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• Is Belief in Jesus’ Second Coming and the Biblical End Times Impacting Climate Change?

  May 4, 2013 at 4:16pm

  In reply to kaydeebeau.

  @sparky,
  I can see why you think my “insults” were infantile and ultimately not effective because I didn’t make any. I was simply asking the question of why anyone would want the things in revelation to happen and provided examples of things that I would find to be atrocities. I understand what you’re getting at with your stove example, but I think it is too simplistic to be an accurate allusion to revelation. A child burning their hand is not even on the same playing field as the events in revelation.

  I agree that god would be the conscious actor in revelation. By no means am I laying the bodies of over 2 billion people at your feet. But there are those who look forward to it with glee because it means that they will be saved. But do the ends really justify the means? Does it really have to be carried out THAT way? Moreover, why would such a being, intent on such a thing be worthy of worship? These are questions that I have regarding the Christian belief of the end times. These were not insults. I don’t want this to devolve into god vs. non-god debate but rather an adult discussion regarding the morality of revelation. The fact that I would come to you or baddoggy and ask these questions shows a respect for both of you as people. I’m not asking either of you to not believe in god or revelation. I am asking why you believe it and why you think it is good.

• Is Belief in Jesus’ Second Coming and the Biblical End Times Impacting Climate Change?

  May 3, 2013 at 10:53pm

  In reply to kaydeebeau.

  @Baddoggy,
  Didn’t really answer my questions but ok. So your solution is to just believe then? I suppose you think it’s like flipping a switch huh? My non-belief is not out of hate or spite, but of logical deduction. Plus it would be kind of strange to hate something I don’t believe in, wouldn’t you agree? Anyway, I can’t simply ignore my mind and the evidence that has been put in front of me. Moreover, simply going through the motions of attending church, taking communion, saying prayers, and being baptized would mean nothing if I didn’t actually believe it. Besides, I think god would be pretty pissed if I was trying to deceive him (assuming there is an existing entity that is omnipotent, omniscient, and omnipresent of course).

  Sure, you didn’t write the words but you don’t deny them either. You made no remark whatsoever regarding the atrocities that you believe will come to pass and from your other posts, it would seem that you are excited about it. My main question was why would you wish this on anyone? Why would such terrible things please you? The fact that you believe you will be saved does not negate the fact that you believe and/or want these things to happen. The only solution you really offer me is to convert. You would ask me to deny my mind and to deny the evidence put before me. Ultimately, you are asking me not to think. But you still have not offered a rational explanation as to why the deaths of over 2 billion people would be a good thing.

• Is Belief in Jesus’ Second Coming and the Biblical End Times Impacting Climate Change?

  May 3, 2013 at 7:08pm

  In reply to kaydeebeau.

  @baddoggy,
  I have read revelation and it did make me weep…with both laughter and sadness. Laughter because people believe that it will actually happen and sadness because they want it to happen. They can’t wait for oceans to turn to blood, 1/3 of the earth to be scorched, 1/3 of water supplies to be poisoned, 5 months of torture by scorpion locusts, the killing of 1/3 of all mankind (over 2 billion people), etc. That’s what you want? Really? Why would you wish that on anyone? Why would you wish that on me? Simply because I don’t believe in god? Because I don’t accept Jesus as my savior?

  I don’t understand why people would glorify this or why they would want it to happen. What you’re asking for is so much worse than all of the atrocities in human history combined.

• U.S. Senate Advances Internet Sales Tax Bill

  April 24, 2013 at 10:53pm

  In reply to HumbleMan.

  Why else do you think Amazon supported it? They can dilute the cost and take out their competition. What more would a monopolist want?

• Former DOJ Attorney Says Gov’t Is Making a Mistake Not Reading Boston Suspect His Miranda Rights — What You Need to Know

  April 20, 2013 at 11:13am

  In reply to BANJO WOOD.

  Interesting how your comment went from reasoned and logical then took a left turn to crazy town. Mirandize him, then waterboard him? Right… Good to know all it takes to abandon constitutional principles is to just be scared and pissed off.

  Also is there ever a time when somebody is under arrest that they also aren’t under duress? If duress alone was reason enough to not read miranda rights, then I expect that they would never be read. The key is are they capable of understanding their rights.

• Former DOJ Attorney Says Gov’t Is Making a Mistake Not Reading Boston Suspect His Miranda Rights — What You Need to Know

  April 20, 2013 at 11:06am

  In reply to JerseyGuy.

  What’s unfortunate is that the administration wouldn’t be alone. The so-called conservatives at Fox News are arguing to suspend reading him his rights as well. Some are even trying to call him an enemy combatant

• Former DOJ Attorney Says Gov’t Is Making a Mistake Not Reading Boston Suspect His Miranda Rights — What You Need to Know

  April 20, 2013 at 11:04am

  In reply to skippy6.

  I would have been more worried if Martial Law had stayed in place. I question its use in the first place but I was happy to see it lifted pretty much immediately. All of those pictures of militarized police forces makes you nervous, doesn’t it?

• Former DOJ Attorney Says Gov’t Is Making a Mistake Not Reading Boston Suspect His Miranda Rights — What You Need to Know

  April 20, 2013 at 11:02am

  In reply to Bruce P..

  Not unless Obama labels him an enemy combatant.Then reading miranda rights aren’t necessary. Though doing so wouldn’t make sense. They lifted the martial law (aka state of emergency) in Boston. If they felt that this kid was still an active threat or had planted more bombs, then I would understand the claim of public emergency to not mirandize him. The thing I see though is that people who are emotional and pissed off want an excuse to deny him his rights as if it would prevent justice from being served otherwise.

  Glad to see GB beginning to understand this underlying principle of liberty as he becomes more “libertarian”. What this kid and his brother did was abhorrent and atrocious but we have to show that we are better than them by acting justly in the face of such horrible injustice. We mirandized James Holmes and he killed way more people. We mirandized Timothy McVeigh whose bombing was way more devastating. This kid should be treated no differently.

• Survey Finds Many High School Seniors More Worried About Student-Loan Debt Than Getting Into College

  April 6, 2013 at 10:49am

  In reply to LOJ.

  Student loan debt was a problem before Obama took office.

• Graphic: Dad Brutally Whips Daughters as Punishment for ‘Twerking’ Video

  April 5, 2013 at 12:13pm

  In reply to Oknowwhat.

  Agreed