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On Wed, 24 Jun 2009 13:33:47 -0400, Jimo wrote:
JustWaitAFrekinMinute! wrote: On Jun 24, 12:44 pm, jps wrote: On Wed, 24 Jun 2009 11:58:51 -0400, Jim242424 wrote: Tim wrote: On Jun 24, 7:10 am, HK wrote: Tim wrote: On Jun 23, 5:47 am, HK wrote: Tim wrote: On Jun 23, 5:17 am, HK wrote: That's not the point, tim. The fact remains that in many underdeveloped countries, especially in central and south america, evangelical christians use the "help" they offer impoverished native peoples as a hook to "convert" them to the protestant form of christianity de jour. I have a couple of relatives by marriage who support these efforts with contributions and trips to these countries to "help," and I have listened to their tales and seen their newsletters. Well, I used to...they stopped telling me about these conversion efforts after I told them many times I thought the practice was disgusting on many levels. It's weird, too, because several times it was obvious that Roman Catholics were being converted to protestantism...apparently the simpie evangelicals, many of them, try to promote the idea that the Catholics are *not* christians. To me, evangelical christians seem very insecure in their relgious beliefs. Those who remain unconverted seem a threat to the born-agains. Reminds me of the Borg Collective from the old Star Trek shows. "Assimilate...resistance is futile..." Well, screw that. harry, I have a brother and sister-in-law who have done the same in Panama for years. sister-in-law is a dentist/LPN who has worked very extensively with Guaymi indians for years. My brother builds clinics and church's (Oops". I meant to say "COMPOUNDS!") their kids come up here and finish high school then go back. My family members have no insecurity in their faith. Of course they're not really living in a hostile part of the world. Harry, for those who feel threatened by Christianity. I feel sorry for. If people like like my family members don't do anything to help who they do. Then who will? the government? Gee, tim...i dunno. My dentist is gone in july and august (his partners handle emergencies) every year. He goes to underserved asian countries (he's korean) to fix the teeth of kids who have no way to pay for such services. He sure as hell isn't serving up religion with his dentistry. hey, I'm glad your dentist does some humanity work. And he's gone for a month? Hmmm... my family has been gone for 20 years. About two months every year. Free. That means no charge to the patients, and no guilt trips in religion and no "thank jesus" nonsense. 20 years free. also no charge to patients and no guilt trips. One thing I don't really think you understand Harry is that one basis of Christianity is that you help others regardless of any "conversion" experience. Nobody is forced to do anything. and there's more humanitarian philosophy happening than you may realize or wish to acknowledge. I just don't understand who s person or an organization can do work for humanity and people think there's always a bargaining process going on. Harry has such a weak mind that he fears that someone is going to trick him into converting to Christianity. Weak mind? Mirror please!!! Plonk!- Hide quoted text - - Show quoted text - snerk JPS just plonked Tim... Guess some folks are just so far up their own asses they can't see reality anymore... Nope. It was me the dummy plonked. This is getting hilarious. If Harry was any kind of a friend he would show just plain stupid how to run his filtering machine. Do you change your name for reasons other than to get around filters? When I first suggested filtering you, you said go ahead, I only use two handles. Now you use new sig every day. Do you have an obsession? Are you that simple? |
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On Wed, 24 Jun 2009 13:33:47 -0400, Jimo wrote: JustWaitAFrekinMinute! wrote: On Jun 24, 12:44 pm, jps wrote: On Wed, 24 Jun 2009 11:58:51 -0400, Jim242424 wrote: Tim wrote: On Jun 24, 7:10 am, HK wrote: Tim wrote: On Jun 23, 5:47 am, HK wrote: Tim wrote: On Jun 23, 5:17 am, HK wrote: That's not the point, tim. The fact remains that in many underdeveloped countries, especially in central and south america, evangelical christians use the "help" they offer impoverished native peoples as a hook to "convert" them to the protestant form of christianity de jour. I have a couple of relatives by marriage who support these efforts with contributions and trips to these countries to "help," and I have listened to their tales and seen their newsletters. Well, I used to...they stopped telling me about these conversion efforts after I told them many times I thought the practice was disgusting on many levels. It's weird, too, because several times it was obvious that Roman Catholics were being converted