Expelled

[Tyrfingr]

Originally Posted by With Alacrity

That was in a personal letter that I sent you, AND you responded to late last year. After you made the comment about how the the American indians got screwed, I wrote a lengthy outline regarding the documented atrocities of the Indians in North America, and their common practice of cannibalism. I did this in order to give you a little perspective from the early settlers and how many came to hate the native Americans. For the sake of anyone else reading this I will clarify this as there WERE peaceful agrarian tribes, but when the early white settlers returned home to find their family butchered and often eaten by the warlike tribes that raided whites and indians alike, they (the settlers) could not tell the difference between friend or foe, so all 'Indians' suffered.
Does that refresh your memory?

I recall we had a debate about that now that you mention it. I believe i was unaware of any mentions of North american indians and cannibalism in the books i've read. I was under the impression that it was just the South americans, so you got a point there. I haven't checked up on the indians in the north too much, i know some but far too little about all the various tribes and their customs. I'm not particulary inclined to start another debate on the indian issue in the midst of the already ongoing debate between you and Mitch, that's quite enough as it is to fill a whole thread by the looks of it.

[With Alacrity]

AS WE GOT HERE BY NATURAL SELECTION
As we got here by natural selection then it's survival of the fittest, the smartest, biggest, strongest and the best of the species, "like me."
As I'm caucasian, bigger, smarter, having blonde hair and blue eyes, I'm obviously more highly evolved then you, so by evolutions standards, you must be eliminated.
I'm really sorry about that. I mean; you seem nice enough and all that- but, after all, evolution IS evolution.
Pity though.

[Tyrfingr]

^^ *places it on your head like under the ceremony when they crown a new king, and steps back gracefully whilst bowing three times*

[With Alacrity]

Originally Posted by Tyrfingr

^^ *places it on your head like under the ceremony when they crown a new king, and steps back gracefully whilst bowing three times*

Yes, it seems fitting enough a tribute. (The least you can do, and all that.) As reward for your faithful service; I dub thee knight. Rise sir ding-a-ling.
*while 'accidently' lopping your head off before you find out that I lied about having blue eyes.*

[Tyrfingr]

Originally Posted by With Alacrity

Yes, it seems fitting enough a tribute. (The least you can do, and all that.) As reward for your faithful service; I dub thee knight. Rise sir ding-a-ling.
*while 'accidently' lopping your head off before you find out that I lied about having blue eyes.*

*Behold the accusing stare from the lopped off head resting in the corner of the room*

(A note in the jacket says "What happened with turning the other cheek!?!")

[With Alacrity]

Originally Posted by Tyrfingr

*Behold the accusing stare from the lopped off head resting in the corner of the room*

(A note in the jacket says "What happened with turning the other cheek!?!")

My cheeks are all right, their white. It's my eyes that are brown.

Somebody get that ugly head out of here.

[With Alacrity]

CopyCat Mitch said on 5-10-08 @ 03:34 AM: Proverbs 4:16 For they sleep not, except they have done mischief; and their sleep is taken away, unless they cause some to fall.

I think its time for religious peeps to wake up and smell the coffee... And it happening, we have got religion out of the schools and atheism is on the rise... The day is coming when people will look at religion the same way they now look at the thought of the world being flat... Not in our lifetime, not in our children lifetime, but its coming... I'm sure of that...

Bob sez with alacrity:
For some unfathomable reason the press has fallen in love with Islam. I am reminded of the media’s love affair with Bill Clinton which, even though mercifully he is no longer in office, continues today. No matter how much he lied, bungled, cheated on his wife or betrayed his country and his oath of office, to the press he could do no wrong.

It is the same with Islam. Muslims can slaughter Christians without a harsh word from the mainstream media. Their clerics (known as Imams) can incite violence and murder against the West without fear of criticism from the talking heads on the TV. Muslims the world over danced and cheered on 9-11, but the media continued to refer to Islam as the religion of “peace”.

If we were to judge the state of religion in the world today by what the press reports, we would make two conclusions: Islam is rapidly growing and will soon be the dominant religion in the world. And Christianity is on the retreat.

But as a dear friend likes to say, “I cheated. I peeked at the end of the Book. We win!”

Fully one-third of the people on earth today describe themselves as Christians. (This includes all types of Christians, Protestant and Catholic, evangelical and liberal. (Which I don't consider Christians)) According to George Weigel’s article, “Christianity, By the Numbers” in 1900 there were 558 Million self-described Christians. Today, 2.1 Billion of the 6.4 Billion souls on earth say they are Christians, almost double the number of Muslims.
Christianity is growing on the African continent at an astounding rate. There were 8.7 million African Christians in 1900; there are 389 million African Christians today. David Barrett has for 20 years published the "Annual Statistical Table on Global Mission". He says that by 2025 there will be 600 million African Christians. Weigel calls the growth of Christianity in Africa, “nothing short of astonishing.”

