Posted on 03/20/2006 2:23:32 PM PST by madprof98
Since, Jesus is to come back as the Lion...I'd say, he'd bomb the same people.
You don't really think this guy is the least bit interested in what the Bible says do you?
Somone needs to read some Thomas Aquinas writings...
"No, there's not."
I saw that too. He bases his argument in fantasy. Civil discourse is not possible with people who have no basis in reality.
As an ordained minister of the United Church of Christ, I certainly wouldn't label Vilines a Christian. He's more of an adherent to the old Flip Wilson's "The Church of What's Happenin' Now". But not to worry...God knows exactly who is in favor of murdering His little ones and those people will have a special punishment.
He is a prime example of why people are leaving the UCC in droves.
I vote for the life that didn't have the choice to screw around and get knocked up as having more weight.
He's a phony and should be ignored.
Please "BARF ALERT" these articles!!
Oh, yes there is, "pastor" Villines!
This guy tries his best to build straw-man arguments by attributing moral equivalences to unrelated issues.
He should spend more time studying his Bible instead of indulging in those superfluous "theological" arguments stuffed in his head from his seminary.
This man seems to be lost- intellectually and spiritually.
C. Joshua Villines = nickname for 1940s Harley Big Twin
Moral relativism, the kind we see when comparing the execution of murderers with abortion.
Does loving your enemy mean not punishing him? No, for loving myself does not mean that I ought not to subject myself to punishment--even to death. If you had committed a murder, the right Christian thing to do would be to give yourself up to the police and be hanged. It is, therefore, in my opinion, perfectly right for a Christian judge to sentence a man to death or a Christian soldier to kill an enemy. I have always thought so, ever since I became a Christian, and long before the war, and I still think so now that we are at peace. It is no good quoting 'Thou shalt not kill.' There are two Greek words: the ordinary word to kill and the word to murder. And when Christ quotes the commandment He uses the murder one in all three accounts, Matthew, Mark, and Luke. And I am told there is the same distintion in Hebrew. All killing is not murder any more than all sexual intercource is adultery.
--C.S. Lewis, 'Mere Christianity'
Part of the indifference to the abortion issue stems from our disregard of human life before birth in general.
It's true miscarriage is heartbreaking, and many people are callous about it.
There are treatments for many causes of miscarriage. Some problems are fairly simple to treat, others very difficult.
About half of miscarriages are caused by a genetic defect in the unborn child - most of them miscarried before you could test, damage done before you could test, tests invasive and carrying risk.
How would you correct a trisomy in every cell, for instance? If you could do that kind of genetic manipulation what re-design of human beings would the brave new world contemplate?
Should everyone be conceived in vitro, controlled? There are worse evils than miscarriage.
Mrs VS
---"An ordained United Church of Christ pastor"---
I think you could have just printed this part and everyone would have already known his politics and real motivation.
Maybe it should be:
C. Joshua Villain
I was trolling DU to see their reaction to Bush's speech. Yeah typical vile as you might imagine. However I noticed a thread on DU entirely dedicated to your comment on this thread. Congrats your famous lol
http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_mesg&forum=364&topic_id=709083&mesg_id=709083
That explains volumes. If this guy is a Christian, then I'm a Chinese astronaut!
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