"~^ beancounter ~^" wrote in message
oups.com...
"Who are you to question anyone's religious belief?"

i can question anything i want....esp. if religious kooks
are at war w/our country ........ do they talk about
that in the little black book...??




Whatever..........you are not worth taking this any further.







JimH wrote:
"~^ beancounter ~^" wrote in message
oups.com...
is that what your little black book tells ya?



"Test of faith, man. Test of faith.."



Who are you to question anyone's religious belief?

"No one is knocking your athiestic views, so... why
are you knocking any ones faith?"

ummm...lets see...one reason would be religous folks
have vowed to destroy our country and kill all "non
believers".......





wrote:
No one is knocking your athiestic views, so... why are you knocking any
ones faith?


~^ beancounter ~^ wrote:
"Who are you to question anyone's religious belief?"

i can question anything i want....esp. if religious kooks
are at war w/our country ........ do they talk about
that in the little black book...??






JimH wrote:
"~^ beancounter ~^" wrote in message
oups.com...
is that what your little black book tells ya?



"Test of faith, man. Test of faith.."



Who are you to question anyone's religious belief?

That's a broad brush stroke that you paint for those you claim to be
'religious who are destroying your country'.....I took a trip to the
Carolinas not too long ago and I saw some pretty expensive-looking
"churches" built to help the "religious right" of the good ol' USA
praise the Lord, and deposit their hard-earned money. Just as many
religious fanatics in the USA , buddy boy.

Go Canada


~^ beancounter ~^ wrote:
"No one is knocking your athiestic views, so... why
are you knocking any ones faith?"

ummm...lets see...one reason would be religous folks
have vowed to destroy our country and kill all "non
believers".......





wrote:
No one is knocking your athiestic views, so... why are you knocking any
ones faith?


~^ beancounter ~^ wrote:
"Who are you to question anyone's religious belief?"

i can question anything i want....esp. if religious kooks
are at war w/our country ........ do they talk about
that in the little black book...??






JimH wrote:
"~^ beancounter ~^" wrote in message
oups.com...
is that what your little black book tells ya?



"Test of faith, man. Test of faith.."



Who are you to question anyone's religious belief?

"WangoZtango" wrote in message
ups.com...
That's a broad brush stroke that you paint for those you claim to be
'religious who are destroying your country'.....I took a trip to the
Carolinas not too long ago and I saw some pretty expensive-looking
"churches" built to help the "religious right" of the good ol' USA
praise the Lord, and deposit their hard-earned money. Just as many
religious fanatics in the USA , buddy boy.

Go Canada



Agreed. But having a Christian faith does not now relate to being a fanatic
as the extremist Muslims are.

Heck, the Catholic Church has had millions extorted from it by it's staff
and has paid millions to settle child abuse lawsuits stemming from
inappropriate sexual behavior by their priests.

A turn off and black eye for the Catholic religion? Without a doubt.

Do those actions then make their members 'religious fanatics'? Hardly.
;-)

I do not personally believe in the riches of the Catholic Church including
the Vatican fine arts collection or the building of high dollar churches.
But that has nothing to do with my belief in the Catholic religion nor does
that make my belief in the religion 'fanatical'.

I do accept the fact that the Christian Crusades of the 1100's and 1200's
were carried on by extremists and fanatics. But that was close to 1,000
years ago.

Muslim extremists acting on false religious pretences and killing innocent
people who do not believe in *their* religion are certainly our modern day
religious fanatics. You certainly cannot deny that. And to relate any
person of religious belief as being equally fanatic is absurd. ;-)

I see your point, but I think we have 2 different definitions of
'fanatics'. IMO, someone who would mindlessly give most of their
income (tithing) to a church (Catholics included) in order to buy their
way into heaven, or those who would be convinced that their religion is
'right' and someone else's is 'wrong', or actually believes they are
God's 'chosen one' based on their religion is a fanatic. They have an
unrational enthusiasm that clouds normal thinking and judgement. The
kiddy-diddling priests are not fanatics, they are simply criminal,
perverted *******s.
JimH wrote:
"WangoZtango" wrote in message
ups.com...
That's a broad brush stroke that you paint for those you claim to be
'religious who are destroying your country'.....I took a trip to the
Carolinas not too long ago and I saw some pretty expensive-looking
"churches" built to help the "religious right" of the good ol' USA
praise the Lord, and deposit their hard-earned money. Just as many
religious fanatics in the USA , buddy boy.

Go Canada



Agreed. But having a Christian faith does not now relate to being a fanatic
as the extremist Muslims are.

Heck, the Catholic Church has had millions extorted from it by it's staff
and has paid millions to settle child abuse lawsuits stemming from
inappropriate sexual behavior by their priests.

