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  • #421
    Re: Religion Thread: ...and suddenly, everyone's a theology scholar

    Super stoked! I just sponsored a small boy in Swaziland for a year today. Actually the way World Vision does it...is that most of the funds go to getting clean water, shelter and improving education, and making it all sustainable. But I made sure 20% went to the family as well. In addition, I purchased goats and a pair chickens for several needy families. That stuff is important because it both helps feed the family...but also is an income generator.

    What's even better is that today an outside organization is matching that donation 100%! If anyone is interested...it ends at 8pm tonight and you can do it on World Vision's website or by phone - 888 511 6548.
    Go Gophers!

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    • #422
      Re: Religion Thread: ...and suddenly, everyone's a theology scholar

      Originally posted by 5mn_Major View Post
      Super stoked! I just sponsored a small boy in Swaziland for a year today. Actually the way World Vision does it...is that most of the funds go to getting clean water, shelter and improving education, and making it all sustainable. But I made sure 20% went to the family as well. In addition, I purchased goats and a pair chickens for several needy families. That stuff is important because it both helps feed the family...but also is an income generator.

      What's even better is that today an outside organization is matching that donation 100%! If anyone is interested...it ends at 8pm tonight and you can do it on World Vision's website or by phone - 888 511 6548.
      A friend of mine who served in the Peace Corps in Africa after teaching here for many years said he was hired to teach but initially spent a significant amount of his time developing clean water supply so the kids would not have to spend their school day fetching water from a remote location.

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      • #423
        Re: Religion Thread: ...and suddenly, everyone's a theology scholar

        Originally posted by burd View Post
        A friend of mine who served in the Peace Corps in Africa after teaching here for many years said he was hired to teach but initially spent a significant amount of his time developing clean water supply so the kids would not have to spend their school day fetching water from a remote location.
        Yeah, that's a big problem. Also security is not great, so that often those distant trips to wells become either dangerous due to kidnapping or just become too dangerous to make the trip...so folks have to do without clean water. Human trafficking is another key area that's being addressed (and something I'm looking into personally).
        Go Gophers!

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        • #424
          Re: Religion Thread: ...and suddenly, everyone's a theology scholar

          Guy puts a nativity scene on front lawn with 2 Josephs and an infant Jesus.

          Line crossed or acceptable?
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          • #425
            Originally posted by joecct View Post
            Guy puts a nativity scene on front lawn with 2 Josephs and an infant Jesus.

            Line crossed or acceptable?
            Who cares?

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            • #426
              Re: Religion Thread: ...and suddenly, everyone's a theology scholar

              Originally posted by joecct View Post
              Guy puts a nativity scene on front lawn with 2 Josephs and an infant Jesus.

              Line crossed or acceptable?
              It's all fan fiction anyway.
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              • #427
                Re: Religion Thread: ...and suddenly, everyone's a theology scholar

                The point at which I would notice is when he starts throwing the plastic idols through my front window.
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                • #428
                  Re: Religion Thread: ...and suddenly, everyone's a theology scholar

                  Originally posted by joecct View Post
                  Guy puts a nativity scene on front lawn with 2 Josephs and an infant Jesus.

                  Line crossed or acceptable?
                  What line, Joe?

                  Bad taste? IMO yes, other reasonable people might think otherwise.

                  Offensive? Not to me, but I could see how some other reasonable people might be offended.

                  Line at which vigilante vandalism is warranted? No.

                  Line at which governmental action is warranted? Not even close.

                  Line at which the people who put up the display are unqualified to be a Senator from Alabama? Depends on your politics.

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                  • #429
                    Re: Religion Thread: ...and suddenly, everyone's a theology scholar

                    Originally posted by CLS View Post
                    What line, Joe?

                    Bad taste? IMO yes, other reasonable people might think otherwise.

                    Offensive? Not to me, but I could see how some other reasonable people might be offended.

                    Line at which vigilante vandalism is warranted? No.

                    Line at which governmental action is warranted? Not even close.

                    Line at which the people who put up the display are unqualified to be a Senator from Alabama? Depends on your politics.
                    Better said. The bad taste for me is primarily because it differs from the original story with the sole purpose of making a political statement...in stark contrast to the positive giving spirit of Christmas.
                    Go Gophers!

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                    • #430
                      Re: Religion Thread: ...and suddenly, everyone's a theology scholar

                      Originally posted by joecct View Post
                      Guy puts a nativity scene on front lawn with 2 Josephs and an infant Jesus.

                      Line crossed or acceptable?
                      It's a real-life form of trolling. You should be used to that by now, having hung around these threads for years.

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                      • #431
                        Re: Religion Thread: ...and suddenly, everyone's a theology scholar

                        Originally posted by FadeToBlack&Gold View Post
                        It's a real-life form of trolling. You should be used to that by now, having hung around these threads for years.
                        Or it's just humor. Not everything's about you, Christians.



                        For that matter, the Thumpers themselves stole the nativity from eastern mystery cults (like they stole most of the details of scripture).

                        Take it up with Mithras, joe.

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                        Last edited by Kepler; 11-29-2017, 11:43 AM.
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                        • #432
                          Re: Religion Thread: ...and suddenly, everyone's a theology scholar

                          Originally posted by Kepler View Post
                          Or it's just humor. Not everything's about you, Christians.

                          Oh sweet jesus. I'm so doing that one year in my front lawn.
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                          When the giraffes start building radio telescopes they can join too.
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                          • #433
                            Re: Religion Thread: ...and suddenly, everyone's a theology scholar

                            Originally posted by 5mn_Major View Post
                            Better said. The bad taste for me is primarily because it differs from the original story with the sole purpose of making a political statement...in stark contrast to the positive giving spirit of Christmas.
                            I'm sorry, but both are political statements if one is.
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                            Originally posted by bigblue_dl
                            I don't even know how to classify magic vagina smoke babies..
                            Originally posted by Kepler
                            When the giraffes start building radio telescopes they can join too.
                            He's probably going to be a superstar but that man has more baggage than North West

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                            • #434
                              Re: Religion Thread: ...and suddenly, everyone's a theology scholar

                              Originally posted by dxmnkd316 View Post
                              Oh sweet jesus. I'm so doing that one year in my front lawn.
                              Others:





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                              • #435
                                Re: Religion Thread: ...and suddenly, everyone's a theology scholar

                                Originally posted by Kepler View Post
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                                Oh man, the liquor one even has the three wise men right.
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                                Originally posted by bigblue_dl
                                I don't even know how to classify magic vagina smoke babies..
                                Originally posted by Kepler
                                When the giraffes start building radio telescopes they can join too.
                                He's probably going to be a superstar but that man has more baggage than North West

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