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June 26th, 2013
11:53 AM ET
`Jesus wept' or tears of joy? Faithful react to gay marriage rulingsBy Daniel Burke, CNN (CNN) As news broke of the big Supreme Court rulings on gay marriage, religious leaders took to Twitter to express joyous praise or strong condemnation. http://storify.com/danielsburke/religious-reaction-to-scotus-decisions |
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Give me a break! Get off your holier than thou crap. God doesn't care one bit about stopping people from getting married. Only scared cowards do
Dead people don't cry.
The instance where He cried occurred BEFORE His death.
Let them say what they want, live however they want and pass what laws they want. I'm not even worried. The more Godless this world becomes, the closer we get to God taking action and cleaning up this world.
Oh, as if. What nonsense! You don't get closer to your god by hating and reviling others who are different.
Sounds like that vindictive and cruel Christian god again, onhsnap. No thanks. You can keep that spiteful ass hole to yourself.
"Just you wait until my dad gets here, you'll be sorry!!"
Typical – why do some christians rail against the "state of decay in our society" and the others turn around and say "see this is proof god's coming back soon!" – If that's the case, why is anyone worried about this? Everything's going just as your god said it would...
I'm crying tears, from laughing so hard from reading the bible. The biggest joke book in history.
Even more laughable is that some people are actually stupid enough to believe the crazy sh!t that's in there. Pass me some shellfish please. No bbq talking snake tho.
IIf jesus cried today I hope the salt from his tears really burned when they landed in his spear wound
You want Jesus to suffer? Wow.
There is a special place in the afterlife for you.
Mike Huckabee..."jesus wept".... Who is the jesus he is referring to? The only jesus I know is the one who was was spackling the wall on the new home being built down the street and when I saw him, he wasn't weeping...he was happy to have a job....
I thought it was "Hey shoos"
This whole issue confuses me. I have a few questions. When I burn a bull on the altar as a sacrifice, I know it creates a pleasing odour for the Lord – Lev.1:9. The problem is my neighbours. They claim the odour is not pleasing to them. Should I smite them?
I would like to sell my daughter into slavery, as sanctioned in Exodus 21:7. In this day and age, what do you think would be a fair price for her?
I know that I am allowed no contact with a woman while she is in her period of menstrual uncleanliness – Lev.15: 19-24. The problem is how do I tell? I have tried asking, but most women take offence.
Lev. 25:44 states that I may indeed possess slaves, both male and female, provided they are purchased from neighbouring nations. A friend of mine claims that this applies to Mexicans, but not Canadians. Can somebody clarify? Why can't I own Canadians?
Thanks in advance.
"...but most women take offence" – best line on this thread by far!
A pathetic argument. God no longer requires His believers to obey those laws.
@Interesting.
Then why do Christians quote them so much? Oh cherry picking. Gotcha.
I just got off work – have the "end of days" posters showed up yet ?
You've missed at least 2 hours of railing, midwest!
I'm sure the hand-wringing has been spectacularly dramatic.
midwest rail
Ya, a few but when pressed to provide a date and time they turtled, no Harold Camping's among them.
Chad is now chadvic !
I'm thinking Chad is now jboom. Similar comments.
Page 2 maybe is where Rachel fesses up it is chadvic....................something about being an idiot.
Yeah, they both overuse html tags, I'll give you that.
I think Vic is just LL having a blast with HTML just as he did with posting video after video, ad nauseam.
Yeah, and "Christians" thought the world was coming to an end when Lincoln emancipated the slaves. And when women got the right to vote. And, and and...
You guys were wrong, and you lost. Get over it, and how *dare* you presume to speak for Jesus Christ (or anyone else)??!!?? Seriously?
Yelling is bad. The wringing bb gun welt just under the soft part of my eye where it stings the most and then turns black and blue. You can’t stop smiling. "It works!” you say. “It works!”
AB
Glad you are OK.
HUMAN SACRIFCE! DOGS AND CATS LIVING TOGETHER! MASS HYSTERIA!
I am wondering where post go to that do not show up to be read? Are they being removed by censors/reviewers? "CNN welcomes a lively and courteous diccussion..." Really?
Lazarus
@lazarus00000
You said, "I am wondering where post go to that do not show up to be read? Are they being removed by censors/reviewers? "CNN welcomes a lively and courteous diccussion..." Really?"
CNN uses WordPress blogs for their opinion pieces, and they use automated censoring that looks for words, or fragments of words, that are considered offensive. If your post doesn't show up, it most likely had a forbidden word in it.
On the Belief Blog, repeat posts, even those that were previously censored and not displayed, will show a message stating that you posted it before.
The following words or word fragments will get your post censored (list is incomplete):
arse as in Arsenal
bastard
bitch
clit
cock as in cockatiel
coon as in cocoon
cracker
cum as in circumstance
cunt
douche
effing
fag
ftw
fuck
goddamn
gloryhole
homo as in homosexual
hooters
horny
hump
jackass
jap
jism
kinky
kooch
necrophilia
nigra as in denigrate
nigger
nipple
orgy
pis
poon
porn
prick
queer
rape as in grape
sex as in homosexual
shit
slut
smut
snatch
spic as in despicable
tit as in constitution or title
twat
vag as in vague
whore
wonderful us
wop
wtf
xxx
To circumvent the filters you can break up the words by putting an extra character in, like: consti.tution (breaking the oh so naughty "tit").
LinCa,
Thanks so much, but I try to not use such words even though they are not used in a derougatory context.
Thanks again,
Lazarus
@lazarus00000
You said, "Thanks so much, but I try to not use such words even though they are not used in a derougatory context."
Even very innocent words can trip the filters. Some of the obvious ones on an article like this are sex and homo, but also constitution, or even title will cause your post to get rejected.
You may even have stumbled on one that I'm not aware of.
Unfortunately, if one even wants to use the word "Constitution", one must rely on html tages to get past the "tit" contained within that word.
lazarus,
Here is another version of that list, with a few more suggestions for what words might be tripping the filter:
Bad letter combinations / words to avoid if you want to get past the CNN Belief Blog/WordPress automatic filter:
Many, if not most, are buried within other words, so use your imagination.
You can use dashes, spaces, or other characters or some html tricks to modify the "offending" letter combinations.
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ar-se.....as in ar-senic.
co-ck.....as in co-ckatiel, co-ckatrice, co-ckleshell, co-ckles, etc.
co-on.....as in racc-oon, coc-oon, etc.
crac-ker…
cu-m......as in doc-ument, accu-mulate, circu-mnavigate, circu-mstances, cu-mbersome, cuc-umber, etc.
ef-fing...as in ef-fing filter
ft-w......as in soft-ware, delft-ware, swift-water, drift-wood, etc.
ho-mo.....as in ho-mo sapiens or ho-mose-xual, ho-mogenous, sopho-more, etc.
ho-oters…as in sho-oters
ho-rny....as in tho-rny, etc.
inf-orms us…
hu-mp… as in th-ump, th-umper, th-umping
jacka-ss...yet "ass" is allowed by itself.....
ja-p......as in j-apanese, ja-pan, j-ape, etc.
koo-ch....as in koo-chie koo..!
ni-gra…as in deni-grate
nip-ple
o-rgy….as in po-rgy, zo-rgy, etc.
pi-s......as in pi-stol, lapi-s, pi-ssed, therapi-st, etc.
p-oon… as in sp-oon, lamp-oon, harp-oon
p-orn… as in p-ornography
pr-ick....as in pri-ckling, pri-ckles, etc.
que-er
ra-pe.....as in scra-pe, tra-peze, gr-ape, thera-peutic, sara-pe, etc.
se-x......as in Ess-ex, s-exual, etc.
sl-ut
sm-ut…..as in transm-utation
sn-atch
sp-ank
sp-ic.....as in desp-icable, hosp-ice, consp-icuous, susp-icious, sp-icule, sp-ice, etc.
sp-ook… as in sp-ooky, sp-ooked
strip-per
ti-t......as in const-itution, att-itude, t-itle, ent-ity, alt-itude, beat-itude, etc.
tw-at.....as in wristw-atch, nightw-atchman, salt-water, etc.
va-g......as in extrava-gant, va-gina, va-grant, va-gue, sava-ge, etc.
who-re....as in who're you kidding / don't forget to put in that apostrophe!
wt-f....also!!!!!!!
x.xx…
"Jesus wept?" Yeah, right. The Christ said to love one another and was silent on gays. Furthermore, the DOMA ruling was about federal benefits only, not religious acts. Therefore the theocrat nuts are simply wrong and idiots.
Since we've got Other Bob being a cafeteria Christian and dumping select bible bile on us from his Christian book of nasty, let's take a look at what's really in there. From both evil testaments, and note the comments within re context and interpretation:
Numbers 31:17-18
17 Now kiII all the boys. And kiII every woman who has slept with a man,
18 but save for yourselves every girl who has never slept with a man.
Deuteronomy 13:6 – “If your brother, your mother’s son or your son or daughter, or the wife you cherish, or your friend who is as your own soul entice you secretly, saying, let us go and serve other gods … you shall surely kill him; your hand shall be first against him to put him to death”
Revelations 2:23 And I will kill her children with death; and all the churches shall know that I am he which searcheth the reins and hearts: and I will give unto every one of you according to your works.