A turn off and black eye for the Catholic religion? Without a doubt.

Do those actions then make their members 'religious fanatics'? Hardly.
;-)

I do not personally believe in the riches of the Catholic Church including
the Vatican fine arts collection or the building of high dollar churches.
But that has nothing to do with my belief in the Catholic religion nor does
that make my belief in the religion 'fanatical'.

I do accept the fact that the Christian Crusades of the 1100's and 1200's
were carried on by extremists and fanatics. But that was close to 1,000
years ago.

Muslim extremists acting on false religious pretences and killing innocent
people who do not believe in *their* religion are certainly our modern day
religious fanatics. You certainly cannot deny that. And to relate any
person of religious belief as being equally fanatic is absurd. ;-)

religion is nothing more than a "mind game" to control folks
who otherwise would need it...due to lack of self control...i guess...

i think it is funny folks need to "look it up" in their little black
book
to fig out what to do in certain situations.....its pretty funny, i
think...



WangoZtango wrote:
I see your point, but I think we have 2 different definitions of
'fanatics'. IMO, someone who would mindlessly give most of their
income (tithing) to a church (Catholics included) in order to buy their
way into heaven, or those who would be convinced that their religion is
'right' and someone else's is 'wrong', or actually believes they are
God's 'chosen one' based on their religion is a fanatic. They have an
unrational enthusiasm that clouds normal thinking and judgement. The
kiddy-diddling priests are not fanatics, they are simply criminal,
perverted *******s.
JimH wrote:
"WangoZtango" wrote in message
ups.com...
That's a broad brush stroke that you paint for those you claim to be
'religious who are destroying your country'.....I took a trip to the
Carolinas not too long ago and I saw some pretty expensive-looking
"churches" built to help the "religious right" of the good ol' USA
praise the Lord, and deposit their hard-earned money. Just as many
religious fanatics in the USA , buddy boy.

Go Canada



Agreed. But having a Christian faith does not now relate to being a fanatic
as the extremist Muslims are.

Heck, the Catholic Church has had millions extorted from it by it's staff
and has paid millions to settle child abuse lawsuits stemming from
inappropriate sexual behavior by their priests.

A turn off and black eye for the Catholic religion? Without a doubt.

Do those actions then make their members 'religious fanatics'? Hardly.
;-)

I do not personally believe in the riches of the Catholic Church including
the Vatican fine arts collection or the building of high dollar churches.
But that has nothing to do with my belief in the Catholic religion nor does
that make my belief in the religion 'fanatical'.

I do accept the fact that the Christian Crusades of the 1100's and 1200's
were carried on by extremists and fanatics. But that was close to 1,000
years ago.

Muslim extremists acting on false religious pretences and killing innocent
people who do not believe in *their* religion are certainly our modern day
religious fanatics. You certainly cannot deny that. And to relate any
person of religious belief as being equally fanatic is absurd. ;-)

WangoZtango wrote:
I see your point, but I think we have 2 different definitions of
'fanatics'. IMO, someone who would mindlessly give most of their
income (tithing) to a church (Catholics included) in order to buy their
way into heaven, or those who would be convinced that their religion is
'right' and someone else's is 'wrong', or actually believes they are
God's 'chosen one' based on their religion is a fanatic. They have an
unrational enthusiasm that clouds normal thinking and judgement. The
kiddy-diddling priests are not fanatics, they are simply criminal,
perverted *******s.


Duh!
Tithing means giving 10% to a church...not "mindlessly give most of
their income "

Shortwave Sportfishing wrote:
On 17 Aug 2006 19:29:40 -0700, "~^ beancounter ~^"
wrote:

religion is nothing more than a "mind game" to control folks
who otherwise would need it...due to lack of self control...i guess...

Wow - how original...

You should write a book.


Somebody already did that states pretty well the same thing. It's
called "The Communist Manifesto" By Karl Marx..

"Wow - how original...
You should write a book."

gee....ya think? would you buy it?







Shortwave Sportfishing wrote:
On 17 Aug 2006 19:29:40 -0700, "~^ beancounter ~^"
wrote:

religion is nothing more than a "mind game" to control folks
who otherwise would need it...due to lack of self control...i guess...

Wow - how original...

You should write a book.

"I love fiction."

good...you would love the little black book called the bible...
its a cross between fiction and entertainment...go to church
if you enjoy the theater...its sorta fun to watch...omho
of course...





Shortwave Sportfishing wrote:
On 18 Aug 2006 08:03:23 -0700, "~^ beancounter ~^"
wrote:

"Wow - how original...
You should write a book."

gee....ya think? would you buy it?

Of course I would.

I love fiction.