In fact, Christianity is the dominant religion in five of six continents. In only one continent, Asia, do Muslims outnumber Christians.

But Asia is another area where Christianity is making tremendous inroads. In an article about the growth of Christianity in Korea, for instance, Andrew E. Kim writes, “Today about one third of South Korea's 45 million people are Christian - 11 million Protestants and 3 million Roman Catholics.” The world’s largest Protestant church is in Seoul, South Korea. And in the article “The Rapid Growth of Christianity in Kazakstan” in the past 10 years, evangelicals in this tiny Central Asian country just below Russia have grown from 10 to over 10,000.

In North America, 85% consider themselves Christians, and in South America, a revival among Protestants has pushed that number up to 93%. But some of the most encouraging data uncovered during the research for this article concerned young people.

An article on CBN.com describes a Christian youth rally in San Francisco where Christian teenagers were encouraged to resist a popular culture that glamorizes drugs, violence and sex. About 25,000 young people attended the two-day rally sponsored by Teen Mania ministries. What was amazing about this rally was that so many young people attended such an event in possibly the single most anti-Christian city in our nation. (San Francisco's heavily homosexual Board of Supervisors condemned the rally as an “act of provocation” by an “anti-gay” group.)

Author, D. Michael Lindsay, is a popular speaker who currently serves as the consultant for religion and culture to the George H. Gallup International Institute. He is the co-author with George Gallup of two books on faith and culture.

His in-depth research presents an entirely different picture of the faith of young people than the liberal media and the garbage coming out of Hollywood would lead us to believe. Here are a few quotes: “The spiritual hunger among teens is remarkable. Millions of teens attend church and youth groups regularly. Teenagers express a burgeoning interest in learning about other faith traditions, yet most remain faithful to their own orthodox beliefs.”

“The Gallup survey showed that 92 percent of teens consider their religious beliefs important to them. A third say faith is the most important influence in their lives. That number goes up to 52 percent for African-American teens. Close to four in ten say they pray alone frequently (42 percent) and read the Bible at least weekly (36 percent).”

This article pointed to a trend in which teens are becoming more spiritual than their parents. The Gallup Youth Survey demonstrated that teen church attendance that is 10 percent higher than the national figures for adults, and 95% of teens said they believe in God. 60% of Protestant teenagers surveyed had attended in the past week, and 65% of all teenagers had attended a youth group at some time. When Gallup asked them why they became involved, 82 percent% said they wanted to learn more about faith.

I find all of this very encouraging. Jesus said in Matthew 16:18, “
I will build my church; and the gates of hell shall not prevail against it!” Jesus Christ is risen indeed! And His church is rising in the world today in preparation for His second coming. Be ready.

[With Alacrity]

America the beautiful,
or so you used to be.
Land of the Pilgrims' pride;
I'm glad they'll never see.

Babies piled in dumpsters,
Abortion on demand,
Oh, sweet land of liberty;
your house is on the sand.

Our children wander aimlessly
poisoned by cocaine
choosing to indulge their lusts,
when God has said abstain

From sea to shining sea,
our Nation turns away
From the teaching of God's love
and a need to always pray

We've kept God in our
temples, how callous we have grown.
When earth is but His footstool,
and Heaven is His throne.

We've voted in a government
that's rotting at the core,
Appointing Godless Judges;
who throw reason out the door,

Too soft to place a killer
in a well deserved tomb,
But brave enough to kill a baby
before he leaves the womb.

You think that God's not
angry, that our land's a moral slum?
How much longer will He wait
before His judgment comes?

How are we to face our God,
from Whom we cannot hide?
What then is left for us to do,
but stem this evil tide?

If we who are His children,
will humbly turn and pray;
Seek His holy face
and mend our evil way:

Then God will hear from Heaven;
and forgive us of our sins,
He'll heal our sickly land
and those who live within.

But, America the Beautiful,
If you don't - then you will see,
A sad but Holy God
withdraw His hand from Thee.

~~Judge Roy Moore~~

[Tyrfingr]

If Mozart wrote the music and the text was translated to latin, then i could stand it i think. One can say what one will about christianity, but without it i doubt there would have been any choral works like those of Bach and Mozarts Missa brevis and the Requiem. You don't have to be christian or anywhere near it to apprichiate the sheer beauty in that music.

[With Alacrity]

Originally Posted by Tyrfingr

If Mozart wrote the music and the text was translated to latin, then i could stand it i think. One can say what one will about christianity, but without it i doubt there would have been any choral works like those of Bach and Mozarts Missa brevis and the Requiem. You don't have to be christian or anywhere near it to apprichiate the sheer beauty in that music.

NIIIIIICCCCCCEEEEEEE! I usually sing choir base, but when Beethoven's ninth comes along I HAVE to sing 'tenor' in the Ode to Joy, despite the fact that it isn't as easy as it used to be.

MMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMM! Chocolate creams.