to protestantism...apparently the simpie evangelicals, many of them, try to promote the idea that the Catholics are *not* christians. To me, evangelical christians seem very insecure in their relgious beliefs. Those who remain unconverted seem a threat to the born-agains. Reminds me of the Borg Collective from the old Star Trek shows. "Assimilate...resistance is futile..." Well, screw that. harry, I have a brother and sister-in-law who have done the same in Panama for years. sister-in-law is a dentist/LPN who has worked very extensively with Guaymi indians for years. My brother builds clinics and church's (Oops". I meant to say "COMPOUNDS!") their kids come up here and finish high school then go back. My family members have no insecurity in their faith. Of course they're not really living in a hostile part of the world. Harry, for those who feel threatened by Christianity. I feel sorry for. If people like like my family members don't do anything to help who they do. Then who will? the government? Gee, tim...i dunno. My dentist is gone in july and august (his partners handle emergencies) every year. He goes to underserved asian countries (he's korean) to fix the teeth of kids who have no way to pay for such services. He sure as hell isn't serving up religion with his dentistry. hey, I'm glad your dentist does some humanity work. And he's gone for a month? Hmmm... my family has been gone for 20 years. About two months every year. Free. That means no charge to the patients, and no guilt trips in religion and no "thank jesus" nonsense. 20 years free. also no charge to patients and no guilt trips. One thing I don't really think you understand Harry is that one basis of Christianity is that you help others regardless of any "conversion" experience. Nobody is forced to do anything. and there's more humanitarian philosophy happening than you may realize or wish to acknowledge. I just don't understand who s person or an organization can do work for humanity and people think there's always a bargaining process going on. Harry has such a weak mind that he fears that someone is going to trick him into converting to Christianity. Weak mind? Mirror please!!! Plonk!- Hide quoted text - - Show quoted text - snerk JPS just plonked Tim... Guess some folks are just so far up their own asses they can't see reality anymore... Nope. It was me the dummy plonked. This is getting hilarious. If Harry was any kind of a friend he would show just plain stupid how to run his filtering machine. Do you change your name for reasons other than to get around filters? When I first suggested filtering you, you said go ahead, I only use two handles. Now you use new sig every day. Do you have an obsession? Are you that simple? It's all he has left. When he was mustered out of the navy, he had no skills. A neighbor kid taught him how to change his handle in usenet. |
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On Wed, 24 Jun 2009 13:33:47 -0400, Jimo wrote: JustWaitAFrekinMinute! wrote: On Jun 24, 12:44 pm, jps wrote: On Wed, 24 Jun 2009 11:58:51 -0400, Jim242424 wrote: Tim wrote: On Jun 24, 7:10 am, HK wrote: Tim wrote: On Jun 23, 5:47 am, HK wrote: Tim wrote: On Jun 23, 5:17 am, HK wrote: That's not the point, tim. The fact remains that in many underdeveloped countries, especially in central and south america, evangelical christians use the "help" they offer impoverished native peoples as a hook to "convert" them to the protestant form of christianity de jour. I have a couple of relatives by marriage who support these efforts with contributions and trips to these countries to "help," and I have listened to their tales and seen their newsletters. Well, I used to...they stopped telling me about these conversion efforts after I told them many times I thought the practice was disgusting on many levels. It's weird, too, because several times it was obvious that Roman Catholics were being converted to protestantism...apparently the simpie evangelicals, many of them, try to promote the idea that the Catholics are *not* christians. To me, evangelical christians seem very insecure in their relgious beliefs. Those who remain unconverted seem a threat to the born-agains. Reminds me of the Borg Collective from the old Star Trek shows. "Assimilate...resistance is futile..." Well, screw that. harry, I have a brother and sister-in-law who have done the same in Panama for years. sister-in-law is a dentist/LPN who has worked very extensively with Guaymi indians for years. My brother builds clinics and church's (Oops". I meant to say "COMPOUNDS!") their kids come up here and finish high school then go back. My family members have no insecurity in their faith. Of course they're not really living in a hostile part of the world. Harry, for those who feel threatened by Christianity. I feel sorry for. If people like like my family members don't do anything to help who they do. Then who will? the government? Gee, tim...i dunno. My dentist is gone in july and august (his partners handle emergencies) every year. He goes to underserved asian countries (he's korean) to fix the teeth of kids who have no way to pay for such services. He sure as hell isn't serving up religion with his dentistry. hey, I'm glad your dentist does some humanity work. And he's gone for a month? Hmmm... my family has been gone for 20 years. About two months every year. Free. That means no charge to the patients, and no guilt trips in religion and no "thank jesus" nonsense. 