What are the benefits of being a Christian? Why should I become A Christian?

[Doogie Howser]

Jeeez....did the teacher step out of the classroom or something?

[yetidave]

Originally posted by Doogie Howser
Jeeez....did the teacher step out of the classroom or something?

Dunno, but the nun doing bong hits is pretty damn funny.

[M.D. Holloway]

So - why be a Christian?

refer to Frank Zappa - CYO Girls!

Nice tats Ding Joe!, the first one just looks plain dirty though, not that thats a bad thing!

[Z-man]

WARNING: Just because you do not wish to partake in a religious debate does not mean you should post pics of near-naked women or of people doing drugs. That's completely disrepectful of those posting here, and is out of line and will not be tolerated.

Don't be an idiot - if you don't wish to discuss religion, stay out of this thread.

Further such postings will result in bannings.

-Z-man, OT Forum moderator

[M.D. Holloway]

Ya dingo! You butt head!

[Highlander179]

Originally posted by LubeMaster77
Ya dingo! You butt head!

Now thats disrepectful of those posting here, and its out of line and should not be tolerated.

Moderator. Ban LubeMaster77

Just to keep my post on topic,
Bless us oh lord for these thy gifts which we are about to recieve, from thy bounty, thru Christ our Lord, Amen

[M.D. Holloway]

I'm sorry Dingo - your not a butt head. And I'm sorry if I dis'd any of the fine folks visting this thread to understand and debate such a noble question.

Higjlander, can you find it in your huge heart to love a man for his faults?

[Dingo Joe]

Originally posted by Z-man
WARNING: Just because you do not wish to partake in a religious debate does not mean you should post pics of near-naked women or of people doing drugs. That's completely disrepectful of those posting here, and is out of line and will not be tolerated.

Don't be an idiot - if you don't wish to discuss religion, stay out of this thread.

Further such postings will result in bannings.

-Z-man, OT Forum moderator

Z-man... FYI - I posted those photos while the thread was in the R1100S forum, and in that context, I felt completely appropriate in doing so, even if though the thread started "OT...". I believe that it was previously determined that, at least in the R1100S forum, OT threads still needed to have something to do with the bike. I feel tits are more releavent to the R1100S than a discussion on God. Apology accepted...

PS - LubeMaster77, it's alright, I really am a butt head...

[M.D. Holloway]

But is not the beauty of the female form the work of God?

Is not the technology and science a reflection of the dedication required to engineer a perfect breast augmentation device a testimony to the Lord above in that God must have granted the gift of balence and determination?

Sir, I refer to the finest art forms by none other than Leonardo and Mical - did they not show bare breats in much of their work reflecting the grace and beauty of God?

Breasts sustain pysical life as it begins its journey - God is the ultimate element in a spiritual life, and if you are a Christian than you believe in the holy trinity of three becomeing one, therefor ....I will let you finish and draw your own conclusion

[Dingo Joe]

Good points Lube, but I was thinking more along the lines of the R1100S and its nice set of juggs, which obviously got me thinking of the female versions...

[M.D. Holloway]

oh ya, I like boobies too...

[Dingo Joe]

Originally posted by LubeMaster77
oh ya, I like boobies too...

So does God, he like all of them, but maybe not Muslim boobies, or Buddist boobies, or Hindu boobies, or ...

[JavaBrewer]

"I cannot conceive of a God who rewards and punishes his creatures, or has a will of the kind that we experience in ourselves. Neither can I nor would I want to conceive of an individual that survives his physical death; let feeble souls, from fear or absurd egoism, cherish such thoughts. I am satisfied with the mystery of the eternity of life and with the awareness and a glimpse of the marvelous structure of the existing world, together with the devoted striving to comprehend a portion, be it ever so tiny, of the Reason that manifests itself in nature."

-Albert Einstein

[yetidave]

Originally posted by Z-man
WARNING: Just because you do not wish to partake in a religious debate does not mean you should post pics of near-naked women or of people doing drugs. That's completely disrepectful of those posting here, and is out of line and will not be tolerated.

Don't be an idiot - if you don't wish to discuss religion, stay out of this thread.

