Buster
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Yeah, don't commit suicide...that's as bad as Murder and you will go to Hell for either.Thanks Mike, I was about to commit hari-kari for my foolishness.
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This was the first result in my Google search with just Maher and Wright in the search field. They are sooo tricky sometimes where they hide these nuggets of information!
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Bill Maher Offers Reverend Wright Anatomical Criticism
By Tim Graham
April 30, 2008 - 05:54 ET
Andrew Malcolm of The Los Angeles Times Top of the Ticket blog suggested that Bill Maher on HBO "says what many people, most of them supporters of Sen. Barack Obama of Illinois, who refused to disown Wright in his recent race speech, are saying to themselves about the impact of the pastor's reappearance and resulting news coverage," but have "many" been this vivid?
I saw Reverend Wright. This is the guy that Obama did not throw under the bus. He said ‘you know what, I can no more repudiate him than I can repudiate my family.’ And I saw this guy the other night, who I also defended, Reverend Wright, saying ‘you know what, Obama was just being a politician.’ You know what, Reverend Wright? You’re a dick. [Laughter] What a dick. At the very moment Obama doesn’t need this to come back into the race. Obama did not disown him. That this guy brings up the one thing Obama cannot afford to have brought up, that he’s just another politician. This is his whole campaign, that I’m a different kind of politician.
That probably sounds like the view of "many people" in the news rooms of the national media. I’d say the real shock is that Bill Maher ever defended a Reverend, someone Maher would 99 times out of 100 scorn as a peddler of toxic fairy tales.
Arianna Huffington stayed stubbornly on Maher's left: "However bad Reverend Wright is or is not, what does it have to do ultimately with whether Barack Obama would be a good president or not?" She called it "another major distraction."
Apparently, Wright hasn't said anything that offends her yet. He's made fun of the way the Kennedys speak English, but he has yet to extend his comedy stylings to an Arianna impression.
CountryBoy
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Maher will get his in the end. After seeing him a couple of times, I don't waste my time with trash like him. His kind would be the first to have their heads lopped off by the muslim fanatics, that currently support our socialist candidate for prez.
CB
Birchtree
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Now if our friend Buster wants to offer me condemnation to the fires of hell I'll simply say to him - STFU. I cannot count the number of death situations I've encountered over the last forty years and never have I seen any divine intervention. These situations include the battle field, emergency rooms, intensive care units, operating rooms and emergency codes. I have participated in it all and neither Jesus or Allah were paramont. You are free to believe as you like. I was a Catholic alter boy for two years when I was a young teen and I have not been in a Church since 1969 and you can blame Vietnam for that and I have no intention of ever going back. My daughter will be married next year and I'll go into a church for her because that is what she desires.
budnipper1
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budnipper1
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Buster, I think you took my little comment the wrong way. I had to google stfu to learn what it meant and thought it was funny. Sorry if this offended you. My comment wasn't meant towards you or to Birch either. I probably should have just kept it to myself.
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Thanks budnipper. But no apologies necessary here. This thread, along with the election thread, came with a warning that anyone easily offended should stay away.
I don't think buster was offended anyway. He's pretty tough and seems to be just spreading the word. It's all good.
McDuck
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2nd Peter 3:8-10 - But you should never lose sight of this fact, dear friends, that time is not the same with the Lord as it is with us - to him a day may be a thousand years, and a thousand years only a day. It is not that he is dilatory about keeping his own promise as some men seem to think; the fact is that he is very patient towards you. He has no wish that any man should be destroyed. He wishes that all men should come to repent. Yet it remains true that the day of the Lord will come as suddenly and unexpectedly as a thief. In that day the heavens will disappear in a terrific tearing blast, the very elements will disintegrate in heat and the earth and all that is in it will be burnt up to nothing. (J B Phillips New Testament)
malyla
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I thought it meant 'so to for you'.
Birch,
Just when I am ready to write off any chance that we will stand on common ground, you surprise me with your comments here. It's nice to be pleasently surprised about someone you have had run-ins with in the past.
I have done a lot of reading on this subject of 'is there a God' and still can't say one way or another. I do believe that Jesus was a real man and that he had some very powerful things to say, but whether he was the son of God is as likely as saying that we are all the sons and daughters of God. Who knows for sure? The few things I have discovered is that many real meanings attributed to Jesus and God have been obsured or forgotten by time. My reading lead to the real meaning behind "Turn the other cheek" (hint: it doesn't mean you walk away) and why the orthodox Jewish religion does not eat pork (not a health issue). Also the old testament has many issues, such as being able to beat your wife with a stick no thicker than your thumb, plus the many reasons a person can be put to the death.
Is there a God in the Judeo/Christian sense? I don't think so, however, Mother Earth is an amazing place, full of wonder and life and if people want to believe that an all powerful (male) entity runs it, well who am I to condemn them (that is until they do it to me first).
I look forward to being surprised more in the future.
Malyla
Steadygain
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I'm glad you believe he was a real man.
I guess the only way we could possibly know for sure is by reading all the predictions about Jesus before he was born. If these predictions were verifiably written during a period of history that preceeded his birth - then the likelihood of him being all he was predicted to be are hugely and undeniably real. The more predictions over the years (say 400 distinct predictions) the more likely that only one person could possibly be what was claimed about him - and all the more the odds that person alone could ever be the one.
The only ones who know for sure are those that in total faith have died to themselves and completey found themselves in his spirit.
So it all comes down to faith - but faith can not be proven to anyone else - and therefore who can know??
If God is real - mankind would have to refer to God in terms that reduce God to our understanding. In all liklihood Male (or female) and all the things that make us different - do not apply to God.
budnipper1
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I wish You all could see the smile on my face..I take nothing serious as the internet is hard to convey my smart ass joking tone of voice...It's just me, and like the aggies here..I won't change..
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Frixxxx
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HE WAS UNREAL!!!!:cheesy:
Hey that's me!
You ever really look at a sunrise and think, "Wow, what are the chances of the sum of chances that led to a perfect situation to give me the luck to watch this blessed event?"
My belief is that when I see God face to face, it will not matter what form I percieve. It will only consist of eternal love.
Steadygain
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Malyla,
Sarah is my hero www.greenteadiary.com (my firstborn)
Then Emily (my second daughter)
Then Carrie (my last daughter)
Then it's pretty much all those like my mother and father, Cayman's father, WV-girl, Lady and all the rest who became what they are and learned to believe and see things as they do.
What does that tell you?
I'm not writting to challenge you - argue with you - or antagonize you. I'm saying this out of the deepest love and admiration because I have to believe you were born is a world created by God and therefore you are undoubtedly worthy of whatever respect I can offer.
malyla
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Haven't seen the show, but a friend has told me that the show in about a serial killer who preys on other serial killers. So, if someone kills and enjoys killing people who prey on the innocent, are they evil? Dexter seems to be saving lives at best or avenging deaths at worst. And if you feel that Dexter is a hero, then are you participating in (routing for) evil or are you aggreeing that the rule of law does not apply and it's ok to be a vigilante? Slippery slope with the vigilante issue. Sometimes hard to draw the line on who dies. But the idea of a vigilante taking the moral hit to protect the innocent is a very compeling idea. I would perfer the rule of law as I know what that is, but can anyone KNOW the moral compass of a killer? I wonder if Dexter is an agnostic.Last edited:
Now that is something we can agree on Birch. Amazing show...Similar threads