20 years free. also no charge to patients and no guilt trips. One thing I don't really think you understand Harry is that one basis of Christianity is that you help others regardless of any "conversion" experience. Nobody is forced to do anything. and there's more humanitarian philosophy happening than you may realize or wish to acknowledge. I just don't understand who s person or an organization can do work for humanity and people think there's always a bargaining process going on. Harry has such a weak mind that he fears that someone is going to trick him into converting to Christianity. Weak mind? Mirror please!!! Plonk!- Hide quoted text - - Show quoted text - snerk JPS just plonked Tim... Guess some folks are just so far up their own asses they can't see reality anymore... Nope. It was me the dummy plonked. This is getting hilarious. If Harry was any kind of a friend he would show just plain stupid how to run his filtering machine. Do you change your name for reasons other than to get around filters? When I first suggested filtering you, you said go ahead, I only use two handles. Now you use new sig every day. Do you have an obsession? Are you that simple? You need to figure out how to use filters -- Reginald P. Smithers III, Esq. This Newsgroup post is a natural product. The slight variations in spelling and grammar enhance its individual character and beauty and in no way are to be considered flaws or defects |
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Reginald P Smithers III, Esq. wrote:
jps wrote: On Wed, 24 Jun 2009 13:33:47 -0400, Jimo wrote: JustWaitAFrekinMinute! wrote: On Jun 24, 12:44 pm, jps wrote: On Wed, 24 Jun 2009 11:58:51 -0400, Jim242424 wrote: Tim wrote: On Jun 24, 7:10 am, HK wrote: Tim wrote: On Jun 23, 5:47 am, HK wrote: Tim wrote: On Jun 23, 5:17 am, HK wrote: That's not the point, tim. The fact remains that in many underdeveloped countries, especially in central and south america, evangelical christians use the "help" they offer impoverished native peoples as a hook to "convert" them to the protestant form of christianity de jour. I have a couple of relatives by marriage who support these efforts with contributions and trips to these countries to "help," and I have listened to their tales and seen their newsletters. Well, I used to...they stopped telling me about these conversion efforts after I told them many times I thought the practice was disgusting on many levels. It's weird, too, because several times it was obvious that Roman Catholics were being converted to protestantism...apparently the simpie evangelicals, many of them, try to promote the idea that the Catholics are *not* christians. To me, evangelical christians seem very insecure in their relgious beliefs. Those who remain unconverted seem a threat to the born-agains. Reminds me of the Borg Collective from the old Star Trek shows. "Assimilate...resistance is futile..." Well, screw that. harry, I have a brother and sister-in-law who have done the same in Panama for years. sister-in-law is a dentist/LPN who has worked very extensively with Guaymi indians for years. My brother builds clinics and church's (Oops". I meant to say "COMPOUNDS!") their kids come up here and finish high school then go back. My family members have no insecurity in their faith. Of course they're not really living in a hostile part of the world. Harry, for those who feel threatened by Christianity. I feel sorry for. If people like like my family members don't do anything to help who they do. Then who will? the government? Gee, tim...i dunno. My dentist is gone in july and august (his partners handle emergencies) every year. He goes to underserved asian countries (he's korean) to fix the teeth of kids who have no way to pay for such services. He sure as hell isn't serving up religion with his dentistry. hey, I'm glad your dentist does some humanity work. And he's gone for a month? Hmmm... my family has been gone for 20 years. About two months every year. Free. That means no charge to the patients, and no guilt trips in religion and no "thank jesus" nonsense. 