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  Atheists and Anger...

  by new hope and happiness in

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  are you an angry atheist?.

  personally i wish i could say anger is to strong a word, but from my point of view :-.

  a)i am angry that religion teaches children to hate " worldly people" at least that was my experience ad a j.w.

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  Laika

  You seem just about the least angry poster on the forum new hope, you are a delight.
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  SAD HOLY SPIRIT ILLUSTRATION

  by GreenhornChristian in

  1. watchtower
  2. bible

  just got an email from elder sharing illustration from assembly.

  the holy spirit does not seem to be in control as it supposedly was in the 1st century.

  it's just lube now.

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  Laika

  For you Kate:

  http://m.huffpost.com/uk/entry/5789132
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  What christians don't want to admit

  by opusdei1972 in

  1. watchtower
  2. bible

  when i left the wt organization, i continued to believe in the bible, so i wanted to confirm and refine, as much as possible, my faith that the true god is in the bible.

  so i began to discuss with skilled christians, who were also ex-witnesses.

  but i was surprised when some of them tried to relax my fundamentalist position on the literalness of the genesis account.

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  Laika

  The eastern orthodox church has never believed in the doctrine of 'original sin'
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  DO Jehovah's Witnesses "love" their enemies? Does mainstream Christianity?

  by Terry in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  *** w52 10/1 599 a strong refuge today *** .

  11 haters of god and his people are to be hated, but this does not mean that we will take any opportunity of bringing physical hurt to them in a spirit of malice or spite, for both malice and spite belong to the devil, whereas pure hatred does not.

  we must hate in the truest sense, which is to regard with extreme and active aversion, to consider as loathsome, odious, filthy, to detest.

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  Laika

  Terry, great post, sometimes I think 'love your enemies' might be the most ignored statement in the bible!
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  Another JW in the news

  by Laika in

  1. watchtower
  2. child-abuse

  http://www.croydonadvertiser.co.uk/upper-norwood-paedophile-pretended-working/story-22927514-detail/story.html.

  upper norwood paedophile who pretended to be working for crystal palace given sexual offences prevention order.

  did anyone else know this guy?

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  Laika

  http://www.croydonadvertiser.co.uk/Upper-Norwood-paedophile-pretended-working/story-22927514-detail/story.html

  Upper Norwood paedophile who pretended to be working for Crystal Palace given sexual offences prevention order

  Did anyone else know this guy? He was in Birkbeck congregation, south east London.
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  Are first world countries to blame for the bulk of third world squalor?

  by tootired2care in

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  2. current

  throughout several past threads various posters have emphatically made the point that countries like great britian, united states, france etc.

  basically countries where white people exist, are to blame for the poverty in many other third world nations.

  some have even went so far as to suggest that the first world is to blame for all third world conditions.. i often see excuses such as these for why a country refuses to provide clean water, some food and basic sanitation for its people:.

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  Laika

  Tt2c, I expect designs was referring to apartheid. There is a very deep and widespread poverty in South Africa. It's resources are not shared fairly, albeit getting slowly better.

  In answer to your OP, there are other factors, such as the difficulty of growing crops in Africa compared to Europe, which made advancement more difficult, however, we have far from helped the situation.
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  2015 special talk outline-A PROMISE OF PERFECT FAMILY HAPPINESS

  by suavojr in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  jw's are such a happy group .

  let's see how this talk addresses the internal issues that we find within the jw's such as:.

  courtesy of jwfacts.com.

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  Laika

  Ah, the solution to family happiness is patriarchy, great.
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  Article: If God saved an American doctor with Ebola, why did he let 1,200 Africans die?

  by AndersonsInfo in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  http://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2014/aug/25/ebola-africans-die-god-american-doctorif god saved an american doctor with ebola, why did he let 1,200 africans die?it must be lovely for people such as dr kent brantly to be so sure of god's existence.

  for the rest of us, it's not so easy.

  ebola survivor dr kent brantly.

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  Laika

  Strange article, I can't work out the connection between the doctor and the JWs?
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  Well it look like AG Eric Holder is finally stepping down.

  by tootired2care in

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  2. current

  http://www.npr.org/blogs/thetwo-way/2014/09/25/351363171/eric-holder-to-step-down-as-attorney-general.

  happy day - our incompetent race baiting ag who refuses to actually do his job, and prosecute high crimes right under his down in the irs is finally stepping down.

  good riddance!.

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  Laika

  How is he a racist? Do you think Obama is a racist too?
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  A few questions for believers

  by keyser soze in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  when confronted with all of the inconsistencies and atrocities of the bible, many believers invariably claim that they don't base their faith in christ on what's written in the bible.

  so what is the basis then, if not scripture?.

  and please don't tell me "the lord has revealed himself to me".

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  Laika

  Hi Jan, the bible does include inconsistent stories. You could start with Genesis 1 and 2 which present somewhat different creation stories.

  Biblical inerrancy makes it impossible to just read the bible.