Arkansas Set To Execute 8 Inmates over 10 Day Period in April

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  1. Diacanu

    Diacanu Comicmike. Writer

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    I'm trying to get at what you consider "true Christianity".
  2. garamet

    garamet "The whole world is watching."

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    No, he isn't "equating." He's drawing an analogy. Perhaps you've heard the term?
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  3. Dayton Kitchens

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    You're the writer. You should be familiar with the term.
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  4. Dayton Kitchens

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    Beliefs and practices as set forth in the New Testament taken in their totality.
  5. Diacanu

    Diacanu Comicmike. Writer

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    So, just the Bible stuff for your family, or did you do wreaths, trees, and Santa?
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  6. garamet

    garamet "The whole world is watching."

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    Suggesting you aren't.
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  7. Dayton Kitchens

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    I've written lots of things. Just to this point never been paid for it.
  8. garamet

    garamet "The whole world is watching."

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    And yet you don't know what an analogy is. Remarkable.
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  9. Diacanu

    Diacanu Comicmike. Writer

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  10. Dayton Kitchens

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    To me Christmas as celebrated in the U.S. and the west is strictly a secular holiday.
  11. Diacanu

    Diacanu Comicmike. Writer

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    So does that mean you celebrate it?
  12. Diacanu

    Diacanu Comicmike. Writer

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  13. The Original Faceman

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    Of course they were criminals. They were Jews. What kind of fake Christian are you?
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  14. The Original Faceman

    The Original Faceman Lasagna Artist

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    But there's a war on it?
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  15. Dayton Kitchens

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    What are you talking about?
  16. Dayton Kitchens

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    I tolerate it as a widely accepted social convention that I do not agree with.

    Kind of like prayers at football games and other public venues
  17. Diacanu

    Diacanu Comicmike. Writer

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    Okay, so a certain amount of Paganism is tolerable, but the level displayed by SS officers isn't.
    At what point does it become unacceptable?
    And how do you arrive at this conclusion?
  18. Dinner

    Dinner 2012 & 2014 Master Prognosticator

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    No one has linked to Another One Bites The Dust yet? WF is slipping.
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  19. Dayton Kitchens

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    Where one starts deliberately harming innocent life would be a good place.
  20. Diacanu

    Diacanu Comicmike. Writer

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    So, no animal sacrifice then?
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    Unless someone gets to eat the sacrifices. I could use some chicken right about now. Hmm, tasty, tasty chicken.
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  22. Dayton Kitchens

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    I was referring to "innocent HUMAN life" but as far as I know animal sacrifices not part of New Testament worship.
  23. garamet

    garamet "The whole world is watching."

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    Luke 2:22-24
  24. Diacanu

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    Okay, but you said....

    Why does the Christian get the exemption, but not the Pagan?
  25. Dayton Kitchens

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    Irrelevant

    Christianity began after Christ died, was resurrected and then ascended into heaven. Which is what I refer to as "New Testament worship"

    Garamet full well knows this but quite dishonestly misrepresents what I've said.

    Very typical
  26. Dayton Kitchens

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    Christians are servants of God. Servants of God go to heaven. Pagan's by definition are not servants of God and thus don't go to heaven.
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  27. Diacanu

    Diacanu Comicmike. Writer

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    So, can the Christian executioner go to Hell for any reason?
  28. Dayton Kitchens

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    If he stops following the commandments of God and stops repenting and seeking forgiveness of his/her sins. Note this is still an issue among contemporary Christians who have for more than two millennia argued regarding "once saved, always saved".

    In my best judgement in regards to the state of a person's soul prior to their death, there is no such thing as "always" because we remain free moral agents.
  29. Diacanu

    Diacanu Comicmike. Writer

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    How did you come to believe this?
  30. Man Afraid of his Shoes

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    I thought that was the Wehrmacht.