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Post by goz on Aug 1, 2019 22:17:51 GMT
Many of you will remember the threads that I made about Israel Folau who is pursuing his 'religious discrimination' case in our courts.
I made several because they seemed to have a general message that is pertinent across religions about imposing the tenets of one religion either on another or even on unbelievers and expecting them to bend to your will.
Some of the things that he told student parents and teachers during his employ.
His church preaches that any Christian who is not "born again" will go to hell.
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Post by mslo79 on Aug 1, 2019 22:40:13 GMT
That guy is rejecting the Church Jesus Christ started (i.e. the Catholic church). so to call it anything in relation to 'satan', tells me all I need to know.
Well given the Catholic church is started by Jesus Christ, it would naturally follow that ones chances of attaining Heaven are higher within that church than outside of it.
Just shows you how much of a twisted view he has of Catholicism as it's official teachings are infallible on faith/morals.
plus, if it was truly tied to satan I doubt we would see Eucharistic miracles happening over the centuries.
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Post by goz on Aug 1, 2019 22:57:07 GMT
That guy is rejecting the Church Jesus Christ started (i.e. the Catholic church). so to call it anything in relation to 'satan', tells me all I need to know. Well given the Catholic church is started by Jesus Christ, it would naturally follow that ones chances of attaining Heaven are higher within that church than outside of it. Just shows you how much of a twisted view he has of Catholicism as it's official teachings are infallible on faith/morals. plus, if it was truly tied to satan I doubt we would see Eucharistic miracles happening over the centuries. For once, I was almost interested in what you had to say. Unfortunately there was nothing new to see here, just the reiteration of your bog standard Catholic crap about Jesus starting your Church and bolstered by the idiocy of claiming 'miracle's as evidence of something. Just like them, you have an infallibly ridiculous take on religion, though I kinda respect your right to have it, even if it is total bollocks! At least it is historical bollocks and not jumped up 'Born Again' bollocks
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Post by theauxphou on Aug 3, 2019 6:57:34 GMT
These Folau idiots just like to create divisions, even if what they are are saying is ultimately BS, e.g., Hell, Satan, etc.
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Post by goz on Aug 3, 2019 20:59:52 GMT
These Folau idiots just like to create divisions, even if what they are are saying is ultimately BS, e.g., Hell, Satan, etc. The mentality of these people is an ego driven feeling of superiority over everything and everyone else. 'Their' religion' and their 'belief' is so 'speshul' that they demand the right to lord it over us all. We will be sorry if we ignore them, yet they are only trying to help us, and they demand the right to flout secular laws in this quest. It shits me to tears!
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Post by thefleetsin on Aug 7, 2019 15:21:29 GMT
the one in one hundred
i decided
after be reminded:
there are literally billions of
hearts
worthy of remembering.
and it
only took me thirty years of
dismembering
my own foibles and fallacies
to finally see
the pressing need
to
widdle down my destiny
into
a workable poetic creed.
so i settled on one hundred
of thee
most inspiring
thought provoking
never before seen beauties
to ever
inhabit a bubble in space.
of course
this is where
you have to take my word
as an
ever reaching grace.
tempered by
that priceless look upon
your smiling face
when
the skies opened up to me
and time
was indeed replaced
by
the thought of you.
sjw 08/07/19 inspired at this very moment in time by my priceless one hundred and the poetry therein.
from the 'beauty series' of poems
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Post by politicidal on Aug 11, 2019 0:24:47 GMT
The Pureflix film we all been waiting for.
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Post by Shays rebelling on Aug 16, 2019 15:05:54 GMT
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Post by Sarge on Aug 17, 2019 20:32:54 GMT
Many of you will remember the threads that I made about Israel Folau who is pursuing his 'religious discrimination' case in our courts. I made several because they seemed to have a general message that is pertinent across religions about imposing the tenets of one religion either on another or even on unbelievers and expecting them to bend to your will. Some of the things that he told student parents and teachers during his employ. His church preaches that any Christian who is not "born again" will go to hell. This is all bog standard for Protestantism which was a rebellion against Catholicism, which was built by Paul, not Jesus. Some will say Peter but Paul did the real grunt work and organized things. I was raised Protestant but my wife's family is Catholic and over the years I've gotten to know a lot of Catholics and in my experience they are less judgemental and more open minded than Protestants who can be very cult-like. The church we attended in childhood taught that temptation was a sin, ten year old me wasn't very popular when I asked if that made Jesus a sinner. Rather than contemplate the contradiction, they became angry and suggested the devil was trying to trick me (trick them through me). Eventually I weaned myself from church and shook off the brainwashing to become an atheist.
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Post by goz on Aug 17, 2019 20:58:50 GMT
Many of you will remember the threads that I made about Israel Folau who is pursuing his 'religious discrimination' case in our courts. I made several because they seemed to have a general message that is pertinent across religions about imposing the tenets of one religion either on another or even on unbelievers and expecting them to bend to your will. Some of the things that he told student parents and teachers during his employ. His church preaches that any Christian who is not "born again" will go to hell. This is all bog standard for Protestantism which was a rebellion against Catholicism, which was built by Paul, not Jesus. Some will say Peter but Paul did the real grunt work and organized things. I was raised Protestant but my wife's family is Catholic and over the years I've gotten to know a lot of Catholics and in my experience they are less judgemental and more open minded than Protestants who can be very cult-like. The church we attended in childhood taught that temptation was a sin, ten year old me wasn't very popular when I asked if that made Jesus a sinner. Rather than contemplate the contradiction, they became angry and suggested the devil was trying to trick me (trick them through me). Eventually I weaned myself from church and shook off the brainwashing to become an atheist. This is a very interesting comment ( and I might make a thread about Protestantism) because of all the different versions of Christianity, Protestantism seems to have the most 'variation' from evangelistic fundamentalism to incredibly progressive, non-judgmental and accepting of differences and change. My guess it is differentials based on denominational history and regional differences. I am guessing you are in America, Here in Australia, some of most progressive churches are protestant, accepting abortion, homosexuality, ordination of woman etc.
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Post by Sarge on Aug 18, 2019 5:43:07 GMT
I'm America, yes. That is interesting. There is variation in Protestantism here but few accept abortion and homosexuality, a few more allow ordination of women. I'm mostly familiar with Baptists, Methodists, and Pentecostal; but there are regional differences among those. For example where I grew up, Pentecostals believe in healing and speaking in tongues but it was somewhat controversial. In the mountains west of where I live now, there are Pentecostal churches that dance with snakes, sometimes poisonous snakes. The healing thing was another nail in my faith because Pentecostals have faith healing ceremonies all the time and in 15-ish years I never saw one person healed. We didn't do the fake healing stuff where someone reaches in and pulls out a gross thing and claims they cured someone, it was just intense prayer and at the end the preacher would tap them on the head and the person would faint. I participated in these and never felt the urge to faint so I'm sure people were faking because they wanted to fit in or it was hysteria. I also watched people carefully as they spoke in tongues to see if I could discern a pattern or recognize similarities in the sounds between different people but I never could, it was indecipherable gibberish.
Catholicism is a minority here and I believe that encourages them to be more open and accepting. They believe smoking and drinking are okay so that gives them an outlet. They accept evolution and science in general. If for some reason I had to pick one, I would choose to be a Catholic rather than a Protestant.
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