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  • Brother Temperance
    Senior Usher
    True Christian™ missionary to the Unsaved Kingdom
    A very nice young man
    True Christian™
    • Sep 2006
    • 15621
    #16
    Re: Hello LBC!

    Originally posted by Stella LaForte View Post
    Ah, I see, I merely needed to write outside the quote too.
    It makes it a lot easier if you write all your replies outside the quote.
    False gods? I don't recall mentioning any gods.
    Oh, except the supernatural beings with amazing powers, right?
    By good things I did not mean diamonds and flashy cars. And when did I mention evil? There is no such thing as objective morality, or morality at all, really.
    Trying to marry Ayn Rand crap to Buddhist crap doesn't produce a workable system, you just get crap all over everything. What do you mean by good things and bad things? At the end of the day, you've still got a stupid, childish refusal to face up to the fact that bad things happen to good people, which ultimately produces a hateful blame-the-victim mentality. Those German Jews must have committed some mighty unskillful acts, right?
    Oh, look! I can twist quotes to fit the context I want too!
    Yes, and I can plagarise too.
    Oh, dear. Let's define atheism, shall we? Atheism is the rejection of belief in the existence of deities. I reject the belief of the existence of deities. Therefore, I am an atheist. In the same manner, recognised religions such as Hinduism, Jainism, Paganism, Taoism, and Confucianism are also atheistic in nature.
    Right. Hinduism, Jainism, Paganism, all atheist. Right. I'll just go tell Ganesh, Shiva, Mahavira, Thor, Odin, the God and Goddess about that, shall I?
    Skilllful and unskillful have multiple meanings. The meaning I refer to is using them as terms for judging whether actions have a felicitous or unfelicitious effect, utilitarianistically.
    Right. Who judges? Who causes the effects?
    O Lord our God, help us to tear their soldiers to bloody shreds with our shells; help us to cover their smiling fields with the pale forms of their patriot dead; help us to drown the thunder of the guns with the shrieks of their wounded, writhing in pain; help us to lay waste their humble homes with a hurricane of fire; help us to wring the hearts of their unoffending widows with unavailing grief; help us to turn them out roofless with little children to wander unfriended the wastes of their desolated land in rags and hunger and thirst, sports of the sun flames of summer and the icy winds of winter, broken in spirit, worn with travail, imploring Thee for the refuge of the grave and denied it--for our sakes who adore Thee, Lord, blast their hopes, blight their lives, protract their bitter pilgrimage, make heavy their steps, water their way with their tears, stain the white snow with the blood of their wounded feet! We ask it, in the spirit of love, of Him Who is the Source of Love, and Who is the ever-faithful refuge and friend of all that are sore beset and seek His aid with humble and contrite hearts. Amen.



    God being truth, justice, goodness, beauty, power, and life, man is falsehood, iniquity, evil, ugliness, impotence, and death. God being master, man is the slave. Incapable of finding justice, truth, and eternal life by his own effort, he can attain them only through a divine revelation... he who desires to worship God must harbor no childish illusions about the matter, but bravely renounce his liberty and humanity.

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