20 years free. also no charge to patients and no guilt trips. One thing I don't really think you understand Harry is that one basis of Christianity is that you help others regardless of any "conversion" experience. Nobody is forced to do anything. and there's more humanitarian philosophy happening than you may realize or wish to acknowledge. I just don't understand who s person or an organization can do work for humanity and people think there's always a bargaining process going on. Harry has such a weak mind that he fears that someone is going to trick him into converting to Christianity. Weak mind? Mirror please!!! Plonk!- Hide quoted text - - Show quoted text - snerk JPS just plonked Tim... Guess some folks are just so far up their own asses they can't see reality anymore... Nope. It was me the dummy plonked. This is getting hilarious. If Harry was any kind of a friend he would show just plain stupid how to run his filtering machine. Do you change your name for reasons other than to get around filters? When I first suggested filtering you, you said go ahead, I only use two handles. Now you use new sig every day. Do you have an obsession? Are you that simple? You need to figure out how to use filters I thought Harry might show Junior how to set up filters but I'm beginning to wonder if Harry knows how to run filters himself. Thos whole bozo bin thing might just be a fragment of his figmentation. |
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![]() "Jim2424242" wrote in message ... Reginald P Smithers III, Esq. wrote: jps wrote: On Wed, 24 Jun 2009 13:33:47 -0400, Jimo wrote: JustWaitAFrekinMinute! wrote: On Jun 24, 12:44 pm, jps wrote: On Wed, 24 Jun 2009 11:58:51 -0400, Jim242424 wrote: Tim wrote: On Jun 24, 7:10 am, HK wrote: Tim wrote: On Jun 23, 5:47 am, HK wrote: Tim wrote: On Jun 23, 5:17 am, HK wrote: That's not the point, tim. The fact remains that in many underdeveloped countries, especially in central and south america, evangelical christians use the "help" they offer impoverished native peoples as a hook to "convert" them to the protestant form of christianity de jour. I have a couple of relatives by marriage who support these efforts with contributions and trips to these countries to "help," and I have listened to their tales and seen their newsletters. Well, I used to...they stopped telling me about these conversion efforts after I told them many times I thought the practice was disgusting on many levels. It's weird, too, because several times it was obvious that Roman Catholics were being converted to protestantism...apparently the simpie evangelicals, many of them, try to promote the idea that the Catholics are *not* christians. To me, evangelical christians seem very insecure in their relgious beliefs. Those who remain unconverted seem a threat to the born-agains. Reminds me of the Borg Collective from the old Star Trek shows. "Assimilate...resistance is futile..." Well, screw that. harry, I have a brother and sister-in-law who have done the same in Panama for years. sister-in-law is a dentist/LPN who has worked very extensively with Guaymi indians for years. My brother builds clinics and church's (Oops". I meant to say "COMPOUNDS!") their kids come up here and finish high school then go back. My family members have no insecurity in their faith. Of course they're not really living in a hostile part of the world. Harry, for those who feel threatened by Christianity. I feel sorry for. If people like like my family members don't do anything to help who they do. Then who will? the government? Gee, tim...i dunno. My dentist is gone in july and august (his partners handle emergencies) every year. He goes to underserved asian countries (he's korean) to fix the teeth of kids who have no way to pay for such services. He sure as hell isn't serving up religion with his dentistry. hey, I'm glad your dentist does some humanity work. And he's gone for a month? Hmmm... my family has been gone for 20 years. About two months every year. Free. That means no charge to the patients, and no guilt trips in religion and no "thank jesus" nonsense. 20 years free. also no charge to patients and no guilt trips. One thing I don't really think you understand Harry is that one basis of Christianity is that you help others regardless of any "conversion" experience. Nobody is forced to do anything. and there's more humanitarian philosophy happening than you may realize or wish to acknowledge. I just don't understand who s person or an organization can do work for humanity and people think there's always a bargaining process going on. Harry has such a weak mind that he fears that someone is going to trick him into converting to Christianity. Weak mind? Mirror please!!! Plonk!- Hide quoted text - - Show quoted text - snerk JPS just plonked Tim... Guess some folks are just so far up their own asses they can't see reality anymore... Nope. It was me the dummy plonked. This is getting hilarious. If Harry was any kind of a friend he would show just plain stupid how to run his filtering machine. Do you change your name for reasons other than to get around filters? When I first suggested filtering you, you said go ahead, I only use two handles. Now you use new sig every day. Do you have an obsession? Are you that simple? You need to figure out how to use filters I thought Harry might show Junior how to set up filters but I'm beginning to wonder if Harry knows how to run filters himself. Thos whole bozo bin thing might just be a fragment of his figmentation. Careful, you're approaching the maximum allowable nom de plume characters in Usenet. |
