Posted on 12/11/2009 5:57:16 PM PST by Jim Robinson
Free Republic is a fringe right-wing Christian fundamentalist site... or so they say... and they might even be right.
We don't go for any of that godless left-wing big government socialist malarkey. And we do put our faith and trust in God, not government. We are pro-God, pro-Life, pro-Family, pro-Country and pro-Liberty.
We do not believe that government or science knows what's best for us or our children. We will make our own decisions thank you very much.
Every once in a while some group of posters get together and try to bend Free Republic to their will. Now, we tend to be pretty free-wheeling around here and will take a lot of guff and a lot of obnoxious insults from a lot of people, but eventually a breaking point is reached.
For example, when a group of RINO lovers recently banded together to try to force FR to accept an abortionist/gay rights RINO as our presidential candidate, they soon found themselves on the outs.
And a few years ago a group of evolutionists tried to force FR over to their way of thinking and they soon found themselves on the outs.
FR is a pro-God, pro-Creator, pro-Life, pro-Liberty site.
And now we have yet another group of Darwinists trying to have their Darwinist way with us. Well, as I've said before what doesn't kill us will only make us stronger.
Darwin Central has again declared war on FR. They have ping lists and email lists and will try to pull away as many FReepers as they possibly can. So be it. Those who would rather go with Darwin, please go. I sure as hell won't try to stop you.
FR will remain a pro-God, pro-Life, pro-Liberty, pro-Creator conservative site.
We wholeheartedly believe that our unalienable rights are a gift from God our Creator not from man or government. And no man, no government will ever deprive us of same.
Keep your powder dry.
Maybe us agnostics don't have to be nearly as upset as I was when I first looked at this thread. If we just hunker down and wait for all the schisms and heresies of the last thousand years to be re-fought here on FR, we might be a bigger proportion of the membership than we are today.
They tend to think we didn't get out of the 8th grade, all live in Bill Clinton's Arkansas, and believe whatever our parents told us to believe.
Meanwhile, evos (at least those on the Left) defend the creation myths of "indigenous pipples" in the name of "multiculturalism" and attack chr*stianity for altering the ancient supernatural worldviews they would supposedly have treated as sacrosanct and part of Mankind's Glorious Heritage.
Zionist Conspirator who is unique unto himself, and from what I can see, well thought of around here.
Wow. I'm pleasantly surprised to see that I'm "well-thought of" but very unpleasantly unsurprised to learn that I'm "unique unto [my]self." Oh well. Why should my life change now?
We choose not to believe in evolution or we choose to believe in it. It really does come down to a respect for one's beliefs, and evolution is just another belief, an opinion. If we choose to believe differently, others must respect that and no more force it upon us and our children than one would force Islam upon us
That I agree with up to a point. G-d, being G-d, has the right to demand submission and worship. In a meaningless universe there is no logical reason to demand that anyone believe anything.
See my post 2317.
I would hope for a level of discrimination between those whose arguments amount to "you're not the right kind of Christian" and those whose arguments are more like "who are you to tell me I'm not Christian?"
I only meant that you are the only Noahide (that I know of), sorry
WOW is that phrase ever going to be misinterpreted!
Oh. No problem. Sorry!
Actually, I think there are lots of people on FR who call themselves Noachides, but their ideas are all over the place (just like the ideas of the Jews).
Remember also that technically all non-Jews are Noachides.
Your position IS NOT pro-life, it is pro-abortion and exactly the same as many Democrats. This notion that, "we'll just try to win hearts" was tried with slavery and the Republic was nearly destroyed fixing it. If something is wrong, it's wrong and public opinion shouldn't have a damn thing to do with it.
The ONLY acceptable solution for the Supreme Court would be to declare that the unborn are in fact persons and as such they enjoy the same rights as everyone else. If this does not happen, then a Constitutional amendment needs to be passed to declare the unborn persons.
So, great intelligences must “have a background” to postulate intelligent opinions?.
Baptism does not equate to salvation, FRiend. It is performed as a sign of dying to self. That is a question best answered by one’s conscience. If you have the faith to get baptized, you have the faith to be “saved”. I do not accept infant baptism, nor baptism for the dead as giving life to anything but a temple pass...
Thank you, I’m proud to be one then
Are you still a Mormon? Your theology can easily handle whatever “truth” works today, doesn’t it. Milk, not meat, for the newbies! Evolution is nothing, when you can be god yourself...
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I say something as a LDS a few in the mainstream likes to always accuse the LDS in a derogatory light of wanting to become gods?
Yet as an LDS we strive to overcome the natural man tendency as we witness some of those in the mainstream to playing god.
Knowingly or unknowingly takes it upon your self to play god judging another to the point of condemning those that disagree.
The child of God strives to do the will of the Lord and being submissive to be taught in all things the Lord sees fit that is necessary for the perfecting of the saints.
It is the LDS understanding waiting on the Lord to sanctify those who are joint heirs it is not for us to take it upon ourselves as many in the mainsteam have displayed in their endless tirade.
Those who feel the need to endlessly rant or rail against others who dare to differ with you also witness the Light of Chrsit within you being extinguished!
For the Spirit of the Lord can not dwell in a bitter continuous soul!
I have asked you a simple question but you sir had chosen instead to gnash your teeth!
The point was that evolution(ism) offers no rational basis for morality; if all we are really is meat byproducts of random events as evolutionites claim, what difference could moral conduct possibly make?
A second point might be that even a psychopath can eventually learn to see through junk science and brain-dead ideological doctrines...
No, but having the proper background will certainly help those intelligent opinions to be considered credible and accepted.
When discussing science and theology, it does indeed help to have some level of education on those topics. Otherwise, you run the risk of just making stuff up, reinventing the wheel, and/or making errors that have been made hundreds or thousands of years ago without realizing your ideas aren’t new.
Try posting Splifford again. It's your most cogent argument.
Not the words -- the graphic.
“Education” can also stifle thought and creativity, we’ve certainly seen that in the history of religion and science. Einstein was a postal clerk. The most brilliant rabbis that I’ve ever read, were often men who never read anything but Torah and never left their small villages. Many Christian pastors never had any formal education whatsoever, but that never stopped the HS from using them.
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