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Post by agentarizonan on Dec 9, 2007 5:31:48 GMT
They'd rather kids read the Bible, a 100% magic-free book featuring a main character who walks on water and turns five fish into five thousand. And the main character is somehow his own father and the father created that tree in a certain garden even though it will most likely be the catalyst in an event in which crap hits the fan.
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Post by fox on Dec 9, 2007 21:29:59 GMT
Wow... I mean, I'm simply amazed.
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Post by everybodysfool on Dec 10, 2007 8:25:40 GMT
Matthew 7:5: "You hypocrite, first take the log out of your own eye, and then you will see clearly to take the speck out of your brother's eye."
Before someone wonders what the heck I'm doing with a Bible verse up there, let me explain. Too many Christians pick and choose the parts of the Bible they take the most seriously. The zealots who claim to take the whole book at face value concentrate so much on verses that are practically guidelines to use for judging that they miss the best verses, which are about *not* judging, for you yourself are a sinner, no one is perfect, and you have no right. The above is my favorite verse, as it's a constant reminder that no matter how much I may disapprove of what someone else is doing, there's something just as bad, if not possibly worse, that I am doing or have done.
My mother was upset when I started getting into Pokemon, but conceded to let me continue after seeing the movie and realizing it actually had good values. Harry Potter was also an argument...again, she saw the movies, and now she's just as big of a fan as I am. Not all Christians are fanatics. Most fanatics aren't living a truly good Christian life, because if they do truly believe that Christ is the only way to salvation (though I am a Christian, I don't really believe that....it's complicated), then they should be striving to be good people so that their example would lead others to Christ. Not telling others everything that's wrong with their life and their beliefs.
*ahem* that was my rant. I'm terribly sorry if I've offended anyone.
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Post by agentarizonan on Dec 12, 2007 0:14:13 GMT
And speaking of Harry Potter, when I was talking to John, my best friend and neighbor, about how everyone considered Dumbledore gay just because he spent a lot of time with Harry Potter, he responded by saying that Dumbledore wanted to make sure that the boy wizard wouldn't turn evil because he and his associates would be double-screwed because Voldemort was already evil and having another evil wizard with that much power can't be good.
Homosexuality is used to explain too many relationships in fiction, even the relationship between Obi-Wan Kenobi and Luke Skywalker (by a few people).
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Post by everybodysfool on Dec 12, 2007 9:22:05 GMT
.....Dumbledore *IS* gay, though. It was announced a while back. But he wasn't a pedophile.
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Post by numbuh82 on Dec 13, 2007 20:55:27 GMT
I noticed something the other day. Have you ever noticed how so many Christmas movies have a story such as Santa being taken out of the picture and in the synopsis"Will Christmas be cancelled"....why the feck dont they care about that!How is Harry Potter,a Childrends book/movie which shows them celebrating christmas blasphamouse when there is a movie saying Christmas may be cancelled as a man in a red suit who goes around giving kids presents cannot do that...Gawd people are idiots. I found a website not to long ago called God hate Ireland.It was amde by an American Extremist Revern who has done a number of things like this.The website should a number of people jumping up and down on the Irish flag as an Irish Senator((The senators here are more or less adviors and dont have a main political role))by the name of David Norris who is gay,A man who is extremly intelligent and witty who has never caused any harm in his life. When we start to colonise mars or where ever it wont be puratins leaving,it will be honest intelligent people,Theist and athesit alike will leave,not the puratins as we saw with the colonisation of the Americas.But we all know through genrations it will change
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