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A bit like the wheel.

You must mean more like the car.

Okay, but is there something about my profile you find contradictory

You label yourself both a Christian and a libertarian.

Thanks

You are most welcome.

And his list is nothing....

I don't think you understand the concept of evidence. Someone does not have to literally say "I did this" for us to know he did it.

After Kavenough, and now this impeachment scam, I swear the dems are moving us closer to fascism. For them, "Evidence" seems to be whatever they think.

I mean.. different actions are judged differently right?

Imagined actions should not be judged at all.

If I'm trying to find the person who ate my cookie, the person who most likely ate it is the person whose breath smells of cookies, whose hands and mouth is covered in cookie crumbs, and the person who ten other people say did it.

I'm not asking you for why you think there isn't a crime. I'm asking you if you understand why other people think there is a crime and if you can list the facts that make them think so. 

There's nothing to be impartial about really.

The objective facts of what he has done are plainly recorded for all to see.

Or in other words, are you a honest actor and are making fair judgments based upon reading and understanding the objective facts or are you a gibbering moron without any critical thinking skills?

Your doing the same mistake most round earthers do, you don't understand flat earth arguments.

They dont believe in gravity, and droplets do not form spheres due to gravity. The analogy falls flat, so does your argument.

Im afraid your the one making a weak point in the context of your opponent.

I do agree that a common point is necessary, and we all agree lunar eclipses happen. I think my argument against flat earth is much stronger then yours, no offense.

There are several satellites in our solar system with confirmed liquid water under icy surfaces. 

No sir. Hypothesis, not confirmed fact. But still, the larger planets were missed?

It isn't my imagination that scientists are rethinking the abiogenesis clunker. But it has been my experience that materialists usually decline to consider the implications of what they believe.

you are confusing the definition of the word with the process by which it happens.

you don't understand what a logical fallacy is. There's really no reason to continue this discussion with you then.

However evidence has suggested that this was not his primary motivation in withholding aid

Untrue. You are guessing at his motivation. You do not, and cannot know it. And no motivation can be a crime, just an action. And Ukraine got the funds without doing anything.

This does not impact how we criticise what Trump did or did not do. 

People would not be complaining if aid were delayed on the basis of the determination of corruption

what were the facts of the Ukraine case that you think have led people to think that it was a smear job, and why are those people wrong about their interpretation of those facts?

How do you explain the majority of people alive today not believing in what you believe,

..and the dozens of billions who've passed on never believing it?

I'd explain it kind of the same way as a baby wants a pacifier when mom's breast isn't available. A baby wants comfort, wants to feel like things are okay. The pacifier sates that section of the child's brain, provided you're not talking about legitimate hunger. You can comfort a child this way, but that doesn't make a pacifier a real breast.

you are correct.

The scripture referred to by Jesus is not the OT. How do I know this? 

And I still don't know and neither do you what scripture Jesus was referring to, Popoff.

Do you see that Popoff.  

And you tell me I am confused.

I should think anyone but complete and utter cretinous moron would be confused,

...especially if he hadn't even bothered to  actually compare verse and bibles.

2nd Samuel 21:22 - These FOUR were the descendants of Rapha in Gath, and they fell at the hands of David and his men.

So get you act together Popoff, you have some serious explaining to do.

Please demonstrate how you avoid this. 

What is the starting point of this 2000 years? 

You aren't making guesses because you know your guess is a contradiction in terms:

If at point A, there was no life, and at point C there is life, then life came about abiogenetically by definition. 

You're saying it didn't because we've never seen it happen, I get that. But I'm saying what then is your alternative: life only comes from life? If so, where'd that life come from?

Yes, we've found 4000 planets. In the last forty years! And you apparently believe all of these planets have been thoroughly explored.

...it just punctuates them and provides no real information. 

How do you then explain 2 billion living people and billions more now passed on finding answers in it?

To me they're the same:

The Old Testament was the first place I looked simply because the bible is also "scripture" . Are you saying that I shouldn't have even looked to the Old Testament scripture for something that was said by the Christ in the New Testament scripture.?

I'm saying you were ignorant and didn't know it was not in the OT. And worse, when you found that it wasn't, you stupidly assumed Jesus was "wrong".

Are you saying I was silly to even have look there in the OT?

Anyone with an ounce of sense would have also looked to the Old Testament for the reference Christ makes in the New Testament 

The fact remains you didn't fkn know the answer to my question but instead preferred argument and conflict and are now simply posting even more unnecessary and irrelevant bullshite

The reality is that Trump did initially withhold aid.

I'm not sure if Obama did or did not as well.

On the other-hand whether he did or did not is irrelevant to whether Trump did himself.

The interpretation that it was a smear job is fairly reasonable given the facts.

Here's an interesting exercise for you: are you able to describe the specific facts of this incident that have led people such as HistoryBuff into thinking that it was a smear job yourself?

And if you had read the whole of my post you would see that I agree with you.

my point is, -  this is what we are led to believe UNLESS WE READ the scriptures FOR OURSELVES. 

So now you can explain this to those reading here.

I suppose now that you are going to...

In the above there isn't even a mention of a "brother of Goliath"

The exact verse - minus "the brother of" - can be found in other text which appear to agree on the above text  for instance:

are you going to plumb for  the - ' there were  two giants named Goliath ' bullshit also without evidence.

