Atheists Raise $180,000 for Doctors Without Borders. - Polidicks

[QUOTE=Dr Magnusson;33825754] If you're in the third category, you're the most honest of them all, and all I can say is that I urge you to sit down and read the bible. Cover to cover. Don't let someone tell you how to think about a subject, educate yourself the same as you would had the subject been politics. You don't just accept your own party's claims of the opposite party's platform, do you?[/QUOTE] I've started reading it cover to cover again recently, I did it once when I was about 15 and I think it took me about a month. I'll let you know how I get on. I'm up to 1 Samuel at the moment. God's telling Saul to go postal on the Amalekites.

Well, Christians don't need to donate, because prayer [i]should[/i] solve all their problems, because Jesus, in [URL="http://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Matthew+21-22&version=KJ21"]Matthew 21-23[/URL], says "And all things whatsoever ye shall ask in prayer, believing, ye shall receive." From this, my logical conclusion is that Christians were praying for somebody else to fix the problem, or they just were not praying at all. So really, we probably have them to thank for this. Thanks Christians!

[QUOTE=MachiniOs;33819981]God damnit will people not realise that not all christians believe in Pre-Destination and "god's plan". There's no black and white even though some like to think there is.[/QUOTE] An essential part of Christendom and the other abrahamic religions, is the belief in an omniscient and omnipotent creator, and because of that it is quite impossible not to have predeterminism.

[QUOTE=spacedooky;33821656]That seems to be the exception rather than the rule. I think the general consensus is that, Jesus [b]meant to explain[/b] to Jews at the time that eating ceremonially unclean foods was not sinful in and of itself; but rather the mentality that came with it was sinful. To the Gentiles, he was trying to explain that Christians wouldn't be required to follow some of the old law. Most Biblical scholars agree that the parenthetical remark was included in the original Greek text, but people are conflicted as to whether Jesus said it or whether Mark added it to clarify.[/QUOTE] So basically from what I'm understanding, you're saying that even though the bible says one thing, it must be the exception, and people just generally believe that Jesus [i]actually meant to say[/i] something else that fits into our modern society better? It just sounds like selective interpretation. As Dr. Magnusson already pointed out here, once you start interpreting selectively, how is it the perfect word of the creator of the universe?

[QUOTE=Zeke129;33796948]Apologize immediately for bringing Nickleback here[/QUOTE] Never. :v: