401. Lying for Jesus?

Comment #177234 by righton on May 8, 2008 at 7:45 pm

Thanks you guys!

"I believe that evil influences have convinced man otherwise in many circumstaces."

This pisses me off because now its like a trump card. If I say, what about this(insert some behavior)??? Then they say evil influences must have been working.

Makes me sick.

Also, is this true, should I ask for proof of this statement?

"Ok, slavery in the Bible was different than slavery in more recent days. The "slavery" spoken of in 1 Timothy anyway was one in which slaves were paid and treated quite respectfully."

402. Lying for Jesus?

Comment #177209 by righton on May 8, 2008 at 6:59 pm

Hey sorry this is off topic.

I am having a debate with a christian and I told them that there are not moral absolutes and talked about the changing moral ziegeist. This was their response. I am not well read when it ccomes to the bible. Any suggestions on replies?

"Ok, slavery in the Bible was different than slavery in more recent days. The "slavery" spoken of in 1 Timothy anyway was one in which slaves were paid and treated quite respectfully. I don't think that beating your wife has EVER been considered a good behavior. Or your children for that matter. There is no way that you can say that there are no moral absolutes. Well, you can say it but you are wrong:) There is good and bad and it is not only dependant on society. I believe that, no matter what society or time, Man knows that hurting another human is wrong and unjustified NO MATTER WHAT. I believe that evil influences have convinced man otherwise in many sircumstaces."

Any help would be great.

403. Anti-Evolution Film Misappropriates the Holocaust

Comment #176928 by righton on May 8, 2008 at 11:00 am

riverrun

You edited that comment again! (331) This time to try to cover up the first edit. You put a small "edit" in front of one sentence to make it look like that is the only one you edited. When in reality you took out two quotes, and a major paragraph.

Pathetic.

How many other comments have you edited? And you talk about credibility.

404. Anti-Evolution Film Misappropriates the Holocaust

Comment #176722 by righton on May 7, 2008 at 10:45 pm

riverrun

I noticed you edited your post(331) after I commented on it. Not just a little edit, you changed a big portion of it. It still sucks though. I also noticed you were editing last nite. Child.

405. Anti-Evolution Film Misappropriates the Holocaust

Comment #176650 by righton on May 7, 2008 at 8:36 pm

riverrun

Someone suggests a different thread for this discussion and you have to quote yourself suggesting a different thread. Get over yourself. No one cares about this debate. You are acting like it is the battle for the universe. All you are doing is making yourself look stupid and childish.

You are a giant douche. My evidence for this statement is this entire pathetic debate and especially comment 331

406. Anti-Evolution Film Misappropriates the Holocaust

Comment #176478 by righton on May 7, 2008 at 12:41 pm

rawandi wrote:

So the issue remains the following... You have not been straight
when the Holocaust and anti-Semitism issue came up. Same for Cambodia. The only two Questions relative to Chomsky now are:


1) Is Holocaust denial anti-semitism, and was Chomsky wrong to deny this.

2) Did Chomsky minimize the genocide in Cambodia through distortion of fact.

407. Anti-Evolution Film Misappropriates the Holocaust

Comment #176466 by righton on May 7, 2008 at 11:57 am

_riverrun_

Your attempts at humor are laughable.

408. Anti-Evolution Film Misappropriates the Holocaust

Comment #176111 by righton on May 6, 2008 at 3:14 pm

al, PM, I think this one worked

409. Anti-Evolution Film Misappropriates the Holocaust

Comment #176024 by righton on May 6, 2008 at 11:48 am

_riverrun_

"On the plus side my mailbox is overflowing with opinions on you, which I wont repeat because I refuse to sink to your level."

Other peoples opinions on al are irrelevent. I personally enjoy al's style. To think that people are sending negative private messages to you about him seems very childish and to bring them up during a debate is even worse. If these people have a problem with him why not call HIM out on it.

410. Anti-Evolution Film Misappropriates the Holocaust

Comment #175760 by righton on May 6, 2008 at 1:57 am

epeeist

"pretentiousness masquerading as intellectualism"

Thank you for that. I have been thinking the same.

411. Was the new finger a 'natural' miracle?

Comment #174546 by righton on May 2, 2008 at 4:10 pm

"I believe that this particular area is one where the Church is failing miserably, and it is a situation that must be remedied if for no other reason than to attain a respectable level of intellectual honesty."

One way for the church to attain a respectable level of intellectual honesty is to admit that evolution is a fact and that it contradicts the bible in many ways.

412. Was the new finger a 'natural' miracle?

Comment #174541 by righton on May 2, 2008 at 4:01 pm

Bizarro

"I personally find it shameful that I am the only self-declared Christian I have ever seen comment on this website. "

You obviously havent commented here for very long. They come around quite often, especially lately.

413. Anti-Evolution Film Misappropriates the Holocaust

Comment #174074 by righton on May 1, 2008 at 2:43 pm

al, you say you post at work usually, how the hell do you get any work done?

