Hello to the decent half of America

[Mike Adams]

Hello,

I feel as though we should probably get along, but there are going to be a few hurdles.


1) I didn't vote Republican. I have never voted Republican. This is because of problem 2.
2) I'm British. Therefore I don't get to vote in America ... but if I did, I'd vote for the GoP. I voted Brexit. Does that count?
3) I don't know the bible inside out. I was raised as a lazy Catholic, we mouthed the words at school during hymns and prayers, my parents were disinterested. I was baptised, I didn't make it to confirmation. Depending on how full heaven is, I might be left outside with the Jews and the mud people.


So why am I here? Because in my own nation I find myself not sharing the beliefs and ideologies of my people. I have a government hell bent on making us the soy capital of the world (well, we are watching Canada and trying to keep up). Everyone seems to be either gay, a he-she or a virtue signalling sympathiser to any sexual proclivity a pervert might have. And I'm fed up talking to blue haired vegetarians who identify as [insert made up word]sexual when they really mean that no one wants them.


I'm just looking for a community of people that haven't been drinking water polluted with birth control pills. If that brings me closer to God, that can't be a bad thing.




I like BBQs. I like Brad Paisley. NASCAR is something I don't understand. I have never eaten a squirrel. I'm not allowed to shoot things in my country but I do archery instead. I watched my first Superbowl this year. I didn't care who won. I don't mine crypto but I don't hate it either. I like Bob Ross. I hate Ellen DeGeneres.

[Basilissa]

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Hello and to our friendly forum! So, how did you come to escape from the clutches of the Catholics and into Jesus' embrace?

Also, have you started reading the Bible yet?

[Didymus Much]

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...3) I don't know the bible inside out...

Then how do you know you agree with it?


"XX,*insert jovial British friendly nickname from Google wait what? really? ok...* cunt, lemme tell ya bout this the greatest book someone else has read..."

[Mary Etheldreda]

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Welcome friend! Have you ever cracked open the Holy Bible? Like you, I was also subjected to the mind-numbing cultish rituals of the Papist religion, and I never opened a Holy Bible until I became a Christian. Imagine my surprise to have read the Bible and never once find a passage about baptising babies, altar boys, or priests raping children.

[Mike Adams]

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Mmmm. Well there are some confusing replies in there.

Being a Catholic (albeit never a serious practising catholic) I believe that still qualifies me as a Christian. I was also brought up as a Christian. If I have my elbows on the table my father would crack me around the ear and tell me to eat like a Christian. I now have impeccable table manners.


The bible not having anything about baptism is a bit out of left field because it was taught to me as one of the 5 milestones of a Jesus life along with Transfiguration, Crucifixion, Resurrection, and Ascension. I'm guessing I read a bastardised version of it. The Baptism of Christ was supposed to be a pretty big deal and along with his crucifixion is one of the few things corroborated by historians.


My first ever bible was called "The Good News bible". It was a fully illustrated and had an inordinate amount of goats in it. I currently have about 5 or 6 bibles from various hotels I have stayed at, but I normally only take them if I don't like the towels.

[Mary Etheldreda]

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Mmmm. Well there are some confusing replies in there.

Mr. Much is a deceptive agent of Satan but for mysterious reasons Pastor Zeke allows him to stay. Nevertheless, he does make a valid point from time to time, and you would do well to keep on your toes.

Being a Catholic (albeit never a serious practising catholic) I believe that still qualifies me as a Christian. I was also brought up as a Christian. If I have my elbows on the table my father would crack me around the ear and tell me to eat like a Christian. I now have impeccable table manners.

Papist parents tell their children this but it is a lie. They don't tell their children until their children are parents and are ready to baptize their babies. Then the priest takes them back to the sacistry and dumps this secret on them. Those who don't panic and have checkbooks or cash at the ready are invited to stay.

The bible not having anything about baptism is a bit out of left field because it was taught to me as one of the 5 milestones of a Jesus life along with Transfiguration, Crucifixion, Resurrection, and Ascension. I'm guessing I read a bastardised version of it. The Baptism of Christ was supposed to be a pretty big deal and along with his crucifixion is one of the few things corroborated by historians.

The bible doesn't have anything about infant baptism, dear. The implication it does is how the RCC perpetuates their lies and how they pass in polite society as normal.

My first ever bible was called "The Good News bible". It was a fully illustrated and had an inordinate amount of goats in it. I currently have about 5 or 6 bibles from various hotels I have stayed at, but I normally only take them if I don't like the towels.

Have you considered cracking one open and reading a few lines here or there? You know, to be familiar with the faith you profess to have?

[Mike Adams]

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Mmmm. Well you aren't going to like this answer but I will share anyway.

I have for a long time been a Deist. This is because I am a life long member of the flat earth society. Indeed I was told of this site many years ago when one of your members visited our forums and suggested I create an account here.


To that end my religious knowledge is extensive regarding the works of Ptolemy, the clockwork universe, the unmoved mover and the creation of heaven and earth.


I share the same religion as the founding fathers, the masons and their arch enemies the Illuminati (bankers). I know of Deist markers and I know of the markers of the Illuminati such as 'the middle finger of modernity' ... which is a literal middle finger to the story of creation, a fixed flat earth and a geocentric model of the universe created by God for use by man.


There are many similarities in the beliefs of Deists and those of Christians, and they usually find themselves natural allies. The only differ on matters of Jesus and whether God actually cares about individuals or not.


But I find myself torn. Believing in a God that doesn't care about me doesn't make my heart happy. And I'm now of an age where I would rather be happy than be right. If you believe in something that makes your miserable you got the wrong answer. It doesn't matter what science says ... its still the wrong answer. Every race of man on earth is spiritual, every civilisation ... it is hard wired into us ... and to deny God is to deny your own biology. And so if i am going to choose to believe in God ... I may as well pick the happy loving kind. That is what blind faith is. Ignoring the bits that don't sit right, in order to enjoy the benefits that do.

[Mary Etheldreda]

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And so if i am going to choose to believe in God ... I may as well pick the happy loving kind. That is what blind faith is. Ignoring the bits that don't sit right, in order to enjoy the benefits that do.

Sounds like a perfectly 21st century, affluent westernized answer.


No worries, dear. There is help for you yet!


I would encourage you to read up and make an informed decision:
Read along the Bible with us.
Learn specifics.
Find a favorite Bible Verse.
Know what Christianity is, and what it isn't.
And what the Bible doesn't say.

[Mike Adams]

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It is the absolute opposite of a Westerner answer. Westerners are atheists. I hate Atheists. They are the scum of the earth. Ingrates.

Atheism is the ONLY religion that offers you nothing.
It gives no divine justice to the downtrodden.
No hope to the sick.
No comfort to the dying.
No enrichment of soul for the poor.


If you have a dying child its the only religion that doesn't tell that child that they are going to heaven. Its a religion that tells a dying child they are going to be worm food. It is hateful.


Atheists claim it is not a religion but they BELIEVE there is no God. Belief ... congrats ... a religion.


And Westerners can easily say "I'm an atheist" because they aren't poor or sick or suffering injustice. They don't need God. But they are also the first to tell those that do that their God doesn't exist. Atheism is cruelty. May they be the first to feel the fire of God on Judgement day.

[Mike Adams]

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Oh, and I already have a favourite bible quote.

Psalms 19:1.
"The heavens declare the glory of God; and the firmament sheweth his handywork."


I already told you, I'm a life long member of the flat earth society. ;-)

[Didymus Much]

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...Atheism is cruelty. May they be the first to feel the fire of God on Judgement day.

Yet I bear you no ill will based solely on your beliefs. Curious.

So you gonna bother reading the Bible to find out how it says that believing in a "god" that ain't Jealous puts you in exactly the same boat as I am as far as these people are concerned?

And, bursting one of your bubbles, these folks tell their children that they're going to Hell all the time, especially if they hate Jesus enough to get sick. Because that is True Christianity(tm) (the one that has evidence for it, i.e. the Bible).

[Mike Adams]

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I don't care what people believe as long as they believe in something.

But when you talk to someone who will openly admit that they have no soul ... you are talking to a person with no self worth. A person who will do anything they want if no one is watching them. A person who makes up their own morals on any given day to suit themselves.


Can't get on board with atheists.


Imagine that "I have no soul". What kind of human being are you? You don't think you are any more important than a stone.

[Didymus Much]

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I also don't care what people believe as long as they believe in something.

I believe I'll have another joint/drink/blowjob while you're down there.

But when you talk to someone who will openly brag that they have a soul ... you are talking to a person with no internal self worth. A person who needs external validation, even from an invisible friend, that they admit there's no way to be sure we're pleasing so the best you can do is what you'd probably end up doing anyways because you don't want to get your ass kicked by the real people you share this globe with because you're being an anti-social jerk. A person who will do anything they want if no one is watching them, and think confessing to some dude in a dress in a closet makes up for it. A person who bases their own morals on a myth constructed with the assistance of ancient pharmacological accidents (of the mushroom and rye blight varieties) and perpetuated by wishful thinking and narrow, ignorant self-interest.

