religion has run its course, it was used as a way to control growing populations and to give the human race a sense of direction almost like training wheels.
religion has gone on a path of no return... that includes the only true religion of jw's!!!
ha .
No, it's not in decline except in Western Europe, maybe China and portions of America - excluding the southern and mid-western states. It's doing well in South America, Mexico, Africa, Russia (yes Russia), South Asia and so on. And what's more any increase of misery around the world will strengthen religion. Religion thrives on misery.
Nice cartoons by the way.
the leaders of russia, germany, france and ukraine are slated to meet in minsk (the belarusian capital) tomorrow to discuss a ukrainian peace plan!
some countries such as hollande believe there is going to be a total war.
when they met last year in the same place, they had put forward a peace plan (a ceasefire, withdrawal of artillery, prisoner exchanges and other concessions) that were never fully implemented!
embrace judeo-christian culture and values!
is this politician serious?.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=h2ed8a8rxey.
@ LUHE:
I wrote a document concerning Christian Nationalism in the US that might interest you. It is a long and hard to maneuver in document but I suggest that you click on the title, right above the flaming bird, which will then take you to the table of contents.
You might want to download it for ease of maneuvering in it.
the leaders of russia, germany, france and ukraine are slated to meet in minsk (the belarusian capital) tomorrow to discuss a ukrainian peace plan!
some countries such as hollande believe there is going to be a total war.
when they met last year in the same place, they had put forward a peace plan (a ceasefire, withdrawal of artillery, prisoner exchanges and other concessions) that were never fully implemented!
@Perry:
"The death of 1/3 of humans is just sort of Act I as opposed to WW III. I suspect this event will usher in the rule of someone who will come to be known as the Anti-Christ."
"It is between fifty and sixty years since I read it [the Book of Revelation], and I then considered it merely the ravings of a maniac, no more worthy nor capable of explanation than the incoherencies of our own nightly dreams ... I cannot so far respect them as to consider them as an allegorical narrative of events, past or subsequent. There is not enough coherence in them to countenance any suite of rational ideas.... What has no meaning admits no explanation. And pardon me if I say, with the candor of friendship, that I think your time too valuable, and your understanding of too high an order, to be wasted on these paralogisms. You will perceive, I hope, also that I do not consider them as reveladons of the supreme being, whom I would not so far blaspheme as to impute to him a pretension of revelation, couched at the same time in terms which, he would know, were never to be understood by those to whom they were addressed." Thomas Jefferson, letter to General Alexander Smyth, January 17, 1825
embrace judeo-christian culture and values!
is this politician serious?.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=h2ed8a8rxey.
@LUHE: "I'd like to say at this point that the authors of the 'kill the gays law' have nothing to do with Farage."
I know. I never meant to intend that.
As for his 'Liberalism' here in the states Republicans have gotten so radical that he would look like a "Rino' - Republican in name only".
One thing he said that I respect, he wanted to encompass the (non terrorist) Muslim community and to help their alienated youth. No Republican would be caught dead saying that. They want the abolition of all Mosques and even make claims that Obama is a crypto-Muslim.
embrace judeo-christian culture and values!
is this politician serious?.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=h2ed8a8rxey.
@ LUHE:
Mr. Farage, who sounds somewhat liberal to me compared to others here in the US, might not compare to the majority of Christian Nationalists here in the States but my point is that Dominionism is a threat everywhere in the civilized world and their concept of Judeo-Christian values threaten more than just one country.
They have control of Uganda and are the authors of the "Kill the gays law".
the bible has lost its luster during this age of information so many real truths have been brought to light with the help of the internet, that the bible just isn't looked upon the same if at all anymore.
if you can still cling to the bible after thorough research then "god bless you"!
(no pun intended).
“This knowledge is of divine origin; and it is from the Bible of the creation that man has learned it, and not from the stupid Bible of the church, that teaches man nothing.*
*The Bible-makers have undertaken to give us, in the first chapter of Genesis, an account of the creation; and in doing this they have demonstrated nothing but their ignorance…
Thomas Paine - The Age of Reason. From The Online Library of Liberty: The Writings of Thomas Paine, Volume IV, Page 192-193.
embrace judeo-christian culture and values!
is this politician serious?.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=h2ed8a8rxey.
@ Clambake:
"I think Judaeo Christian values make us better."
Do you think that Judaic values of the Old Testament are appropriate for any nation? Would you execute a man for gathering firewood on the Sabbath? Execute women who weren't virgin during her wedding night? Force the victim of rape to marry her rapist? These are Hebrew - that is Judaic values.
"The United States isn’t the moral equal of Somalia."
Ah yes, the old only Christians are moral argument. Gandhi wasn't. You can find multitudes who are examples for many Christians to follow.
"I don’t think what happened in the middle ages matters anymore."
What's happening now with Dominionists does affect us.
"Communism and Islam suck. Secular humanism will not be the moral compass that Christianity is in the future."
Communism is dead even in China which is communistic in name only. As for Islam, it is a throwback to the Old Testament; you know ancient Judaic values.
embrace judeo-christian culture and values!
is this politician serious?.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=h2ed8a8rxey.
LUHE:
"The OP was talking about British MP and UKIP leader Nigel Farage. This has NOTHING to do with American religious nuts."
The OPs title for this thread is: "Embrace Judeo-Christian culture and values! Is this politician serious?" His question at the end of his post is: "Would you [British only?] promote Judeo-Christian culture and values?"
So I think my commentaries about Biblical values is relevant and the fact that many in the US are prone to adopt them is relevant unless you believe that this discussion should be limited only to the to the British.
Insertion above is mine.
a lengthy overview suggests that chinese house churches are planning to end missionaries to islamic areas.. will it result in tragedies similar to the recent murder of two japanese?.
i'm going to post the full article in two posts as sometimes things disappear in the friction between chinese authorities and google.. link: http://www.globaltimes.cn/content/906820.shtml.
dangerous missionby liang chen source:global times published: 2015-2-9 21:38:01chinese missionaries working in muslim world cause safety concernsa picture of local church in central asia taken by a chinese missionary photo: courtesy of a beijing church the past decade has increasingly seen chinese "house church" congregations send missionaries abroad, some with a focus on evangelization in the islamic world.
@ fulltimestudent: "I'm not sure what an NC-17 rating means V.I..."
I have no idea how I got that NC17 rating, it must have come from Simon or be a part of an automated censor built into the program.
It may have been due to the wording by Thomas Jefferson which says, "..think themselves bound to extinguish by fire and fagot the heresies..."
"Fagot", in Jefferson's day, was slang for dry wood used to burn people at the stake. It may have been mistaken for the modern meaning of the word in reference to Gay men. I believe that it is also British slang with different meanings having nothing to do with Gay men.
If that is the reason then I suspect that the site regularly scans for 'profanity' or something.
