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Catholic ads in NY: Jesus was 'the original hipster'By Pallavi Reddy, CNN (CNN) - Ads around Brooklyn bring a new meaning to Joan Osborne's lyrics, “What if God was one of us?” In a new ad campaign launched by the Roman Catholic Diocese of Brooklyn this month, people in the borough and neighboring Queens have a new way to view Jesus: “The Original Hipster.” The ads feature the bottom half of a man - meant to be Jesus - wearing robes with a pair of dirty red Converse sneakers peeking out from the bottom. Follow the CNN Belief Blog on Twitter In a news release, the diocese refers to Seth Meyers' joke on “Saturday Night Live” that Converse sneakers are why more Catholics are returning to the church, and says the marketing campaign is “showing a cooler and more welcoming side of the Catholic Church.”
Monsignor Kieran Harrington said he understood the importance of relating to the people of the area. “Jesus appears (in these ads) like people of the L train,” he said. “What is a hipster anyway? Someone who stands against the (mainstream) culture. Jesus stood against the culture.” CNN Belief: The Curious Case of the Christian Hipster Ten months ago, the conversation started about creating such a campaign to let people know there are a variety of different faces who attend the church. Harrington says these particular ads were a collaboration with the ad and PR agency Ruckus. Now they are found in places where the church doesn't usually advertise, including bus stands, restaurants and gyms. The ads have generated online buzz in Salon, the Gothamist and other sites, and traffic on the diocese's website has gone up 400%, Harrington said. As for what kind of ads to expect from the diocese next, the monsignor said: “It’s for you to find out.” CNN’s Belief Blog: The faith angles behind the biggest stories
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Brooklyn's Williamsburg neighborhood, near Queens, is considered to be the "unofficial East Coast birthplace of hipsterism," as a 
Rejoice in the Good News!
Rhode Island is on the brink of approving same-sex marriage!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ag6k5eEYnSI
Let no man deceive you with vain words: for because of these things cometh the wrath of God upon the children of disobedience.
Ephesians 5:6
Amen.
HS ..............seems like you might be the 5 year old that needs to grow up ?
Oooh, the "wrath of god".....
Pretty scary for people that believe that drivel
HS
"Vain words" like "You're so special that the entire universe was special-made just for you, and it's creator has a special interest in you personally"? Vain words like claiming to know more about life on this planet and how the universe began than the scientists with the highest IQs do? Nope, there's nothing like Christianity to stroke a person's vanity.
@HeaverSent: I'lll gladly face the 'consequences' that are meted out by the non-existing gods.
It's what the wacko believers are capable of doing, and do every day; that has me concerned.
the end of a gun barrel ain't so bad. so what if god murdered everybody. look at sam the fvctard. she just wants you to save her the trouble
El Shaddai (Lord God Almighty)
El Elyon (The Most High God)
Adonai (Lord, Master)
Yahweh (Lord, Jehovah)
Jehovah Nissi (The Lord My Banner)
Jehovah-Raah (The Lord My Shepherd)
Jehovah Rapha (The Lord That Heals)
Jehovah Shammah (The Lord Is There)
Jehovah Tsidkenu (The Lord Our Righteousness)
Jehovah Mekoddishkem (The Lord Who Sanctifies You)
El Olam (The Everlasting God)
Elohim (God)
Qanna (Jealous)
Jehovah Jireh (The Lord Will Provide)
Jehovah Shalom (The Lord Is Peace)
Jehovah Sabaoth (The Lord of Hosts)
and now andy warhol
You missed several thousands of names.
I just read a book that had those names in it.
Not exactly the bastion of Christianity, the book's main protagonist is a slimy, megachurch preacher.
You could have taken that list directly from that book...
Ummm, you forgot James T. Kirk (Savior of the Galaxy).
Don't forget...
Charles Manson
Jim Jones
David Koresh
-–
"There ain't no jesus gonna come from the sky.
Now that I found out, I know I can cry." – John Lennon
@Which God?
Lord Garth not Kirk.
Generally speaking, I don't trust people who go be numerous aliases. Usually a sign that they've done a lot of awful things in their past, and are hoping that folks don't remember who they are, really.
What does God need with a starship?
