Is there anyone willing to take a stand for what is good, right, proper and true?

[Nathan Poe]

ooh, ooh, ooh, I wanna do one too,

If you put it all on a scale, all the good christianity does compared to the harm that christianity does, what do you think is going to happen? Will the good outweigh the bad?

Now, project that out into the future. What is going to happen, if a day were to come, when the scale begins to tip in the wrong direction, and christianity is now doing more harm then good, and harming more people than they help?

Future? Begins? I'd say the day came and went some time around the 13th century, and hasn't shown much sign of improving.

 

[JohnR7]

Future? Begins? I'd say the day came and went some time around the 13th century, and hasn't shown much sign of improving.

Are you saying that science does more harm than good? If that were the case, would not have mankind self destructed by now?

 

[Arikay]

John, read what he was quoting more closely. I replaced "science" with "christianity"

Are you saying that science does more harm than good? If that were the case, would not have mankind self destructed by now?

 

[Nathan Poe]

John, read what he was quoting more closely. I replaced "science" with "christianity"

Now, Now, Arikay, you can't expect John to actually read these posts; a fact might slip in past his defenses!

 

[JohnR7]

John, read what he was quoting more closely. I replaced "science" with "christianity"

Yes, I know that and I knew from the beginning of this post that the same thing could be said about christianity.

To bad our doctor in training is to tired to come out and play today. But what does a doctor do with a healthy person? They send them home, so they have time and energy to help those who do need their help.

Why would I spend my time dealing with something that was not a problem. In general that is. If it ain't broke, then there is nothing to fix.

You guys keep trying to tell me, it ain't broke, it's fine. I keep trying to tell you, yes it is broken and it does need fixed.

Good at least with science they have an x ray machine to see if it really is broke and if it really does need fixed.

 

[tankiawee]

Yes, I know that and I knew from the beginning of this post that the same thing could be said about christianity.

To bad our doctor in training is to tired to come out and play today. But what does a doctor do with a healthy person? They send them home, so they have time and energy to help those who do need their help.

Why would I spend my time dealing with something that was not a problem. In general that is. If it ain't broke, then there is nothing to fix.

You guys keep trying to tell me, it ain't broke, it's fine. I keep trying to tell you, yes it is broken and it does need fixed.

Good at least with science they have an x ray machine to see if it really is broke and if it really does need fixed.

Yes John, at least science does.

 

[revolutio]

So, the answer than is,science is not willing to take a stand for what is good and right and proper and true?

Does that mean it's ok to plagerize?

Eggo Waffles aren't willing to take a stand for what is good, right, proper, and true either. Why? Because they have nothing to do with morality just like science.

 

[ObbiQuiet]

Now, Now, Arikay, you can't expect John to actually read these posts; a fact might slip in past his defenses!

 

[GCapp]

don't know if I'm replying in the right location to the original question here, but... YES!!!

I have run four times for political office.

Oh, I could've sought (and not received) the nomination of one of the three parties with a track record of winning my electoral district.

I could probably have BEEN the candidate for one particular party in 2000 because no one stepped forward and the local president stepped in at the last minute to fill the void. And in that election, the national broadcaster's regional network cut me out of the "all-candidates" forum!

(No other media cut me out and the local paper gave me a huge page 1 headline story about the national broadcaster's goofiness. All four of the other candidates thought it was wrong for me to be left out of the forum. I was in the forum as an audience member and had the last floor question of the night - the audience applauded after I identified myself. One candidate chewed out the broadcaster as the preface of his reply.)

But I did it for what I believe in, and I was successful. I stood on what I believe; winning was not worth compromising.

Results:

My predecessor by party affiliation in the 1988 election: 255 votes of 12,823 - 1.99%.

Me in the 1993 election: 61 votes out of 14,425 - 0.42%.

Me in the 1997 election: 136 votes out of 13,829 - 0.98%.

Me in the 2000 election: 53 votes out of 13,219 - 0.40%.

Me in the fall 2002 territorial election, as an independent candidate but based on the same principles as I ran federally: 15 votes out of 906 - 1.66% (my best percentage-hee hee).

By worldly standards, I got nowhere, but I didn't buy votes by promising things I don't believe in!

Is that standing up for what I believe? To some, maybe.

To many others, it would seem I committed a foolish waste.

Witness for Christ is not a waste when it is faithful.

GCapp

 

[AV1611VET]

Now, Now, Arikay, you can't expect John to actually read these posts; a fact might slip in past his defenses!

It's too bad a simple question like this can't go w/o ridicule, isn't it?

 

[Yu_Jin]

Ah a post seven years later!

 

[AV1611VET]

Ah a post seven years later!

'Bout time, ain't it --

 

[Targ]

'Bout time, ain't it --

No, it's just pathetic, AVET.

 

[AV1611VET]

No, it's just pathetic, AVET.

Well, excuse me for not being here seven years ago to respond --

(Where were you, by the way?)

 

[Targ]

On 22nd September 2003, I'd have been packing my bags ready to move to university.

Don't you get it, AVET? Nobody cares about what you think about somebody's post from seven years ago. If your comment had any substance to it, it may not be so bad, but when you just make some quick quip, it's utterly pointless.

 

[AV1611VET]

On 22nd September 2003, I'd have been packing my bags ready to move to university.

Don't you get it, AVET? Nobody cares about what you think about somebody's post from seven years ago. If your comment had any substance to it, it may not be so bad, but when you just make some quick quip, it's utterly pointless.

If that post had today's date on it instead, would that change anything?

 

[Targ]

If that post had today's date on it instead, would that change anything?

Yes, it would mean that everyone who took part in this thread would still be here and willing to continue the discussion, which the majority of them are not.

 

[Gracchus]

Well, excuse me for not being here seven years ago to respond --

When you are too lazy to make your own excuses, you ask others to excuse you?!

(Where were you, by the way?)

Tarq told you where he was. I had already been a member here for nearly a year.

 

[Targ]

Tarq told you where he was. I had already been a member here for nearly a year.

The name's Targ, you know, like this.

 

[Gracchus]

The name's Targ, you know, like this.

I have been meaning to get some new glasses.