414. Anti-Evolution Film Misappropriates the Holocaust

Comment #174068 by righton on May 1, 2008 at 2:20 pm

al and bananna?

Wow, congrats you two lovebirds.

Al, did you tell her you are a muslim yet?

415. Lying for Jesus?

Comment #171267 by righton on April 28, 2008 at 11:56 am

"I have nothing against homosexuality but that picture enrages me."

Really?

416. Lying for Jesus?

Comment #171241 by righton on April 28, 2008 at 11:43 am

Carto,

That is awesome. I am laughing so hard i'm in tears.

417. Lying for Jesus?

Comment #168918 by righton on April 25, 2008 at 12:59 pm

I am going to get killed for this but, I am a Yankees fan. Have been since I was 10, explains my collection of over fifty Don Mattingly cards.

418. Lying for Jesus?

Comment #168881 by righton on April 25, 2008 at 12:22 pm

Nice pic al,

The Tigers? At least its not a Redsox hat I guess.

419. Humans nearly wiped out 70,000 years ago, study says

Comment #168872 by righton on April 25, 2008 at 12:16 pm

Epinephrine

That is so awesome. I just voted, no of course. It is now roughly 13:1 for "NO"

420. Open Letter to a victim of Ben Stein's lying propaganda

Comment #165479 by righton on April 21, 2008 at 1:59 pm

Nice post reverend!

421. Open Letter to a victim of Ben Stein's lying propaganda

Comment #165453 by righton on April 21, 2008 at 1:37 pm

truthID-iot

"The science today has proved without a doubt the intricate and complexity of even the smallest cell(NANO science)."

Ummm, NANO science works on a scale much smaller than the smallest cell. You might want to read up on that also.

422. Lying for Jesus?

Comment #165369 by righton on April 21, 2008 at 11:52 am

I second annabanana request,

www.expelledexposed.com

epeeist,

Its funny because usually only the top two movies are somewhat good, there are some really terrible movies in the 3 through 7 spots.

423. Lying for Jesus?

Comment #165355 by righton on April 21, 2008 at 11:39 am

"Just knowing it's running in the top ten is enough.."

Did you say something about spin? Nice...

424. Lying for Jesus?

Comment #165336 by righton on April 21, 2008 at 11:05 am

Expelled came in 8th or ninth in box office earnings. Considering there is usually about eight to ten different movies playing at a given movie theater this is not a good showing at all. No one cares about this movie, its garbage.

425. Lying for Jesus?

Comment #164182 by righton on April 19, 2008 at 5:12 pm

remnant wrote

"Most honest evolutionary scientists will admit that the fossil record provides weak evidence of transition between species."

If by, "honest evolutionary scientists" you mean creationist your right. Its just semantics really.

426. Lying for Jesus?

Comment #163721 by righton on April 18, 2008 at 9:41 pm

uuhhh.

@Sharon

Was that directed at me???

427. Lying for Jesus?

Comment #163717 by righton on April 18, 2008 at 9:24 pm

apbooking wrote

"I do have one question though, if human DNA is really ape DNA that has evolved, how come there are still apes on the planet?"

WOW, your right what are we thinking. That pretty much blows the theory of evolution out of the water in one brilliant quesiton.

PLEASE educate yourself on this topic before trying to debate. The sad thing is, this kind of argument actually works with the general public in america. I think a documentary should be made on how ignorant and biased people are in america on the topic of science. I seriously think this would be an eye opening documentary.

428. Lying for Jesus?

Comment #163452 by righton on April 18, 2008 at 11:16 am

cordura5 wrote

"A lot of the 'proven' scientific experiments that are taught in the textbooks in our schools have been disproven in the past twenty years, such as how life was created from a primordial 'gel' when the earth was first formed."

I doubt that this was ever taught as a "proven" fact in a textbook. If it was that is unfortunate and whoever wrote the textbook is not a good scientist. There are many theories about how life "started" (not created) on earth. The fact that we dont know exactly how it started has nothing to do with the fact that all life on earth has evolved from simple beginnings thus taking away the need for a creator.

429. Richard Dawkins: 'Growth in creationist beliefs a problem for schools'

Comment #157399 by righton on April 9, 2008 at 3:37 am

Styrer,

Al doesnt have internet at his house. He does not post after 4pm PST.

430. Richard Dawkins: 'Growth in creationist beliefs a problem for schools'

Comment #157075 by righton on April 8, 2008 at 2:36 pm

al, PM

431. Richard Dawkins: 'Growth in creationist beliefs a problem for schools'

Comment #157045 by righton on April 8, 2008 at 2:00 pm

done, sorry

432. Richard Dawkins: 'Growth in creationist beliefs a problem for schools'

Comment #157033 by righton on April 8, 2008 at 1:52 pm

al, check your PM

433. Richard Dawkins: 'Growth in creationist beliefs a problem for schools'

Comment #157013 by righton on April 8, 2008 at 1:38 pm

I also think RM is a decent man. I very much enjoy his posts on this website.

