freethinking moderate's Comments (499)

“back peddling doesnt change the actual orthodox beliefs--thats why there is some division among them now”

“catho-licism does NOT say that anything is merely allegorical

it is the most literal of ch;ristian sects

they believe in trans-subs­­tanti-ati­on i.e. that the wine and bread taken in ch;urch literally has become the body and blood of jesus---thats as literal as you can get”

“catholicism does NOT say that anything is merely allegorical

it is the most literal of christian sects

they believe in trans-subs­tantiation i.e. that the wine and bread taken in church literally has become the body and blood of jesus---thats as literal as you can get”

“Not yet.
This is the crowd that really wanted the book to have more pictures so they would not have to read.”

“How do you know he is a fictional characeter,,DO YOU HAVE PROOF TO SHOW THE BILLIONS OF PEOPLE WHO BELEIVE HE WAS REAL,,AND WHOM I HAPPEN TO BE ONE OF THEM,,BUT MY JESUS IS NOT THE CHRISTIAN JESUS.”

“Josephus, Pliney the Younger, Tacitus, Suetonius, Lucian, Mara bar Sarapion..­..are they wrong about the historicty of Jesus? How about the Talmud, a book containing commentary of Jewish leaders. The Talumd levels viscious attacks not only on Christian, but on Christ Himself. They accuse Christ of being a magician and working for the devil; something to which Christ calls the unforgivable sin. Why would Peter (a historical figure) request that the Romans crucify him upside because he was not worth to die like Christ? Why would Luke (a doctor) continue his faith to ultimately be dragged to his death by pagan priest? Does this sound like the evidence of a fictional character? GK Chesterton and CS Lewis call Christianity the "True Myth". From Babylon to South America over thousands of years the story of a virgin birth to a savior is told. How is it this story is connected by people spread over many years? It must be some sort of cosmic conspiracy? It is not merely coincidental. J.S. Bach and Handel created great music drawn from their upbringing as Lutherans. I have yet to see the great art, music drawn from the nothingness of atheism. Liberals love their pastime of bashing Christianity, but a rare event for them to take on the most intolerant forces i.e. Islam and atheist driven Marxism. It is in fact the rural-common Americans with their Christian upbringing (to whatever degree) serving in the military who challanged intolerance, not secular atheist.”

“Agreed. No way he wins the White House. No way. Might win a Senate seat in an @ssbacks state like South Carolina, Arizona, Oklahoma, or Texas.”

“The first thing Miles said when stopped by the CBS-woman right after the gun was "...there wasn't time to spike it." "No shit!" is right! My very next question (along with everyone else) was "Then why in hell did you do it?!!" It was the one thing that you just couldn't choose. At the post-game presser he insisted he didn't know who actually called it--that would be bad enough, that your sideline is so confused that the HEAD COACH doesn't prepare for or call the crucial last play of the game, and DOES NOT KNOW WHO DID...but of course the TRUTH is even more stupid, and makes of him the worst kind of liar and fool: all over YouTube is the video of Les Miles clearly calling the spike, running down the sideline towards the camera, mouthing it and motioning the call in perfect pantomime. What did he think, no one saw him? At this point, with 30 network cameras, the replay angles PLUS high-grade personal digital equipment AND all the video-capable phones, after the latest "gotcha"-stuff flooding the web over Blount, Spikes, et al, does anyone (besides Les Miles, apparently) doubt the world would see?
I'm not even a Tiger (Gator, thru' 'n thru') and it pissed me off. I can only imagine how LSU fans feel today.”

“How about telling the truth about America's history not some eurocentric sh!t that's passed off as history.”

“Acknowledgment of the truth, at the very least.”

“You're just f*cking wrong.

Mine, for example, purchased their land from the Indians. They have proof of it on the
family website. DuBois Family. See:
http://www.dbfa.org.

Geeez, more popping off with no knowledge of what you're talking about.”

“well, it would be a start.”

“Turn off Glen Beck. Turn up Jeff Beck. Or just Beck. And pop open a cold Beck's.

Funny how one guy can ruin a good name.

I feel sorry for Gavin Rossdale. Shoulda named his band Tree.”

“Beck is small time. Why bother?”