So far as the daily newspapers go, this is easy to understand. The American press is extremely liberal, and most of it is owned by wealthy men who have every motive to be dishonest on certain important topics.

But the same kind of veiled censorship also operates in books and periodicals, as well as in plays, films and radio. At any given moment there is an orthodoxy, a body of ideas which it is assumed that all right-thinking progressives will accept without question.

It is not exactly forbidden to say this, that or the other, but it is ‘not done’ to say it. Anyone who challenges the prevailing orthodoxy finds himself cancelled with surprising effectiveness.

A genuinely unfashionable opinion is almost never given a fair hearing, either in the fake news media, or in the highbrow periodicals.

Several members of the senate have already announced their verdict without having seen or heard the evidence. 

The leader of the senate is saying he is going to co-ordinate with the president's lawyers and that they won't allow any witnesses. That is like the foreman of a jury saying they will coordinate with the defense attorney.

Ukraine is in a war with Russia. They need that aid to defend themselves. Trump withheld it 

...exchange for a smear job on his rival. 

Lie. Trump asked for an investigation, you interpret that as asking for a smear job, fine, but your biased interpretation is not reality.

Which is why Nancy is now withholding sending the articles to the Senate, and why Trump will be acquitted.

Luckily, reality doesn't change when liberals ignore it.

I have every right to trash my culture and religion if I want to. 

You have the freedom, not the right.

I have seen how terrible Christianity is.

Your perception of your subjective experience is not the history of Christianity.

But these wing-nuts making the Netflix show are not trying to make a statement about the evils of Christianity or right any perceived wrong.

They want viewers, and the easy low road is to pick something popular, something cherished, and insult it.

Behavior like that diminishes our society.

The OP points out, correctly, that liberals will condemn a similar depiction of Islam as islamo, and homo, phobic, but will defend the producers if the target is Christianity.

He calls that hypocrisy. He is correct.

At the end of the proverbial day, social reality for the majority of people (Christians included) is far more about turning a buck than it is about religion.

And making a fast buck is fair game for Liberals and Conservatives alike. There's no moral high ground to be had.

Greyparrot = bird brain and I thought Dr. Franklin  was biggist bird brain here.

I've been really disliking my life for like the past 3-and-a-half 

One guess would be because you hold so many contradicting beliefs, they are causing cognitive dissonance within you that is being felt as a vague overall sense of dissatisfaction. This dissatisfaction causes ennui, and makes you not want to do anything.

You dont know why you're dissatisfied, you don't know why you do nothing, but you blame yourself for it, and that only causes you to feel even more dissatisfied. On an on it goes, making you feel you're on a merry-go-round that won't stop and you can't get off.

But its just a guess going by your profile.

I agree that smoking anything has detrimental health effects. There are other ways to consume marijuana that don't involve combustion. Edible products and vaporizing are two of them.

Weed I heard can strengthen brain connections in developed brains.

There are pros and cons to cannabis and it should be up to the individual to decide if it's right for them.

...thank God you're here to deal with the trolls.

Actually, if you had read the whole chapter, you would have noticed that David was anything but a "mummies boy." 

I bet he hasn't read a single word from that book. He takes his clunkers off an atheist website and copy pasta them here.

Because of his poor reading comprehension, one never knows what he's understanding as he reads. The text could say the sky is blue, and our genius could come away thinking about electric turtles.

On a side note, one of the best sermons I ever heard was on the 5 stones David picked up as he approached Goliath. Wish I could find that sermon again.

This isn't the only shortfall in this story.

we are led  to believe that a lowly shepherd boy the youngest of 7 killed a "giant".

this story is slightly confusing...

and no doubt our biblical theist scholars will attempt to explain the question away

..by rewriting the pertinent verses if not the whole saga,

...we got it all wrong and don't understand what we have been reading.

No. 

...that is why I clearly separated the two by asking " which scripture".

I knew, and have said that it wasn't in the bible. 

you stretched this thread out with your pages of unnecessary and irrelevant bullshit just for the hell of it. 

I already did.

I have seen no proof that says otherwise, especially from YOU Popoff.

I had a warning for calling you stupid but you can refer to me as dumb, I have to wonder why that is, are you a secret mod?

That is correct.

You did. Pages of unnecessary and irrelevant bullshit.

...questions about religious matters, ones that I know that  - especially YOU -  cannot answer. 

It appears that the claim by Jesus appears to be false. 

You are now trying to tell us all here that this story is about those disciples wishing to "die" along with Jesus and not Lazarus . This  is nothing short of complete denial and out right lies. 

Then show us how instead of simply shouting like a retard.

The whole story is about Lazarus supposedly "dying" and Jesus raising Lazarus from the dead.

And YOU still haven't explained why these pathetic disciples would want to "die" in the first place, have you Popoff!!!? 

Yes  I know. here it is again; 

if some one walked up to me and pointed a gun at my head and told me to prove the earth is not flat without books or the internet I could not do it.

Bsh1 I am coming for you boy, you fucking know that right? I will dethrone you and that's a promise like no other.

Roger doger

I wouldn't describe myself with any of those terms.

Which is part of the reason they so correctly apply to you.