Recent content by Norseman

...if I believe in Christ and follow him, but if I do not believe in God? I've been reading Leo Tolstoy's The Kingdom of God is Within You, and I've recently had the most... I don't know what to call it. The most ... religious, maybe? The most ... spiritual? Something else? It was unusual for...

Wow. I was really, really confused by the OP. For the past two or three years, I've thought clirus was a guy. :o Suddenly, I read: And, I thought to myself, "Self, clirus is a Christian, who opposes homosexuality. Why would clirus out himself as a homosexual? That makes no sense at all...

http://www.abcnews.go.com/Blotter/story?id=5613502&page=1 Oh did I say, terrorist? I meant TSA. It's easy to get them mixed up, you see.

Ok, so after handling weapons-grade anthrax and possibly other pathogens, he was able to leave the base without having his pockets checked? But I'm not allowed to re-enter the US without Homeland Security checking my laptop and camera? I doubt it. If the security at that base is that bad, we...

Yeah, that's why I'm calling Poe's law: "Without a winking smiley or other blatant display of humor, it is impossible to create a parody of Fundamentalism that SOMEONE won't mistake for the real thing." I honestly thought that your first post was serious.

Ok. But, if the government is killing innocent people, then how can it claim the right to kill people for killing innocent people? Bear in mind that there have been 129 people in the US who were sentenced to death and then let free, after it was decided that they weren't guilty of the crimes...

^I'm claiming Poe's law.

What if a police officer shoots an unarmed mother who is on her knees while she's holding a child? The maximum sentence was 8 months, and the officer was found not-guilty by all-white jury. It's things like this which make me very reluctant to support state-sanctioned killings.

I thought God created two people in the same place?

Perhaps God would. God is, according to most Christians, omniscient. The question is, how do you know whether or not this man actually did the things he was accused of? How do you know that God wants you to kill him? What if you are executing an innocent man? Doesn't that make you a murderer...

Well, here's what one inmate says about prison in the US: If I can be subdued while some police man melts my ear off, the same and worse can happen in prison.

John 8:11 (21st Century King James Version): Now, where's the part where Jesus suggests we should shoot people and bill their families for the ammo?

John 8:11 (21st Century King James Version): Now, where's the part where Jesus suggests we should take people and shove pistols into their mouths?

Well, there are two possibilities. The first possibility is that there is no conspiracy, and it's just downright easy for some rogue scientist to get weapons-grade anthrax out of a military base and kill people with it. The second possibility is a politically or religiously motivated conspiracy...

Yeah, I'm still not getting it. Do you/psalm think I'm some robot-pirate time-traveler who was hired by a ninja to be a walking cliche? If that's what you think, then you should know that I'm not a pirate*. *Although I am a Pastafarian. **Seriously, what's with the alien/zombie thing?