bknott's Comments (125)

“"Your post sucks too. What do you mean the Trinitarian concept is "human"? That's kind of a given, isn't it? Or did you think I was mistaking it with a dog's concept of his deity?"

That made me laugh! Thanks. :)”

“Jesus himself never claimed to be God, or even the Son of God. He called himself the Son of Man.....whatever that meant. Jesus as God, and the Trinity are political constructs of the Roman Catholic church, aka THE CHURCH, a man made political institution. That construct is maintained to this day in the interests of power over others. And the gullible who don't know early "christian" history, swallow it whole. Sigh.”

“Hello back at you.

I'm simply referring to how my faith (Lutheran) addressed God, Jesus, and the Holy Spirit.
I'm not claiming this to be anything other than what my religion teaches.
Yes. I believe Jesus is the son of God hence, the Virgin Mary, and the Holy Spirit is Jesus rising from the tomb and "was seated at the right hand of God, our father Almighty". There you have the Trinity. Jesus > Holy Spirit (Jesus' spirit) > meets with God and is addressed as Savior for the first time because he has "saved us" by dying for our sins. Jesus and God are seperate entities to me; Jesus saved me but God can destroy me. You can pray to either but Jesus loves you and God will judge you at his convenience, hopefully before you meet St. Peter,
it would be a bummer to be turned down at the gates ;-)

So there you have it. The original reason for posting a clarification was
because I thought C. Kelly uses God instead of Jesus, but if you change "give birth TO God"
to "give birth FOR God" the sentence makes more sense, and I believe this is
the statement he intended.”

“ah, a born again, eh? wouldn't want to find wisdom in the pursuit of koans (yes, it is a sort of Christian Koan)”

“bkno~

Go on back to sleep. That is not what hum is saying.

And, the concept of the Trinity has been around for far longer than the "Christian" concept of the "trinity" .
The Trinitarian concept is a human concept of how to describe their deity.
It is actually a pre-Christian concept.
"Christianity" is not the only religion!”

“K.K. might be overrated, but in comparison to S.P. she's an angel and a brainiac.”

“Agreed. I am a conservative, but I'm also a movie-lover. The views of actors, or even the angle of a movie or TV show itself, don't effect my decision on whether to see a movie. (I may take issue with bknott on the perceived greatness of certain actors, however.)

I think Mr. Williams intentionally ignores an important point: Grousing about actors' public political stances has less to do with their affiliations and more to do with the manner in which they are delivered. I think if one objectively examines the most controversial of public political pontifications, one can see they commonly share a certain lack of decorum.”

“The same could be said of liberals who won't see movies/TV shows, etc., because they are conservative. I have no problem with someone expressing their political views, it is more how and what the say to express this view. Those who are in the entertainment industry have far greater access to get their message out than does the average person. Mind you, the internet is changing that. If an actor/actress is rude or demeaning in there view to the other side or complaining and putting down those they don't agree with while both sides are equally guilty makes it hard to watch the performance without their ugliness showing through instead of the character.”

“First, I doubt very much that there are more gun homicides than there are people overdosing on drugs.

Secondly, how do you conduct a 'study' of an illegal thing? How many teen-aged gangbangers do you think are going to volunteer that they are carrying an illegal gun?”

“So, if the study finds out that teens illegally carrying handguns run a higher chance of being shot, what are we going to do, make it even more illegal for teens to carry handguns?”

“not if the studies are being used by groups like the BC and VPC to justify unconstitutional gun laws”

“Sadly, I agree”

“What makes your interpretation any more valid?”

“Show me one single quote from ANY Democratic lawmaker specifically saying that he/she wished Bush WOULD fail in Iraq.

Even one.

Go ahead, knock yourself out.”

“Really? Really? Because I'm a dyed in the wool Democrat who reads a hell of a lot of news, and I sure didn't hear anybody... anybody... say that they hoped that *Bush* failed. Absolutely, anyone with a brain hated the war Bush cooked up under false pretenses. Absolutely, they hated the way he turned over billions of U.S. tax dollars to profiteering pirates like Cheney's company Haliburton. But the hate was toward the policy, not the president.
Stop re-writing history, my friend. The hate-mongers who want the U.S. President to literally fail are on the Right. It's shameful and verging on treasonous. And this .... from the flag-wavers? Please.”

“Cite a specific example.”

“I personally don't know of anyone who wanted Bush to fail. On the contrary, like many people I hoped he would succeed after his initial failure to stop 9/11, but once he invaded Iraq, we knew that he was about to become one of the worst presidents in history.”

“Hey, Maroon: we were rooting for him NOT to fail because that would mean America would be worse off than before.

Unfortunately, he worked really hard at creating the most massive defectits ever seen in this country, the highest teen pregnancy and STD rates in decades, the highest priced oil, an illegal war, failing to deal with Katrina, corrupting the Justice Department, EPA, FDA, and just about every other government agency, approving torture, and much, much more.

The difference between us and you is that we honestly want America - and the rest of the world - to do well. We favor tolerance; you favor intolerance. We favor high IQ's; you frown on them I could go on and on all day, but I'm getting depressed.

It is EXHAUSTING trying to educate the willfully ignorant.”

“No one should root for the President, any President, to fail.

However, let us be clear that George W. Bush DID fail and failed at everything he touched.

He single-handedly proved that conservatism doesn't work. His greatest achievement was presiding over the implosion of the conservative movement and the Republican Party.

No one needed to root for George W. Bush to fail to notice that he in fact did fail more than any other President since Herbert Hoover.”

“With all due respect: the USA invaded Iraq under the same pretense Germany used against Poland before WW2. There was no attack on Germans at the Polish border and there were no WMD in Iraq.

Both episodes were based on lies. And both caused the downfall of a regime and a country eventually.

Your comparison is not valid.”