The posts in question were definitely offensive and I dont think it was a miss use of english at all. These were obvious.

Al called him on it a long time ago and I have not seen any more offensive posts from RM since. Unless I am missing something. I dont think this needs to be brought up any more as long as the problem is gone.

434. Richard Dawkins: 'Growth in creationist beliefs a problem for schools'

Comment #156995 by righton on April 8, 2008 at 1:18 pm

I dont want to get in the middle of this but...

I definitely remember the exchange between RM and al. RM did make all of those comments which were kind of offensive. I dont know if I would call him a pervert but I do think something needed to be said.

Women should be welcome on this website, of all places, without these kind of comments.

435. Richard Dawkins: 'Growth in creationist beliefs a problem for schools'

Comment #156317 by righton on April 7, 2008 at 10:19 am

I also do not like the terms "Darwinist" and "Darwinism". Creationists use these as a tool. They hold up Darwin as a strawman and point out that some of his ideas were completely false.
I think they use "Darwinism" (a lot in Explelled) because it sounds more like Creationism, implying that these are similar faith based belief systems.

436. Pastor attacks scientist's talk

Comment #154901 by righton on April 3, 2008 at 11:45 pm

epeeist

"Artful_Dodger" does that a lot.

Robot,

That video of Robertson made me sick. Same old stuff. That book of his looked very small for a response to TGD. Im not sure he covered everyting.

437. Beware the Believers

Comment #154213 by righton on April 2, 2008 at 10:17 pm

@449 by kardashovel

In his time Mohammad was a great feminist, in shrewd support of his crusade to reduce worship to one god, for whom he graciously interceded. Sadly, (((he didn't realize that girls just want to have fun.)))

You are an a-hole. Why do you post here?

438. Faith healing church parents charged over toddler's death

Comment #153715 by righton on April 1, 2008 at 11:13 pm

Eventhorizon-
I have thought about this question for a few years. I haven't found a good reason why, say, an abortion one day before birth is perfectly legal and accepted by the pro-choice crowd (myself included), but an "abortion" one day after birth (i.e., infanticide) is a capital offense which nearly all modern-day people find abhorrent.

WHAT???

This was not a real post, no one is that stupid.

439. Police: Girl Dies After Parents Pray for Healing Instead of Seeking Medical Help

Comment #152660 by righton on March 31, 2008 at 10:02 am

Here is an update on the story in Oregon, just saw it this morning.

http://www.kgw.com/news-local/stories/kgw_033008_news_faith_healing.1742971c.html

440. Police: Girl Dies After Parents Pray for Healing Instead of Seeking Medical Help

Comment #152658 by righton on March 31, 2008 at 9:56 am

Thanks Geoff,

That was very sad and disturbing. I am wondering if I should bring this to the attention of the media. I would like to see this church have at least some kind of pressure from the public on it.

441. Police: Girl Dies After Parents Pray for Healing Instead of Seeking Medical Help

Comment #152392 by righton on March 30, 2008 at 11:47 pm

Apparently this just happened again, in my own state! This time it was a fifteen month old that died of a "curable disease", the parents are members of the Followers of Christ Church in Oregon City, Oregon.
"Right now, the infant's parents are not facing any charges but they could still be arrested."

Unbelievable

http://www.kptv.com/news/15737201/detail.html

442. Beware the Believers

Comment #151975 by righton on March 29, 2008 at 8:12 pm

So no one knows who made this?

443. Beware the Believers

Comment #151860 by righton on March 29, 2008 at 3:15 pm

Dennett looks like a pirate.

I thought the video was funny and definitely pro science.

444. Sue Blackmore debates Alister McGrath

Comment #151337 by righton on March 28, 2008 at 2:14 pm

"Abortion should be legal until the fetus is viable on its own."

When is that?

445. Fleabytes

Comment #151333 by righton on March 28, 2008 at 2:11 pm

Wow, that video was disturbing

[edit]The fitna movie

446. Police: Girl Dies After Parents Pray for Healing Instead of Seeking Medical Help

Comment #151274 by righton on March 28, 2008 at 11:13 am

I really hope some kind of legal action is taken. They have two more kids, what if this happens again? It seems like the general public and the law enforcement are taking the stance of, theres nothing we can really do because it is a religious matter. Another example of people giving way too much respect to others religious beliefs.
I think this is blatant child abuse from mentally ill parents. They are not suitable parents and the other two kids should be taken away.

447. Fleabytes

Comment #150794 by righton on March 27, 2008 at 12:27 pm

Um, on the beers topic. I live in Portland Oregon, id argue we have the best microbrew beers in the world.

448. Fleabytes

Comment #150746 by righton on March 27, 2008 at 11:27 am

What, that wasnt intellectually stimulating?

449. Fleabytes

Comment #150744 by righton on March 27, 2008 at 11:23 am

If evolution created man, then who created evolution?

450. Happy Birthday, Richard Dawkins!

Comment #149912 by righton on March 26, 2008 at 10:27 am

Happy Birthday Richard!!!

Thank you very much for this great website.