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Acquilae posted:Christians molding the name of Jesus and the Bible as a way to justify their flavor of the month agendas is one of my favorite things about Christianity and goes against everything I've learned about the religion in school. To be fair every single religion does this. Not that it makes it right but even Buddhism isn't always the love and peace hippie cult people think it is, under the right political circumstances.
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RagnarokAngel posted:To be fair every single religion does this. Not that it makes it right but even Buddhism isn't always the love and peace hippie cult people think it is, under the right political circumstances. Taoism can breed its own extremists, and its central tenant is basically 'Do whatever so long as it doesn't gently caress things over'. The fault is not in religion as it is in man. It's like saying a scythe is bad because it cuts poorly, rather than because the blacksmith skimped on the refining of the blade.
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Jan 5, 2014 12:23
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WarpedNaba posted:Taoism can breed its own extremists, and its central tenant is basically 'Do whatever so long as it doesn't gently caress things over'. The fault is not in religion as it is in man. It's like saying a scythe is bad because it cuts poorly, rather than because the blacksmith skimped on the refining of the blade. Or that guns kill people rather than murderers? 
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Jan 5, 2014 16:28
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One of the only South Park episodes I've ever fully agreed with was the one where religion was eliminated, and in the future everyone just found other poo poo to kill each other over. Religion is essentially just another way of denoting star bellied sneetches or left going zax. edit: also really dumb to believe in invisible sky mans lol
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RagnarokAngel posted:To be fair every single religion does this. Not that it makes it right but even Buddhism isn't always the love and peace hippie cult people think it is, under the right political circumstances. The right circumstances are also usually just "has a significant part of the population", because a certain percentage of every population is full of shitheads.
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Girl Scouts Promote 'Incredible' Wendy Davis on 'Women of Year' Listquote:To: 2ndDivisionVet quote:To: 2ndDivisionVet quote:To: 2ndDivisionVet quote:To: 2ndDivisionVet quote:To: Gay State Conservative quote:To: 2ndDivisionVet quote:To: 2ndDivisionVet quote:To: 2ndDivisionVet quote:To: 2ndDivisionVet quote:To: 2ndDivisionVet quote:To: 2ndDivisionVet quote:To: 2ndDivisionVet quote:To: 2ndDivisionVet quote:To: RetiredTexasVet quote:To: 2ndDivisionVet quote:To: FlingWingFlyer Kerry: Gay rights are 'the very heart' of U.S. diplomatic efforts world-wide (article is a few months old, but was just posted to freep) quote:To: holden quote:To: holden quote:To: TexasFreeper2009 quote:To: holden quote:To: holden quote:To: holden quote:To: holden quote:To: TexasFreeper2009 quote:To: holden quote:To: holden quote:To: TexasFreeper2009 quote:To: holden quote:To: holden quote:To: holden quote:To: holden quote:To: holden Obama Announces Executive Orders to Limit Gun Ownership – US Veterans Hardest Hit quote:To: 2ndDivisionVet quote:To: 2ndDivisionVet quote:To: 2ndDivisionVet quote:To: 2ndDivisionVet quote:To: 2ndDivisionVet I don't know, the VA making sure a vet selling a bunch of his stuff isn't going to commit suicide sounds like a good thing. quote:To: 2ndDivisionVet quote:To: 2ndDivisionVet quote:To: 2ndDivisionVet quote:To: 2ndDivisionVet quote:To: Scrambler Bob Yeah because it is Democrats that were fighting against the VA bill oh wait. quote:To: 2ndDivisionVet Candy Crowley: If I’m Unemployed or on Minimum Wage, ‘Why Would I Become Republican?’ quote:To: Hoodat quote:To: Hoodat quote:To: Hoodat quote:To: Hoodat quote:To: Hoodat quote:To: 2banana quote:To: Hoodat quote:To: Hoodat quote:To: Hoodat Broken clock etc. quote:To: Hoodat quote:To: Hoodat
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Jan 5, 2014 17:56
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Huh, I had not previously known that the MLA was yet another target of righteous Freeper fury: How are they not having trouble taking an editorial seriously when it includes the terms "douchebag", "fascist", or "Stalinist" in about every paragraph? You'd think some minimal level of recognitition would kick in where folks would say "well, I agree with the point but it could've been made in a more mature manner." But that's our Freep.
