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To: MacDorcha
You missed the part where I talked about you coming from being an atheist.

Easy to do, since I'm not.

Short of calling me a mass-murderer, an idiot, and then speaking the same of all Christians for the actions of a few...

I believe if you will look back at what you've posted, you'll find that my responses are comparable to yours in stridency. I don't believe I have called you a mass murderer, in, fact, I consider your lack of comprehension as to who or what was the target of that barb to be the principle failing of modern christianity to acknowledge the roots of it's persistent misbehavior toward people it disagrees with. If this failure to acknowledge does not change, it won't take long before christianity resumes murdering those who disagree with it.

What service did you go into?

I intended to go into the Air Force as a radio intercept analyst, in those flying guppies that overflew the bombing flights gathering elint, but I spent most of my hitch working for the spooks at NSA.

I'm going Regular Army. I'm entering as a PFC.

Good for you. I realize you aren't soliciting advice, but it I were in your shoes, I'd go for specialist ratings as soon as I could. Oh, and one more thing that doesn't often get mentioned--you can get so caught up in how serious, scary, and immediate being a soldier is, that you can overlook that it's also a lot of strange and sometimes amazing fun--don't miss out. .

264 posted on 07/12/2005 9:57:08 PM PDT by donh (qua)
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To: donh

I guess this is the part whre I appologize for acting brashly.

Looking back, I see that I was more assuming than anything when I responded.

I would like to take the time, however, to point out the majority of such horrid acts made by Christians were "suppported" by the Old Testament. Jesus did away with the old laws (at least, that is my understanding) and thus there is no calling for eradication of opposing ideas.




Thats cool about the NSA bit. Or at least, sounds cool.

I was thinking of going Intel after I was settled in Transport Managament for a while. Pick up another language (likely Arabic or Farcee)


265 posted on 07/12/2005 10:23:48 PM PDT by MacDorcha (In Theory there is no difference between theory and practice. In practice there is.)
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