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Last edited by Kepler; 04-18-2018, 08:37 AM.Cornell University
National Champion 1967, 1970
ECAC Champion 1967, 1968, 1969, 1970, 1973, 1980, 1986, 1996, 1997, 2003, 2005, 2010
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Originally posted by MissThundercat View PostIn private, such as my conversations with Rev. Jen, is that 98% of Christians aren't like that. I just wish the 98% would start speaking up and saying "*******s don't speak for us."
The reverend has helped me understand that she's in the silent majority. I walk into Grace Episcopal and I don't get a second look for wearing a skirt or carrying a purse.
For example, who comes to mind when you think of the most charitable Americans? Bill Gates? Let him speak for himself:
"I’ve been very lucky, and therefore I owe it to try and reduce the inequity in the world. And that’s kind of a religious belief. We’ve raised our kids in a religious way; they’ve gone to the Catholic church that Melinda goes to and I participate in."
"The moral systems of religion, I think, are superimportant."Go Gophers!
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Originally posted by FadeToBlack&Gold View PostI preferred "Hasa Diga Eebowai", thanks.
Mafala: "Kind of!"Cornell University
National Champion 1967, 1970
ECAC Champion 1967, 1968, 1969, 1970, 1973, 1980, 1986, 1996, 1997, 2003, 2005, 2010
Ivy League Champion 1966, 1967, 1968, 1969, 1970, 1971, 1972, 1973, 1977, 1978, 1983, 1984, 1985, 1996, 1997, 2002, 2003, 2004, 2005, 2012, 2014, 2018, 2019, 2020
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Cornell University
National Champion 1967, 1970
ECAC Champion 1967, 1968, 1969, 1970, 1973, 1980, 1986, 1996, 1997, 2003, 2005, 2010
Ivy League Champion 1966, 1967, 1968, 1969, 1970, 1971, 1972, 1973, 1977, 1978, 1983, 1984, 1985, 1996, 1997, 2002, 2003, 2004, 2005, 2012, 2014, 2018, 2019, 2020
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Business is good for some divisions of the Rome-based multi-national.
https://www.mirror.co.uk/news/weird-...-film-11137254The preceding post may contain trigger words and is not safe-space approved. <-- Virtue signaling.
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Speaking of, the rare European competition for American derp.Cornell University
National Champion 1967, 1970
ECAC Champion 1967, 1968, 1969, 1970, 1973, 1980, 1986, 1996, 1997, 2003, 2005, 2010
Ivy League Champion 1966, 1967, 1968, 1969, 1970, 1971, 1972, 1973, 1977, 1978, 1983, 1984, 1985, 1996, 1997, 2002, 2003, 2004, 2005, 2012, 2014, 2018, 2019, 2020
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Originally posted by MissThundercat View PostChristianity's problem right now is that it's perceived as bitter, hateful, resentful, and that it sends a message of "God only loves you if you're white, conservative, heterosexual, cisgender, and you believe exactly like us." In private, such as my conversations with Rev. Jen, is that 98% of Christians aren't like that. I just wish the 98% would start speaking up and saying "*******s don't speak for us."
The reverend has helped me understand that she's in the silent majority. I walk into Grace Episcopal and I don't get a second look for wearing a skirt or carrying a purse.
Religious faith is a central influence on giving. Religious people are much more likely than the non-religious to donate to charitable causes—including secular causes—and they give much more. And the results show that persons who attend religious services twice a month or more give over four times as much as persons who never attend services.
We know the religious are also far more likely to volunteer. Among Americans who have volunteered within the last year, three quarters belong to a religious organization, one quarter do not.Go Gophers!
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Re: Religion Thread: We Could Say a Prayer
Originally posted by MissThundercat View PostChristianity's problem right now is that it's perceived as bitter, hateful, resentful, and that it sends a message of "God only loves you if you're white, conservative, heterosexual, cisgender, and you believe exactly like us." In private, such as my conversations with Rev. Jen, is that 98% of Christians aren't like that. I just wish the 98% would start speaking up and saying "*******s don't speak for us."