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Jan 5, 2014 18:08
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gently caress You And Diebold posted:
This one's genuinely terrifying to me given Anders Brevik's stated reasons for killing those children (and Glen Beck's loving defence of him for that).
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Jan 5, 2014 18:11
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gently caress You And Diebold posted:quote: I love how without the Boy Scouts' treatment of gay scoutmasters Freep would call the BSA communist traitors in a heartbeat for their environmentalism and promotion of helping the less fortunate
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Jan 5, 2014 19:06
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http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3108565/posts#comment 7 Easy Steps to Jailing Obama quote:Impeached? He could behead a troop of girl scouts on the White House lawn during the Easter Egg roll, butcher them, barbecue them and serve them to all the participants and he still wouldn’t be impeached. And if you criticized him about it, the press would say “it’s a black thing” and accuse you of being a racist tea bagging rethuglican for bringing it up while licking their fingers and asking Michelle what kind of “awesome” spice rub they’re using and beg for more of that “delicious” macaroni & cheese and a refill of their Kool-aid. This is a little disturbing in how much thought has gone into this scenario. quote:I totally disagree. I believe that Malcolm X is obama’s father. Hilarious in it's naivete. She can conceive of the possibility that someone altered a photo, but making it black and white is out of the question. quote:As I’ve said before: Why stop there with the adjectives? I'm sure there's a few more you could toss on. And nice try, but I'm pretty sure cannibalism is haram
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Jan 5, 2014 19:22
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Wait, so Obama's bisexual now? That's an odd choice of insult.
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Jan 5, 2014 19:34
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Sorry I don't think eating a live fetus counts as Halal. For one, it wasn't slaughtered in the proper way.
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Jan 5, 2014 19:36
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DemeaninDemon posted:Sorry I don't think eating a live fetus counts as Halal. For one, it wasn't slaughtered in the proper way. Taqiyya. 
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Jan 5, 2014 19:41
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Wanamingo posted:Taqiyya. It's such a useful term, adopted by shithead racists all over the world. Obama not celebrating a christian holiday: He's showing his true muslim colors! Obama celebrating a christian holiday: He's showing his true muslim colors by practicing taqiyya!
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Jan 5, 2014 20:25
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Pong Daddy posted:Why stop there with the adjectives? I'm sure there's a few more you could toss on. And nice try, but I'm pretty sure cannibalism is haram
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Jan 5, 2014 20:44
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Acquilae posted:It's halal according to the freeper's delusion of Islam, just like how they believe Allah is a different God than the one from the other two Abrahamic religions.  (This is my favorite Chick Tract because the Christian self-insert says a whole bunch of ignorant poo poo about Islam and totally converts a guy)
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Jan 5, 2014 20:50
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Mind Loving Owl posted:Could you imagine how baffling it would haven if the line was in the Bible? For two thousand years it'd be the biggest biblical mystery ever and we'd call every war WW1 to try and hasten things. It honestly sounds like one of those fake Nostradamus predictions History built shows around. I remember ages ago in the big chick tracks thread looking up a bible verse that in the track said "And Jesus spoke "He who pracitices homosexuality may lay waste to the land and will be destroyed by my father" but when I looked up the actual passage it was something like "and Jesus look down and saw his sandal was undone and did it and continued to the market" or something else really blanal. But again, you can get away with this poo poo because modern American Christians are so loving lazy they will not have read it and just accept on faith that the bible says "gently caress dem fags/poors/brown people", "Everyone needs a gun" and "USA #1!!". What loving world do they live in where Obama is just praised in the Media? Even the most liberal of liberals go after Obama when he does lovely things, which is a lot. I guess when you only get your news from Drudge and Breibart you can belief that CNN, MSNBC and Fox are 24/7 We <3 Obama! fests. I get amused when the right wing takes him to task on Drones. As if they wouldn't be doing the exact same thing, hell I'm sure if McCain or Romney was Prez there would be more, and in Iran and North Korea, probably south America and even on US Soil and anywhere else they see "enemies".
