Posts by Viviane

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Please vaccinate your children
by Viviane in
1. social
2. family
and remember your boosters as adults!.

currently there is a measles outbreak in the u.s. the outbreak is clustered into communities where parents choose not to get their children vaccinated.

vaccination works primarily on herd immunity.
Viviane

It's always nice to see one of my threads get resurrected.
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On the Relevancy of The Institutionalization of Sin
by Perry in
1. watchtower
2. beliefs
child murder, sodomy & corrupting the human genome are not new sins, they are old ones.

what is new is their institutionalization.

but even that isn't totally new.
Viviane

VI, if you really have a stomach for insane derpitude, try Free Republic.... read the comments sections.
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We can no longer support "religious freedom" says the ACLU
by StarTrekAngel in
1. watchtower
2. scandals
http://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/congress-should-amend-the-abused-religious-freedom-restoration-act/2015/06/25/ee6aaa46-19d8-11e5-ab92-c75ae6ab94b5_story.html
Viviane

You made the topic title, a title, which, BTW, was not only not in the ballpark, it wasn't even the same sport. There is no "in essence" here. Your headline was diametrically opposite of reality.
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On the Relevancy of The Institutionalization of Sin
by Perry in
1. watchtower
2. beliefs
child murder, sodomy & corrupting the human genome are not new sins, they are old ones.

what is new is their institutionalization.

but even that isn't totally new.
Viviane

DJS is spot on. It is a case of privilege perceived as right. Christians have held sway for so long, they perceive their privilege of holding sway to be a natural born right when it is indeed no such thing at all. It's simply not having known another way or situation and the idea of not holding sway, when they have done so for so long with such horrific results, is abominable and horrifying.
My answer to that is... too f'ing bad.
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We can no longer support "religious freedom" says the ACLU
by StarTrekAngel in
1. watchtower
2. scandals
http://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/congress-should-amend-the-abused-religious-freedom-restoration-act/2015/06/25/ee6aaa46-19d8-11e5-ab92-c75ae6ab94b5_story.html
Viviane

Yeah, that's not even close to what the ACLU said. Try again.
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God loves Gay, Lesbian, and Transgendered People
by FusionTheism in
1. watchtower
2. bible
god's view of gays and lesbians.

why should anyone care what i have to say on this topic?

i am not a priest.
Viviane

Go ahead and explain the meaning of Hebrews 8:13, I'll be waiting right here.
It means the covenant making Israel a chosen nation was null and void. It says nothing about the Law. Gays were still considered icky. Try reading what the Bible says, not what you want it to say.
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God loves Gay, Lesbian, and Transgendered People
by FusionTheism in
1. watchtower
2. bible
god's view of gays and lesbians.

why should anyone care what i have to say on this topic?

i am not a priest.
Viviane

But this post's title is correct: Jehovah loves gay, lesbian, and transgender people.
He loves all his children.
On it's face, that is false. God killed millions and promises to kill billions. If you consider that love, you need serious help and to never be around anyone, ever.
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God loves Gay, Lesbian, and Transgendered People
by FusionTheism in
1. watchtower
2. bible
god's view of gays and lesbians.

why should anyone care what i have to say on this topic?

i am not a priest.
Viviane

How do you know the Bible is anti-gay if you didn't read my argument to the contrary?
Typical hubris. JD can't possibly know unless he reads your argument, even though you just tried to play the humility card.
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God loves Gay, Lesbian, and Transgendered People
by FusionTheism in
1. watchtower
2. bible
god's view of gays and lesbians.

why should anyone care what i have to say on this topic?

i am not a priest.
Viviane

Romans 3:22-23
Right out of the gate, you cherry pick a scripture, quote it out of context and try to change it's meaning to fit your agenda, basically lying about what it says.
Typical Christian, lying about what the scriptures say when it suits your purpose.
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Richard Dawkins talking about a Creator
by FusionTheism in
1. watchtower
2. bible
richard dawkins admitted that information inside of dna, and the origin of life on earth, might point to intelligent designers, perhaps extraterrestrials.

(see https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=boncjbrrdq8 )richard dawkins further admitted, in a debate with francis collins for time magazine, that science might point to a creator existing, but that this creator might not be anything like yahweh:.

time: "could the answer be god?
Viviane

It is when anyone promotes their opinions and when those opinions are based on contraventions of naive physics and promoted as scientific truth rather than theory and for which there is no/ or insufficient evidence (Dawkins on religion and memes for example) then i have a problem with it.
When you see someone besides yourself do that, let me know. I know I've never done that and I've never seen Cofty do it. You, however, do it rather often. As in the post complaining about you, you appear to have little understanding of the terms you use, a "naive" understanding, so to speak.
I'd agree more with Scott Atran and others that there is an analogous likeness between genes and memes but would not say that memes are like genes as literally as Dawkins and Blackmore do which is that memes are fixed on their own survival. I also maintain that it is this mistaken idea, propagated by Dawkins and Blackmore amongst others that fuels the frenetic militancy of militant atheists in that they (militant atheists) are gripped in the thrall of fighting unseen hordes that are bent on their own survival.Your very own "attack the idea not the person fits this description". If you did just that it would be fine - but you seldom separate the idea from the person (I don't think it is even possible to do so).
This is an excellent example of unconnected rambling.