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techstepgenr8tion
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03 Mar 2013, 10:36 pm

If anyone's looking to do YouTube bible study David Pawson's stuff is excellent. He actually addresses the OP in his 2nd Thessalonians video:
[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lsIV0UB81rs&list=SP04889AD5AB529FB4&index=19[/youtube]

There's only a little bit I disagree with him on - ie. he's a full futurist for the book of Revelations, I'm 2/3 preterist but he gleans a lot of insightful stuff regarding each book.



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04 Mar 2013, 1:31 am

thomas81 wrote:
regards to christianity v communism.

If we can say one thing about christianity, its that it doesnt advocate capitalism, AFAIK. If anything all that laissez faire objectivist sh** is closer to satanism, which is one reason I've never understood why christianity has a tendency to attract right wing d-bags.


In most societies religion is a tool used to preserve order. The current world order is run by global corporate capitalism. There's absolutely nothing in Christianity itself that promotes capitalism other than the fact that it's a religion.



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04 Mar 2013, 1:59 am

Give me back the Berlin Wall,
Give me Stalin and St. Paul,
Give me Christ and give me Hiroshima,



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08 Mar 2013, 4:55 pm

Fnord wrote:
It's not the religion, it's the people that are hypocrites. Christianity is based on a collection of largely apocryphal stories that were passed down orally and embellished upon for thousands of years before ever being written down. Leaders of each Christian sect "cherry-picks" its doctrines from the collection and imposes them on people, who will display their piety in a religious setting while robbing, raping and murdering their families and neighbors "in the name of God".

Other than that one small detail, I agree with you - Christianity is full of hypocrites, and Christians are full of hypocrisy ... well, they're full of something, anyway ...


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15 Mar 2013, 5:55 pm

[quote="CaptainTrips222"][quote="Fnord"]
It's not the religion, it's the people that are hypocrites. Christianity is based on a collection of largely apocryphal stories that were passed down orally and embellished upon for thousands of years before ever being written down. Leaders of each Christian sect "cherry-picks" its doctrines from the collection and imposes them on people, who will display their piety in a religious setting while robbing, raping and murdering their families and neighbors "in the name of God".

Other than that one small detail, I agree with you - Christianity is full of hypocrites, and Christians are full of hypocrisy ... well, they're full of [i]something[/i], anyway ...[/quote]

Good enough to be quoted.[/quote]

is there a pun intended here for a far reaching outcry and critical sarcasm of the former pope benedict?
look yeah, that bloke was old and does not explain for the religious settings that we civillians of all our nations
depend on in times of statory recognition,failure and war