Posted on 05/13/2007 10:48:35 PM PDT by goldstategop
"Show me just what Mohammed brought that was new, and there you will find things only evil and inhuman, such as his command to spread by the sword the faith he preached." - Manuel II Palelologus
bookmark to reread in the a.m. Thanks for posting this.
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Chuck Norris BUMP!
As usual, Chuck is not afraid to stand up tall and tell it like it is.
Of course, those of us who do pay attention understand quite well that the athiest Democrats of the ACLU have been battling Christianity and attempting to eradicate Christianity from public view for decades.
You said — “I see alot of dead militant atheists in the future.”
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Well, not according to the Bible, you won’t. The movement will apparentlly be a growing movement, running all the way into the Tribulation time...
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Well, not according to the Bible, you won’t. The movement will apparently be a growing movement, running all the way into the Tribulation time..."
You are both right. There will be a lot of dead militant atheists in the future Tribulation period. We can also say that after the Tribulation there will be no more "atheists."
“Just as atheists are gathering to combat God, we patriots must come together to sustain the godly heritage we’ve been handed. As Benjamin Franklin said, “We must all hang together, or most assuredly we will all hang separately.”
Norris ignores his own injunction of hanging together when he takes a gratuitous swipe at Mormons. There are six million Mormons in the U.S. and they vote Conservative and at a higher rate than most other population groups. Mormons are Christians, they just aren’t Niceans.
not dismissing diligence, but one must never underestimate Our Lady.
oh, wait, I should have know — wnd.
Such a survey is a clear indication that most Americans are simply confused about what it means to be Christian.
Being a Christian means not voting for a Mormon, I suppose.
So, if it's Hillary vs. Romney, old Chuck is going to vote for the Hillary the Christian?
Is atheism now a cause or movement of some kind?
Sorry to appear dumb here but I always thought that an atheist is just someone who doesn't beleive in any god so how can you rail against god if you don't even believe in a god, just don't make sense??
Personally, I can't think of anything more boring than being an atheist, there's nothing to look forward to is there??
That seems like a loaded argument and a fallacious argument. You could have just as easily asked how you would be able to argue against the existence of a god if you believed in that god. The answer to your question (which you probably intended to be rhetorical, but it is not) is that the only way to argue against the existence of all possible gods is to not believe in any god. This is no more confusing a statement than a person arguing against the existence of unicorns while not believing in unicorns.
I would expect that if you don't like this response you would phrase an argument along the lines of the ontological argument.
Only if you have a dispensationalist viewpoint. I am not a dispensationalist...
The author failed to mention the largest anti-Christian movement - socialism. Once the concept of separation of church and state is applied to a socialist society, religion has to disappear. Once everything is run by the government, religion has no place to operate. That’s why the God haters are mostly socialists.
Or states with only one recognized religion. I think you would have an easier time being a Christian in China or Cuba than in Saudi Arabia.
I think you have tryed to over-emphasise the point I put forward, I was making the point in general to the article concerned which seems to convey a kind of aetheistic movement occurring which is in itself a contradiction of aethism itself, i.e. aethism is the abstention from organised religion.
Anyway, if you want me to put an ontological argument forward then I think a good analagous example is found in the bible itself when Jesus explained his miracles, i.e he said, anything is possible for the one who believes.
This indicates that if the belief and faith are strong enough you could easily levitate a coffee cup with your mind, however as your not likely to have that belief you will fail, but what if you did???
I was more referring to Descartes’ version of the ontological argument where it is irrelevant whether or not you believe in the existence of God in your argument since (he argues) an imperfect being being able to just conceive of a perfect being means that the idea was implanted by the perfect being. Therefore the perfect being exists.
I’m not a big fan of his ontological argument, but it does perform a helpful resolution of whether or not it is important to believe in the existence of God to argue for or against that existence.
With the exception of the Orthodox, who don’t accept the filioque (”who proceeds from the Father and the Son”) referring to the Holy Spirit, if you are not Nicean, you are not Christian. The Nicean creed is the fundamental statement of the Christian faith. It includes all of the basic beliefs of classic Christianity. If you don’t confess the creed, you are not a Christian. Flame away, if you like.
You said — “Only if you have a dispensationalist viewpoint. I am not a dispensationalist...”
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It’s not a “viewpont” that causes history to happen. It’s basically what God says will happen, because He controls it all, regardless of a named viewpoint or the people who hold to it. The key is that God controls these things, and they will happen as the Bible says it will...
The Tribulation time will happen as He says, the Antichrist will come on the scene as He says, and Jesus Christ will return at the end of that 7-year Tribulation and set up the Kingdom of God, on this earth, ruling and reigning for His 1,000 year Kingdom. And it’s during that 1,000 year Millennial reign of Christ that we’ll see the fulfillment of all the promises of God to national Israel, plus the many other promises written in the Bible for that time of world-wide peace and prosperity.
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