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marmot
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B.C. Pastafarian officially loses drivers licence over holy colander
by William Penwell intake a look at this fellow that says it is religious right as a pastafarian to wear his holy colander for his drivers license picture.
opens up the whole debate as to who is the one that determines what appropriate religious head dress is.
i might join this religion myself as it makes as much sense as any other religion.. http://bc.ctvnews.ca/b-c-pastafarian-officially-loses-driver-s-licence-over-holy-colander-1.2041499.
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Question for the nonbelievers and atheists
by nykid inwhat specifically made you stop believing in god and the bible?
was it a steady road of doubts or it was reading one book or one major event that made you realize the bible was not what it's claimed to be?.
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marmot
Two words: global flood.
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Did you ever actually believe the JW fantasy version of "Paradise"?
by Darth Fader The Sequel ini am sure this topic has probably been discussed many times before but,......... i would like reassurance that i am not the only one who gagged every time i heard a jw pontificating on their fantasy version of what "paradise" will be like.
particularly when it comes to the animals.
more specifically, that the animals will all become vegetarians.
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marmot
Sure did...when I was six.
I distinctly remember telling one of my schoolyard friends that he would be able to ride an alligator to school in paradise.
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Anti-christ
by oldflame indo you know who the son of perdition is ?
do you know he is here and active today more than ever ?
do you know that america is the mystery babylon spoken of in scripture ?
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marmot
Good grief, http://www.talkorigins.org/faqs/paluxy.html
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Anti-christ
by oldflame indo you know who the son of perdition is ?
do you know he is here and active today more than ever ?
do you know that america is the mystery babylon spoken of in scripture ?
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marmot
This is a joke post, right? Man walked with dinosaurs? What evidence do you have?
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Documentary: God Loves Uganda
by Wild_Thing inhas anyone seen the film called god loves uganda?
i just watched it on netflix, and i highly recommend it!
it's a recent documentary that premiered at the sundance film festival last year.. it shows how the american evangelical right wing christian groups has changed the face of uganda by sending missionaries there, setting up churches, and indoctrinating ugandans with their brand of christianity.
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marmot
I tried watching but seeing those religious zealots getting all religious-y made me ill, so I had to stop. Same thing happened when I tried to watch "Waiting for Armageddon", also on Netflix.
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Who knows when Native Americans was granted citizenship?? Very strange.
by jam inhow can one not be a citizen of their own land??.
yes the act of 1924 granted u.s citizenship to those native .
americans who were not already u.s. citizens.. prior to the passage of the indian citizens act of 1924, nearly .
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marmot
In no way did I belittle the Irish, I just stated (correctly I might add) that they still have a country and their own independence in determining immigration laws.
How you perceive that as belittling is beyond me.
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Who knows when Native Americans was granted citizenship?? Very strange.
by jam inhow can one not be a citizen of their own land??.
yes the act of 1924 granted u.s citizenship to those native .
americans who were not already u.s. citizens.. prior to the passage of the indian citizens act of 1924, nearly .
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marmot
And I said my KIDS would lose their rights if I marry out. Bill C-31 is designed to keep people on-reserve or fade nations into non-existence.
Also reading comprehension counts, Talesin, I clearly stated that alcohol sensitivity among natives is a myth on page 1.
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Who knows when Native Americans was granted citizenship?? Very strange.
by jam inhow can one not be a citizen of their own land??.
yes the act of 1924 granted u.s citizenship to those native .
americans who were not already u.s. citizens.. prior to the passage of the indian citizens act of 1924, nearly .
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marmot
The whole purpose of my response to this thread IS bitterness about the attitudes of the general Canadian population towards natives.
I got a University education, I live off-reserve, I pay taxes yet one of the first responses in this thread referred to natives as drunken whores who live off the government teat.
This is far from an isolated sentiment, and the other common attitude like yours is the "just get over it" camp. People like you just want quiet little Indians to be part of Canadian society without pesky sovereignty or independence. Assimilation is the name of the game.
You say it's the fault of corrupt native government, the entire chief and council system is a product of the paternalistic Indian Act.
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Who knows when Native Americans was granted citizenship?? Very strange.
by jam inhow can one not be a citizen of their own land??.
yes the act of 1924 granted u.s citizenship to those native .
americans who were not already u.s. citizens.. prior to the passage of the indian citizens act of 1924, nearly .
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marmot
Sammie, if you bothered to read this whole thread you would have seen that I posted about Chief Clarence on page 1.
I am very pro-economic development.
You also mention the Irish. Last time I checked they still had a country and a language. If I wanted I could immigrate to Ireland, send my kids to Gaelic school and they would "become" Irish. Can't do that on a reserve. Thanks to the Indian Act, if you move off the reserve and marry out, your kids cease being native and relinquish all rights.
We are denied our land and denied our self-determination as a people in the hope that we'll just fade away and be assimilated.