It's a peaceful religion

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I'm not going to Hell.

 

I am Hell.

No.

Just a bitch.

[Bug]

Excuse me. That was ignorant.

Just a Bitch.

[tvashtarkatena]

That was then, this is now.

 

The high growth local churches are all Big Box; largely a byproduct of the economic boom. Their model of big donations fueling big religious entertainment supplying the 'God will make you rich' message doesn't quite carry the same gravitas nowadays. God fucked their membership in the ass, that Bastard. These God-marts have deflated rapidly since the collapse. Add to that their overbuilding frenzy and you get many of these churches on the verge of financial collapse.

 

Oh so your Bill Mahr now?

 

Yeah, kind of a Bill Mahr without the

a) salary

b) audience

c) tact

c) Intimate memories of Anne Coulter angrily devouring liberal cock

[KaskadskyjKozak]

If you have more than 3 posts here you are already in hell.

 

Hell or Purgatory? I think the latter.

[KaskadskyjKozak]

That was then, this is now.

 

The high growth local churches are all Big Box; largely a byproduct of the economic boom. Their model of big donations fueling big religious entertainment supplying the 'God will make you rich' message doesn't quite carry the same gravitas nowadays. God fucked their membership in the ass, that Bastard. These God-marts have deflated rapidly since the collapse. Add to that their overbuilding frenzy and you get many of these churches on the verge of financial collapse.

 

Oh so your Bill Mahr now?

 

Since when was Bill Maher a she-male with bitch titties?

[ivan]

 

Yeah, kind of a Bill Mahr without the

a) salary

b) audience

c) tact

c) Intimate memories of Anne Coulter angrily devouring liberal cock

you also wear far less makeup

[prole]

Vatican cardinal blames Christians over 'Islamisation' of Europe

Guardian 1/7/2010

 

Muslims are conquering Europe because Christians have become too selfish and pagan to defend the spiritual heritage of the continent, a Vatican cardinal said this week.

 

Miloslav Vlk, who has served as archbishop of Prague since 1991 and was considered as a successor to John Paul II, launched an outspoken attack on Christians living in Europe and accused them of allowing Muslims to "Islamise" the continent.

 

He warned that Europe would "fall" to Islam if people continued to deny their Christian roots.

 

In an interview published on his website, Vlk blamed immigration and high birth rates among Muslims for filling "the vacant space created as Europeans systematically empty the Christian content of their lives".

 

The 77-year-old said: "Europe has denied its Christian roots from which it has risen and which could give it the strength to fend off the danger that it will be conquered by Muslims – which is actually happening gradually. If Europe doesn't change its relation to its own roots, it will be Islamised.

 

"At the end of the Middle Ages and in the early modern age, Islam failed to conquer Europe with arms. The Christians beat them then. Today, when the fighting is done with spiritual weapons which Europe lacks while Muslims are perfectly armed, the fall of Europe is looming."

 

It was Muslims and not Christians, said Vlk, who were shaping the spiritual outlook of Europe. "The Muslims definitely have many reasons to be heading here. They also have a religious one – to bring the spiritual values of faith in God to the pagan environment of Europe, to its atheistic style of life."

 

In a separate interview, a second cardinal criticised Islam for repressing religious freedom.

 

Cardinal Jean-Louis Tauran, who served as the Vatican's foreign minister from 1990 to 2003 and was appointed president of the Pontifical Council for Interreligious Dialogue in 2007, urged countries to protect the right of religious freedom in their laws.

 

He told the Italian newspaper L'Osservatore Romano that such protection was assured in various Muslim countries with the exception of Saudi Arabia, where nearly 2 million Christians were deprived of public prayer gatherings. "They feel tolerated rather than a partner in public dialogue. And this does not do anyone any good."

 

He also commented on the Swiss referendum to ban the construction of new minarets, and seemed to approve of the outcome. "Naturally it is necessary to harmonize construction with the atmosphere in which it comes to be a part, with the city landscape, the cultural context, and the complex of the laws and norms that regulate the life of the society."

[G-spotter]

Poor Archbishop Vlk has suffered all his life from the effects of the vowel tax the Commies enacted in the 50s.

[ZimZam]

more caricatures and governments...maybe they can get an indigenous aboriginal to issue a fatwa against the heretic Hindu...

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/asia-pacific/8447465.stm

[prole]

Let's turn everything on its head:

 

Can shoplifting really be justified? Why violating civil law is not always immoral

 

How about walking away from your mortgage?

[billcoe]

How about walking away from your mortgage?

