[peaker_2005]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('Eli', 'I') have to agree pushy Christians are pretty darn annoying. Not everyone is going to be a convert.

Some Christians make the mistake that they can argue someone into Christianity and it just plain does not work. They forget that when people are not interested in what they have to say, it is time to shake the dust off their feet and keep on walking.

[rogerhb]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('doomed', '')$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('clueless', 'A')re you asking what my (the biblical) approach is ? If you want to know I will tell you, but only if you want to know, I can assure you it is not what you think.

[Eli]

First let me begin by saying

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('', ' ')BORING PROPHET:
...Obadiah, his servants. There shall, in that time, be rumours of things going astray, erm, and there shall be a great confusion as to where things really are, and nobody will really know where lieth those little things wi-- with the sort of raffia work base that has an attachment. At this time, a friend shall lose his friend's hammer and the young shall not know where lieth the things possessed by their fathers that their fathers put there only just the night before, about eight o'clock. Yea, it is written in the book of Cyril that, in that time, shall the third one...

[BigTex]

I'm a Christian. The kindness and humility in Jesus's message were and are inspiring. As for everyone else, they can make up their own minds about what religion appeals to them. I'm not a salesman.

As for the original post about not worrying about the future, I think that is right on. Preparing is actually much more effective than worrying. If you talked to a football team at practice on Wednesday about whether they were worried about the game on Sunday they would probably say that they were too busy getting ready for the game to waste any time worrying about it.

Becoming a student of self-sufficiency and smaller scale local sustainable societies and positioning yourself well for certain unpleasant future contingencies has a way of alleviating a lot of worry.

George W. Bush built his house in Crawford, Texas to function more or less totally off the grid. He is an evangelical Christian and an oil man, why do you think he built a house that could function post-oil unless he thought that oil might be in short supply within his lifetime? He took Jesus's advice and he's not worried, he's just getting ready for the big game on Sunday.

[clueless]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('doomed', '')$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('clueless', 'A')re you asking what my (the biblical) approach is ? If you want to know I will tell you, but only if you want to know, I can assure you it is not what you think.

[sciencegirl]

The bible is so dreadfully boring, so much focus on Jesus. Why don't we just worship baal or some other god.

I choose Bacchus as my personal savior.
NOW BARTENDER, GIVE ME ANOTHER, Hick

[rwwff]

If I were still a heathen' I'd recommend we start a Cult of Mars. That'd fit in with all this Apocolypse stuff pretty well.

Or maybe a modified shinto/bushido cult built around the rifle instead of the sword...

[clueless]

Jos 24:15 And if it seem evil unto you to serve the LORD, choose you this day whom ye will serve; whether the gods which your fathers served that were on the other side of the flood, or the gods of the Amorites, in whose land ye dwell: but as for me and my house, we will serve the LORD.

Amen Sister !

[PrairieMule]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('sciencegirl', 'T')he bible is so dreadfully boring, so much focus on Jesus. Why don't we just worship baal or some other god.

[Eli]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('', '1') Kings 14: 27 And king Rehoboam made in their stead brasen shields, and committed them unto the hands of the chief of the guard, which kept the door of the king’s house.

[PrairieMule]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('Eli', '')$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('', '1') Kings 14: 27 And king Rehoboam made in their stead brasen shields, and committed them unto the hands of the chief of the guard, which kept the door of the king’s house.

[Aaron]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('', 'I')f a man is caught in the act of raping a young woman who is not engaged, he must pay fifty pieces of silver to her father. Then he must marry the young woman because he violated her, and he will never be allowed to divorce her.

[sciencegirl]

[NEOPO]

As if GWya is an xtian.... thats hilarious.
As if any of you people are true christians......
As if!!

Oh oh... you are talking about what people have made of christianity....oh yeah then sure... yer a xtian........heh

One nation under god - guess your god hates native peoples!

Hmm I am confused but isn't this the same god who claimed that "he" had made a mistake and then decided to kill everyone with a flood???
That is so ungod like now isnt it?

Or perhaps your god is the one who led the Jews into battle with the palestinians and commanded the jews to kill/sacrifice most of the remaining enemy population - even the women and children.

Yeah I get the real fooked up feeling that this IS your god.

Books - check em out!!!

Lotsa neato religions out there kids - lots of information - Dont be like some of these idiots and close your mind before it has a chance to open.

O lanoo, a second to see - an eternity to believe