Mutations Confirm Common Descent

If you point a gun at a bank teller, it doesn't make any difference whether you say, "Give me the money!" or "Would you please give me the money?"

In 0, Jesus sat down with publicans and sinners and the Pharisees, like you, criticized Him.

I'm studying the evidence. Chicko is helping me.

Unlike Pope John Paul II, Jesus didn't encourage sinners to remain on whatever erroneous spiritual path they were on.JP2 made a sacrilegious and shameful mockery of his duty to be a missionary for Christ. What a nutter.

What a terrible analogy.

Missionaries are vile, evil people.

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For the same reason why proselytizers are vile, evil people. Their purpose and goal is to attack the beliefs of others in order to destroy those beliefs and replace them with their own.

The purpose and goal of Catholic missionaries was to destroy the false beliefs of others in order to replace them with true beliefs.I say "was" bcoz, sadly, the mad Pope - John Paul II - destroyed the 2000 year-old missionary activities of the Catholic Church ... at least, until sanity and order is restored.

Spoken like a true christian nazi.

“Therefore go and make disciples of all nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit, and teaching them to obey everything that I have commanded you."Matthew 28:19-20

You are too conservative on this one, in my opinion. Billy Graham, The Protestant Pope, was also a multi-culturalist yet was very effectively used by God to bring about peace and unity rather than division.Granted, the counter-argument in religious debates will quote the Bible.
Matthew 10:34 but keep in mind that the division that Jesus brought was between the Holy Spirit (Himself) and the other fake spirits. Critics here at EvC always lambaste and mock me for daring to suggest that there even are fake "spirits" and to be fair, some of them (the demons, not the peanut gallery) occasionally use me too. I believe, however, that we on this planet are involved in an evolving spiritual war. This iwar is within ourselves and our relationships with each other. (God first, each other second)When Jesus was crucified He declared: It is finished! John 19:30 My belief is that the occupying army of spirits still has to be forcibly evicted from the human mind and heart.(sorta like how German troops had to be forcibly evicted from Europe even after D-Day. )This process takes time and only God knows how much time it will take. Things will get worse before they get better. One other thing that you and I disagree on is the pre-eminence of the Roman Catholic Church over other forms of Protestantism. I believe that you (any individual believer) either have the Spirit or you don't. This includes Popes, Pastors, and Princes.Critics will say that they used to be believers until they saw the true light of reason and evidence. There is natural light and spiritual light. The light shines in the darkness (yet) the darkness has not understood it.

Theo would be impressed (perhaps) if he actually saw an honest Christian rather than a pretender. So many of us become corrupted by the propaganda of the enemy. And furthermore, Pogo was right! You and I both are guilty of misrepresenting Jesus.

Point noted, though the way I see it, Jesus treated people differently based on what they already knew.One of my favorite scriptures is this: In essence, the Disciples go out in public and relate to the people. If the people receive the Disciples, they receive Jesus(through the Holy Spirit) and if the people receive the Holy Spirit they receive GOD, Creator of all seen and unseen.I think that God uses atheists and secular humanists to teach believers a thing or two.

One of my favouritesKings 2:24
"So he turned around and looked at them, and pronounced a curse on them in the name of the LORD. And two female bears came out of the woods and mauled forty-two of the youths."Suffer the little children...