__________________ "WHEREAS, Healthcare Decisions Day is designed to raise public awareness of the need to plan ahead for healthcare decisions, related to end of life care and medical decision-making whenever patients are unable to speak for themselves and to encourage the specific use of advance directives to communicate these important healthcare decisions."
Alaska Statue 13.52, signed by Governor Sarah Palin
"...my parents or my baby with Down Syndrome will have to stand in front of Obama's 'death panel' so his bureaucrats can decide, based on a subjective judgment of their 'level of productivity in society,' whether they are worthy of health care."
I donīt seem to understand how you get from the fact that someone is rebelling against an ideology to the conclusion that he "knows deep in his heart" that this ideology is true.
I suspect that if youīd find "Mein Kampf" on the bedside table of every hotel room there would be plenty of people not only ripping out pages but rebel even more vehemently.
I fail to see how such a rebellion against an ideology someone strongly is opposed to suggests that he "knows deep in his heart" that it is true.
The most self-suggesting conclusion is that he simply disagrees strongly with it.
This is not to say that I find this reaction particularly reasonable. You donīt get rid of stupid or even dangerous ideas by ripping stupid parts out of books.
You donīt convince people that an idea is stupid or dangerous by trying to oppress it. Quite the contrary: you make it particularly interesting and more virulent, you give it weight that it doesnīt deserve, and you are likely to cause persecution fantasies and victim mentality among the followers of the idea.
I basically agree with this completely. I have no idea why the first assumption was that he ripped it out because he knew it to be true - surely he is ripping it out because he believes it to be false (considering he stated that his other option was just to throw the whole book out), and that this particular section he finds particularly false.
I basically agree with this completely. I have no idea why the first assumption was that he ripped it out because he knew it to be true - surely he is ripping it out because he believes it to be false (considering he stated that his other option was just to throw the whole book out), and that this particular section he finds particularly false.
why didn't he just throw the whole book out?
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To sustain the belief that there is no God, atheism has to demonstrate infinite knowledge, which is tantamount to saying, "I have infinite knowledge that there is no being in existence with infinite knowledge" --Ravi Zacharias
"God is in the rain."~Evey in V for Vendetta
"The unexamined life is not worth living". ~Socrates
i hated it when God insisted i "yawp!"
but He knew i must,
and that my life would not begin,
until i yawped.
We all must learn to yawp.
we MUST awaken the passion,
that part of us that feels intensely,
and is NOT afraid to say so
or to express it.
Otherwise we are just dead men walking.
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I have occasionally considered taking a nice fat Sharpie marker to I Corinthians 14: 34-35, and being a woman called by God to preach was never, in my lifetime, a crime punishable by up to a 2 year term in prison, as being a homosexual was, in Britain, up until Mr. McKellen's 28th year.
When a particular biblical passage has been used as a rationalization for the oppression, imprisonment and murder of countless people down through the years, I don't think that it should come as a surprise to anybody when people have reactions that might be characterized as "over-the-top".
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While I disagree with defacing a book you don't own, I can see the point he's making.
The vast majority of Christians, while they don't literally remove the pages, do generally ignore the rules in Leviticus.
I've heard the argument many times that the dietary laws don't apply and the moral ones do or similar mental gymnastics but I'm pretty sure theres nowhere in the Bible that specifies 'Rules 1-6 are still valid, rules 7-20, exclulding 13, no longer apply.'
Fail. It is explicit in the NT that dietray laws no longer apply. (Mark 7:18-20).
I literally just said to my husband "I'll probably get blasted for posting this", but it could make for a rather interesting discussion. Why would someone deface the Bible like he does if not for the fact that he's bothered deep within by the scripture.
The statement he made seems odd: either that or throw out the entire Bible- and it's in Leviticus, so no longer applies anyway, right? Hmm...
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Don't mess with Yoda!
"There are only two kinds of people in the end: those who say to God, "Thy will be done," and those to whom God says, in the end, "Thy will be done.""
-C.S. Lewis, The Great Divorce (emphasis mine)
"You must be imaginative, strong-hearted. You must try things that may not work, and you must not let anyone define your limits because of where you come from. Your only limit is your soul."
-Chef at the beginning of Ratatouille
He comes from a strong Christian environment. His father was a lay preacher and both her grandfathers were preachers. He has spoken about his strong Christian upbringing. I am pretty sure he understands what he's doing and what it means.
He is mistaken if by ripping the pages out of GOD'S word he thinks it changes it. GOD'S word is forever. Ripping them out doesn't make them any less true.
Mat 24:35 Heaven and earth shall pass away, but my words shall not pass away.
I could careless what his preference is; it is not my place to judge as we are all sinners. I just wish that he, and others, who feel so strongly on this issue could also learn to respect others.
Christian's are just as guilty of sinning. The only difference is we have recognized the existence of sin in our lives and have asked for forgiveness. We will continue to sin. We are human. We will fall short but we will try in His name to do what is best and when we fall short, we will again ask for forgiveness. All can do the same.
To deny that the sin exists doesn't erase it. To deny the existence of gravity doesn't allow us to fly. To rip out the page on homosexuality doesn't change what it says.
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Aren't Gideon Bibles, the ones generally found in hotel rooms, free for the taking? In which case it would not be criminal damage to a hotel room, it would be damage to one's own property.
I think the evidence for this distinction would be found in whether he removes the defaced Bible afterwards. If he does then he could say in defence that he regards it as his own property, and therefore is entitled to do whatever he likes to it.
However, if he defaces it and then leaves it in the room, clearly he does NOT regard it as his own property, and he may then become liable to a charge of committing willful criminal damage.
I doubt if anyone would bother to prosecute him for this, but that does not mean that what he is doing is legal, because it isn't.
However distasteful this behaviour might be, if the books they are burning are their own lawful property, then they are entitled to burn as many as they want, and much good may it do them.
I don't know, ask him? Maybe he wanted to make a point to other people about the specific section he tore out?
I don't see how whether he left it or not makes a difference if it is a Gideon's bible - I can consent to leave my property wherever I like. If they Bible's are free to be taken, and it is in his hotel, he can claim ownership of the Bible and then do what he likes with it, which includes ripping pages out and then leaving it in the hotel room.
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