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On Wed, 24 Jun 2009 18:11:15 -0400, "D.Duck" wrote:
"Jim2424242" wrote in message ... Reginald P Smithers III, Esq. wrote: jps wrote: On Wed, 24 Jun 2009 13:33:47 -0400, Jimo wrote: JustWaitAFrekinMinute! wrote: On Jun 24, 12:44 pm, jps wrote: On Wed, 24 Jun 2009 11:58:51 -0400, Jim242424 wrote: Tim wrote: On Jun 24, 7:10 am, HK wrote: Tim wrote: On Jun 23, 5:47 am, HK wrote: Tim wrote: On Jun 23, 5:17 am, HK wrote: That's not the point, tim. The fact remains that in many underdeveloped countries, especially in central and south america, evangelical christians use the "help" they offer impoverished native peoples as a hook to "convert" them to the protestant form of christianity de jour. I have a couple of relatives by marriage who support these efforts with contributions and trips to these countries to "help," and I have listened to their tales and seen their newsletters. Well, I used to...they stopped telling me about these conversion efforts after I told them many times I thought the practice was disgusting on many levels. It's weird, too, because several times it was obvious that Roman Catholics were being converted to protestantism...apparently the simpie evangelicals, many of them, try to promote the idea that the Catholics are *not* christians. To me, evangelical christians seem very insecure in their relgious beliefs. Those who remain unconverted seem a threat to the born-agains. Reminds me of the Borg Collective from the old Star Trek shows. "Assimilate...resistance is futile..." Well, screw that. harry, I have a brother and sister-in-law who have done the same in Panama for years. sister-in-law is a dentist/LPN who has worked very extensively with Guaymi indians for years. My brother builds clinics and church's (Oops". I meant to say "COMPOUNDS!") their kids come up here and finish high school then go back. My family members have no insecurity in their faith. Of course they're not really living in a hostile part of the world. Harry, for those who feel threatened by Christianity. I feel sorry for. If people like like my family members don't do anything to help who they do. Then who will? the government? Gee, tim...i dunno. My dentist is gone in july and august (his partners handle emergencies) every year. He goes to underserved asian countries (he's korean) to fix the teeth of kids who have no way to pay for such services. He sure as hell isn't serving up religion with his dentistry. hey, I'm glad your dentist does some humanity work. And he's gone for a month? Hmmm... my family has been gone for 20 years. About two months every year. Free. That means no charge to the patients, and no guilt trips in religion and no "thank jesus" nonsense. 20 years free. also no charge to patients and no guilt trips. One thing I don't really think you understand Harry is that one basis of Christianity is that you help others regardless of any "conversion" experience. Nobody is forced to do anything. and there's more humanitarian philosophy happening than you may realize or wish to acknowledge. I just don't understand who s person or an organization can do work for humanity and people think there's always a bargaining process going on. Harry has such a weak mind that he fears that someone is going to trick him into converting to Christianity. Weak mind? Mirror please!!! Plonk!- Hide quoted text - - Show quoted text - snerk JPS just plonked Tim... Guess some folks are just so far up their own asses they can't see reality anymore... Nope. It was me the dummy plonked. This is getting hilarious. If Harry was any kind of a friend he would show just plain stupid how to run his filtering machine. Do you change your name for reasons other than to get around filters? When I first suggested filtering you, you said go ahead, I only use two handles. Now you use new sig every day. Do you have an obsession? Are you that simple? You need to figure out how to use filters I thought Harry might show Junior how to set up filters but I'm beginning to wonder if Harry knows how to run filters himself. Thos whole bozo bin thing might just be a fragment of his figmentation. Careful, you're approaching the maximum allowable nom de plume characters in Usenet. I don't think he's used half the number HK, HKrause, harry krause, hkrause, a boater, the boater, etc, etc, has used. |