Al-Qaeda (alkira) and sambo the hambone hard at work sacrificing their lives for their families. proud of you girls.
dodo, too, is busting her chops with 24/.7 non-stop participation cursing and hollering to anonymous believers. she won't be happy until all christians have been slaughtered and her nazi god hating god (herself) is crowned queen of the big mouths. go dorothy, go.
god murdered everyone
just wait
sundays comin
?
It's conspiracy theory lady.
faith: still on yer knees, dreaming of the savior filling up yer cheeks with his gooey savior goodness?
Pfffft.
You off your meds?
The crazy is strong with this one.
"nazi god-hating god"?
LMAO!
"Whoever has told you faith is claimed knowledge was lying to you or to themselves."
Glenn,
Faith IS claimed knowlege. Religion is not saying 'god might be true' or 'Jesus maybe was Lord and savior'. Maybe YOU aren't playing to that level of certainty but most are. If you are not claiming knowledge than what is your message? That the Christian faith is just a possibility? Just one of the many possibilites? And you pick that one as being true for you because why? Tradition? Indoctrination? Comfort? Personal experience? Those are all the same reasons the Hindu in India or the Muslim in Saudi Arabia have. I want to believe things that ARE true, not MIGHT be true.
"My only real question to you is whether or not you have faith that there is No God or do you simply not know?"
I don't know Glenn, neither does anybody. But the time to positively believe a claim is when there is proper foundation to accept the claim. No religion has ever done that, or even come close.
"As to the absurdity of God well I feel that way when I listen to Atheist start to talk about the origins of all matter and later to life itself."
I have not heard an atheist claim with absolute certainty they know the origins of matter. Of course they don't believe in god so they will not speculate or give an opinion that "god created everything". I don't know why that is surprising. As I noted earlier every historical claim of gods hand has had a natural cause in the end. Why should anyone accept the "god claim" when to this point it has not panned out as an answer for anything. Keeping "god" open as a possibility is not what religion is doing, they are claiming it as fact.
You need to call and bringing back Tom Tom The Piper's Son and Sam and Hawaiian Guest and all the others, because it would make this even more interesting.
And Glenn..................
Learning is fun with facts.......................... and facts work when teaching children.
Atheist Prof. Peter Higgs: Stop calling Higgs boson the ‘God particle’
Professor Peter Higgs said recently that there is no God and so people should stop referring to the theoretical partial that
bears his name as the “God particle.”
http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2013/04/08/atheist-prof-peter-higgs-stop-calling-higgs-bosen-the-god-particle/
Pope praises science, but insists God created world updated Thur October 28, 2010
Stephen Hawking is wrong, Pope Benedict XVI said Thursday – God did create the universe. The pope didn't actually mention the world-famous scientist, who argues in a book published last month that the laws of physics show there is no need for a supreme... \
http://religion.blogs.cnn.com/2010/10/28/pope-praises-science-but-insists-god-created-world/
Oops GLENN ..............forgot some backfill.................hope you can read ?
Oops dang thumb..............got in the way Glenn ..............the facts work ?
Heaven is 'a fairy story,' scientist Stephen Hawking says updated Tue May 17, 2011
By Dan Gilgoff, CNN.com Religion Editor The concept of heaven or any kind of afterlife is a "fairy story," famed British scientist Stephen Hawking said in a newspaper interview this week. "I regard the brain as a computer which will stop working when...
http://religion.blogs.cnn.com/2011/05/17/heaven-is-a-fairy-story-scientist-stephen-hawking-says/
April 7th, 2012
08:32 PM ET
The Jesus debate: Man vs. myth
http://religion.blogs.cnn.com/2012/04/07/the-jesus-debate-man-vs-myth/comment-page-137/#comment-2281915
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Breaking News
NASA: Three planets found are some of best candidates so far for habitable worlds outside our solar system.
http://www.cnn.com/2013/04/18/us/planet-discovery/index.html
@Blessed are the Cheesemakers,
I haven't read Glenn's posts, but perhaps he is making a distinction between claimed "truth" and knowledge? i.e. "God is true, regardless of what I do or don't know" vs. "i have knowledge that God exists."
It's a case of splitting hairs, I think, but maybe that's the tack he's taking.
blessed are the cheeseburgers. thanks for explaining christianity to the beginners
The bottom line to all of this is that something is true when this life is over. Something will happen to you. We're all going to die, and something- or nothing- is going to happen to our souls. You are going to heaven or to hell or into a hole in the ground or to eternal sleep or into eternal nothingness- but something is true. For a Christian to truly believe what the Bible says about unbelievers and then not warn them would be a terrible offense. That's why Christians tell you about Jesus. Or that's why they should tell you. If I die and Jesus was a myth, well- I'll find out. We all will someday. But I don't need proof to have faith in my God. You say you need proof, so be it. Don't believe. But don't be so offended when a person tries to tell you about Jesus- if they are true believers, they are telling you out of love and concern for your eternal soul.
And laws of association makes it part of the devil's cults too ...........does it not ........faith ?
" something- or nothing- is going to happen to our souls. " This is a false statement since it relys upon the premise that soul's exist when there is no evidence to support that hypothesis.
" they are telling you out of love and concern for your eternal soul" Again, statement carries no weight when viewed from the default of a soul needing to be proven before you can bribe or extort a person with it. I can tell you that you need to behave or you won't get a Unicorn for Christmas this year, but I doubt that will have much impact on your behavior as I doubt you are a believer in Unicorns. Now if I showed you a briefcase with a million dollars in it and said if you don't behave I won't give you the money, now you have some actual proven reward you can work hard for.
Fact: After thousands of years and billions of humans not one single shred of evidence exists of any soul or life force that lives on after death. Period.
@lh,
" Don't believe. But don't be so offended when a person tries to tell you about Jesus- if they are true believers, they are telling you out of love and concern for your eternal soul."
1) If you think they haven't heard about Jesus, at least in the US, then you are deluding yourself.
2) Why shouldn't we be offended when we are being accused of being evil, and threatened with burning in hell for eternity.
3) If Jesus was truly concerned about our "eternal souls", then why doesn't He simply convince us rather than "hardening" our hearts? It almost seems as if He doesn't want us to believe, given all the misleading, deceptive, information He's put out there... Alternatively, it all makes sense if He just doesn't exist.
ME II,
I think it is 2 sides of the same coin. Both ways are saying the claim is true, one is just saying they can't prove it and the other is saying they have personal revelation. I understand your point though. I was trying to get across to Glenn that he IS claiming it to be true, not that it is just a possibility.
ih,
I know some Christians are sincere in being concerned for people's soul. And that is nice of them to be concerned. I personally think if your religion has to resort to threats it is a weak belief. Teaching that concept to children is abusive as is the christian god.
faith,
Where did I explain CHristianity in my post?
@Blessed are the Cheesemakers,
" I was trying to get across to Glenn that he IS claiming it to be true, not that it is just a possibility."
Ah, I see your point.
Well, all I can really say in response to all of this is...read a bible sometime. Religion is not God- it's the opposite of God. Religion wants to bind you, Jesus wants to set you free. God doesn't harden your heart- He is not willing for any to perish. Religion has done more to damage the Gospel of Jesus Christ than all the atheists combined. Try reading a King James Bible some time- just you, no religious people telling you anything. Just read it and see what it says. Just pretend for a minute that God wrote a book and this is what He said. Don't put religion into it, just read what it says and then form an opinion. I wonder how many of you have ever even read it?
@ Ih
Christians care for your soul, hence they preach – would be the same stupid logic that Muslim fanatics give when they try to convert everyone to their faith. The history of full of their atrocities, but why blame them? They were just making sure the rest of the world knew and followed their idea of god! 🙂
ih,
Crack a history book sometime. The bible IS the book of the Christian religion, it was written by people in a religion, it was edited and canonized by people in a religion. Believing Jesus Christ is God ...IS a religion. Your inane arguement that belief in the bible as the holy word of a god is not "religious" is abusrd, ignorant and patronizing. I have read the bible, the message of the bible is immoral. It threatens punishement based on non-belief, it is not "good news".
@ Ih – "Try reading a King James Bible some time-"
Well, try reading the Bhagwad Gita sometime, or the Guru Granth Sahib!
