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http://www.theparsnippety.com/latest/2016/9/2/bible-foretells-triumph-of-pale-woman-over-preliterate-man-beast-in-2016-us-presidential-election

Funny article. I always hated how the book of Apopcalypse/Revelation gets touted as a prophetic book. It's nothing of the sorts and was almost completely voted to not be included in the Bible during the 2nd Council of Nicea. The Bishops for it's inclusion argued that it was necessary to be added specifically because it addressed the destruction of the Temple of Jerusalem and established the rubric for the design of the Christian Altar for the New Law.

I'm pretty sure the Ecumenical Council that discussed it and approved of it for Biblical usage 1700 years ago was pretty clear on what it meant. Lol

be very careful not to make the mistake of claiming conservative ownership of the Bible...!

HA!
yeah, for the Prequel, right? (I've been trying to get that to catch on for evah).

I'm thinking the Ten Commandments

Thou shalt not lose a bid
Thou shalt not reference competitors
Thou shalt not mention platinum membership
Thou shalt not eat shellfish or animals with cloven hoofs
Thou shalt not covet thy neighbors wife (or goat if Muslim)
Thou shalt not rat out Hillary Clinton
Thou shalt arm thyself to protect the herd
Thou shalt halve thine toilet paper roll down in the front
Thou shalt not put ice cubes in your scotch
Thou shalt not **** it, if thou won't eat it.

Agreed, he played Dathan better than none other. He was a very believable villian. Wish they still made movies like that. The scale, the vision, the epic length.

I liked the music so much I bought the soundtrack. Elmer Bernstein was a genius.

Not to argue with you Z, as your standing as one of Cbid's pillars is well known and respected, but isn't writing the third commandment the samething as breaking it?

Oh, and in the new testimament, God ordained ice for scotch as special dispensation for Americans. In his words; "That we might be great again".

That sir, is a common misnomer, started by FoxNews to disenfranchise the upper middle lower class. But properly characterized and an American convention it is traced back to early agnostics. Who sold ice for a living.....


But above all, the simple truth of it all is (an you may quote me):
"Scotch is a drink that is best served cold....
It is very cold - in a bar"

did you like EGR's authentic Egyptian slave accent?

I think Elmer did a better job on Wrong Side Story.

I mean believable as in well acted. I could give a chit less about accents so long as it's acted well.

I'm not a WSS fan by any means. It had some great points but was not earth shattering.

No but there is something in there about her giant ass covering the world in darkness for 40 day or something.

i think i remember one passage that talks about benghazi and another couple that talk about pant suits

Aren't pant suits a plague?

So true.

Amen Macs!!!

No, faith begins when you ignore the facts and buy into a theory you like.

What facts Tony?

I can't speak or build a case for all Christians but the Church is like a sword and science is like the whetstone at least from the perspective of Catholic Churches. In fact outside of the well defined and structured rubrics of the Mass (church service) speculative inquiry is probably the most fundamental aspect of the Church.

Historically, Catholics are numbered among the most important scientists of all time, including Rene Descartes, who discovered analytic geometry and the laws of refraction; Blaise Pascal, inventor of the adding machine, hydraulic press, and the mathematical theory of probabilities; Augustinian priest Gregor Mendel, who founded modern genetics; Louis Pasteur, founder of microbiology and creator of the first vaccine for rabies and anthrax; and cleric Nicolaus Copernicus, who first developed scientifically the view that the earth rotated around the sun. Jesuit priests in particular have a long history of scientific achievement; they contributed to the development of pendulum clocks, pantographs, barometers, reflecting telescopes and microscopes, to scientific fields as various as magnetism, optics and electricity. They observed, in some cases before anyone else, the colored bands on Jupiter's surface, the Andromeda nebula and Saturn's rings. They theorized about the circulation of the blood (independently of Harvey), the theoretical possibility of flight, the way the moon affected the tides, and the wave-like nature of light. Star maps of the southern hemisphere, symbolic logic, flood-control measures on the Po and Adige rivers, introducing plus and minus signs into Italian mathematics — all were typical Jesuit achievements, and scientists as influential as Fermat, Huygens, Leibniz and Newton were not alone in counting Jesuits among their most prized correspondents.

Hell even Einstein was pretty close with that priest that developed the Big Bang theory.

The notion that Science and Religion must be separate from each other is outright absurd and is one of the most ignorant arguments that relativists have concocted.

Truth is, religions have long been at odds with science. Lot of reasons for this, but the obvious one is that discoveries often fly in the face of Church doctrine. Like evolution vs. Genesis - Now there is a good sticking point between faith and science for many. Did you know a church group actually has a Creation Musem that shows people with dinosaurs?

Here's a perfect example of science misinformation.

The current GMO vs Organic craze.

Most farmers farm GMO because it feeds more people, uses safer pesticides, and is overall less damaging to the soil than organic crops.

The organic market claims that organic foods are safer even though tbey use harsher pesticides and they also claim that GMOs mutate animals/people.

The reality is that there have been over 1 trillion feedings of GMO crops to people and animals. By the organic food industry's claim you would think everyone should be writhing in cancer; however, In some clinical studies, they're beginning to find that GMO feedings may actually reduce the cancer rate in animals. Additionally no slaughter houses are reporting any irregular number of cancerous animals or mutilated meat from GMO fed cattle.

Farmers see Organic crops as a way to diversify their portfolio so the money is still going to the same farmer's pocketbook.

Why do scientifically inclined people such as doctors, teachers, et all still tout organics as a better alternative to GMO even though the facts are settled? It's only because they accept that some conspiracy must be taking place.

The prevailing theory is that before the universe there existed an object of supermassive density that exploded.

So here's the debacle, according to science. If God created the object then what created God? Religion is really the only thing that can answer at this point by saying God existed before time was created and he will never cease to exist. His age is infinite/eternal.

Does God have to come from somewhere? He can't just be begotten before all time?