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Ben Kenobi
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McGregornobi!
Oct 2002
time: 21:24
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That's laughable at best. It isn't a challenge. It is my sexual orientation.
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It is a challenge.
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It is part of who I am, like heterosexuality is part of your own life.
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I don't think that my preferences are essentially part of me. For if our deeds and inclinations could not be separated from who we are, then we cannot be saved, we cannot be cleansed from sin.
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I want to live my life, and don't want to live in misery because of the wants of radical christians as yourself. I want to have a boyfriend, not a girlfriend and I don't want to live in isolation.
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Well, I try not to live my own life, and this is something that I struggle with. I want independence, even though this desire has brought me many troubles in the past, when I really should be asking and getting help.
I don't think that it is necessary to have a partner in order to be happy, one can be happy without one. I agree with you that I would rather have a girlfriend at this time, but that seems not to be in the cards.
That's one of the things about Christianity, is that you are never in isolation. You always have and know that there is someone who loves you and cares for you, even when no one else does.
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Albert Speer
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Puerile Polemic
Mar 1999
time: 00:24
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Fascism has little to do with individual "perfection". As a system, fascism is about the primacy of national identity, and of an ongoing and eternal competition between nations which necessitates a militaristic outlook together with a reverence for the national identity in order to have total unity of the Nation as it strives to win in the zero sum game of world politics. |
that doesn't quite describe Spanish, Portugal, Lithuanian, Roumanian, Dominican, or Bulgarian fascism...
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Giancarlo
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Los Angeles
Apr 2000
time: 02:24
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Originally posted by Ben Kenobi
It is a challenge. |
No it isn't. It is who I am. Challenge? Not at all.
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I don't think that my preferences are essentially part of me. For if our deeds and inclinations could not be separated from who we are, then we cannot be saved, we cannot be cleansed from sin. |
Another reason why I'm not christian. I want to live honestly and I want to have a love in my life. Christianity cannot get in my way. Furthermore, that's why I'm not christian.
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I don't think that it is necessary to have a partner in order to be happy, one can be happy without one. I agree with you that I would rather have a girlfriend at this time, but that seems not to be in the cards. |
I want to have a boyfriend and I would be happier with one. That's is how it is. I don't know about you but I would feel better with someone special rather then alone and miserable. I know some people who are good living on their own, but I'm not one of those people. I want to have that someone special.
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That's one of the things about Christianity, is that you are never in isolation. You always have and know that there is someone who loves you and cares for you, even when no one else does. |
I don't even believe in god. I want to find somebody I can hold in my arms, not some made up god. So basically, you do not convince me even one bit.
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Albert Speer
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Puerile Polemic
Mar 1999
time: 00:24
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That is becuase of all political systems, Fascism is the least developed and most contradictory. |
that is because it was the only political system to not have decades of philosophical and intellectual incubation before being implemented. Compared to socialism which had several decades of nascent debate, fascism was more of a practical and localized idealogy. Only Heidegger and a few lesser known Italians and French, most of whom had only converted to fascism well enter their careers, argued the fascist cause.
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Ben Kenobi
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McGregornobi!
Oct 2002
time: 21:24
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Poly ate my reply from James 2:16-24
If one is Protestant, and believes that Scripture is the primary authority, than how do you work with this?
Faith and Deeds
What good is it, my brothers, if a man claims to have faith but has no deeds? Can such faith save him? Suppose a brother or sister is without clothes and daily food. If one of you says to him, "Go, I wish you well; keep warm and well fed," but does nothing about his physical needs, what good is it? In the same way, faith by itself, if it is not accompanied by action, is dead.
But someone will say, “You have faith; I have deeds.”
Show me your faith without deeds, and I will show you my faith by what I do.
You believe that there is one God. Good! Even the demons believe that–and shudder.
You foolish man, do you want evidence that faith without deeds is useless? Was not our ancestor Abraham considered righteous for what he did when he offered his son Isaac on the altar? You see that his faith and his actions were working together, and his faith was made complete by what he did. And the scripture was fulfilled that says, "Abraham believed God, and it was credited to him as righteousness," and he was called God's friend. You see that a person is justified by what he does and not by faith alone.
In the same way, was not even Rahab the prostitute considered righteous for what she did when she gave lodging to the spies and sent them off in a different direction? As the body without the spirit is dead, so faith without deeds is dead.
Martin Luther considered James to be an epistle of straw, because he believed, and he changed Romans, so that it read that man is saved by grace through faith alone, or sola Fidae.
Now, it is true that many Protestants in the past have emulated Luther, but the fact remains that this is a distortion of the bible. Sola Fidae is not scriptural, rather what is scriptural is the section of the Catholic catechism that I cited you.
Man is saved by the grace of the God through faith in Jesus Christ, so that Christ, in his mercy, grants us the ability to perservere in the virtues.
Faith and works, for faith without works is dead, whereas works without faith are useless.
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07-09-2004 00:15
The troll-bots have been locked into an infinite loop! There's no stopping them now!!!1
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