Or maybe Buddhist philosophy. Or why not the Quran? Devout Muslims think you can find every answer in the Quran.
Or are you the frog living inside a Christian pond, who cannot see beyond Jesus and realize that there are several other equally beautiful and yet, equally abhoring, ideas out there!
Blessed are the Cheesemakers...........agree .................but what will Chad say about thee book of nasty ?
Cheesemaker is rebellious, lawless and disobedient against Jesus and wants others to follow him to the flames of destruction. Cheesemaker has never taken the time to figured out who steered him away from God's truth, just busy making excuses for his bad behavior.
HS: "has never taken the time to figured out"
Whack!.. goes my ruler on your uneducated scrawny fingers.
HS ..............seems like you might be the 5 year old that needs to grow up ?
Science,
I don't think it is Chad, not that I would rule it out....he does have a lot of 'sockpuppets'.
HeavenSent,
I navigated myself out of your immoral religion using reason and critical thinking...Christianity hates it when people use those tools. Threats of eternal punishment betray a weak arguement. Jesus is completely over rated, that is why you need miracles and threats to prop up your belief.
lh, you could also be reincarnated as turtle as some people believe.
ih: you can come back as evaporated milk if you believe in reinCarnation
The Catholics are obviously getting even more desperate to sell their particular god fraud and recruit new fools into their particular pyramid scheme.
Funny too, that their "god" needs them to spend marketing dollars and do advertising. He can't seem to get his message out himself. As with every other mainstream religion, the "god" that they've created is a rather pathetically incapable one.
And make sure to give 10 percent of gross income................ before taxes.............?
Bob...just a thought (and I'm not Catholic, so I don't have any skin in the game)...is there some rule that says God can't use modern marketing to get His message out? $$ is used for marketing the gospel in the form of sending missionaries out (that takes money), printing and distributing bibles (paper isn't free), building churches (concrete doesn't grow on trees). Why do atheists constantly require that God perform only miracles to get His message out?
The religious dare loves physically, emotionally and spiritually while the atheist loves only physically and emotionally.
has anyone ever read one of science's posts?
Why yes, Science always has interesting posts.
Hey faith how are you this fine day ?
'a conversation', why does your "god" need human help to do its marketing? As George Carlin said so well, funny too that your "god" needs money.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gPOfurmrjxo
@A Conversation,
"Why do atheists constantly require that God perform only miracles to get His message out?"
Perhaps the question should be, why does God never use miracles to get His message out?
@lionlylamb Says
"The religious dare loves physically, emotionally and spiritually while the atheist loves only physically and emotionally"
What is loving spiritually? Spirits do not exist so that would mean your love is delusional.
I think this would make more sense, The religious love from a delusional standpoint while atheist love is based on reality.
Bob...I don't believe God needs to us man-made methods to get His message out, I think he just chooses to do so because He is relying on us to do it, so naturally, we're going to use what is at our disposal. God doesn't need our money, but his people do.
Me II...I don't know that God doesn't use miracles (large or small)...are you actively looking for them? Are they under your nose? Would you recognize them if you saw them? Would you care?
'A conversation', that would be only because "his people' actually made him, not vice versa.
Your god delusions are infantile and pathetic, as well as unsupportable. Do get over them already.
Bob, thank you so much for your last comment and your advice. I think it might help me get through the day.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aFzq87TAQmg&feature=player_detailpage
for all have sinned and fall short of the glory of God
Then man created a religion which makes their followers feel like they are worthless, and many fell for it.
Reality 20:13
Richard C, So you claim to be a perfect human being? How can that be?
When did I make that claim?
Never is the answer.
Men created thousands of gods...The bibles god makes people feel like unworthy wretches...terrible.
Humans are as perfect as any other organism in the universe, perfectly adapted for most climates and the ones we are not adaptable to we used our brains to develop self contained habitats so we could explore areas our bodies were not suited for. We've been to the bottom of our oceans, we been to the surface of our moon, we've sent robots hundreds of thousands of miles to explore the surface of other planets. Not to toot our own horn, but how much more perfectly adaptable do we have to be for the nay sayers to accept were pretty damn amazing and shouldn't saddle ourselves with mountains of archaic guilt for no other reason than to control the uneducated masses.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_detailpage&v=_-aE7zQTeEg
Richard, If that is not the claim you are making) that you are not perfect), then what exactly is your objection to Romans 3:23?