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On Wed, 24 Jun 2009 18:11:15 -0400, "D.Duck" wrote:
"Jim2424242" wrote in message ... Reginald P Smithers III, Esq. wrote: jps wrote: On Wed, 24 Jun 2009 13:33:47 -0400, Jimo wrote: JustWaitAFrekinMinute! wrote: On Jun 24, 12:44 pm, jps wrote: On Wed, 24 Jun 2009 11:58:51 -0400, Jim242424 wrote: Tim wrote: On Jun 24, 7:10 am, HK wrote: Tim wrote: On Jun 23, 5:47 am, HK wrote: Tim wrote: On Jun 23, 5:17 am, HK wrote: That's not the point, tim. The fact remains that in many underdeveloped countries, especially in central and south america, evangelical christians use the "help" they offer impoverished native peoples as a hook to "convert" them to the protestant form of christianity de jour. I have a couple of relatives by marriage who support these efforts with contributions and trips to these countries to "help," and I have listened to their tales and seen their newsletters. Well, I used to...they stopped telling me about these conversion efforts after I told them many times I thought the practice was disgusting on many levels. It's weird, too, because several times it was obvious that Roman Catholics were being converted to protestantism...apparently the simpie evangelicals, many of them, try to promote the idea that the Catholics are *not* christians. To me, evangelical christians seem very insecure in their relgious beliefs. Those who remain unconverted seem a threat to the born-agains. Reminds me of the Borg Collective from the old Star Trek shows. "Assimilate...resistance is futile..." Well, screw that. harry, I have a brother and sister-in-law who have done the same in Panama for years. sister-in-law is a dentist/LPN who has worked very extensively with Guaymi indians for years. My brother builds clinics and church's (Oops". I meant to say "COMPOUNDS!") their kids come up here and finish high school then go back. My family members have no insecurity in their faith. Of course they're not really living in a hostile part of the world. Harry, for those who feel threatened by Christianity. I feel sorry for. If people like like my family members don't do anything to help who they do. Then who will? the government? Gee, tim...i dunno. My dentist is gone in july and august (his partners handle emergencies) every year. He goes to underserved asian countries (he's korean) to fix the teeth of kids who have no way to pay for such services. He sure as hell isn't serving up religion with his dentistry. hey, I'm glad your dentist does some humanity work. And he's gone for a month? Hmmm... my family has been gone for 20 years. About two months every year. Free. That means no charge to the patients, and no guilt trips in religion and no "thank jesus" nonsense. 20 years free. also no charge to patients and no guilt trips. One thing I don't really think you understand Harry is that one basis of Christianity is that you help others regardless of any "conversion" experience. Nobody is forced to do anything. and there's more humanitarian philosophy happening than you may realize or wish to acknowledge. I just don't understand who s person or an organization can do work for humanity and people think there's always a bargaining process going on. Harry has such a weak mind that he fears that someone is going to trick him into converting to Christianity. Weak mind? Mirror please!!! Plonk!- Hide quoted text - - Show quoted text - snerk JPS just plonked Tim... Guess some folks are just so far up their own asses they can't see reality anymore... Nope. It was me the dummy plonked. This is getting hilarious. If Harry was any kind of a friend he would show just plain stupid how to run his filtering machine. Do you change your name for reasons other than to get around filters? When I first suggested filtering you, you said go ahead, I only use two handles. Now you use new sig every day. Do you have an obsession? Are you that simple? You need to figure out how to use filters I thought Harry might show Junior how to set up filters but I'm beginning to wonder if Harry knows how to run filters himself. Thos whole bozo bin thing might just be a fragment of his figmentation. Careful, you're approaching the maximum allowable nom de plume characters in Usenet. I could filter him on Jim but there's another Jim with a much better brain whose posts I enjoy. Jim from nowhere is a floater. |
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On Jun 24, 8:12*am, HK wrote:
