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Originally Posted by Gun Grape
Bull crap,
I like a day when I can make money. Also, from local experence, whenever the local businesses try to get blue laws taken off the books, it only the local churches that cause a stink.
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Are we talking about the same United States? All the places I've lived in the US (a lot of places) have absolutely no problems. Maybe you live in Pensacola, or some other Bible Belt hot zone. But I've lived in Pensacola, has more chuches than all of Asia, and there were never any problems reported. And it seems to me that the very anti-Christian media would jump on the chance to proclaim persecution by Christians. Look up the Blue Laws.
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They are also the ones that try to ban alcohol sales. DId you see the idiot from alabama that tried to make Athens a dry city. You know "Cause thats what "God" wants.
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The guy is indeed an idiot. God doesn't want to ban alcohol sales. Christians aren't supposed to drink, but that the limit of the Biblical commandment in regards to liquor. God wants all to be saved; liqour is low on His list of priorities.
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So the churches should have no problem with having those laws removed in the 25 states that still have Blue laws.
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Again, look up the Blue Laws. You are likening them to Sharia Law when all they are is impotent. No longer enforced. You're making a big thing out of nothing. If you look them up, they're retained as a matter of tradition and convenience. They're the reason we have days off on sundays. They're also related to the laws that give us days off on Thanksgiving, and Christmas as well. What, praytell, are you complaining about? Even though Thanksgiving isn't entirely religious, Christmas would be a working day. I've come to the realization that you must be looking for something to complain about because no one would complain about laws that give us a two-day weekend.
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I'm not a religous person, but you are the first person I've ever heard claim that the 10 Commandments don't apply to christians.
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You're right; you're not a religious person. So learn. I mistated. What I meant is that that particular commandment no longer applied because Paul told Christians to gather on the first day of the week. The Hebrew sabbath takes place at the end of the week.
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Well the State of Florida didn't view him as Mentally Ill. He was executed in 2003
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Well, the law found him guilty. I'm all for the death penalty, so I'm glad he was executed. He's a murderer. He's the type of person that gives the rest of us a bad name. But compare this to a case of an American citizen who fought for the Taliban, commiting treason in the process, is only given 20 years. And now they want to overturn that! It's not a level playing field. I hope your happy. Christianity is slowly losing influence, and the country is going to hell.
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The Army of God isn't a Catholic group. The only AoG person that has said they were a Catholic was Rudolph. Hill was a AoG member, the whacko Neal Horsley is a spokeman for the AoG
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Yes it is. As a matter of fact, it is a sort of spinoff from the "Army of Mary" group that was excommunicated by the Catholic Church. Which, by the way, is more the the Muslim "majority" has done about the acts of Jihad.
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But if we want to branch out how about the National Liberation Front of Tripura in India that is funded by Baptist?
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New to me. Please cite your source so I can give an informed response.
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So are Cathlics responsible for all the 41 bombings, 173 arsons, 91 attempted bombings or arsons,1264 incidences of vandalism, and 100 attacks with butyric acid against abortion clinics?
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Anything that Catholics, or even a few Christians have done cannot hold candles to acts by the Islamic Jihadists. I trust you realize this. Any acts commited should be punished fully. I refute them myself. Murderers should be executed, Christian or not. It is not for the individual to take the law into his own hands.
But, to answer your question, I daresay most of them.
And, since your in such a hurry to liken Christianity to the religion of the Jihadists, give me one verse in the Bible that okays killing in the name of God.
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And where were the religous leaders condemning all those acts?
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They always condemned them. Even the most Bible-thumping, rebellious Baptist churches I've been have condemned them. I don't look at Pat Robertson, or Jerry Falwel (certainly not anymore) as leaders. I believe in the local church. Therefore, pastors are leaders; not televangelists. None of them have proven themselves fountains of wisdom (in contrast to Charles Wesley, or DL Moody for example) to make them leaders, anyway.
I will agree that Christianity has left a mark on the United States-a very good mark; it makes the United States what is. One such mark is freedom of religion. You don't get that from the Vatican, from Sharia Law, from Buddhism even. It comes from the Christians concept of freewill. (excluding Calvinists: they don't believe in freewill)