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Teen Could Get Two Years for Facebook Photos with Jesus Statue
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History has demonstrated that Christians are willing to mame and murder in the name of their religion. It just so happens that our society evolved to a point to stop this. The question is if Christianity in the USA evolved with it. I think so. I also think if you gave the WBC a free "purge" night they would be more than willing to kill anyone they disagreed with. The fear of consequences is still the only limiting factor for many religious extremists. You can get away with a beheading here and there in Iraq. Not so much in America.
That's not how the law works:He should be charged with trespassing. Nothing more, nothing less. That was easy.
1) You have to be notified by some means to leave the property since it wasn't indoors, he was not.
2) Property owner would have to raise the complaint, they did not.
No grounds. Otherwise, if some kid walking by your house were to step on your front lawn, you could charge him with trespassing, which wouldn't even work on an adult yet alone a minor (kid is 14).
Love your logic. The Nazi's had socialist in their name so all socialists are genocidal mass murderers.History has demonstrated that Christians are willing to mame and murder in the name of their religion. It just so happens that our society evolved to a point to stop this. The question is if Christianity in the USA evolved with it. I think so. I also think if you gave the WBC a free "purge" night they would be more than willing to kill anyone they disagreed with. The fear of consequences is still the only limiting factor for many religious extremists. You can get away with a beheading here and there in Iraq. Not so much in America.
They are. But the Nazis just jamming the name in their movement doesn't automatically drag all socialism down to their level. But if I was looking to broad brush, I guess I could.
About your last paragraph, what if the kid was shown on my security camera while I wasn't home to be touching property on my lawn. Let's say it's around X-mas and the person (kid or adult) was messing around w/ my X-mas lawn decorations, but didn't break anything.That's not how the law works:
1) You have to be notified by some means to leave the property since it wasn't indoors, he was not.
2) Property owner would have to raise the complaint, they did not.
No grounds. Otherwise, if some kid walking by your house were to step on your front lawn, you could charge him with trespassing, which wouldn't even work on an adult yet alone a minor (kid is 14).
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History has demonstrated that people are willing to mame and murder in the name of their cause. It just so happens that our society evolved to a point to stop this. The question is if people in the USA evolved with it. I think so. I also think if you gave any radical group[/B ]a free "purge" night they would be more than willing to kill anyone they disagreed with. The fear of consequences is still the only limiting factor for many extremists. You can get away with a beheading here and there in Iraq. Not so much in America.
Fixed that for you. The fact that you were trying to single out Christians is dumb. People are people, one extremist group is like all the others. Anyway, hope i helped!
History has demonstrated that Christians are willing to mame and murder in the name of their religion. It just so happens that our society evolved to a point to stop this. The question is if Christianity in the USA evolved with it. I think so. I also think if you gave the WBC a free "purge" night they would be more than willing to kill anyone they disagreed with. The fear of consequences is still the only limiting factor for many religious extremists. You can get away with a beheading here and there in Iraq. Not so much in America.
Bill Maher thinks you and Charlie Rose are idiots, and he's right.
Are you a Christian? I dont expect a straight answer from you, but it's worth a shot.
Are you a Christian? I dont expect a straight answer from you, but it's worth a shot.
Nope. I'm an atheist. Now what?
Btw you missed my point entirely. Radical Islam is only radical because radicalism is tolerated in that area of the world right now. Christianity was WORSE back in their murderous heydey. The Muslim world is simply playing catch up to the rest of us. The only reason Christians arent skinning and burning people alive today is because they had the good fortune to land in a geographically prosperous area which allowed them to evolve beyond such animalistic tendencies. Christians being "less likely" to behead someone is nothing more than statistical variance.
Nope. I'm an atheist. Now what?
I was just wondering since you seemed to be defending attacks on Christianity and wanted to make sure there was no inherit bias preventing you from making objective observations.
I was just wondering since you seemed to be defending attacks on Christianity and wanted to make sure there was no inherit bias preventing you from making objective observations.
Are you an atheist? I'm just wondering because I want to make sure there's no inherent bias preventing you from making objective criticisms.
Btw you missed my point entirely. Radical Islam is only radical because radicalism is tolerated in that area of the world right now. Christianity was WORSE back in their murderous heydey.
It is the year 2014. Come back from the past, Marty McFry.
Are you an atheist? I'm just wondering because I want to make sure there's no inherent bias preventing you from making objective criticisms.
Have I made any subjective criticisms? You seemed to take offense to relating religion with fairy tales. How would you describe it? Mythology? Superstition?
It is the year 2014. Come back from the past, Marty McFry.
Uh yeah, and you used Bill Maher to make some kind of point about how Christianity is not an extreme religion, to which I said only happened due to sheer dumb luck. ALL religion is bad, and under the right circumstances any one of them could be just as bad as radical Islam is today, and for the most part have already demonstrated such evils in their history.
Have I made any subjective criticisms? You seemed to take offense to relating religion with fairy tales. How would you describe it? Mythology? Superstition?
Theology, which is what it is. Your inability to recognize that fact is an example of a biased, subjective criticism. I've pointed this out in past but you don't like it.
Uh yeah, and you used Bill Maher to make some kind of point about how Christianity is not an extreme religion, to which I said only happened due to sheer dumb luck.
I don't know how to respond to staggering historical ignorance. I could throw out the terms Reformation, Martin Luther, and John Calvin, and were we in person, your eyes would glaze over.
Theology, which is what it is. Your inability to recognize that fact is an example of a biased, subjective criticism. I've pointed this out in past but you don't like it.
Thats not an analogy, that is a definition. Sometimes we use contrast and comparison to put things in to context.
I don't know how to respond to staggering historical ignorance. I could throw out the terms Reformation, Martin Luther, and John Calvin, and were we in person, your eyes would glaze over.
I think you have lost track of the subject here. The subject is whether or not Islam is a greater threat than Christianity. I say it's not the religion but the environment, since Christianity has proven itself more than capable of committing atrocities. Right now the comparisons people even like Bill Maher made are apples & oranges. You cant compare Islam in the Middle East with Christianity in the West. There is no thread of radical Islam in the united states just like there is no threat of radical Christianity in the Middle East. If you were to trade places with the 2 both would devolve into the same thing.
Bill Maher is not concerned with radical Christianity not because they are Christian, but because he lives in the goddamn USA. THAT is the reason why this problem exists over there and not here.
Thats not an analogy, that is a definition. Sometimes we use contrast and comparison to put things in to context.
And sometimes we use contrast and comparison in order to deride, which is what you have been doing, and you now are retreating from that position. Intellectual cowardice is boring.
I think you have lost track of the subject here.
I think you are trying to change the subject after having been called out on such an ignorant statement like "Christianity isn't as bad as Islam is right now because of sheer dumb luck".
And sometimes we use contrast and comparison in order to deride, which is what you have been doing, and you now are retreating from that position. Intellectual cowardice is boring.
I do not think comparing religion to fairy tales to be an insult, but you do. So I asked you what you would compare it to, and you compared it to.... theology?
I think you are trying to change the subject after having been called out on such an ignorant statement like "Christianity isn't as bad as Islam is right now because of sheer dumb luck".
Thats because I dont believe the tangent you were heading off on is the real reason Christianity is no longer threatening. By "sheer dumb luck" I mean prospering in an area other than the desert.
By "sheer dumb luck" I mean prospering in an area other than the desert.
...wow. lol.
...wow. lol.
and yet I am the intellectual coward