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[quote=""Greatest I am""] Note here: An agnostic is the exact opposite of a Gnostic. A Gnostic is one who claims to have special knowledge. Get the quote where I di such. Regards DL[/QUOTE] I've read enough of Pagels and Rudolph to have more than an inkling of what you are spouti...

Note here: An agnostic is the exact opposite of a Gnostic.

A Gnostic is one who claims to have special knowledge.

[quote=""Greatest I am""] I have far more respect for a gnostic Christians as I believe at least they're more honest about the knowledge question. -Shake, the agnostic atheist Gnostic is what they called the ancients and the word agnostic means basically the same as Gnostic. I ag...

So...Greatest. It seems that you are here to proselytize the membership. You certainly seem to think that you are somehow superior to 'regular' Christians because you are 'gnostic'. That seemingly alludes to your 'knowing' something, probably hidden, or secret, that makes you superior. Why don't you...

[quote=""Greatest I am""]I do not answer stupid questions and I see that you have not yet found a purpose for your time.

Regards
DL[/quote]


Yeah? Like you would know.

My, aren't you judgmental? And, without answering a single question of the several I posed. Are you doing this on purpose? Have you considered that I may have a purpose already and you just cannot discern it? Have you also considered that I may object to your purpose? Please, please....Assure us tha...

[quote=""Greatest I am""] You might want to listen more closely to what is said about liberals and conservatives and their attitudes and which group is more worthy of leading, which is neither as both groups have gone too far into the left and right. Where did those goalposts dis...

Yeah...Start with the Gnostics; they should know it's coming.

[quote=""Rome""] But...Turning primaries over to political parties is privatizing them. Private organizations, the political parties, then determine who can, or can not, run to serve in a elected public office. And, those private organizations, the political parties, then make th...

But...Turning primaries over to political parties is privatizing them. Private organizations, the political parties, then determine who can, or can not, run to serve in a elected public office. And, those private organizations, the political parties, then make the entire public, not just their membe...

So, Rome.... I assume that the Democratic Party is zealous about protecting its closed primary venues for electoral selections. I wonder why it is that the taxpayers of the various states where primary elections are held are footing the bill for the selection of candidates of what are basically priv...

I have a fair idea of the Democratic Party functionality. I was a District Leader long enough to find out that it was not for me (about 6 months). I served another year, plus, as a member of the county central committee, before exiting for less involved status. A decade after, I exited the party in ...

Which is exactly how the kleptonomic plutocrats purchase electoral candidates of any stripe.

Somehow, morally dubious behavior becomes acceptable if "everybody does it"?

A new one for me....Luciana Zogbi



Just watch her sing John Legends 'All of Me'.

*deep sigh*

Was there not an attempt to paint him as a faint-hearted 'tool' about dealing with, or around, the South American dictators (the Argentine Generals)?

[quote=""Copernicus""]The problem with Roo's argument against flu vaccinations is that it misstates the case for getting vaccinated. The argument is not that the vaccine will necessarily prevent you from getting the flu. It is that the vaccine will reduce your chances of getting ...

[quote=""Jobar""]Saw an interesting story this morning. Japanese drug stops flu in one day I always take this sort of prediction with a certain skepticism- but if it turns out to be true, wonderful.[/quote] Given the complexity of situations which is hidden in the exceedingly amb...

[quote=""Cheerful Charlie""] Well, considering that the 'flu vaccine' is unlikely to protect you from coming down with 'the flu', and what little protection that vaccines do provide is more unlikely with 'the elderly' and 'children', where the vaccines are even less effective. He...

[quote=""Jobar""] Outsiders have their own implied definitions. But my point there was that every single Christian also seems to have their own implied definition. We outsiders who want to understand 'true Christianity' are thus unable to find a good general one. If we skeptics s...

[quote=""Jackrabbit""] Depends how far it is taken. I can see a child in the church who develops type 1 diabetes dying from being deprived of insulin. It has happened before. :( She's not saying it just about the flu. She's not? That's not how I read it. She certainly is saying s...

Flu jabs are not vaccines, they are a pharmaceutical scam.

[quote=""Ozymandias""]As long as everyone is consenting, I don't see the issue. It should be up to them. I think it should be illegal not a vaccinate kids though.[/quote] That means probably 95% of all vaccines, which are scheduled for administration during minority years. So, yo...

[quote=""dancer_rnb""]Depends how far it is taken. I can see a child in the church who develops type 1 diabetes dying from being deprived of insulin. It has happened before. :( She's not saying it just about the flu.[/quote] She's not? That's not how I read it. She certainly is s...

Well, considering that the 'flu vaccine' is unlikely to protect you from coming down with 'the flu', and what little protection that vaccines do provide is more unlikely with 'the elderly' and 'children', where the vaccines are even less effective. Her logic is bizarre to the extreme, but the propon...

Dr. Bart Ehrman, author of The Orthodox Corruption of Scripture, is a distinguished graduate of Moody Bible Institute, as well as Wheaton College and Princeton Theological Seminary, and he seems to have shed his inerrantist past well enough.