WA Ping And there you have it - this perfectly illustrates the intellectual character of at least one half of the population in the Pacific North West.
Posted on 05/16/2016 4:48:19 AM PDT by lowbridge
Expecting the peaceful pastor to cave, they were shocked and enraged when he not only refused to remove it, but offered the perfect response.
Belmont Drive Missionary Baptist Church in Oregon has caused a disturbing stir in self-important hypocrites who believe that Islam is a supreme religion that should never be criticized. The church in Hood River has caused the thought police to sound the alarm on bigotry, proving their own intolerance.
WSBT rushed to the scene of a political correctness crime, in which the Baptist church displayed a message on their sign declaring, “Wake up Christians. Allah is not our God. Muhammad not greater than Jesus.” Likewise, the other side reads, “Only the Bible is God’s word. ‘Holy book.’ Koran is just another book.”
Hood River resident Eric Cohn was nearly in tears over the church stating what God has already stated in the Bible, saying that his feelings were hurt when he looked at the message board.
“I literally had to stop and back up and make sure I saw what I saw, and I was profoundly offended and upset by it,” Eric Cohn said.
Cohn wasn’t the only one wishing that the U.S. would outlaw free speech. Hood River Mayor Paul Blackburn allowed his feelings to get the best of his logic, and he most likely hopes to use his political platform to do away with said pesky freedom.
“I was really annoyed and sad,” Hood River mayor, Paul Blackburn, said. “I am annoyed that in this political season there’s a solid case of ugly going on. I think it norms up this kind of behavior like ‘oh, it’s okay to be a bigot now.'”
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“Only the Bible is God’s word. ‘Holy book.’ Koran is just another book.”
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Enough of this muslim crap!
I'd strap my holster on my belt and walk up... tell the muslims...STFU and get the ---- out of our country!
But that's just want I'd do; here in Texas you can now walk around anywhere in public...wearing a holster.
Interesting you quoted those two verses. I was just done studying romans chapter 12 for a class tomorrow and I read romans 12:19. Then I used deuteronomy 32:35 as a crosse reference on my homework.
And those 2 verses were talking about my day at work.
Btw- your post is absolutely correct.
WA Ping And there you have it - this perfectly illustrates the intellectual character of at least one half of the population in the Pacific North West.
WA PingThat was in reference to the pic in #58
So true. There are so many liberals out there, that they'd probably be upset if someone even insinuated that Muslims should ever be chastised about anything. And btw, in my #81, I have to clarify that I'd only tell a Muslim (in jest) to get out of the country and be sure they could see that I had legal protection on me. That might keep them from pulling out a knife on me, lol.
But if fact, I'd probably be too scared to tell a muslim anything. Never know when they are going to go homocidal and stab ya.
Thanks for the post; ping; graphic; graphic; comments.
HOORAY Dom the Conservative
HOORAY Belmont Drive Missionary Baptist Church
HOORAY Pastor Michael Harrington
BTTT!
Eric Cohn?
Extra stupid
I’ve never seen an Irish Cohn
Usually what you are referring to becomes Conn
That is perfect.
May I recommend that, as a scientific experiment, when you read about lawsuits from people who demand that age-old crosses be removed, Christmas Trees be prohibited and prayers at public events be prohibited, you pay attention to the NAMES of those demanding people?
I think there is something to be learned from reading those names, if you are as unbiased and clear-seeing as you imply.
May I recommend that, as a scientific experiment, when you read about lawsuits from people who demand that age-old crosses be removed, Christmas Trees be prohibited and prayers at public events be prohibited, you pay attention to the NAMES of those demanding people?
I think there is something to be learned from reading those names, if you are as unbiased and clear-seeing as you imply.
The truth is I do not tolerate “intolerance”.
No “repentance” required.
“Equivocating” can not take a direct object, so I was definitely not “equivocating” Islam and definitely not “equivocating” “judaism.” No equivocating about that.
Don’t shoot the messenger. I was reporting a bit of paradoxical theology. I did not intend to denigrate Christianity. The irony is that Islam, a monotheistic religion, turned Jewish morality inside out. Christianity, after undergoing a maturing process, followed the moral code of Judaism.
The messiah according to Jewish belief is a human, born of two human parents. He is considered as someone with the ability to dramatically transform things for the good, but he is not considered divine.
Thanks for the clarification.
If I remember correctly, the reason why Islam takes its form the way it does is because Mohammed tried to be Jewish to begin with, but after being rejected by the Jewish sect he was attempting to join, he invented his own religion that took on the superficial shape of Judaism (dietary laws, strict monotheism, etc.).
Christianity, on the other hand, was an outreach of a Jewish radical to Gentiles, in order to keep Judaism from being eliminated from the Earth and avoidance of a return to the days of Noah.
Syncretism caused a bunch of problems, surely, but still the Jewish people survived because of these Gentile allies and the Gentile preservation of Jewish texts, which otherwise would have been lost to history.
Jesus, a simple carpenter who became a healer, accomplished what the Jewish priests and warrior Zealots could not: the spread of Judaism across the entire world.
Your comments targeted a man for being Jewish and threatened another Holocaust; antisemitic. Which denomination or faith community do you assemble with ?
Yes, I think we agree in much, but not all.
Judaism survived, though, not because of, but in spite of Christianity. No need to go here into the long and tragic history of Christian anti-Semitism, pogroms, etc. I assume you know that bitter history. Judaism was popular and thriving at the time of Jesus, with many converts throughout the Roman Empire.
With the continued learning of the holy texts and the redaction of the oral tradition, there was without any break a continuity of the diaspora Jewish people, now exiled from their land in the year 70 when the Second Temple in Jerusalem was destroyed. In addition and, yes, eventually widely, Christianity spread the Five Books of Moses, the Prophets, and the Writings, and Psalms widely, albeit the mistranslations into 70 languages led in some cases to some mighty wrong ideas about the meaning of the actual text of the Hebrew originals.
The corpus of Judaism’s sacrosanct written works and the equally important oral tradition of Jewish law and learning and traditions survived the destruction in the Second Temple in Jerusalem in the year 70 of the common era because a small group of leaders/scholars were given permission to move their learning apparatus
to Yavne with a core group of scholar teachers. From Wikipedia: “Yavneh is considered to be the most significant site for post-biblical Jewish history after Jerusalem, since it was here that modern Judaism was born after the destruction of Jerusalem in the year 70 CE and the loss of the Second Temple, until then the centre of religious identity for the Jews.[4] The process started in Yavneh after 70 CE was essential for adapting Judaism to a new situation where there was no central Temple, in terms of laws, calendar, and liturgy.[4] This became the base for Jewish religious practice throughout the world until today.[4]
After the destruction of the Second Temple in 70 CE, Rabban Yochanan Ben Zakkai moved the Sanhedrin to Yavne.”
That fellow getting lashed in the picture at the link has some stylish panties...wonder if that’s why the beating.
To your first comment:
No. My comments targeted a man for bringing lawsuits in a effort to limit free speech about religion.
I suggested that that man might learn something useful from studying why the religious tolerance of Weimar Germany was so quickly replaced by the anti-religious evil of the regime which followed.
To your second comment:
I would hope that presenting “politically incorrect” comments for discussion would not trigger attempts at bullying.
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