 

Hey, if Paul Allen, the worlds 5th richest man at the time, can declare bankruptcy one of his corporations exclusively to screw the folks who loaned him money, none of whom was anywhere as rich as him, then it's good enough for the rest of us isn't it?

 

(reference bankruptcy of Oregon Arena Corporation (OAC))

[G-spotter]

http://www.google.com/hostednews/canadianpress/article/ALeqM5iAek6mPtcqEM9qeAbolffrNnYVqA

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If you have more than 3 posts here you are already in hell.

:lmao:

 

I stand corrected.

[ZimZam]

and so the ratcheting escelates.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/asia-pacific/8449731.stm

[prole]

Firm will remove Bible references from gun sights

 

WASHINGTON – A Michigan defense contractor will voluntarily stop stamping references to Bible verses on combat rifle sights made for the U.S. military, a major buyer of the company's gear.

 

In a statement released Thursday, Trijicon of Wixom, Mich., says it is also providing to the armed forces free of charge modification kits to remove the Scripture citations from the telescoping sights already in use. Through multimillion dollar contracts, the Marine Corps and Army have more than 300,000 Trijicon sights.

 

The references to Bible passages raised concerns that the citations break a government rule that bars proselytizing by American troops in Afghanistan and Iraq, which are predominantly Muslim countries.

 

A spokesman for U.S. Central Command initially said the Trijicon sights didn't violate the ban and compared the citations on the sights to the "In God We Trust" inscription printed on U.S. currency.

 

On Thursday, however, Army Gen. David Petraeus, Central Command's top officer, called the practice "disturbing."

 

"This is a serious concern to me and the other commanders in Iraq and Afghanistan," Petraeus told an audience at the Center for Strategic and International Studies in Washington.

 

New Zealand announced Thursday that they would remove the citations from the sights they have, and Australia, which also uses the sights, is assessing what to do.

 

New Zealand defense force spokesman Maj. Kristian Dunne said Trijicon would be instructed to remove the inscriptions from further orders of the gun sights for New Zealand and the letters would be removed from gun sights already in use by troops.

 

The inscriptions are not obvious and appear in raised lettering at the end of the stock number. Trijicon's rifle sights use tritium, a radioactive form of hydrogen, to create light and help shooters hit what they're aiming for.

 

Markings on the Advanced Combat Optical Gunsight, which is standard issue to U.S. special operations forces, include "JN8:12," a reference to John 8:12: "Then spake Jesus again unto them, saying, 'I am the light of the world: he that followeth me shall not walk in darkness, but shall have the light of life,'" according to the King James version of the Bible.

 

The Trijicon Reflex sight is stamped with 2COR4:6, a reference to part of the second letter of Paul to the Corinthians: "For God, who commanded the light to shine out of darkness, hath shined in our hearts, to give the light of the knowledge of the glory of God in the face of Jesus Christ," the King James version reads.

 

Photos posted on a Defense Department Web site show Iraqi forces training with rifles equipped with the inscribed sights.

 

Rev. C. Welton Gaddy, president of the Interfaith Alliance, said in a letter sent Thursday to President Barack Obama that the gun sights "clearly violate" the rule against proselytizing. Gaddy added that "images of American soldiers as Christian crusaders come to mind when they are carrying weaponry bearing such verses."

 

Mikey Weinstein, president of the Military Religious Freedom Foundation, contacted The Associated Press last week about the Scripture citations. He said he had received complaints from active-duty and retired members of the military. Weinstein said he couldn't identify them because they fear retaliation.

 

The company's practice of putting Bible references on the sites began nearly 30 years ago by Trijicon's founder, Glyn Bindon, who was killed in a plane crash in 2003. His son Stephen, Trijicon's president, has continued the practice.

 

"Trijicon has proudly served the U.S. military for more than two decades, and our decision to offer to voluntarily remove these references is both prudent and appropriate," Stephen Bindon said in the statement.

 

The statement does not provide an estimate on the removal costs. A company spokesman did not return a telephone call.

 

The company is also making the same offer to military in other countries that have purchased Trijicon's rifle sights.

 

An Army spokesman said Thursday the service was unaware of the coded biblical references until a few days ago.

 

"It is not the policy of the Army or the Department of Defense to put religious references of any kind on its equipment," Lt. Col. Jimmie Cummings said.

 

Marine Corps spokeswoman Capt. Geraldine Carey said the service "is making every effort to remove these markings from all of our scopes and will ensure that all future procurement of these scopes will not have these types of markings."

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It will no longer be a "just" war.