it irrelevant.
Hi there. Did you know that the only place a socialist has in America is on a ship OUT of the country?
I wonder, since when have public speaking and spelling been the de-facto standard for intelligence? Your arguments are so typical of liberals...assassinate the messenger, destroy the message. A person criticizes liberals, you start trashing whites, Christians, and Americans. Who's the rascist here? I am a white, bible-thumping American, and I can assure you I have no trouble spelling, and the rascism I see on a day-to-day basis comes straight from "minorities" to young white guys like me. I say "hi" in the hallway at work, and they look at me like they want to stick a knife in my gut. Racism would be all but dead in America if it weren't for the liberals and liberal organizations like the NAACP, etc.
Well I certainly hope so. Take a look at this little clause:
"UCITA section 816 allows software vendors to place disabling codes in software and to activate them remotely (such as by sending an e-mail) to shut down a customer's use of the product."
Hmm, that's nice. Add this to proprietary hardware and hard drive copy protection, and you've got your customers in a frigging prison. Here's the number to the congressional switchboard: (202) 224-3121. Call Phil Graham and Kay Bailey Hutchison (the Texas Senators) and let them know how you feel. Thank God for Free Software.
So you are saying that these poor people couldn't keep their genitalia from hopping from person to person? I don't want to spam this forum to death, but I cannot stand ignorant fools such as yourself bashing Christianity.
"I know it for a fact"
I'm not even going to respond to that, it speaks for itself.
Could you please tell me how a force that strives to "create sentient entropy machines to change matter from one form to another" (whoa!, bit too much Sci-Fi lately?) can do so without any guidance? In a universe with no God, there is no "purpose" to anything. Most "pagan belief systems" are the most short-sighted of all..."Earth Mother", "Mother Nature", "Goddess of Nature". All is gauged by how it relates to Earth. And of course, MY pleasure.
Oh, thanks for asking: I'm pretty cozy at the moment.
"Bring back Mother Earth, fight monotheism."
You know, "Mother Earth" is going to be burnt to a crisp by a red giant in a few Mill, so I don't think I will be worshipping "it". Giving Palestine back to it's rightful owners would entail kicking that monstrosity Arafat and all his followers out and giving it back completely to Israel. If you believe all gods are myths, and "Mother Earth" is "god", then you believe in survival of the fittest. In which case, you are a jumbled mass of hypocrisy and contradiction.
"In a less enlightened time statements like this could have been fatal."
That's true, but now they simply make you look like a fool.
I am so tired of seeing this bogus argument! I don't want to get into a general discussion about religion, but you are clearly talking about Christianity. A person who claims to be a prophet/healer KNOWS they are a charlatan if they ask for money. Have you ever heard the story of how Jesus threw over the bowls of the money-changers? Probably not.
"Talking breathily until people are in a frenzy, then hitting people on the forehead and saying they're healed, collecting a lot of money, then leaving town before people realize the sick weren't healed or were healed of things they weren't even afflicted by isn't a sign of the existance of a god, but can easily be used by a charlatan to get them to give them money."
I'm sorry, but that has got to be the most idiotic rebuttal of religion I have ever seen. Were you raised by MTV? I could say that all medicine is bogus just because some crooks decied to sell sugar pills on an infomercial, and that that isn't a sign of the existence of modern medicine. Of course it's not, it's the sign of a crook. There are always bad apples in any organization, and one-way skepticism isn't going to ferret out the truth.
Creation of man? Most religions claim to be divinely inspired. One of the Bible's main points is exactly that man is weak.
L. Ron Hubbard, before he started Scientology, stated that the best way to become rich is to make your own religion. I am disappointed, however, in so many of these posts. Slashdot readers are (I thought) supposed to be at least semi-intelligent, yet they bash religion (especially Chrisitanity) clearly without ever having examined it thoroughly. Did anyone know that Larry Wall planned on being a Christian missionary?