Leviticus 25
44 “‘Your male and female slaves are to come from the nations around you; from them you may buy slaves.
45 You may also buy some of the temporary residents living among you and members of their clans born in your country, and they will become your property.
46 You can bequeath them to your children as inherited property and can make them slaves for life, but you must not rule over your fellow Israelites ruthlessly.
Note that the bible is also very clear that you should sacrifice and burn an animal today because the smell makes sicko Christian sky fairy happy. No, you don't get to use the parts for food. You burn them, a complete waste of the poor animal.
Yes, the bible really says that, everyone. Yes, it's in Leviticus, look it up. Yes, Jesus purportedly said that the OT commands still apply. No exceptions. But even if you think the OT was god's mistaken first go around, you have to ask why a perfect, loving enti-ty would ever put such horrid instructions in there. If you think rationally at all, that is.
And then, if you disagree with my interpretation, ask yourself how it is that your "god" couldn't come up with a better way to communicate than a book that is so readily subject to so many interpretations and to being taken "out of context", and has so many mistakes in it. Pretty pathetic god that you've made for yourself.
So get out your sacrificial knife or your nasty sky creature will torture you eternally. Or just take a closer look at your foolish supersti-tions, understand that they are just silly, and toss them into the dustbin with all the rest of the gods that man has created.
Ask the questions. Break the chains. Join the movement.
Be free of Christianity and other superstitions.
http://whywontgodhealamputees.com/
I am wondering how your post made it through the Censors? I am a student of history and know that Religions are exactly what Thomans Paine said they were. I use historical data to support my posts and often see resentment to these facts.
Have you read any books by Geza Vermes? He is very good in the delivery of a balanced historical account that offers us insight to the evolution (Evil-ution) of religions.
I imagine the southern Baptist are Knashing their teeth tonight.
Lazarus
you are a sicko and your whole clan.
Suck it Chic-fil-a.
its called chic-kill-gay in our household.
it's 'bout time. better late than never.
enough of religious people bitiching, hating, punishing, and sending people to hell for not conform to their idiologies.
If you are going to quote a Mormon, you may want to quote a Mormon who actually practices.
toddstarnes 'Supreme Court overrules God.'
Newsflash: You are NOT God. You and your neo-Christian freakshow do not get to play god with the lives of millions of people. Deal with it.
Love this quote from Mike Huckabee: "5 people in robes said they are bigger than the voters of CA and Congress combined.And bigger than God.May He forgive us all."
Why I like it is because it shows us something about the majority of conservative Christians. Huckabee is hoping God will "forgive us all" because, as God acknowledges in the book he himself wrote, very often in the past he has destroyed entire cities and civilizations for the sins of a few. That's Old Testament justice and many conservative Christians, whom I call Old Testament Christians, fully believe in it. (Remember Pat Robertson claiming 9/11 was God's punishment because we have gays in America?)
5 people have decided that the unconstitutionality of some laws needed to be struck down. Huckabee is irrelevant, and making himself more so every time he pontificates about something that deals with a subject he doesn't like.
Yeah, I'm not sure if Huckabee realizes we live in America, where there is a freedom of religion. This is not Iran or Pakistan, where religious law is state law.
18 For the wrath of God is revealed from heaven against all ungodliness and unrighteousness of men, who hold the truth in unrighteousness;
19 Because that which may be known of God is manifest in them; for God hath shewed [it] unto them.
20 For the invisible things of him from the creation of the world are clearly seen, being understood by the things that are made, [even] his eternal power and Godhead; so that they are without excuse:
21 Because that, when they knew God, they glorified [him] not as God, neither were thankful; but became vain in their imaginations, and their foolish heart was darkened.
22 Professing themselves to be wise, they became fools,
23 And changed the glory of the uncorruptible God into an image made like to corruptible man, and to birds, and fourfooted beasts, and creeping things.
24 Wherefore God also gave them up to uncleanness through the lusts of their own hearts, to dishonour their own bodies between themselves:
25 Who changed the truth of God into a lie, and worshipped and served the creature more than the Creator, who is blessed for ever. Amen.
26 For this cause God gave them up unto vile affections: for even their women did change the natural use into that which is against nature:
27 And likewise also the men, leaving the natural use of the woman, burned in their lust one toward another; men with men working that which is unseemly, and receiving in themselves that recompence of their error which was meet.
Suck it up, buttercup. Equality is here to stay no matter what you quote.
And there shall in that time be rumours of things going astray, and there will be a great confusion as to where things really are, and nobody will really know where lieth those little things with the sort of raffia work base, that has an attachment
…at this time, a friend shall lose his friends’s hammer and the young shall not know where lieth the things possessed by their fathers that their fathers put there only just the night before around eight o’clock...
And the Lord spake, saying, "First shalt thou take out the Holy Pin. Then shalt thou count to three, no more, no less. Three shall be the number thou shalt count, and the number of the counting shall be three. Four shalt thou not count, neither count thou two, excepting that thou then proceed to three. Five is right out. Once the number three, being the third number, be reached, then lobbest thou thy Holy Hand Grenade of Antioch towards thy foe, who, being naughty in my sight, shall snuff it.
and creeping things.
that is so funny.
He will come in one of the pre-chosen forms. During the rectification of the Vuldrini, the traveler came as a large and moving Torg! Then, during the third reconciliation of the last of the McKetrick supplicants, they chose a new form for him: that of a giant Slor! Many Shuvs and Zuuls knew what it was to be roasted in the depths of the Slor that day, I can tell you!
Other Bob, since you are being a cafeteria Christian and dumping select bible bile on us from your Christian book of nasty, let's take a look at what's really in there. From both evil testaments:
Numbers 31:17-18
17 Now kiII all the boys. And kiII every woman who has slept with a man,
18 but save for yourselves every girl who has never slept with a man.
Deuteronomy 13:6 – “If your brother, your mother’s son or your son or daughter, or the wife you cherish, or your friend who is as your own soul entice you secretly, saying, let us go and serve other gods … you shall surely kill him; your hand shall be first against him to put him to death”
Revelations 2:23 And I will kill her children with death; and all the churches shall know that I am he which searcheth the reins and hearts: and I will give unto every one of you according to your works.
Leviticus 25
44 “‘Your male and female slaves are to come from the nations around you; from them you may buy slaves.
45 You may also buy some of the temporary residents living among you and members of their clans born in your country, and they will become your property.
46 You can bequeath them to your children as inherited property and can make them slaves for life, but you must not rule over your fellow Israelites ruthlessly.
Note that the bible is also very clear that you should sacrifice and burn an animal today because the smell makes sicko Christian sky fairy happy. No, you don't get to use the parts for food. You burn them, a complete waste of the poor animal.
Yes, the bible really says that, everyone. Yes, it's in Leviticus, look it up. Yes, Jesus purportedly said that the OT commands still apply. No exceptions. But even if you think the OT was god's mistaken first go around, you have to ask why a perfect, loving enti-ty would ever put such horrid instructions in there. If you think rationally at all, that is.
And then, if you disagree with my interpretation, ask yourself how it is that your "god" couldn't come up with a better way to communicate than a book that is so readily subject to so many interpretations and to being taken "out of context", and has so many mistakes in it. Pretty pathetic god that you've made for yourself.
So get out your sacrificial knife or your nasty sky creature will torture you eternally. Or just take a closer look at your foolish supersti-tions, understand that they are just silly, and toss them into the dustbin with all the rest of the gods that man has created.
Ask the questions. Break the chains. Join the movement.
Be free of Christianity and other superstitions.
http://whywontgodhealamputees.com/
Why aren't you quoting the passages that talk about killing your children if they talk back? Or the passages about not cutting the hair on the side of your head and not trimming your beard? Or the passages about not wearing clothing from two different fibers? Or the passages about not eating shellfish?
See, you don't REALLY follow the bible. You just want to use it as a weapon to force your beliefs on ONE topic on the rest of the world.
When you start telling people they should follow the passages about killing their children when they talk back, then, and only then, will I take you seriously when you talk about religion.
Until then, you are a cherry picking hypocrite.
I hope you haven't been eating any shellfish and that you are staying on top of stoning your neighbors when they don't go to church. Always interesting to me how you pick and choose what nonsense to believe. I don't believe that the point of religion is to tell you who it is OK to hate but you are trying to prove me wrong
You all know some Bible but you do not under stand it because you only think naturally not super naturally. You need Jesus to understand the things in The bible.
Bob, you do realize we live in America, right??? This is not Iran, or Pakistan, where the country is ruled by religious law. We have the 1st Amendment which not only gives us individuals freedom of religion, but also says our government is free from religion ("Congress shall pass no laws establishing religion"). So all your Bible quotes are nice and all, but what do they have to do with federal laws?
Latest post by 'Bob' is an instance of the Secret Decoder Ring fallacy.
http://fallacyfiles.org/glossary.html
I wouldn't start dancing about 'equality' just yet, Sam. Single people are penalized for their marital status. That doesn't seem very equitable.