They want to have it both ways, and who cares the results as long as it doesn't affect them...

No problem! :D

This is how it should look with the proper closing brace:

[quote=Yankee Clipper][color=red] I have tried this before and could not get it to work, let's see if it works this time.

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Try adding {/color] at the end of the text you want to change colors.

(NOTE: I substituted '[' for '{' because to do otherwise will cause everything to change red up to that closing block. All blocks need to be paired.)

I can't speak for the liberal/conservative argument on this issue. Of my two degrees, one happens to involve programming, so this sort of thing is rather t***sparent to me. The programmer who coded this parser did so under one of two conditions. It was deliberate. That makes errors easier to detect. Or he is sloppy/inexperienced and didn't make the program flexible enough to handle errors. Given that this is an HTML environment and the fact that it handles sloppy code gracefully, I tend to think that the latter argument is the correct one.

True, but evolution can be tested. In theory we could dig up the entire earth to find all available fossil records and piece them together to create an accurate fossil time-line record and expose the supposed missing link(s)...if they exit. No amount of technology can prove the existence of God. If he truly is in all that exists, then that means that he mus be bigger than the universe. Being that we are limited to the tools available to this universe, we could never put together a test to find Him. It would be like trying to simulate the entire universe molecule by molecule. It can't be done.

Only as long as they tow the party line...

See my post immediately above yours. :D

Part of the problem is the poor excuse of a parser this forum uses. If you hadn't noticed, it doesn't like blocks '[' and ']' to appear anywhere within blocked comments. For example:



similarly...

This works
[This] does not.

unless the code is another recognized block


also, it breaks the entire chain of block commands



I have a few things I'd like to tell the programmer who wrote this parser...

I will only say this. Our founding fathers only mentioned everyone's right to Life. They said nothing of death, because in the end, death is inevitable for all of us. But who has the right to say that anyone should stop attempting to keep a person alive? If they are being kept alive through artificial means, such as brain death on an artificial respirator, then sure, pull the plug. However, to make the call when the patient is still alive and able to make such decisions? That flies in the face of everything our forefathers intended. As long as there is life, there is hope. Only after every attempt to keep a person alive has failed does anyone have the right to call the death and stop any further attempt to resuscitate.

Perhaps, but it's a simple case of supply and demand. If the supply is gone, the only solution happens to be theft. Fortunately, the location of the supply is in an unsuspecting little community, Artesia, NM. If you are going to be a criminal, better start planning now...

Chardo, I had the dickens of a time trying to find let alone read your responses to me. If you are going to do so within my quote block please change colors. It's easy to do. The instructions are on the left hand side of the response screen under tags.


Where there is life, there is always hope. Age is not a requirement, nor is it a limitation. I understand what you mean about your childhood. There is a lot of misunderstanding about Christianity. To begin with, as you rightly pointed out, one cannot be born a Christian. One is born into sin.

A child's innocence merely stems from their lack of knowledge and understanding what is right and wrong. This is why children are handled differently from adults with respect to their behavior. However, do not construe that to mean that children don't sin. They start sinning almost from the day they are born. It can be seen by their self centered demanding nature. At first it starts out innocent enough, they cry when they need something. But the moment they realize that they can affect change upon the world by manipulating others through their crying, that's when the sin nature takes over. The essence of sin is selfishness.

As for Catholicism, I'll let you in on a little secret. I don't consider Catholics Christian...not be default anyway. It is possible for Catholics to become Christian. However, there is so much apostasy and outright heresy in the Roman Catholic Church that it is anything BUT Christian. They teach many things that are in direct contradiction to the Bible. At the top of the list is the Pope being Christ's Vicar. Many of the rituals and accoutrements used by the Catholics are also not Christian. There is a religion that they do resemble, however. That religion is Mystery Babylon. With so much mis-teaching it's no wonder your nuns could not answer your questions. How can they teach what they do not know?


Do they really? What are perceptions? When I look at a tree, do I really see the tree, or just a mere outline of it? Perceptions are so limited. As to their tangibility, that too is up for debate. Dark matter as a case in point, by all accounts it is intangible. We are only able to detect its presence through its gravity. We know it's there, but we cannot perceive it. It's a lot like faith. "1 Now faith is the substance of things hoped for, the evidence of things not seen." (Hebrews 11:1)

We have proven the existence of dark matter indirectly, by measuring it's effect on gravity. Through gravitational lensing we have been able to detect the presence of dark matter through viewing the collision of two galaxies. It would appear that even though the two galaxies are in the process of merging, the dark matter didn't stop with the visible matter and continued moving on their original trajectory. This created a lensing effect that was broader the the observable visible matter, thus producing evidence that dark matter is real.

