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'Runner, to me god is a mythical figure and, should you, or anyone for that matter decide to worship your god, that's your choice and I have no problem with you or anyone doing that BUT, when you try to ram your beliefs down my throat, that's when you cross the line. '

I see, I put a point of view and its ramming it down your throat. The multi culturalist, god deniers, the warmist and other put a point of view and thats what it is. One thing true Christianity has always done is give people the choice to choose. This is the opposite to many god deniers. That is why Islam has so much in common with socialism.

Dear runner,

Here's something from Richard Dawkins,
taken from his book, "The God Delusion,"
that gives a different perspective to your
claim about -
Christianity and choice...

"What is really pernicious is the practice of teaching
children that faith itself is a virtue. It isn't -
because it requires no justification and brooks no
argument. And that is something Christians have in
common with Islam. Teaching children that unquestioned
faith is a virtue primes them - given certain other
ingredients that are not hard to come by - to grow up
into potentially lethal weapons for future jihads or crusades.
Immunized against fear by the promise of a martyr's
paradise, the authentic faith-head deserves a high place
in the history of armaments, alongside the longbow, the
warhorse, the tank and the cluster bomb."

"If children were taught to question and think through their
beliefs, instead of being taught the superior virtue of
faith without question, it is a good bet that there would
be no suicide bombers or murders of security guards
outside abortion clinics - or firebombing of abortion clinics,
or threats and demonstrations. And these people are
taught their lessons not necessarily by extremist fanatics but
by supposedly decent, gentle, mainstream religious
instructors, who line them up - sitting in rows, rhythmically
nodding their innocent little heads up and down while they
learned every word of their holy books. Therefore faith can
be very dangerous and deliberatly to implant it into a vulnerable
mind of an innocent child is a grievous wrong."

Non-religious fanatics have produced their fair share of historical atrocities.

Utopian ideology, promising a world that cannot exist, but must be believed in, has "justified" the murder of millions.

Today's impossible political fairytale, panculturalism, will no doubt produce its own legendary tragedy one day.

For years, the "tolerant" panculturalists have brainwashed themselves *and their children* to consider dissenters and skeptics as criminals, sinners, demons, undesirables, vermin.

It's a short skip from that to the Great White Massacre.

Foxy,

u do appear very gullible often quoting god denier dogmas. You quote the high priest Dawkins

'Teaching children that unquestioned
faith is a virtue primes them - given certain other
ingredients that are not hard to come by - to grow up
into potentially lethal weapons for future jihads or crusades.'

he denies a Creator ( something that can only come about by sheer pigheadedness) and pushes the something from nothing barrow (totally unscientific). No doubt he supports the murder of the unborn and justifies it by the totally unscientific notion that its not a human being. Same tactic as the jihadist and nazis. You really ought to think a bit harder before quoting such unreliable sources. Try reading Jesus teachings instead of pigheaded athiest who only want to justify their own perverted lifestyles.

Dear runner,

It isn't enough to believe in God's power;
as a believer you must wish to serve it, to
elongate the light. You must give your life to Him,
that He might use you in His work. Only in that way you
will become what you have not been and ascend to higher
realms beyond your current three-dimensional limitations.
You are like a house that has not had the lights
turned on yet. You might keep adding furniture with
your posts - but from them I can see that the rooms
are still dark. You have scarcely seen the light that
should await you as a believer. You need to preach and
judge less and actually practice the teachings of the
one you believe in - don't give advice to others -
take it yourself. Be a role model to us all, on this
forum.

Shadow Minister,

You provide me with yet another example to demonstrate the type of ignorance and even arrogance [to an extent] that the group of mostly as white Westerners display. You say that “Our laws” allow for any practice of any culture so long as it is “within the bounds of reason”.

However, have you not realised that my entire point in this thread is to overcome this blindness? Do you not therefore consider your words more carefully before stating so boldly and confidently that “our laws” [i.e. the British/European descended cultural and moral aspects now codified in OUR LAWS] let any culture do anything so long as that practice or action is “within the bounds of reason”?

Do you not right there immediately see my point that, unbeknownst to the arrogance of superiority self appointed, you describe some legal system to be “OUR”s but do not say WHO [but I know you mean the British set-up], then you make the strong claim that not only does that British legal system have the authority to cite parameters on morality but that you as well can do same.

Now, to take a breath of context here . . . .

. . . I happen to personally think that the type of moral/legal systems in general philosophical principle discussed over centuries by thinkers, is the first time any culture or society in history of earth has stumbled on the truest and most authentic set-up of all time, and further that the type of Universal Human Rights and equalities espoused today that descend from those European societies IS the way to go and should be embraced by the world, since it is first system to ever [theoretically at least] ask to implement full freedoms and equalities as is possible.

. . . contnued . . .