Can't get on board with theists.

Imagine that "I have a soul". What kind of human being are you? You don't think you are any more important than a stone in God's eyes, and anyone who doesn't observe in exactly the same fashion as you doesn't even merit that (because God hates them, obv.).

[Basilissa]

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Being a Catholic (albeit never a serious practising catholic) I believe that still qualifies me as a Christian.

We have an entire subforum which proves you wrong. Basically: Catholics are not Christian because Christianity is a religion which is based on the Bible, while Catholics follow a made-up tradition (mostly of pagan roots) which has nothing to do with the actual contents of the Bible. Just one example (out of many which you can find by clicking on the link above): Catholics pray to statues, so to make it "OK," they changed the Ten Commandments.

If I have my elbows on the table my father would crack me around the ear and tell me to eat like a Christian. I now have impeccable table manners.

Just saying you're a Christian does not make you a Christian. Christianity is not like one of them endless terms&conditions agreements, which you just mindlessly scroll through and click "I agree." Christianity is a life-long commitment, and how can you know what you are committing to, if you have never actually read the terms&conditions (the Holy Bible)?

The bible not having anything about baptism is a bit out of left field because it was taught to me as one of the 5 milestones of a Jesus life along with Transfiguration, Crucifixion, Resurrection, and Ascension. I'm guessing I read a bastardised version of it.

We're Baptists, so we have nothing against baptism, however, the Holy Bible shows that people who want to be Christians need to be baptized as adults who know what they're getting into. Child baptism is not Biblical, and it doesn't count because a child cannot give consent and cannot understand what baptism means.

The Baptism of Christ was supposed to be a pretty big deal and along with his crucifixion is one of the few things corroborated by historians.

By which historians? I must have missed that.

But I find myself torn. Believing in a God that doesn't care about me doesn't make my heart happy. And I'm now of an age where I would rather be happy than be right. If you believe in something that makes your miserable you got the wrong answer. It doesn't matter what science says ... its still the wrong answer. Every race of man on earth is spiritual, every civilisation ... it is hard wired into us ... and to deny God is to deny your own biology. And so if i am going to choose to believe in God ... I may as well pick the happy loving kind. That is what blind faith is. Ignoring the bits that don't sit right, in order to enjoy the benefits that do.

Well, then you need to look for some other religion, because Christian God is not loving. He is God of war (Exodus 15:3). He is vengeful (Ezekiel 25:17). He creates evil (Isaiah 45:7). He hates people (Psalm 106:40). He is merciless (Isaiah 9:16-17), enjoying the little babies' brains being splashed against rocks (Psalm 137:9).

It is the absolute opposite of a Westerner answer. Westerners are atheists.

Dear, I gather you've never been to the American Midwest. Godly Westerners are God-fearing, Bible-obeying folks.

[BrotherLarry]

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Brother Mike,


Your papist upbringing, fueled by the heathen people of Bolivia from whence most Mary worship began outside of Rome, has caused you to become quite stubborn and deluded. You deserve a place in the seat of the scornful, which is where you should never be.


As others have stated here, Catholicism is NOT Christianity. The Catholics favor tradition along with sacred scripture (sola scriptura is their pet peeve). The problem with that is: Christians follow CHRIST. Who follows Christ? Baptists. Other religions follow Luther, Wesley, the Pope and/or Pavarotti; their pathway leads straight to the burning fires of the Lake of Fire. God Himself told us to "Come out of her," meaning the ridiculously sinful Catholic church. I came out many years ago and it was the best thing that could happen to me. I hid behind a closet of false identity, but now I say it loud and proud: I love Jesus Christ of Nazareth. He is my all. He is my everything. Being out is a joy and a blessing.


The saints that receive so much veneration and worship from papists were thieves, criminals, liars, murderers, and organized criminals. Padre Pio would often pierce his own hands to give the impression that stigmata was present when it was really just the results of a sharp Gillette blade his father gave him at puberty. This is a proven fact and I would cite you the source but I'm out of ink on my printer.


I will pray for your salvation and urge you to read our forums, especially those about Catholicism. Don't be like Bolivians. Be like Baptists.


I would be happy to fellowship with you if you have further questions. As a certified equine gnathologist I would not steer you wrong any more than I would bash a horse in the mouth.


Much love in Jesus Holy Name.
BrotherLarry (Rev. 22:12)