Just like dark matter, the effects of faith are only indirectly observable. Faith is a real substance, and it is imperceptible to the senses. I have personally witnessed the effects of faith on several occasions. It is not made up.

Here is an example. Watch the video and make your own conclusions, but it is an example of the effects of faith. http://www.cbn.com/tv/1432634068001


I do not push my faith. I speak of my faith and continue when I find a receptive audience. I don't waste my breath on those who do not have ears to ear.

As for the gay agenda, I will speak out against homosexuality, bestiality, bisexuality, t*********rism, and even promiscuous unmarried sexuality. It is all sin. In no way do I prevent a person from choosing to do so. It is their choice. Ultimately, they have to live with the ramifications of their decision. I will repeat what I said earlier, I totally oppose gay marriage as intended by the L**T movement as it infringes upon our 1st amendment right to freely practice religion. As the L**T would have it, pastors would have to forgo their religious rights in order to host and/or perform these sacrilegious marriages. If all the L**T wants is equal protection under the law, then let them have civil unions. I'm fine with that. Just leave the religious institutions alone.


That they did so is not a matter of question. It is public record. Your rejection is of little consequence to this FACT. Insensitive? Not at all. In fact, that can be directly addressed through answering your other points. Why...why...why??? The answer to all three of your why's is simple. FREEDOM! They wanted everyone to be free to choose what ever faith they see fit. We already have the Roman Catholic Church with all the blood on its hands as an example of what happens when religions are granted too much authority. And we have Islam as the modern successor to that legacy of blood and carnage. Religion is a matter of personal interest, and should never become a state interest. That is how persecution starts...is starting...even here in America. It's also the reason that our government IS A REPRESENTATIVE REPUBLIC. We were never meant to be a democracy. Government should only address the common interest, not the special interest. The moment you allow for Democracy...or more accurately, mobocracy, you lose the rule of law to the rule of the majority...yet another recipe for persecution. You liberals have single handedly destroyed this nation (and thus freedom) and gratefully place the yoke around your necks and cannot see that you are now s***es.


Your answer is contradictory. You say that you're not against our sharing our beliefs, and yet you say we cannot advocate for how we think people should live their life. They're the same thing! It's like you are saying yes, no. As for what rights a person should have, I have consistently told you that I oppose any law that is purely of a religious nature. How is it that you can never seem to accept that?


Largely, no. Has it been done in the past? Sadly, yes. Are there those who are trying to do it now? Sadly, yes. They are all wrong to do so. They demonstrate a profound lack of understanding of Christian principles. We are to live in the world, but not be a part of it's ways. We are to be a beacon of light in the darkness so that people can see our witness, and choose to follow the Lord as we have. Nowhere in the Bible does it tell us to change the world through coercion and force. We are told to live OUR lives, not make others live THEIR lives in accordance to scriptural teachings. Anyone who does otherwise lacks understanding.


I have no problem with equal protection under the law, but what the L**T want goes further than that. What they want violates 1st amendment protections. I really don't care enough who a person chooses to live their life with. That's between each other and God. But trying to force churches to allow homosexual marriages on their property, or to force a priest/pastor to perform a marriage, that is WRONG! Again, settle for civil unions, but leave the religious institutions out of it.


No, it's not bull. There are already a few examples, but there will be more.
http://www.lifesitenews.com/news/archive//ldn/2007/aug/07082104
http://www.catholic.org/national/national_story.php?id=25762


So fix civil unions so that they work like marriages.


On your part, perhaps. But there is intense coercive pressure on the part of the L**T community at large. As for what coercive pressure, I've already answered that many times over.

I'm a clear thinking Christian. Just because I choose to believe in something more than myself does not make me delusional. I also believe in this country, or at least what it used to stand for...not this socialist nightmare that it is becoming.

By what right do you agnostics and atheists self proclaim that you have exclusive claim to clear thinking? Who made you (a clearly fallible and error prone person) God so that you may determine what clear thinking represents? Hypocrisy!

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One man's opinion is suddenly gospel? How religious of you! :roll: :thumbdown: