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28784. Jenerator - 11/6/2006 1:44:09 AM And Steve Shack expressed a nice sentiment, but he has serious issues with the scriptures. He and Jex could be twins or soulmates. 28785. Jenerator - 11/6/2006 2:44:18 AM Ted's letter was a testimony to his spiritual condition. I admire his humbleness. 28786. judithathome - 11/6/2006 5:51:15 PM Yeah, poor Ted. No more $600,000 a year to use on rent boys and meth. I really feel for him, too. Must be tough. 28787. judithathome - 11/6/2006 6:51:40 PM *I* am not the one who needs to be comforted Judith. Get over yourself.
Just so you know, I thought you might be comforted by Steve's post because it was an example of Christian charity from a gay man. He sort of agrees with you that Ted should have understanding, even though Ted has done his best to make the lives of people like Steve worse.
And Steve Shack expressed a nice sentiment, but he has serious issues with the scriptures.
Now see, this is what I was referring to in my little tirade at you the other night. Steve is a Christian...he lives the values of a Christian. He has probably done more charitable work for people that all of us posting on the Mote put together. He started an organization for gay teens that helps them when their families kick them out for being gay and all of the profits from his CDs and public appearences got toward that organization. He is living the things that Jesus preached and yet, because he has a slightly different interpretation of certain scriptures than you do, you feel free to criticize him.
28788. wonkers2 - 11/6/2006 7:30:16 PM Steve Shack's piece is worth reading. 28789. jexster - 11/7/2006 2:23:00 AM JUDITH ALERT!!!
HBO has a documentary "Friends of God"
Starring PASTOR TED!
 28790. robertjayb - 11/7/2006 4:19:46 PM I guess her belief wasn't strong enough...
A London woman is dead after being bitten by a snake during a Sunday church service, the Laurel County (KY) Sheriff's Office said yesterday.
Neighbors near East London Holiness Church on Smith Brewer Road, which officials said the 48-year-old attended, said the church practices serpent handling.
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Snake handling is based on a passage in the Bible, in the Gospel of Mark, that says a sign of a true believer is the power to "take up serpents" without being harmed.
It is illegal in Kentucky to handle reptiles as part of religious services. Snake handling is a misdemeanor and punishable by a $50-$100 fine.
Or death...
The scary thing to me is not what these folks do in their church but that they probably vote.
28791. jexster - 11/7/2006 5:04:12 PM
"The Watcher" by Thomas Blackshear, which adorns Haggard's New Life Church.
Pastor Ted's "Confession" 28792. jexster - 11/7/2006 5:08:05 PM I consider myself 40 percent Catholic and 60 percent Baptist. but I'm in favor of every religion, with the possible exception of snake-chunking. Anybody that so presumes on how he stands with Providence that he will let a snake bite him, I say he deserves what he's got coming to him.
28793. concerned - 11/7/2006 5:17:15 PM Holding Islam to Account,
by Amil Imani (Iranian)
Here are the few favorite cards:
* "There is no compulsion in religion," says the Koran. (But the full context is never shown.)
* Islam means "peace," so Islam is a religion of peace.
* "For you, your religion, and for me, my religion," Muhammad reportedly said.
The Muslims and their apologists quickly run out of their few cards, and the rest of the Islamic deck is all about intolerance, hatred and violence toward the infidels, toward all others who are not true Muslims, and even toward those who consider themselves Muslims. Shiites, for instance, judge the Sunnis as traitors to Islam, and Sunnis condemn the Shiites as heretics. Each side deems the other worthy of death and hellfire.
and..
There is no need to belabor the point that Islam is not, and has never been, a religion of peace. The word Islam is derived from taslim, which means "submission," while the term for "peace" is solh. Another derivation of the word taslim is salamat, which means "good health" and so on.
...just to clear that Islam is 'peace' bullshit up, once and for all.
28794. jexster - 11/7/2006 5:24:19 PM What did you think of "Muhammad: Legacy of a Prophet" TD? 28795. alistairconnor - 11/7/2006 5:28:43 PM Glad you cleared that up : so "salam" doesn't mean peace, like we always thought?
Then neither does its Hebrew form, "shalom"?
You "learn" something every day. 28796. concerned - 11/7/2006 5:33:59 PM AC -
Better get your glasses checked. The word is 'taslim,, not 'salam'. Two totally different words.
Get it? 28797. concerned - 11/7/2006 5:35:17 PM 28795 is completely beside the point I made. 28798. jexster - 11/7/2006 6:48:34 PM Islam does mean submission
Submission to Allah
Good God what an idiot 28799. wonkers2 - 11/7/2006 6:48:49 PM How do you like them apples? A Woman Installed as Presiding Episcopal Bishop 28800. jexster - 11/7/2006 6:49:34 PM Guess he missed Muhammad: Legacy of a Prophet 28801. jexster - 11/7/2006 6:52:24 PM 28799
Mt 24
15“So when you see the desolating sacrilege standing in the holy place, as was spoken of by the prophet Daniel (let the reader understand), 16then those in Judea must flee to the mountains; 17the one on the housetop must not go down to take what is in the house; 18the one in the field must not turn back to get a coat. 19Woe to those who are pregnant and to those who are nursing infants in those days! 20Pray that your flight may not be in winter or on a sabbath. 21For at that time there will be great suffering, such as has not been from the beginning of the world until now, no, and never will be.
Not for nuthin Richard Perle calls jexie "the Delphic Oracle"
BEWARE28802. Ronski - 11/7/2006 6:54:31 PM After the fall: Will the Haggard scandal usher in a new age of Christian tolerance or increase the religious right's homophobia? 28803. jexster - 11/7/2006 6:58:40 PM I would think the latter now that our conversion sapper units have penetrated (puns reserved) the Holy of Holies (puns reserved)
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