[Madame Dufarge]

The First Church of Trite chimes in.

[Harmless Teddy Bear]

It appears to me that fundamentalists within all the major religeons - Christianity, Islam and Judaism - are interested in heading our planet toward Armageddon.

You of course are aware that Jews do not believe in Armageddon and neither do Muslims correct?

Or are you terminally ignorant?

True Christians, Muslims and Jews ascribe themselves to the principles of religeous tolerence and peaceful co-existence.

There is of course a fatal flaw in that. True Muslims believe in no such thing, you are Muslim or you submit.

Question answered, you are terminally ignorant.

And I doubt you are a Christian in anything but the social sense if you are one at all.

[Chode]

[Laura Earl]

Wow..you didn't last long TROLL! Own a Bible? If so, have you read the whole thing or just the passages that fit your perspective?

Buh-bye.

[siunevada]

ascribe themselves to the principles

Ay! Unh?

Ascribe themselves to?

That be not good English, my friend.

[King Prout]

oh, joy: yet another round of the moral-equivalency tango.

Christianity and Islam are not significantly different in their holy texts, eh?

OK, try this on for size:
You tried to equate Christianity with Islam. This is why I ask you to find even one passage, relating to religion and treatment of others, which fulfills the following requirements:

1. in the "catholic" post-Nicaea Christian testament (but I'll gladly throw it open to the Jewish book)
2. a literal...
3. plain-text...
4. indisputable...
5. ongoing present-tense (as opposed to a one-shot past-tense record of history/folklore - ie: Joshua)...
6. commandment from God (not a pope or a bishop or some >a-hem!< televangelist)...
7. as a directive to the believer to take literally and actively in the temporal realm
8. to do any or all of the following:
-a. to slay the heretic and non-believer,
-b. to forcibly convert the heretic and non-believer,
-c. to enslave the heretic and non-believer,
-d. to persecute the heretic and non-believer,
-e. to wage holy war upon the heretic and non-believer
9. Directly analogous to the dozens thereof in the Koran.

(so you know, things like II Thessalonians 1:8,9 don't count - that is God kicking ass, not his faithful doing so for him. An important distinction equivocators seem to like to sweep under the rug.)

Now, turnabout:
Find JUST ONE passage in either the Koran or the Sunnah which is the direct analogue of the Parable of the Samaritan, or the directive to the witness to leave an unbeliever in peace - to "knock the dust of his home from their soles as they leave" - rather than butcher him in zealous fury, or to the believer contained in I Cor 7:12-17, or I Cor 10:32, or II Cor 6:14-18, or Ephesians 6:10-12, or... do you get the point?
Find JUST ONE comparable passage in the Koran or the Sunnah.
Good luck - I have been looking for over a year and have not found any such analogues.

(Now, on to ZOTtage:)

ON THE NATURE OF ZOT!

"What actually happens when a zot happens?"

Are you sure you wanna know?

Ok. The rest of you, I thought you might find this amusing. Here y'go:

The first thing that happens is that the troll's daddy and its other daddy feel that "special way" about each other.

Then, about nine months later, the stork does a flyby of the expectant parents - but not just any stork, no... this is a SPECIAL stork. A leprous, blighted, tattered, pus-dripping noxious braindead zombie stork, bearing its bundle of oozing misery - the gurgling drooling idiotic leftist democratic meatpuppet we know as the "troll".

Then, some decades later, when the troll matures (should I say, instead, "ripens"?) to the mental age of three, some benevolent but misguided soul shows it how to operate a net-linked computer when the circus freakshow keeper is not paying attention.

In a virtual case of water (though "water" is not precicely the fluid I mean) seeking its own level, the troll automatically finds its bumbling way to that hot-spot of all drooling retards, democrappicundergrown.compostheap.

The troll is so delighted to at long last be among wits of its own base level that it dissolves in a feculent bubbling mass of outgassing putrescence. When it re-coalesces in its new blighted environs, it takes the form and function best suited to the Elite Masters of its race - the mindless slobbering sightless clammy-fisted eunuch known publicly by many names (Deaniac being one, Clintoonista another, and a more recent species called a JKoff) but known privately to their owners as "useful idiots."

These useful idiots are spewn forth like the gibbering overflow of a well-used and fermented satanic port-o-let, to contaminate, stain, and stink up the more wholesome and cleanly realms of the internet, so that the great old ones - Cthulhu, Nyarlathotep, and the Unmentionable One (Teddy Kennedy) among them - can spread their glandered dominion ever farther.

Such purulent squamous masses soon or late wash up upon our shores.

They invariably burble their flatulent war cries.

This sudden gust of methane and stinks of less describable nature rouse the denizens of this fair land to wrath and vengeance.

Cruel and merciless warriors known as the Viking Kitties descend upon the hapless blob of noisome jelly, gashing it with barbs of wit and pith.

Such martial valor alerts the Almighty Mods of this land.

Jove thunders.

Lighning strikes! (ZOT!)

Methane emanations ignite!

And they detonate, flashing into an expanding pink mist of DUh.