The reverend has helped me understand that she's in the silent majority. I walk into Grace Episcopal and I don't get a second look for wearing a skirt or carrying a purse.
All religion is essentially different cults. What's the old gag, if the leader is alive, it's a cult. If the leader is dead, it's a religion. People are afraid of cults. And the more people in the cult seem different from you and me, the more we're afraid of them. When you are afraid, you're going to act out against the other side. Outsiders feel threatened by the cult, insiders feel threatened by the outsiders.
It will always be that way. Basically, its the nature of all living things, "birds of a feather" so to speak.That community is already in the process of dissolution where each man begins to eye his neighbor as a possible enemy, where non-conformity with the accepted creed, political as well as religious, is a mark of disaffection; where denunciation, without specification or backing, takes the place of evidence; where orthodoxy chokes freedom of dissent; where faith in the eventual supremacy of reason has become so timid that we dare not enter our convictions in the open lists, to win or lose.
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Originally posted by SJHovey View PostPerceived by who, though? Basically, people who aren't part of the religious group, right?
All religion is essentially different cults. What's the old gag, if the leader is alive, it's a cult. If the leader is dead, it's a religion.Cornell University
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ECAC Champion 1967, 1968, 1969, 1970, 1973, 1980, 1986, 1996, 1997, 2003, 2005, 2010
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Originally posted by SJHovey View PostPerceived by who, though? Basically, people who aren't part of the religious group, right?
It took the "Christian Right," Pat Robertson and Jerry Falwell and James Dobson and Rick Santorum and Michelle Bachmann and Mike Huckabee, to turn the public face of Christianity into a bunch of pedophile con men and mental defectives.
It's a self-inflicted wound. Good Christians need to tell those Tartuffian Father Coughlins to go f-ck themselves. Christians have the Muslim ISIS problem: if you don't condemn them then you're joining forces whether you like it or not. Up until now Christian leaders have been perfectly willing to cut that deal because it gave them power, and Christian voters have been willing to because it gave them anti-choice SCOTUS votes.
They bought the ticket and now they're taking the ride.Last edited by Kepler; 04-20-2018, 10:31 AM.Cornell University
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ECAC Champion 1967, 1968, 1969, 1970, 1973, 1980, 1986, 1996, 1997, 2003, 2005, 2010
Ivy League Champion 1966, 1967, 1968, 1969, 1970, 1971, 1972, 1973, 1977, 1978, 1983, 1984, 1985, 1996, 1997, 2002, 2003, 2004, 2005, 2012, 2014, 2018, 2019, 2020
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Originally posted by Kepler View PostNon-Christian didn't used to perceive Christians as a bunch of loud-mouthed fanatical hypocrites thundering fire and brimstone out of one side of their mouth while bedding down every underaged girl or boy they could get their grubby hands on with the other.
It took the "Christian Right," Robertson and Falwell and Dobson, to turn the public face of Christianity into a bunch of pedophile con men.That community is already in the process of dissolution where each man begins to eye his neighbor as a possible enemy, where non-conformity with the accepted creed, political as well as religious, is a mark of disaffection; where denunciation, without specification or backing, takes the place of evidence; where orthodoxy chokes freedom of dissent; where faith in the eventual supremacy of reason has become so timid that we dare not enter our convictions in the open lists, to win or lose.
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Originally posted by 5mn_Major View PostTCat...to carry this forward. Broadly speaking, Christians give. Per Philanthropy Roundtable:
Religious faith is a central influence on giving. Religious people are much more likely than the non-religious to donate to charitable causes—including secular causes—and they give much more. And the results show that persons who attend religious services twice a month or more give over four times as much as persons who never attend services.
We know the religious are also far more likely to volunteer. Among Americans who have volunteered within the last year, three quarters belong to a religious organization, one quarter do not."The party told you to reject the evidence of your eyes and ears. It was their final, most essential command." George Orwell, 1984
"One does not simply walk into Mordor. Its Black Gates are guarded by more than just Orcs. There is evil there that does not sleep, and the Great Eye is ever watchful. It is a barren wasteland, riddled with fire and ash and dust, the very air you breathe is a poisonous fume." Boromir
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