Further such postings will result in bannings.

-Z-man, OT Forum moderator

So you had a thread from the R1100S forum moved here so you could police it? Just want to make sure were on the same page.

[Rapid Dog]

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[yetidave]

Originally posted by Rapid Dog
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Dont make him ban you punk! He has the power.

[MRM]

Originally posted by Mr. Deltoid
ErricZ you aright about those NUTTY NEOCONS.James Watt under Reagan made a comment about nature conservation being "useless" because Jesus will return soon!!I will try to find the exact quote and post it later.This Jesus and Allah business may be funny in this situation, thanks to the holy roller who made the first post,but folks we have MENTALLY ILL people running the show in D.C.They are hell bent on creating an enviroment favorable for there "Armageddon".And they are doing a pretty good job at the moment.If it happens will it be God?Doubtful.Just a bunch of sheeple led to the slaughter by the fundamentalist fanatics-Christians AND Muslims

That so-called quote never happened. Bill Moyers just wrote an Op-Ed piece in the Minneapolis Start-Tribune using that same quote as the centerpiece for his argument saying pretty much the same thing you just did. He got shot down by none other than Jim Watt himself in a responsive Op-Ed piece. Sheepishly sandwiched in the Letters to the Editor section on the facing page from Watt's reply piece was Moyer's retraction, apology and feeble attempt to explain how he used a fake quote.

Turns out some marginal left-wing book wrote the quote as a fact back in the 80s. Web sites have quoted the book saying Watt said it as though they were saying Watt said it (get the distinction? The web sites don't say Watt said the quote, they report that a book says that Watt said the quote). Moyers picked up the quote from "The Grist" web site, which more recently has issued its own retraction and apology for conveying a made-up quote.

Watt took great shots at Moyers for using the false quote as a basis for making his point. He said that Moyers is a former LBJ presidential assistant and should know that no presidential aid who holds thoughts like that, let alone says them publicly is fit to hold his position. And to accuse Watt of saying such bizarre things without doing his own fact checking is at best careless, at worst suggests an intent to deceive. LBJ would never lie to get his way, would he? Never! A loyal acolyte such as Moyers wouldn't fall far from the tree, would he?

Oh, and Neocon is a term correctly used to describe the Wolfowitz wing of the Bush administration that urges overtrow of dictatorships so they can be replaced with friendly governements. It is not an accurate term to describe run of the mill conservatives like Watt. He was, after all, strickly involved with domestic politics. By definition neocon refers to a particular view of foreign policy.

Historically, the neocon idea of replacing unfriendly dictatorships with friendly democracies dates back to the immediate post-war era and at least Ike's administration. The neocon philosphy includes Kennedy and his missile gap and wars of liberation. It certainly includes Johnson's war in Vietnam. I say this with no irony. Historians remember the liberal intentions that got us into Vietnam and wonder how the same philosphy is now considered out of the mainstream on to the right a mere 40 years later.

What was the original thread about? I forgot. I just wanted to point out that Watt's supposed quote, being bandied about to prove the proposition that crazy right wing fundamentalist Christians ran our government and couldn't wait to bring an end to the earth so the appocolyps is as incorect as the premis behind the argument. Real Christians know that the earth and all life on it (including our own) is given to us in trust to take care of and cherish as the gift it was meant to be.

[RoninLB]

God made pot. Man made beer. Whom do you trust? --
The Irish Times, Washington, D.C.

[Z-man]

Originally posted by yetidave
So you had a thread from the R1100S forum moved here so you could police it? Just want to make sure were on the same page.

No - it was moved here by the moderator of the R1100S forums. I have no access to edit/move/lock...etc. threads on that forum.

When a thread lands here, you cannot tell if it was created here or if it was moved here from another forum by a moderator. So I had no idea that it originally started out on the R1100S forums.

Just so we're on the same page.

-Z-man.

[Highlander179]

Originally posted by Z-man
So I had no idea that it originally started out on the R1100S forums.

Thats not true. You posted on this thread before it was moved to the OT Forum. Are you conspiring with AFriend? Are you one of them holy-rollers? You seem to be taking this a little too seriously.