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Anti-screwball to Curtmudgeon for making his last post a prayer request for another person, and for pretty much all of his posts.

A piece of madness in the Guardian (Oct 30..sorry) about comparing Scientology with the Catholic church (!)

http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisf...ce-alien-fraud

But when I think of Mel Gibson building his $42m church compound in Malibu, blithely telling interviewers at the time of the Passion of the Christ's release that his then wife would unfortunately be going to hell, because she was Church of England … well, I can't find it in myself to find him any less barking than Tom Cruise.

Oh yes, the divide between the Protestants and Catholics is definitely Xenu worthy

Originally posted by LilPunkishOfTerror

A piece of madness in the Guardian (Oct 30..sorry) about comparing Scientology with the Catholic church (!)

http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisf...ce-alien-fraud



Oh yes, the divide between the Protestants and Catholics is definitely Xenu worthy

The Guardian is a particularly unpleasant, smug, lefty paper that I wouldn't use to line a hamster's cage in case it absorbed the newspaper's noxious influence by some kind of osmosis.

The one good thing is that if you see a person reading the Guardian regularly you know you need to speak S-L-O-W-L-Y and carefully as the reader is probably intelligence impaired.

J

I read the Guardian, lolol. Then again I'm "left-wing" apparantly.

One for Holding:
"Someone musta missed Daylight Savings Time."

Originally posted by DoomRater

One for Holding:
"Someone musta missed the end of Daylight Savings Time."

Fixed that for you.

Originally posted by DoomRater

One for Holding:
"Someone musta missed Daylight Savings Time."

Is that the best you can nobble him for?

http://debunkingchristianity.blogspo...0-to-send.html

First, the OP starts off the thread by asking Christians this question:

What would you do if God came down and told you Christianity was wrong?

A few posts later the same poster says this:

Basically, sky opens up and what looks like you'd think was "God" (as you were trained to believe ) and says "Christianity is False!!"

What do you do from there? Do you find excuses to remain a Christian and stick to your beliefs? Do you believe the God-looking thing right away? Do you question your own mental health?

The OP was meant to question exactly how dogmatic Christianity is. You see, this is an easy answer when it's the other way. If he opens the clouds and says "Christianity is True!!", almost every non-Christian converts. That would be the OPPOSITE or dogma.

http://forumserver.twoplustwo.com/13...stians-621372/

Originally posted by Truth be Told

http://debunkingchristianity.blogspo...0-to-send.html

why is this screwy? are you saying he hasn't even sold a hundred books?

Originally posted by Truth be Told

http://debunkingchristianity.blogspo...0-to-send.html

From the link

Originally posted by DJ

If this Blog is helpful to you in some way then please consider helping out by donating $5-$20-$50-$100 or more. Any amount would help quite a bit. Just click on the link "Donate" in the sidebar to do so. For any gift of $100 I'll send the giver one copy of my book and it's companion, both of which are titled Why I Became an Atheist, if requested as supplies last.

Notice the bit in bold. In other words, give him a hundred pound and recieve an e-mail saying "sorry, I've got no books left" despite the fact the fact that the shed in his garden has 1000 unsold copies inside it.

Originally posted by Truth be Told

http://debunkingchristianity.blogspo...0-to-send.html

Really and truly, TBT, you ought to do a post about how John doesn't deserve to be seen at a place like SBL, given his abominable moral record. Whoever is inviting him to these functions should know better.


Meanwhile, here's one of those emails that just brings forth the yuks:

My goodness, Harpur must have hit a nerve and threatened your life long conviction for perpetuating the lies of Christianity. I read through most of your long winded and over use of jargon on you critique of his works and find that most of your de-bunking of his works is based on a literal accuracy of what he wrote.

I think you've completely missed his point and pulled inaccuracy of what the truth are. Take for example that Osiris is really actually 2300 BCE rather than 10 000 is all academic. I mean so what of the difference in years. You are just strengthening Harpurs point anyway because who care if it's 100 years, 2300 years or 10 000 years, the fact still remains that it is before the time the Christians can lay claim to the ideology.

I can go on and on about the inaccuracies of both you and Harpur and in the end, Christianity is shrouded in a body of lies all designed by Jewish people to scam 10% of your cash anyway. Christiantiy is the sole reasons for all war and the perpetuator of evil in this world.

Christianity has always been based on lies. If not, than explain the burning of inocent people at the stakes accused of whichcraft. Or poor North American Native people being abused sexually, emotionally or mentally. Jesus was supose to be sent to man to help him understand the true teaching of God!

But what did they do to him? They hung him to a cross and all in the name of their undertstanding of God. These are the same people that took their bible and forced it on the lands they concoured saying that theirs was the one true way.

Perhaps if everyone would quit trying to score their own little claim to fame over this and start foccussing on the truth, pure spirituality would save the world of all the problems we now have. You see the problem is that people like you have your point of view based on what you have read or aquired in your studies as Gods honest truth. You conform as do 1/3 of the people of this world and in doing so you have to follow some rules and laws making up Christianity. There in lies the problem as sometime pure spirituality and the love of God and mankind is put aside in order to follow those laws of your religion.

This is the very reason why the Islamic Fundamentalists have no trouble with killing inocent people or why the European chruch of the dark ages though it was perfectly normal to burn inocent women as whiches or even why communism had to be defeated in vietnam, etc. It is also the very essense why it is so easy to change something to suit different people. If you don't like something in Christianity, just create a new denomination that answers what you personally think is right.

Harpurs main point is, "who cares when Jesus or Horus, or Jahova, or Alah walked the earth. It doesn't really matter because the love of God and your fellow man should be the main foccuss. Your re-buttle of Harpurs works confirms my point as you have definately placed so much time and energy in setting the record straight and yet you say nothing of the the spiritual nature of Gods love.

You do not realize that Hockey became so popluar because the essense of it's nature is what make it what it is. If any of it is based on lies or rules changed to suit your personal needs as you go along, it would not be what it is today. Unlike Christinity, it does not need any help.

And finally, just a word of advice in your critique. if you want to reach more people try to use simpler words and concepts that the normal person can understand. Read Harpurs works again if you don't know what I mean.

That last paragraph really takes the biscuit.