My problem with Romans is the same as for the rest of the bible. It was created by men, makes claims of supernatural things with no evidence to back it up, makes people think that they are sinners, when sin is just another creation from within the bible. It is a story used to frighten children into behaving.
I am not a sinner as there are no gods to defy. I am not perfect because there is no definition of what a perfect person is.
brian the head welsh korn man
dodo
Apparently this blog is having a problem finding stories.
How is it in any way news worthy that the New York diocese is reaching out to young people?
Granted, this is a comically bad attempt, but still not news worthy.
brian the head welsh korn man
Q: How many illegal Mexicans does it take to shingle a roof?
A: It depends how thin they're sliced.
I heard that joke only it was lawyers.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9SVahsiPQx8
(Christian cardboard "music")
Stepen is not but ..............................you might be !
Years later and they are still trying ...................Bad for the children !....
And laws of association makes it part of the devil's cults too ...........does it not ........GOD and Country ?
Dover Trial Transcripts............................................. FACTS.
Below are the complete transcripts from the Dover Trial. Thanks to our friends at the National Center for Science Education for helping us fill in the missing transcripts.
http://www.aclupa.org/legal/legaldocket/intelligentdesigncase/dovertrialtranscripts.htm
Stop the vid bullshit, you're fucking up the whole board.
And now for some truth and consequences:
Jesus was an illiterate Jewish peasant/carpenter/simple preacher man who suffered from hallucinations (or “mythicizing” from P, M, M, L and J) and who has been characterized anywhere from the Messiah from Nazareth to a mythical character from mythical Nazareth to a ma-mzer from Nazareth (Professor Bruce Chilton, in his book Rabbi Jesus). An-alyses of Jesus’ life by many contemporary NT scholars (e.g. Professors Ludemann, Crossan, Borg and Fredriksen, ) via the NT and related doc-uments have concluded that only about 30% of Jesus' sayings and ways noted in the NT were authentic. The rest being embellishments (e.g. miracles)/hallucinations made/had by the NT authors to impress various Christian, Jewish and Pagan sects.
The 30% of the NT that is "authentic Jesus" like everything in life was borrowed/plagiarized and/or improved from those who came before. In Jesus' case, it was the ways and sayings of the Babylonians, Greeks, Persians, Egyptians, Hitt-ites, Canaanites, OT, John the Baptizer and possibly the ways and sayings of traveling Greek Cynics.
earlychristianwritings.com/
For added "pizzazz", Catholic theologians divided god the singularity into three persons and invented atonement as an added guilt trip for the "pew people" to go along with this trinity of overseers. By doing so, they made god the padre into god the "filicider".
Current RCC problems:
Too many pedophiliac priests, an all-male, "celibate", old, mostly white hierarchy, atonement theology and original sin!!!!
Then why there are so many gay people being preachers and you also find them where there is a large number of men reunited, like the army or the scouts for example? Also in baseball, hockey and athletes. Pedophiles are not different that gay people. They are the same people, of course you have those who are trying hard to separate them into different categories but it won't change the fact that they are the same type of people.
AtheistsAreLosers has a distinct trollness going on that sounds a little like HS/justsayin/captain asshat. How carnal are we today, troll?
Or it could be chad, topher, live4him Maybe ?
AAL: "Then why there are so many gay people being preachers and you also find them where there is a large number of men reunited, like the army or the scouts for example? Also in baseball, hockey and athletes. Pedophiles are not different that gay people."
LOL.
Or Doogie ?
My mistake, i should have said than gay instead of that gay. So what, it's just a typing error and not the end of the world.
Get some education, Atheists are Losers.
Pedophiles prey on children.
Homosexuals do not.
Both Pedophiles and child molesters are primarily heterosexual males. Active pedophilic behavior generally starts slowing down around age 35; the child molester generally continues his victimization until he is no longer physically able due to age, illness, injury, or incarceration.
http://www.crisisconnectioninc.org/sexualassault/pedophilia_and_molestation.htm
Keep trying hard Akira. The truth is whoever is attracted to the same s e x regardless of the age is h o m o s e x u a l i t y period.
