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Author Topic:   Muslims promote Sharia law. Why do Christians not promote their law?
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Message 17 of 112 (704046)
08-02-2013 1:17 PM
Reply to: Message 12 by marc9000
08-01-2013 6:48 PM


marc9000 states:
Christianity - it's the only one that actually promotes personal liberty. False religions, including atheism, don't.
Wow, what a howler.
The 1st rule in becoming a Christian is to give yourself up to Christ. So right away your complete entirety of your personal liberty has been nipped in the bud. Any religion will have certain acolytes among them who swear they have been "liberated" by giving up such a piece of their personal liberty. This is the falseness of all religions.
Basic Atheism, which isn't even a religion by definition, definitely promotes personal liberty. How could it not?
Please consult a dictionary, dude.

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Message 23 of 112 (704075)
08-03-2013 2:28 AM
Reply to: Message 19 by marc9000
08-02-2013 7:53 PM


Thank you marc9000 for replying.
I disagree with all of your opinions, but you did answer in your own way.
You say:
There's the howler of the thread, atheism promotes science/evolution, which often goes a long way in restricting liberty through big government, save-the-planet/ redistribute-the-wealth laws and regulations.
I will promote science because it is only a modest attempt to see reality without the foolery of religious blinders. As for the second part of your ridiculous views as stated, you leap to Big Government in a most non-sequitor manner. Save-the-planet somehow intruded itself into your laundry list of typical right-wing nonsense. You don't want to save the planet? Perhaps I misunderstood you, but it looks like you don't give a fuck.

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Message 60 of 112 (704324)
08-08-2013 1:51 PM
Reply to: Message 58 by jar
08-08-2013 9:11 AM


Re: Misquoting Proves Nothing
jar asks:
But what does any of that have to do with the topic anyway?
Perhaps the thread subject, Muslims promote Sharia law....., brought up poorly thought-out issues that are at least as mildly guilty of similar quote mining techniques. For example marc9000 posted this in Message 12:
The Koran promotes violence against unbelievers as an ongoing law, the Bible does not.
*shrug*

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Message 94 of 112 (704563)
08-12-2013 1:47 AM
Reply to: Message 91 by marc9000
08-11-2013 7:45 PM


marc9000 writes:
But he shouldn't have the right to the public institution of marriage, if the majority sees it as a public burden.
marc - can you describe what the public burden of a homosexual marriage is? In your own words? I'm trying to think of one.
Traffic jam due to the wedding? Ooo, lets just get rid of all weddings, then. No - that's not right...
Fewer traffic-blocking gay pride parades because the need to assert cultural acceptance has been met a little bit. Wait. Fewer traffic jams, not more...sorry.
A drop in the abortion rate from within married couples, because every child a homosexual couple has is most definitely wanted - wanted to the extent that they have to do something they don't want to do to get a child. What if it had turned out that the only way you could have a child biologically was to mate sexually with a homosexual partner? But you still wanted a child bad enough to do it?
Oh - sorry - was a drop in abortion rates a public burden? Ooops.
More jobs for divorce lawyers? Yeah, that could be bad. That's it. Damn lawyers. See? Now your taking on the American Bar Association. Hmmmmmm.
Maybe you can come up with something, because, gosh darnit, I sure can't. Help me out here.

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Message 110 of 112 (704640)
08-13-2013 1:41 AM
Reply to: Message 101 by marc9000
08-12-2013 7:33 PM


marc9000 replies:
It's pretty well described in the link in my Message 85.
Only the divorce lawyer part so far...
he continues:
I don't feel like going into more detail about here, it's too far off topic.
True. Gay marriage is not on topic.
Thank you & take care.

- xongsmith, 5.7d

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