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Jan 5, 2014 20:57
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twistedmentat posted:I get amused when the right wing takes him to task on Drones. As if they wouldn't be doing the exact same thing, hell I'm sure if McCain or Romney was Prez there would be more, and in Iran and North Korea, probably south America and even on US Soil and anywhere else they see "enemies". Considering the drone program was started under Bush, they most certainly would. In addition to that, they only care because people think that white middle class Christians are in danger of being targeted. If Obama came out right now and said "we;re only using it on Muslims and Mexicans", well, they wouldn't cheer, because they wouldn't believe him, but they'd have no problem with that policy in reality.
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Big CWII-type thread trending on  http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3107716/postsLot of the usual "keep your powder dry " stuffquote:Water the Tree of Liberty. quote:the just shall rule over the impious and unbelievers ... Freep or WH40K fan fic? Who can tell? quote:There is less than zero percent chance of the left willingly giving up the source of it’s power...our cash...that would go away with peaceful seperation. Lots of "the libtards are latte-sipping Prius-drivin' girlymen who wouldn't last a day against us real 'Muricans". And of course, there are also plenty of quote:4 Americans offed in Benghazi, A whole bunch of SEALs offed in the Stan. God knows how many Mexicans via Fast and Furious, Drone strikes wherever he chooses killing anything that moves on command. "Lie-berals are bloodthirsty tyrants who will slaughter all those who oppose them!" I know the enemy as a paper tiger is one of those things on Eco's ur-fascist list, but it's like has read it too and is using it as a todo.quote:To: Atlas Sneezed You wouldn't think the thread topic offers much opportunity for misogyny as well as genocidal racist hatred, but don't underestimate quote:I pretty much agree with your post. I just dont have the faith in my fellow man that you do. In most of these sort of threads, there's at least one or two semi-sane freepers who wander in to suggest that just killing everyone you disagree with is not as great idea as it appears and they should just settle for electoral extermination of the libtards and the urban ferals. Not in this one, here the moderate position is "let's secede and wait to see if we need to kill all the liberals".
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but the ME that is an individual just like all their friends. The ME that pots them as Island of one Gods in their own pantheon under the watchful and loving gaze of Gaia the Magnificent (And Barry is her Prophet...Allah Snackbar). They are smarter than you, better people than you, fighting for greater good than you and thus superior to you. Just ask them Windy. You suck. So do I.
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Uh oh, looks like Jimrob's back at the whiskey again. http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3108619/posts#comment quote:Ten Million Man March on DC? quote:One way is to get a great grassroots spokesperson for freedom on board. How about Sarah Palin? She could show up on all the talkshows and generate enthusiasm and turnout the grassroots like no one else.
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Jan 5, 2014 22:22
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I love it when Freepers actually manage to find dissent amongst themselves. Not just a schadenfreude of infighting, but because it's good to see some lingering remnant of debate amongst them:quote:A friend sent me this nonsense. quote:To: GodAndCountryFirst quote:To: GodAndCountryFirst Not sure if this is mocking or genuine: quote:To: GodAndCountryFirst quote:To: GodAndCountryFirst quote:To: GodAndCountryFirst quote:To: chessplayer quote:To: sauron Wow, I'm only a fraction of the way into the thread and the OP is getting slammed by vaguely-pro-science Freepers. I'm going to quit now while I'm ahead and just enjoy the warm glow of Reason.
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TapTheForwardAssist posted:Wow, I'm only a fraction of the way into the thread and the OP is getting slammed by vaguely-pro-science Freepers. I'm going to quit now while I'm ahead and just enjoy the warm glow of Reason. FReep used to have a fairly vocal pro-science minority, but they banned them so that the god-botherers wouldn't have to put up with being called retarded for posting a bunch of young earth creationism bullshit.
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VitalSigns posted:It's also at least worth noting that although Christianity wasn't the cause of the disastrous loss of Egypt to the Arab invasion, the general populace did welcome in the Muslims because at least the Caliphate would let you alone to practice your religion as long as you paid your taxes, which was way better than the constant Roman inquisitions and suppressions of the largely Monophysite Egyptians. After the conquest there was basically no significant resistance because no one wanted invite those Roman assholes back in. How did that work, when Rome fell two hundred years before Mohammed? Or do you mean the Eastern Roman (Byzatine) Empire?