Tim wrote: On Jun 24, 7:10 am, HK wrote: Tim wrote: On Jun 23, 5:47 am, HK wrote: Tim wrote: On Jun 23, 5:17 am, HK wrote: That's not the point, tim. The fact remains that in many underdeveloped countries, especially in central and south america, evangelical christians use the "help" they offer impoverished native peoples as a hook to "convert" them to the protestant form of christianity de jour. I have a couple of relatives by marriage who support these efforts with contributions and trips to these countries to "help," and I have listened to their tales and seen their newsletters. Well, I used to...they stopped telling me about these conversion efforts after I told them many times I thought the practice was disgusting on many levels. It's weird, too, because several times it was obvious that Roman Catholics were being converted to protestantism...apparently the simpie evangelicals, many of them, try to promote the idea that the Catholics are *not* christians. To me, evangelical christians seem very insecure in their relgious beliefs. Those who remain unconverted seem a threat to the born-agains. Reminds me of the Borg Collective from the old Star Trek shows. "Assimilate...resistance is futile..." Well, screw that. harry, I have a brother and sister-in-law *who have done the same in Panama for years. sister-in-law is a dentist/LPN who has worked very extensively with Guaymi indians for years. My brother builds clinics and church's (Oops". I meant to say "COMPOUNDS!") their kids come up here and finish high school then go back. My family members have no insecurity in their faith. Of course *they're not really living in a hostile part of the world. Harry, for those who feel threatened by Christianity. I feel sorry for. If people like like my family members don't do anything to help who they do. Then who will? the government? Gee, tim...i dunno. My dentist is gone in july and august (his partners handle emergencies) every year. He goes to underserved asian countries (he's korean) to fix the teeth of kids who have no way to pay for such services. He sure as hell isn't serving up religion with his dentistry. hey, I'm glad your dentist does some humanity work. And he's gone for a month? Hmmm... my family has been gone *for 20 years. About two months every year. Free. That means no charge to the patients, and no guilt trips in religion and no "thank jesus" nonsense. 20 years free. also no charge to patients and no guilt trips. One thing I don't really think you understand Harry is that one basis of Christianity is that you help others regardless of any "conversion" experience. Nobody is forced to do anything. and there's more humanitarian philosophy happening than you may *realize or wish to acknowledge. I just don't understand who s person or an organization can do work for humanity and people think there's always a bargaining process going on. Tim, I simply do not agree with this statement of yours: "Nobody is forced to do anything." But I do not for a moment doubt your sincerity or the sincerity of your beliefs. Sounds like a line from a Richard Dawkins video. Especially at 1:36 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WmHDiJHxEic But thanks Harry. BTW, even though you didn't mention it, I thought I'd add that I don't feel I'm "hallucinating" either. But that's OK if you may happen to feel that way as well.. |
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On Jun 24, 12:37*pm, jps wrote:
On Wed, 24 Jun 2009 04:54:12 -0700 (PDT), Tim wrote: On Jun 22, 9:54*am, HK wrote: What fundamentalist religions do, religions like the white southern baptists, is try to push their alleged principles, precepts, beliefs, and bull**** onto others, and onto society generally. Harry. religions help to form societies. some for the good and some for the not so good. Atheistic thinking does too. Just ask Karl Marx. As if all atheists are Marxists. How Rushian of you. "Rushian?" If you mean R. Limbag, I haven't listened to him in probably two years. If you men "Russian" well, that reminds me that Stalin eliminated an estimated 16-20 million of his countrymen all in the name of atheistic communism. He made Hitler and his 6 mill. Jews look like an armature. |
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On Wed, 24 Jun 2009 15:56:16 -0700 (PDT), Tim
wrote: On Jun 24, 12:37*pm, jps wrote: On Wed, 24 Jun 2009 04:54:12 -0700 (PDT), Tim wrote: On Jun 22, 9:54*am, HK wrote: What fundamentalist religions do, religions like the white southern baptists, is try to push their alleged principles, precepts, beliefs, and bull**** onto others, and onto society generally. Harry. religions help to form societies. some for the good and some for the not so good. Atheistic thinking does too. Just ask Karl Marx. As if all atheists are Marxists. How Rushian of you. "Rushian?" If you mean R. Limbag, I haven't listened to him in probably two years. He inhabits your soul. He's a good Christian. |
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