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Why is there so much hatred and perverted pornography and over stimulating garbage on the internet ?

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You think you somehow have knowledge suprrior
to any athiest?
No
Added: Because sometimes I think I'm the dumbest when it comes to some of the posters here knowledge of science, politics, and history, this old dummy has to look everything up to participate.
 
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So you don't believe that " natural man" bi. Good.
My post was not directed to you.
I added to my previous post. I don't understand what bi and don't worry I have thick skin except in the morning.
 
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I added to my previous post. I don't understand what bi and don't worry I have thick skin except in the morning.
The quote about the "natural man" and how they can't understand
 
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The quote about the "natural man" and how they can't understand
Because you didn't understand this:

Astrid said:
What is "overcome the flesh" and
" carnal nature" ?

He is using bible talk.
 
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Because you didn't understand this:

Astrid said:
What is "overcome the flesh" and
" carnal nature" ?

He is using bible talk.
I understand that's it's just talk, and
means nothing.
 
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I understand that's it's just talk, and
means nothing.
From reading your posts I think I have a partial understanding of where you're coming from. We all have our opinions and that's ok. Unless we talk about the beauty of ancient China's architecture. I will end my conversation with you here. Peace
 
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I wish I owned a buffet.
The pastor before actually built it. It was a really nice buffet. I wish they could have kept it open.
I thought this had something to do with baking a cake for a gay marriage
I am 72 so I may not be up on all the current events. But we can not give people approval because we would condemn ourselves. I have two nephews that do not talk to me because I do not approve what they are doing.
besides complaining about it on a forum?
I am not complaining so much as responding to a question you asked. You do not seem to like my answer and you keeping asking for another one.
 
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It would seem to me that the bad outweighs the good on the internet there's too many evil people and evil videos and photos it's all too much.
Eph, 6:12 For we wrestle not against flesh and blood, but against principalities, against powers, against the rulers of the darkness of this world, against spiritual wickedness in high places.
This speaks to those who dismiss conspiracy theories.
The shadow war, the rebellian, the conspiracy began millennia ago.
Wake up you sleepers.
 
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I am 72 so I may not be up on all the current events. But we can not give people approval because we would condemn ourselves. I have two nephews that do not talk to me because I do not approve what they are doing.
I'm 64 but the gay cake and a photographer wouldn't take a picture of a gay wedding for religious reasons was plastered (and amplified) all over the news some time ago. This shows that Christians are against those gay neighbors so we are getting payback. We should have loved them from the beginning and maybe the pushback wouldn't be so in your face today. Now we are more extreme.
I am not complaining so much as responding to a question you asked. You do not seem to like my answer and you keeping asking for another one.
"besides complaining about it on a forum?" this statement was rude and I apologize. My personal belief we are heading down a path of destruction because of our own doing. We like to blame the devil but the devil is in all our hearts according to the word search of evil in the NT. Maybe a little in the tongue that I need to work on.
 
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My personal belief we are heading down a path of destruction
Because the church age is coming to an end. It is the church that restrains the world. So the church must not be setting the right example for people. Paul tells us: "Now concerning the coming of our Lord Jesus Christ"

3Let no one deceive you in any way, for it will not come until the rebellion occurs and the man of lawlessness—the son of destruction—is revealed. 4He will oppose and exalt himself above every so-called god or object of worship. So he will seat himself in the temple of God, proclaiming himself to be God.

Paul uses strong words but gay people are taking over the church with Pastors and Bishops.

6And you know what is now restraining him, so that he may be revealed at the proper time.

2 Thessalonians
 
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Why should we honor God? Good question because it look like He has an ego if He wants us to worship Him. But that is not the case. He wants us in line and in harmony with Him. The bottom line is you are either for Him or against Him. There is no fence sitting allowed and that is where people wants to be.

As powerful as God is, it makes no sense at all to be fighting against Him. Just look at the natural disasters, earthquakes, tornadoes, fires, floods and so on. Do you really think that God is not powerful enough to control that sort of thing? Do you think He well not shake people if He gets mad at them?