By all means, please continue to miss the point, AAL. Your inability to read, comprehend and express yourself properly in English here only helps the atheist cause!
"Jesus was an illiterate Jewish peasant/carpenter/simple preacher man who suffered from hallucinations "
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Pretty spot on. He used to pray and talk to himself.
You may certainly refuse to be educated, Athists are Losers.
I'll certainly continue to try and educate people.
You may certainly persist in your ignorance that pedophilia=homosexuality bigotry; I will continue to post the links where you are wrong, and where you can be educated at.
Akira, just want to say, thanks for your efforts. Even if that idiot you are responding too won't follow the links and be educated, others might.
".......only helps the atheist cause!............." Told ya A&A's like to coagulate. Their adhesion gives them mutual support and admiration. One slight widdle miscalculation..........They ain't the judge.
Obviously ordination in any religion is not assurance of good behavior !!!!!
Neither is coronation!!! e.g. Henry VIII, King David.
Neither is marriage as 50% of those men convicted of pedophilia are married.
Neither is being elected president of the USA!! e.g. Billy "I did not have s-ex with that girl" Clinton, John "Marilyn Monroe" Kennedy".
Neither is possessing super athletic skill!!! e.g. Tiger "I am so sorry for getting caught" Woods.
Neither is being an atheist or pagan or football coach since pedophilia is present in all walks of life.
If someone is guilty of a crime in this litany of "neithers" they should or should have been penalized as the law dictates to include jail terms for pedophiliacs (priests, rabbis, evangelicals, boy scout leaders, married men/women, football coaches), divorce for adultery (Clinton, Kennedy, Woods), jail terms for obstruction of justice (Paterno et al Clinton, Cardinal Law) or child endangerment (Paterno in abstentia, Sandusky et al, Lynn) and the death penalty or life in prison for murder ("Kings David and Henry VIII).
Good riddance to those Boston Bomb commentaries, phew! what a relief! 😉
Count me in!
The best therapy out there for BPD
And laws of association makes it part of the devil's cults too ...........does it not ........Me, Myself and I are having soul
searching conversations with ourselves today ?
By the way sole is on bottom of shoe !
I will be back in 2 hours, i bet there will be 65 pages of atheists still babbling their big mouth pretending to be geniuses.
Go fuck yourself. Two hours is plenty enough time even for somebody with your erectile dysfunction problems.
And the nuts are hanging on the oak tree !
First off...My IQ does put me into the genius catagory, so I am not pretending.
Second, because I point out your horrible english, does not mean I am 16...triple that and you are closer.
Any other lies or wild speculation, troll?
And I bet if you don't come back you expect us to wait 2013 years for you to keep your promise?
Hopefully your return is delayed by at least as long as Jeebus' return has been.
Richard if your IQ was to be that high, then why are you losing your time on comment boards babbling your mouth against religion?
Troll is obvious troll.
I'm sorry, ".", but based on my knowledge of human anatomy, and in consideration of "AtheistsAreLosers"'s level of frustration, I have calculated that it is extremely unlikely that "AtheistsAreLosers" is capable of fvcking himself.
hal 9001....................LOL
@.
Wow! How did you get the F word past the censors?
f<b></b>uck renders: fuck
I would rather pretend being a genius then pretend there is a god.
Yeah...don't bother, troll. Get back to your McJob.
aal
If you read any of what I post you will find far more questions than babble. Babbling is for trolls like you.
I simply try to point out the unreasonable and illogical means by which people gain "faith".
It's funny to see how atheists are crying out loud asking about facts, and when you offer them those facts they turn around and deny everything you gave them and resolves to name calling or calling everyone a troll.
AAL: " . . and when you offer them those facts . . "
I'm sorry, "AtheistsAreLosers", but you have presented no facts. It is probably best that you follow the recommendation of "sam" and "get back to your McJob".
Did you offer any fact, AAL? I haven't seen you present any yet. All I have seen you do is make broad sweeping generalizations on what YOU think atheists are...
Of course i gave facts, i said i will be back in 2 hours and you atheists would still be here babbling your mouths, guess what? I haven't gone away for 2 hours yet and there are even more atheists babbling their mouth right now.
