If everyone's already a buddha, already perfect, then what is your purpose? How do you improve perfection?

Obviously, in your own words, these people "distort, twist, and abuse" not just others, but the Word of God, "in the name of some form of dominance." Their own dominance, at that point, not the dominance of God, or Jesus. The people who try to live by the actual Word of God are your servants. They do not lord anything over anyone.

This isn't Einstein Cacto...all you have to do is sit down with a grandmother and ask her. They will tell you what has transpired over the years. I have a grandmother who is 89 years old. We talk of the old days all the time. She's absolutely shocked at today's happenings. Nobody locked the doors. No one was afraid to walk down a street anywhere in the US even at night. When I was growing up I remember hearing the grownups speak of how we never had murders in our state. It just wasn't something we worried about here.

This week alone I think we had like five or six. I've been watching this grow over the years. You've been out of HS for six years and you thing you're an expert? I've been out of HS for 28 years. I've seen a TON of changes and NOT for the better. I don't need stats. I've seen these things escalate over the years. The stats would only confirm what I've already seen and experienced.



How so? Because I said we do not wish to see our Creator God replaced with adoration and prayer to another god(s)? A house divided cannot stand SC. You cannot believe in the one Jehovah God and a multitude of other gods at the same time.



What is this supposed to mean? I would never say have fun in hell to anyone.



that's just it Sodaiho, you can tell a Chrisitan by their fruit. Burning Crosses in yards doesn't qualify as good fruit. Christ said a good tree bears good fruit. A bad tree bears bad fruit. Burning a cross in someones yard does not a Christian make. I'm sorry that you've had to go thru these things and if I could I would like to apologize for all those that did such things to turn you away from the one that really cares a ton about you.



I would say that ONLY Christ was perfect. We as flawed human beings are trying our best in the flesh to follow and be like him. The closer we follow him and keep our eyes focused on him, the more we become like him. It's called sanctification and it takes more than a lifetime to get there.

I'm sorry KFC, I posted inappropriately.

It's called religous tolerance. Just because you have no problem with a Hindu praying, does not mean you're converting to Hinduism. You believe what you believe and he believes what he believes. He can pray and worship his way. You pray and worship your way.

We all have our own beliefs and that's ... okay. (said in my Stuart Smalley voice).

Do you think Jesus was religiously tolerant?

may be you did not, however, many many many here, here on JU including KFC (see comments #11 and #16 above) said, saying and will continue to say that.

and who said that IT IS a "Christian Country"? You? !!!!!!! and since when?

Let me see if i understand the situation here:

Slavery and discrimination from the Start
Elimination(i.e.Genocide)of the natives from day one
Legal prostitution at first, then decriminalizing sexual relations between unmarried people later.
Settling disputes with guns and duels even between high-position officials in the early days of the country

..... etc.

And you still say it is a Christian Country?

Which commandments exactly this country (as a nation not people) ever held Sacred?

talk is cheap but hypocrisy will never decieve anyone. It is obvious and known to all.

Of course. I'm not aware of any 'smite the infidel' talk coming from Jesus' corner. He seemed very live and let live, despite the fact that the Romans and many others in that part of the world were pagans and non-Jews. I'm not sure it would have been practical to be all that religiously intolerant as a Jew in the province of Syria at that time.

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Well, at least I didn't say it. He'd think I was being intolerant of his enlightenment.

Good will be called evil, and evil will be called good. It's all happening just like the Bible said, and still they don't believe... that's in the Bible too. That's what sucks about the whole thing, as the times come to those described in the Bible less and less believe it, even as its predictions prove accurate.

Absolutely. He was a Jew. Jews are and always have been tolerant of other faiths. Jesus wraith was directed at Jews who he saw as hypocrites, and so on. He wanyted Jews to be better Jews.

No, I really don't but He also said "Do unto others as you would have done to you". If you offered a prayer, would you want to be shouted down and disrupted?

Do you really think that is your job to "correct" everyone else's beliefs that don't agree with yours?

Loca wins this one Sodaiho. He wasn't "religously" tolerant. Look at his exchanges with the Pharisees sometime. He was very "intolerant" of them and their "religion". They were very religious but lost. He even had the gall to say that he was the ONLY way to heaven. That all other roads lead to hell. That's pretty strong intolerance if you ask me.



No, and I've already addressed this Loca. I disagreed with their approach. I've already come out and said on my blog (that got this whole ball rolling) that my way would have been to stand quietly outside and pray for our leaders and our nation. To me that's much more effective and God honoring. Remember it was only a couple of zealous Christians who did this. While I appreciate their tenacity and their guts to do what they did, I also think they could have gone about it a better way. Most Christians are very tolerant to the point that we are losing much ground.



My job as a Christian is to "go and tell."

What I'm trying to remember is how we got onto this topic in the first place. I remember writing about something completely different, but it's all fuzzy now.