We are told: "The fear of the LORD is the beginning of wisdom",

Proverbs 9 …9 Instruct a wise man, and he will be wiser still; teach a righteous man, and he will increase his learning. 10The fear of the LORD is the beginning of wisdom, and knowledge of the Holy One is understanding. 11For through wisdom your days will be multiplied, and years will be added to your life.…
 
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Because the church age is coming to an end. It is the church that restrains the world. So the church must not be setting the right example for people. Paul tells us: "Now concerning the coming of our Lord Jesus Christ"

3Let no one deceive you in any way, for it will not come until the rebellion occurs and the man of lawlessness—the son of destruction—is revealed. 4He will oppose and exalt himself above every so-called god or object of worship. So he will seat himself in the temple of God, proclaiming himself to be God.

Paul uses strong words but gay people are taking over the church with Pastors and Bishops.

6And you know what is now restraining him, so that he may be revealed at the proper time.

2 Thessalonians
I'd like to ask if every Christian on the planet 25 years ago adopted love your neighbor do you think we'd have the hostilities today amongst other groups or countries? God told us what we were going to do to ourselves because the picture I get from Revalation is nuclear war.
 
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the picture I get from Revalation is nuclear war.
The Bible talks about a sea of glass. If you look Armagedda is mostly sand and that is what you need to make glass.

I recommend for people to have a weekend house off the grid. So they have a place to go if the cities start to shut down. Only survival food is becoming very expensive so I do not know what they would do about that. I throw away a lot of expired food so I do look for stuff with a longer shelf life.
 
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The Bible talks about a sea of glass. If you look Armagedda is mostly sand and that is what you need to make glass.

I recommend for people to have a weekend house off the grid. So they have a place to go if the cities start to shut down. Only survival food is becoming very expensive so I do not know what they would do about that. I throw away a lot of expired food so I do look for stuff with a longer shelf life.
I'll take a no-go on that. I'd rather not live in a nuclear winter hopefully the rapture.
 
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Do you really think that God is not powerful enough to control that sort of thing?
How do you tell the the natural natural disasters from the God sent natural disasters? Is God clearly after people who die in massive Earthquakes that kill thousands of men women and children or are they just collateral damage?

If God was really out to get someone why not rewrite history to dis-include his target from existence rather than drop a mountain on them?
 
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Eph, 6:12 For we wrestle not against flesh and blood, but against principalities, against powers, against the rulers of the darkness of this world, against spiritual wickedness in high places.
This speaks to those who dismiss conspiracy theories.
The shadow war, the rebellian, the conspiracy began millennia ago.
Wake up you sleepers.
Who appointed you Cassandra
 
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We have a saying that means

" every accusation is a confession"
Whoever coined that thought they were a lot smarter than they are. that is a blatantly false generalization with a narrow interpretation.
 
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It is filtered, you have to turn the filter off to see that garbage. The government does not regulate it because the supreme court is corrupt. At one time there was a lot of money in porn. Hustler magazine was able to convince the court to make it legal so they could make their money off of it.

Dan Coats got the Senate, Congress and the President to agree on a law to control porn on the internet but the supreme court struck it down because they say it is free speech.
Yes it all comes back to the right to freedoms taken to the extreme. The same rights that allow extremists to spew their hate and burn their own national flag.

Sex has been a freedom right for a long time. The sexual revolution of the 60's and 70's as well as feminism in freeing women and men for that matter from marriage and monogamous relationships set the stage for further expressions of sex in all its forms.

But the internet and now social media completed and set the new reality that takes morals out of the picture. Postmodernism is about self reference and realization. The new reality of what is moral is self expression in all its forms.

Media and social media is perfect for this. The new frontier is now virtual reality which will replace human interaction and open up massive new posibilities for porn. In some ways this will have the power to just about replace the need to human interaction and allow people to detach from real life.

We already know that there is a big problem with young people addicted to gaming and that violent and pornogrphic content can have a negative effect on the pysche. So I would imagine this will only further alienate and detach people from real life and from empathising with others.
 
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