There you have it, then. The short (and postable) version.

*****

RKBA-6-ACTUAL TO ALL RKBA ELEMENTS: COMMENCE INDEPENDENT AND/OR COORDINATED OPERATIONS AT WILL.

[scott0347]

[onyx]

The BIG ZOT in the sky has called you home.
You do not even get any old women.

[Harmless Teddy Bear]

Bunny has been launched.

[Not A Snowbird]

Here. Smoke some more of these. You'll feel better...

[scott0347]

[DocRock]

"True Christians, Muslims and Jews ascribe themselves to the principles of religeous tolerence and peaceful co-existence.

I am interested in the opinions of others here re: this matter."

While we're waiting for the paving crew to pave your stuned beeber, let's tell some Bible stories. I don't pretend to speak for anyone on this site but myself, so don't paint everyone here with the same brush. (I plan on doing some painting later, but that's a different story).

So, let's start way back in Gen. 14 with Abraham because "True Christians, Muslims and Jews" all consider him as their father and a great man of God. But what happened when some bad people took Lot, his nephew? Well in verse 14 the Scripture tells us, "And when Abram heard that his brother was taken captive, he armed his trained servants,..." Where did he get those arms? He had them already. Not only did he have them, but everybody in his household knew how to use them. Because "...he armed his trained servants, born in his own house, three hundred and eighteen, and pursued them unto Dan." This is not an offensive move, but defensive. The ungodly had attacked first and these actions were to get his nephew back. Abraham defeated the bad guys, rescued Lot and got all his stuff back. On the way home, they ran into Melchizedek.

When you read Hebrews 7, you'll find that Melchizedek was the pre-incarnate Jesus Christ. If Abraham had done anything wrong, right then would have been the time for God to correct him and say, "You shouldn't have done that as a Christian. You shouldn't have taken up arms." But notice what Melchizedek did. Verses 19 and 20 say, "And he blessed him, and said, Blessed be Abram of the most high God, possessor of heaven and earth: And blessed be the most high God, which hath delivered thine enemies into thy hand. And he gave him tithes of all." God was not displeased.

Too Old Testament for you? Well, let's fast forward to the New Testament for a refresher course. Luke 22:35 says, "And he said unto them, When I sent you without purse, and scrip, and shoes, lacked ye any thing? And they said, Nothing." This is Jesus talking to his disciples. "Then he said unto them, But now,..." This is a big But now, so pay attention because Jesus is getting his disciples ready to minister on this earth without him. These are final instructions before he heads to the cross for our sins. "But now, He that hath a purse, let him take it,..." Keep your money with you. "...And likewise his scrip:..." That is your Bible. "...And he that hath no sword, let him sell his garment, and buy one." (Luke 22:36) That's right, your weapon is more important than the clothes on your back. "For I say unto you, that this that is written must yet be accomplished in me,..." Jesus is speaking of his own death. He said, "Now look, I have to die, but you don't". "... And he was reckoned among the transgressors: for the things concerning me have an end." (Luke 22:37) That's his earthly ministry.

Now liberals will always say that the word sword refers to the Bible, but it obviously doesn't as he mentions this in scrip.

Now, for some of the Scripture which I feel is the most mis-quoted in modern times.

Mathew 26:51 And behold, one of them which were with Jesus stretched forth his hand, and drew his sword, and struck a servant of the high priest's, and smote off his ear. 52 Then said Jesus unto him, Put up thy sword into his place: OK, stop right there for a minute. Jesus didn't tell him to put his sword away, or disarm. He told him to put it in it's place. That would be back on his side, ready for use. And now, this is the most currently misquoted Scripture. for all they that take the sword shall perish with the sword. Hmmm. Go look it up. It says they that take weapons will die by weapons. (Looking for your Bible? Make sure it is the correct King James, not some corrupted English translation.)

I'll be on standby for the painting while your looking.

[scott0347]

Here is something to read while we finish toying with you

[scott0347]

[Cvengr]

Why are you so worried about whether or not Bush is a devout Christian? It's really an issue between him and God.

We might faithfully pray to God that our leaders follow His will and remain faithful to Him, but that is still an issue between them and not our business to interfere or accuse.

Criminal behavior in the office of the Presidency such as that committed by Clinton was a completely different issue.

[ladyinred]

Hello there deandemocrat. I disagree with you. If you will read the scriptures, Jesus said he brings a sword. It is not just all peace and joy and love this Christian walk, in spite of liberal theology. Only His return will bring real peace, until then, he tells us to expect wars and rumors of wars. He didn't just stand by and toss daisy petals, and neither should we.

[Grampa Dave]

Just for you, you left wing maggot!

[nosofar]

"I would like to hear from other people whether they feel that George Bush is a devout Christian or not. I consider myself a devout Christian, and feel very uncomfortable with George Bush painting himself as being representative of my religeon. "

Anyone could say the same thing about you (or me). This is not 'your' religion. It's public domain. Having said that, I tend to be suspicious of politicians as a general rule. The higher level, the more suspect.