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twistedmentat posted:I remember ages ago in the big chick tracks thread looking up a bible verse that in the track said "And Jesus spoke "He who pracitices homosexuality may lay waste to the land and will be destroyed by my father" but when I looked up the actual passage it was something like "and Jesus look down and saw his sandal was undone and did it and continued to the market" or something else really blanal. My favorite one of those was in the rock music tract where he had a guy say "God wants you to burn everything you have associated with rock music!" and there was a verse attached to it. I knew there was no way that the Bible literally said that, so I looked up the verse and it turned out to say something like "Some people collected a bunch of scrolls and burned them and they were worth a bunch of gold."
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Jurgan posted:How did that work, when Rome fell two hundred years before Mohammed? Or do you mean the Eastern Roman (Byzatine) Empire? Yes I meant the Eastern half of the Roman Empire, sorry if that was unclear.
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Twelve by Pies posted:My favorite one of those was in the rock music tract where he had a guy say "God wants you to burn everything you have associated with rock music!" and there was a verse attached to it. I knew there was no way that the Bible literally said that, so I looked up the verse and it turned out to say something like "Some people collected a bunch of scrolls and burned them and they were worth a bunch of gold." For a group of people who say that the bible is the infalable word of God, they have no problems distorting, changing or outright lying about what it says.
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twistedmentat posted:For a group of people who say that the bible is the infalable word of God, they have no problems distorting, changing or outright lying about what it says. See also "the eye of a needle" 
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gently caress You And Diebold posted:To: 2ndDivisionVet I can't believe not a single person said something about this. It has to be on purpose.
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I've got a humble request... If you post a bunch of Freeper comments about an third-party article could you post a link to the article too? I'd like to read what they are talking about, but the layout on freep is so archaic that it takes me a minute to find it. 
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Jan 6, 2014 00:56
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deoju posted:I've got a humble request... Unless it's a "vanity" thread, the link to whatever article will be in the Freep op. It's the link at the top of the post.
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quote:To: holden o/~ "A" is for the Anuses we covet "M" is for the 'Mos whose wangs we crave... o/~
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change my name posted:I can't believe not a single person said something about this. It has to be on purpose. It took them a week or two to figure out what teabagging was.
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PIV is always rape, ok?quote:To: 2ndDivisionVet quote:To: 2ndDivisionVet quote:To: 2ndDivisionVet quote:To: 2ndDivisionVet quote:To: 2ndDivisionVet quote:To: ToastedHead quote:To: ToastedHead quote:To: 2ndDivisionVet quote:To: ansel12
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quote:To: 2ndDivisionVet quote:Impeached? He could behead a troop of girl scouts on the White House lawn during the Easter Egg roll, butcher them, barbecue them and serve them to all the participants and he still wouldn’t be impeached. And if you criticized him about it, the press would say “it’s a black thing” and accuse you of being a racist tea bagging rethuglican for bringing it up while licking their fingers and asking Michelle what kind of “awesome” spice rub they’re using and beg for more of that “delicious” macaroni & cheese and a refill of their Kool-aid. Hey Freepers, if you're searching for folks who want to kill Girl Scouts, you don't even have to leave your echo chamber.
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Judy Woodruff Wonders if ‘Compelling’ Inequality Issue Will Overtake Obamacare in 2014quote:To: Tailgunner Joe
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Makes me want to find that panel of Captain America saying "you think this A on my head stans for FRANCE?" and change France to Anus. Also, everything a black person says is "Kill whitey" to a freeper.
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twistedmentat posted:Also, everything a black person says is "Kill whitey" to a freeper. Clearly you haven't been actually listening to 0bozo whenever he addresses his subjects!!!
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SedanChair posted:Judy Woodruff Wonders if ‘Compelling’ Inequality Issue Will Overtake Obamacare in 2014 quote:To: Tailgunner Joe Sounds like you're criticizing capitalism, comrade 
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Rand alPaul posted:Sounds like you're criticizing capitalism, comrade Sounds like my father. At Christmas he started complaining about Obama's monetary policy as making the rich richer and the poor poorer, because the stock market is up but there are still no jobs. So...close...to getting it.
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