tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10853024.post170351122754077661..comments2024-03-12T20:20:35.830-05:00Comments on Organizing Notes: TROOPS PUNISHED FOR NOT ATTENDING CHRISTIAN CONCERTBruce K. Gagnonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10845856861232395427noreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10853024.post-50378610597159006802010-08-26T03:45:14.785-05:002010-08-26T03:45:14.785-05:00This use of my tax dollars to support religious in...This use of my tax dollars to support religious indictrination is offensive. Calling Ground Zero hallowed ground (as Pres. Obama and many others have done) also offends me.Lisanoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10853024.post-45896592144211393122010-08-21T21:14:19.709-05:002010-08-21T21:14:19.709-05:00I know. They don't care that it offends their ...I know. They don't care that it offends their fellow Christians, or God Himself, and don't feel that anybody not in their own insular clique is actually worthy of citizenship or even life itself.<br /><br />It doesn't take any special gift of prophecy or clairvoyance or even any special mental prowess to realize that, in case we miss the point they'll loudly announce it, just to make us absolutely certain what their motives and goals are.<br /><br />And the further away from the center of their clique one gets,I know it doesn't seem possible that the level of contemptuous hubris can actually rise, but it does. Imagine how your average Afghan or Iraqi feels knowing that he's not even within any of their vague circles of people about whom they give a damn.<br /><br />These kids make enemies for everybody. It's a way to guarantee perpetual war and, thus, perpetual war spending.<br /><br />Their histrionic rendering of Ground Zero Sanctity? They don't care for the people who died that day or subsequently, any more than they do for an Iraqi. The Iraqi can just see it better.Brother Jonahnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10853024.post-6037905875107297342010-08-21T17:56:37.441-05:002010-08-21T17:56:37.441-05:00This misappropriation of my tax dollars is especia...This misappropriation of my tax dollars is especially offensive given that I am an atheist.libhomhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05537213558568338561noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10853024.post-3493039904851088552010-08-20T22:43:25.773-05:002010-08-20T22:43:25.773-05:00The entire concept of "Fundamental" come...The entire concept of "Fundamental" comes from a turn-of-the-century religious book called "The fundamentals of (christian faith) and the churches most identified as Fundamentalist, like Baptist and Pentecostal churches, have doctrine of "The Priesthood of the Believer" meaning complete religious freedom within the churches, save that doctrine had to come at least tenuously directly from the bible. <br /><br />And one Pentecostal church couldn't tell another congregation what to believe. Legally, Or in Church Doctrine.<br /><br />On the legal issue, if 2 of your friends identify you as being their spiritual leader you can be ordained by them as their Pastor, Legally, you're then Clergy.<br /><br />So you don't have tho top-down structure of Pope-Cardinal-Bishop-local pastor ordained by the heirarchy.<br /><br />Or Queen of England, Archbishop, bishop, vicar with the same top-down ordination of Clergy like in the Episcopal churches, like Methodists,<br /><br />I mean, there's supposed to be no such an animal as a Baptist or Pentecostal Pope. Even the General Convention and Southern Convention of the Baptist churches are a Voluntary Association.<br /><br />Southern Baptists and Southern Methodist split off from their parent churches over the issue of Slave Owners being missionaries. <br /><br />So now, with gruppen-fuhrers like Dobson leading the pack, even that is being taken away. <br /><br />It's not insanity, they're perfectly cognizant of what their actions mean. It's Blasphemy but that's an ecclesiastic term and officially (so far) limited to members of your own church.<br /><br />The Baptist and AOG churches challenged me as a child to "search the scriptures and see, if it is not so" I read in Leviticus and Deuteronomy "Thou Shalt Not Kill" and certain almost-exceptions to that commandment.<br /><br />But to judge any case in religious court according to the Law of Moses, you had to be purified. The only ones who were always ritually pure were priests anyway. If you eat something unclean or have sex with your wife you're not purified until a week later.<br /><br />If you have committed one of the sins listed as punishable by death, like talking back to your parents or masturbation, you could be redeemed from the death sentence, but never purified to the extent that you could judge a Capital Case. It's sort of a trap, all these Death Penalty Laws and because there are so many of them, the only person who could judge you to death or carry out the sentence... didn't exist. It's what Jesus was talking about, and He wasn't unique in the rabbinate in saying that, when He said "let he who is without sin cast the first stone".<br /><br />Can't judge people to death. Nobody can. Dobson and friends insist differently, but then, my Priesthood of the Believer trumps theirs in any case involving me... <br />So Far.Brother Jonahnoreply@blogger.com