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  • ) Exclusive. They may say, "We're the only ones with the truth; everyone else is wrong; and if you leave our group your salvation is in danger.

    Yes, okay. So what? Why would you waste your time going through the motions of being a member of any particular religion if you didn't believe it to be true?

    And Christianity as far as I know there is one way to Salvation.

    I have a good Jewish friend who said that he couldn't vote for a particular candidate because of that candidates religion. That religion said that only people who accepted Christ would go to heaven and the rest would go to hell.

    I asked him if he believed in hell and he said no which begs the question "then who cares?"

    WSS

  • ) Exclusive. They may say, "We're the only ones with the truth; everyone else is wrong; and if you leave our group your salvation is in danger.

    Yes, okay. So what? Why would you waste your time going through the motions of being a member of any particular religion if you didn't believe it to be true?

    And Christianity as far as I know there is one way to Salvation.

    I have a good Jewish friend who said that he couldn't vote for a particular candidate because of that candidates religion. That religion said that only people who accepted Christ would go to heaven and the rest would go to hell.

    I asked him if he believed in hell and he said no which begs the question "then who cares?"

    WSS

    @westside-steve said:

    ) Exclusive. They may say, "We're the only ones with the truth; everyone else is wrong; and if you leave our group your salvation is in danger.

    Yes, okay. So what? Why would you waste your time going through the motions of being a member of any particular religion if you didn't believe it to be true?

    And Christianity as far as I know there is one way to Salvation.

    I have a good Jewish friend who said that he couldn't vote for a particular candidate because of that candidates religion. That religion said that only people who accepted Christ would go to heaven and the rest would go to hell.

    I asked him if he believed in hell and he said no which begs the question "then who cares?"

    WSS

    http://www.chabad.org/library/article_cdo/aid/1594422/jewish/Do-Jews-Believe-in-Hell.htm

  • For the record he s really not practicing and I was asking him for his own opinion not to speak for all Jews.

    WSS

  • Ironically it was Ken Blackwell versus Ted Strickland and Strickland is a Methodist Minister who also believes the only way to go to heaven is, well you know...

    WSS

  • I would lump all religions and cults together. Having blind faith in anything doesn’t jive with me. Other people are free to do so if it makes them happy. I also don’t let friends borrow money on blind faith that they will pay me back.

  • I would lump all religions and cults together. Having blind faith in anything doesn’t jive with me. Other people are free to do so if it makes them happy. I also don’t let friends borrow money on blind faith that they will pay me back.

    @logicisforsquares said:

    I would lump all religions and cults together. Having blind faith in anything doesn’t jive with me. Other people are free to do so if it makes them happy. I also don’t let friends borrow money on blind faith that they will pay me back.

    That's understood, probably a bad idea to lend money to a friend that you can't afford to lose. The money or the friend.

    WSS

  • @mld-woody said:

    We don't accept cults

    We don't but not for any particular reason. There is nothing in the definition of a cult that makes it good or bad.

    WSS

    @westside-steve said:

    We don't but not for any particular reason. There is nothing in the definition of a cult that makes it good or bad.

    WSS

    That's the difference between religion and a cult. Cults aren't accepted

  • @westside-steve said:

    We don't but not for any particular reason. There is nothing in the definition of a cult that makes it good or bad.

    WSS

    That's the difference between religion and a cult. Cults aren't accepted

    @mld-woody said:

    That's the difference between religion and a cult. Cults aren't accepted

    Why?

    WSS

  • @mld-woody said:

    That's the difference between religion and a cult. Cults aren't accepted

    Why?

    WSS

    @westside-steve said:

    Why?

    WSS

    They're different

  • Woody had to exert himself there.

  • @westside-steve said:

    Why?

    WSS

    They're different

    @mld-woody said:

    They're different

    In what way and what difference does it make to you? Seriously?

    I think we are pretty familiar with your opinion of religion in the first place so why does one offend you and not the other if that's the case?

    WSS

  • oh, this oughta be good.

  • @mld-woody said:

    They're different

    In what way and what difference does it make to you? Seriously?

    I think we are pretty familiar with your opinion of religion in the first place so why does one offend you and not the other if that's the case?

    WSS

    @westside-steve said:

    In what way and what difference does it make to you? Seriously?

    I think we are pretty familiar with your opinion of religion in the first place so why does one offend you and not the other if that's the case?

    WSS

    Neither offend me

    Cults are different than the norm, so they're a cult. Once a cult is accepted in a certain area, they're a religion.

  • @westside-steve said:

    In what way and what difference does it make to you? Seriously?

    I think we are pretty familiar with your opinion of religion in the first place so why does one offend you and not the other if that's the case?

    WSS

    Neither offend me

    Cults are different than the norm, so they're a cult. Once a cult is accepted in a certain area, they're a religion.

    @mld-woody said:

    Neither offend me

    Cults are different than the norm, so they're a cult. Once a cult is accepted in a certain area, they're a religion.

    You mean like the cult of MAGA that is now becoming a religion kind of like NAZI in Germany?🙄😛

    Every cult needs it's true believers to become a religion.😉

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  • @mld-woody said:

    Neither offend me

    Cults are different than the norm, so they're a cult. Once a cult is accepted in a certain area, they're a religion.

    You mean like the cult of MAGA that is now becoming a religion kind of like NAZI in Germany?🙄😛

    Every cult needs it's true believers to become a religion.😉

    @texasag1969 said:

    You mean like the cult of MAGA that is now becoming a religion kind of like NAZI in Germany?🙄😛

    Every cult needs it's true believers to become a religion.😉

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  • @canton-dawg said:

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    This is a classic on here. Like "black people told slaves too!!!!". 

    Good ole political board

  • @canton-dawg said:

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    You are aware that the deep south was Democrat before it became Republican right? Wonder how those votes got made that way on those amendments?

  • @canton-dawg said:

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    You are aware that the deep south was Democrat before it became Republican right? Wonder how those votes got made that way on those amendments?

    @texasag1969 said:

    You are aware that the deep south was Democrat before it became Republican right? Wonder how those votes got made that way on those amendments?

    Don't even bother man. The same thing has been explained on here to them dozens of times before. They'll take the meme that says the things they like over any actual explanation.