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Hackers May Have Gained Access to 250,000 Twitter Accounts — Has Yours Been Compromised?

February 2, 2013 at 12:32pm

In reply to WirbelDave.

This site needs a better breed of troll. The ones (ex., wirbeldave) currently lurking here are boring, repetitive, tedious in their mediocrity, and frustrating in the simplicity of their ignorance.

I blame the folks who regularly comment here — y’all need to step up your game (sharper arguments, more biting wit, etc.) so that the stupider trolls are either too intimidated to comment or too shamed to comment more than once.

After that, you’ll still have trolls (that’s the reality of the internet) but at least they’ll be worthy trolls.
Dawkins Peddles Fiery ’07 Clip of Romney Defending His Mormon Faith — But It’s Actually Video Romney Supporters Will Love

November 3, 2012 at 3:20am

I’m a trained theologian — which I say not as an appeal to authority but just to point out my area of study. Both the Christians and the Mormons on The Blaze need to do two things:
(1) Mormons need to recognize that electing an LDS bishop as POTUS conveys zero legitimacy on the LDS church’s theology; and Christians need to recognize that the POTUS is not America’s Pope — he can’t force you to convert to LDS. What is important about Romney is not his religion but his policies & values contra Obama’s. That’s what we’re voting on this Tuesday.
(2) Realize that 90% of the commentators arguing about Mormonism & Christianity here don’t know what they’re talking about. This is an Internet forum, not a convention of theologians and scholars — and there are also trolls about whose only interest is irritating the gullible God-botherers and stirring the pot. Case in point:

“rickbob
Posted on November 2, 2012 at 5:44pm

Tee, hee. Please find for me a definition of “Christian” in the Scriptures. Tee, hee. You can’t because it’s not there. It is the machinations of men who have defined Christianity and who is and isn’t a Christian. Mormons, “by their fruits”, are more Christian than most Protestants OR Catholics.”

This is one of the more ignorant things said in a line of comments already overflowing with ignorance and asininity.

Keep your eyes on the prize. We can go back to arguing over whether the Christians or the Mormons are the heretical cul
Here’s How You Can Browse the Web Without Being Tracked

June 21, 2012 at 5:50pm

In reply to theblazerunner.

All good recommendations. Better recommendation, esp. for sensitive data transactions (banking, purchases, etc.) — Sandboxie. And definitely STOP using Google. They don’t just track your searches, they build a unique profile for you and use it to “bubble” you as well. Use ixquick.com or duckduckgo.com instead.

The only thing more secure would be booting to a live CD (Linux, BSD, or whatever). Nothing written to disk, and the only local record (in the RAM) is wiped on reboot.

That said, it is impossible to totally avoid being tracked online. What you CAN do is reduce significantly how easy it is for others — be they companies, governments, or individuals — to do so.
TN Nurse Arrested on Gun Charges at 9/11 Memorial Takes No-Jail Plea Deal

March 21, 2012 at 8:06am

Is anyone surprised? NYC is a place where possession of SALT is damn near a felony.
Exclusive: ‘Vampire’ Author Anne Rice Explains Why She Abandoned Catholicism & the Bible

February 6, 2012 at 10:26pm

‘As for the Bible, Rice no longer views it as something that should be read literally and she claims that “the maker of the universe [wouldn't] write everything down in [only] two languages in one part of the world.” ‘

This is the kind of logically-fallacious assumption about God that gets made when a person refuses to seriously consider the “maker of the universe” as an actual being, with an actual personality, whose existence is actually independent of that person’s thoughts, feelings, and existence.

If the Biblical God actually exists, then how and with whom He chooses to communicate with His creations would be entirely up to Him. The idea that such a being (powerful enough to create an entire universe, remember) would lack an ability possessed by one of its creations — the will to choose — is ludicrous. It also reveals the immaturity of Ms. Rice’s thoughts on not just religion & spirituality but logic & critical thinking.
3D Film Will Shoot Space Junk in Your Face

January 6, 2012 at 2:00am

In reply to Darmok and Jalad at Tanagra.

Timba…junk in his face…
Pro-Paul PAC tears into GOP candidates in parody ads

January 5, 2012 at 10:46pm

I notice that Fake Rick Santorum is the only bad-ass up there. Sure, Fake Perry talks a tough game, but he brought a 3rd-grade vocabulary to a nukazooka fight.
Actor Matthew Modine’s New Film Asserts: ‘Jesus Was a Commie’

November 1, 2011 at 6:11pm

It’s always so adorable when the Biblically illiterate spend a lot of money to publicize their moronic misconceptions of the Bible or Jesus.

It will be hilarious to watch this movie flop harder than a soggy pancake tossed from the roof of a 6-story building.
Huntsman Calls Perry-Backing Pastor Who Criticized Mormonism a ‘Moron’ and Bizarrely Joe Scarborough Twists That to Attack Beck’s Viewers

October 11, 2011 at 8:46am

In reply to Locked.

@WSGAC

That is indeed the sociological use of the term “cult”, and many contemporary OT scholars use the word as a value-neutral sociological designator rather than a theological one (which implies the existence of an accepted standard from which the “cult” improperly deviates). Sociologically, “cult” and “sect” are generally synonymous. The sociological use, however, is hardly the exclusive definition of the term.
Huntsman Calls Perry-Backing Pastor Who Criticized Mormonism a ‘Moron’ and Bizarrely Joe Scarborough Twists That to Attack Beck’s Viewers

October 11, 2011 at 8:39am

In reply to Locked.

@Locked

Mormonism, as founded by Joseph Smith, Jr., does indeed fit the theological definition of a Christian cult, in that it: (a) claims to be orthodox Christianity; while (b) adhering to doctrines & practices which contradict those of traditional orthodox Christianity which were historically-expressed in formal statements, like the creeds; and (c) gathers itself around a single person’s (non-orthodox) interpretation of the Bible to the rejection these more-generally accepted doctrines. Mormonism is not a distinct non-Christian religion; it claims to be Biblical Christianity but fundamentally disagrees with certain orthodox doctrines. The membership size of a group has nothing to do with whether that group is a “cult” or a separate religion.

And saying that Mormon’s don’t follow the Bible is idiotic. Of course they do. They just have a seriously different interpretation of some of its major doctrines.

@fastfox86

“Mormons, do follow the Bible and do believe it is indeed the word of God.”

Yes, but unfortunately those aren’t the doctrines that make Mormonism heretical.