<p>Yo' sho' bout that ?</p>
<p>I am, yes. It's a pet peeve of mine. :D</p>
<p>waht ees dis pet peiv that yo' ass talks 'bout?</p>
<p><em>headdesk</em></p>
<p>I don't think we'll get far with this arguement unless faster methods of communication are possible...</p>
<p>so...what are you?</p>
<p>in terms of <em>academics</em>,</p>
<p>x] Ha ha ha what are you? xP Hhhhmmm what am I? What is she? [Wonders]</p>
<p>we should all talk through AIM, and exchange thoughts...</p>
<p>(Not sure what you're asking but) I am:</p>
<p>-a high school sophomore
-an honors student with an artificially deflated GPA (private school)
-multitalented; split evenly between humanities, fine arts, and sciences
-fluent in three languages
-well-read
-pretentious</p>
<p>And you?</p>
<p>-A high School Freshman
-Honors Student; perfect unweighed GPA
-Public High School
-Talent?Pff...
-Fluent in 3 languages
-Varsity Soccer</p>
<p>yo; have aim?
unless....</p>
<p>I do, yes. I'm savetheunipine.</p>
<p>Mine is theslocX</p>
<p>sempitern555; Seriously now; We live in a country of Religious freedom; you can form you're religion as I speak of it; go and form your own...Maybe you'll be cool. Religion has its flaws? Sure; but evolution and Science has much greater ones.</p>
<p>Edgar, I agree with you entirely. I'm a Christian and also an aspiring scientist. Sometimes things are best left as a mystery.</p>
<p>"I'm a Christian and also an aspiring scientist. Sometimes things are best left as a mystery."</p>
<p>but our missions as scientists should be to examine the mysteries of life... after all, there would be no atom theory, germ theory, etc if we did not explore the mysteries of life. My issue with fundamentalists is that they try to elevate an unsubstantiated belief to one that is supported by empirical evidence</p>
<p>Was flipping through the newspaper, and this article caught my eye......it seems to be particularly appropriate for this raging war we've got going on here.....couldn't find the link, so I'm typing it out. Highly interesting, might I add..........</p>
<p>"Who Knew that God hates liberals so much?"</p>
<pre><code> While stepping onto a Broad Street subway train at Broad and Girard recently, I noticed a man in his 20s walking up and down the aisle screaming at passengers. Although scenes of men or women "lecturing" passengers in the subway are not uncommon, the terrorist screaming was. This man, I thought, was about to explode or hit someone. For a second I imagined he'd take out a gun and start shooting.
Throwing air punches and shouting at the top of his voice, he paced up and down the center aisle, stopped, said something about spending time in prison, then turned around and began another shouting spree. Sixty faces sat frozen. Then he mentioned "Jesus" and, screaming at the top of his lungs, threw another air punch and said how Jesus had saved him.
What amazed me was how passive everybody was and how nobody challenged him, sneered, or otherwise raised their eyebrows. Perhaps fear was the paralyzer, despite the mention of "Jesus".
"Jesus! Jesus!" he kept shouting, throwing more air punches and growling. I watched his face - eyes rolled up into his head, mouth contorted. "You better accept Jesus if you know waht's good for you," he yelled at two old Vietnamese women clutching their purses.
Lest you think this man a total freak of nature, think again. His kind is replicating all over the land. He's symbolic of something else that is happening: The determination of the religious right to turn America into the kind of theocracy where non-believers or even liberals are pushed to the margins, or in some cases, "expelled."
Last month in a Baptist church in Waynesville, N.C., the pastor kicked out all the church's Democrats.
Yes, you heard it right. If members of his congregation didn't vote for Bush, they had to "repent" in order to not be excommunicated. The Democrats refused to "repent," and as they left the church, the remaining members stood up and applauded. Forty other members of the curch left in protest, but this did not affect the pastor: He wanted the liberals out.
The pastor said that if you supported John Kerry or the Democratic Party, you were against the church.
Maybe the action of one yahoo church in North Carolina or one crazy man on the subway doesn't mean that America is going to hell in a handbasket.
The implicaitons, however, are startling. Here we have proof that Sen. Bill Frist's characterization of Democrats as being "against people of faith" is beginning to take hold. And not only in Waynesville, mind you, but in other southern Baptist churches as well.
Churches excommunicating Democrats? What is this if not the growing face of the American jihad.
Like the applause that greeted the expulsion of the Waynesville Democrats, two or three women in the subway car congratulated the crazy man for his terroristic tribute to Jesus. "Thank you, " they told him "Bless you."
Praise the Lord.
</code></pre>
<p>I was somewhat reluctant to post this after seeing that the debate had calmed down on this thread, but the article just hit me like a ton of bricks. I cannot count the times someone has tried to "save" me or offered to drop kick me to hell. It's this kind of religious bull**** that drives people away from religion and the often toxic blindness it induces in the masses.</p>
<p>Helix: Thanks for posting; that's really interesting (terrifying).</p>
<p>yea....being a non-christian i have been told numerous times i would be going to hell =P its a pleasant experience it is</p>
<p>
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Last month in a Baptist church in Waynesville, N.C., the pastor kicked out all the church's Democrats.
Yes, you heard it right. If members of his congregation didn't vote for Bush, they had to "repent" in order to not be excommunicated. The Democrats refused to "repent," and as they left the church, the remaining members stood up and applauded. Forty other members of the curch left in protest, but this did not affect the pastor: He wanted the liberals out.
The pastor said that if you supported John Kerry or the Democratic Party, you were against the church.
[/quote]
I'm pretty sure they could lose their tax-free privileges for this. Non-profits are not allowed to endorse political parties or candidates.</p>
<p>Nevertheless, there ARE crazy people in the world. Isolated happenings don't mean the doomsday is coming. I used to work in a Democratic congressman's office, and you should hear some of the people that call in. I can't go into detail because there are confidentiality laws, but I'll just say that there are some crazy conspiracy theorists on the left side of the spectrum. And in the eyes of many conservatives, ultraliberals are worse than hostile spreaders of God's love.</p>