I'm sorry, "AtheistsAreLosers", but your have presented no facts here, therefore you lose. Better luck next time.
If i haven't provided any proof of what i've said then why are you still here then?
AAL
In Internet slang, a troll (pron.: /ˈtroʊl/, /ˈtrɒl/) is someone who posts inflammatory,[1] extraneous, or off-topic messages in an online community, such as a forum, chat room, or blog, with the primary intent of provoking readers into an emotional response[2] or of otherwise disrupting normal on-topic discussion
That is you...I'm not calling you a troll...I'm identifying you.
"So God created mankind in his own image, in the image of God he created them; male and female he created them."
So, God was transgender.?
There you have it.
The whole truth and nothing but the truth.
rad666
And if god had a belly button he must have been hooked up to an umbilical cord and had a mommy? Who or what was god's mommy?
Then God said, "Let us make mankind in our image, in our likeness," genesis 1:26 notice how he refers to gods in the plural. also if you look at the second commandment "You shall have no other gods before me" he is kinda admitting that there are other gods... not that i believe in any gods it just interesting if you analysis the language that is used
What they're really saying is god is a primate, since humans are a primate species according to genetics & biology.
Let me say the Catholics can have em, I happen to be a native New Yorker and my family has been in NYC for over 130 years.
Real New Yorkers cant stand hipsters, Most are not from New York and their parents pay for their apartments in Brooklyn.
they really are a modern day spoiled hippie gone smug.
So please take the hipsters and give them a shower and show them what a washing machine is.
No kidding. Is there anything less hip than a "hipster"? There is nothing cool about desperately chasing "cool"-ness. The only people hipsters impress are themselves.
Phhht.
I was hating hipsters before it was cool.
My observations will prove itself to be right, judging by the number of atheists increasing in numbers over the last half an hour babbling about religions.
At least we can use english properly, and we don't need to lie to make ourselves feel superior.
Another observation is when you see someone always reminding others about either their bad grammar or not using english properly only means that this someone is usually under the age of 16.
"My observations will prove itself" . .
Whack! goes my ruler on your scrawny fingers.
@the original poster.
Is that the best you can do? Really? Why do you even bother?
Years later and they are still trying ...................Bad for the children !....
And laws of association makes it part of the devil's cults too ...........does it not ........AtheistsAreLosers ?
Dover Trial Transcripts............................................. FACTS.
Below are the complete transcripts from the Dover Trial. Thanks to our friends at the National Center for Science Education for helping us fill in the missing transcripts.
http://www.aclupa.org/legal/legaldocket/intelligentdesigncase/dovertrialtranscripts.htm
Keep on going atheists.
You really must love getting your ass handed to you, AAL. Are you into public humiliation?
AtheistsAreLosers....................facts work fgor teaching children..........OK
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Why do you say most people, what data do you have to back it up...Oh that's right you don't. You have followed the footsteps of the men who created your bible...make stuff up and pass it off as true.
Why are you using a different name...tired of trolling on the old one?
I say most atheists because compare the number of believers and atheists over here today and you will find the answer you're looking for.
Your information is incorrect.
Many people are posting, and they do not divulge their religion all of the time. On top of it, you have trolls like yourselff posting under many different names, so you data is corrupted by the anonymity of a blog...again...wild speculation and jump to conclusion....find something more interesting troll, you bore me.
@AAL............... "Keep on going atheists."
Thanks for the encouragement! yes, we will do just that!... and please continue to confuse mythology with reality.
Richard, if you have such an high IQ, then why are you denying the fact that there is a large numbers of atheists people on CNN comment boards babbling their mouths against religion. Just type down the word "religion, jesus, god" in the CNN search box and you will find a large number of articles with pages of commentaries made by atheists using name calling toward a small amount of religious people compare to atheists who are posting. If you atheists wants proof and facts then do this little search on this CNN website in the archives area and you will see it. Then if you keep denying these facts, then you are a bunch hypocrites and liars.
I have not denied that many use name calling. I just want you to show your data, since you are the one making the "observation". What exact numbers do you have?