“no evil is a religious term. she has issues and nothing excuses her actions nothing. I dont care if someone is considered insane. violent acts are not to be forgiven and punishment should be harsh and lasting.”

“sorry, I don't believe in "evil" It's a superstitious made up concept to try to explain something we don't understand. We know better now.”

“Since we can't be relied on to pronounce Iraq and Iran as "ear-rack" and "ear-ran" instead of "eye-rack" and "eye-ran", I'm not sure we can really throw to many stones. Two of many, many, many examples.

Such are the problems attached with transliteration between two radically different languages. People just need to suck it up and move on.

I mean really, the British have been trying to get us to pronounce schedule as "shed-yule" for how many centuries now? Or for us to finally spell "colour" and "defence" properly.”

“And what adult taught her not to give a damn?”

“Thank you, Dr. Freud, for your expert analysis about something you know nothing about.

"Freethinking moderate?" How about "Prejudiced A-hole?"”

“i think that when someone takes another life regaurdless if they know right from wrong there are some serious mental issues. they can get the treatment while the spend the rest of their days behind bars. its sad too see any kid this off base from reality if its mental illness or just mean.”

“Wow....you­r ignorance is staggering. The fact that she did not give a damn is pretty solid proof that she suffers from a mental illness. Most humans have "empathy" for others. Those rare folks born without are called "Sociopaths". They don't have normal feelings and go to extremes to try to "feel" emotions.

No doubt this girl belongs in an instititution. She may never be well.”

“Just because a heinous crime was committed doesn't mean she isn't crazy. I'm not going to be surprised if we find out this girl had a history of being sexually abused.”

“They took yer yooooobbbb­bbbbbbssss­ss!!!!”

“I agree- sensible moderate Christians do not do enough to disown these violent, crazy extremists. I am so tired of hearing " Well, we're Christian and we're not like that! It's not fair- not all Christians are like that." Moderate Christians have allowed these people to high jack their message and until they speak up loud and long and PUBLICLY DISOWN far-right fanatical extremism they are just going with the flow as far as I am concerned.”

“The current NASA moon program calls for the Ares V to be built but it may not survive. The Ares V can lift about 50% more payload than a Saturn V. If we end up with an Ares V "lite", that will lift about 20% more than a Saturn V.

I think it's very likely that a new heavy lift rocket will be built but the exact one is currently up in the air. We may end up with a more directly shuttle derived heavy lift that just carries a cargo pod instead of a shuttle. This would do about 20% less than a Saturn V. Or we might get a shuttle derived in-line rocket that carries slightly more.”

“The Space Shuttle system has approximately the same 120mT IMLEO capacity as the Saturn V, but the Shuttle orbiter takes up more than 95mT on its own, leaving less then 25mT of useful payload capacity to low earth orbit.

Atlas V is the modern technological analogue to Saturn V (LOX/RP-1 first stage, LOX/LH2 upper stage), but it is much smaller, with 10-21mT IMLEO depending on configuration.

The barrier, as always, is money and politics.

Also, there are few payloads larger than 25mT to create demand for a bigger launch vehicle, and there are techniques such as earth orbit rendezvous and propellant depots that can be used to assemble larger beyond-earth orbit missions from smaller pieces.”

“You mean, like this one?

http://www.spacex.com/

It should be launching within the next week or two.”

“Next thing you know.....t­here will be dancing.”

“It seems as though we have became a nation of extreams.

We Christians have become so hateful and hard we forget our Lord teaches love and forgivness.

We should hold to our beliefs . But realize others have thier own. There is this mentality that if a person does not belive in the Gay agenda is is hateful of Gays, or like that. And while this is going on we are losing our unity and thus our strength as a nation.

I struggle with this issue . I was anti-gay and then found out a person very close to me was gay. I have been learning about this lifestyle. It s not for me. That doesn't mean I hate gays. And if Gays wish to promote thier way thats O.K. But let me promote mine also.

What i think would be helpful would be if people could help others to understand "their" way instead of just name calling and being hateful.( seems to me some gays could be charged with hate crimes

As far as what the Bible says ;
1 We are all sinners
2 Let him without sin cast the first stone”

“Well said.”