It's a good place to refute the madness, AAL. Since Atheists don't usually congregate, it's a good place to call out silly beliefs and the problems they cause.
AtheistsAreLosers...................2005 they lost in court go pound sand !
Dover Trial Transcripts............................................. FACTS.
Below are the complete transcripts from the Dover Trial. Thanks to our friends at the National Center for Science Education for helping us fill in the missing transcripts.
http://www.aclupa.org/legal/legaldocket/intelligentdesigncase/dovertrialtranscripts.htm
Richard are you really asking me to go and make a research in the CNN archives about how many atheists there are on comment boards here and then coming back to give you a number? Are you out of your mind. I am not going to spend the next 25 years to do that search, because that's how long it will take just to pull out the reality of them atheists behaviors. I don't need to go to that length, all someone as to do is just spend the next few minutes looking and search for themselves an they will soon realized that what i'm saying is true. It goes way beyond only names calling, there were for an example on that article about those little 20 kids that were shot dead not too long ago, i have seen a huge amount of atheists not even offering a single moral support to the families involved, all they did was calling people names and being arrogant to those who offered prayers to these families. Not a single atheist make a positive comment. And this is just one example of your atheist behavior. Go and do that research for yourself, after all you are the one proclaiming to be a genius with an high IQ, don't geniuses loves to make researches?
The person making the claim is the one responsible for the proof of backing up their claim.
Otherwise, it looks like they're just making bald speculations based on their own opinion.
@AtheistsAreLosers,
This is ridiculous. How can someone using the name you are using even begin to accuse others of bad behavior?
@ Akira
That's what you atheists are doing all the time, putting the burden of proof on others, the reality is atheists is just a smoke screen and nothing in atheism is good and real, they're even too lazy to do a single research. And they proclaim themselves to be geniuses when everyone knows darn well that geniuses are researchers nuts. Atheism is all about being lazy, self proclaiming and self centered. When atheists are confronted with the truth the first thing they respond with is denying. Again atheism is just a smoke screen.
AAL: "That's what you atheists are doing all the time, putting the burden of proof on others, the reality is atheists is just a smoke screen and nothing in atheism is good and real, they're even too lazy to do a single research. "
Whack! ...goes my ruler on your uneducated filthy scrawny fingers.
My reasearh invoves things of science, mathematics and technology. I dabble in the social sciences as well, but have little time to research your wild claims. You are the one who posted the statement. You got called out on it. Now show your work.
i have heard a christian say "well Jesus was getting crucified before it was cool"
So, if I understand the Bible correctly, Jesus was the result of ra_pe by immaculate conception?
I think one of the "wise" men was actually making a return visit. They are not saying what he did the first time he was there.
its why Jesus is white but his mom and i presume father were from the middle east. "No i didn't cheat it was god"
rad666
Try putting this question to a devout christian? Why did god have to knock up Mary, a married woman, when he could just have created a grown man like he did with Adam? Would have saved a lot of time and kept Joseph from wondering about the whole stupid story.
What do you think is more likely:
1) Magic impregnation
2) A lie told to avoid getting stoned to death
If you can't imagine a world in which a woman would be chaste, you should probably vote for free contraception and government funded abortion
And laws of association makes it part of the devil's cults too ...........does it not ........ Bill ?
Bill, that was so dumb even for you that I hope someone stole your screen name.
Bill Deacon
Is irrelevant. Billy is an obsequious papal apologist troll...and
Stated...A criminal might subvert this sacrament but that would make him a criminal, not a priest and would result in immediate ex-communication.
Bill's wisdom...The truth is the truth whether everyone believes it or no believes it.
You are right for a change Billy and pay for it (contraception and early term abortions) by removing tax exempt status from religions and not allowing a tax deduction for charitable contributions for religious organizations.
@Bill Deacon
"If you can't imagine a world in which a woman would be chaste, you should probably vote for free contraception and government funded abortion."
I'm a little confused by this Bill. Are you saying that even if women choose to be chaste, they shouldn't have access to contraception?
@Bill
While I certainly can imagine a world in which a woman is chaste, a pregnant virgin is awfully hard to quantify.
Can you imagine a world in which a unchaste woman would do anything she could to keep her neighbours from murdering her for being a harlot?