I was sharing a car or berth or something with an Italian in a train returning from Vienna to Verona in the dead of winter (Jan 1985) and he joked as the train got really cold after leaving Bolzano (at the Swiss border) that the heater went on sciopero (strike.) (I love the Italians --they do my passive aggressive East Indian heart good.)
Soooo then why were the original Hitler and Stalin ever born?!! If that's gods method for weeding out the bad ones then we should have never seen them exist at all!! Makes zero sense! I'm sure his answer would be something along the lines of "because satan..."
That's their entire argument for their entire religion. It's either "Because God..." or "Because Satan..." Might as well be "Because Bert... or Because Earnie"
I don't like to think of him as "televangelist scam artist" or "blood diamond merchant." Those terms are so loaded. I always think of Rev. Robertson as "one-time LEADING CANDIDATE FOR THE GOP PRESIDENTIAL NOMINATION!" Way to go, Iowa Republicans...
"Satan" is a title, not a character, who originally served as a kind of prosecutor in God's own court. It evolved into a character representing pure evil much later when Christianity made him an amalgamation of everyone else's gods. Pan's hooves, Poseidon's trident (pitchfork), etc.
Agreed. Stalin had a drunken abusive father. He was also enrolled in a church school at ten, sang in the choir, and later studied at Tiflis Spiritual Seminary. Where he probably learned all about hell, which may be one of the reasons he tried so hard to make the earth like it. Pat Robertson is a venal dehumanized dog turd. Actually that's flattering to him and quite an insult to dog turds.
I had to fire a sweet young Mennonite girl because she just didn't have the technical appitude for writing documentation. At the end she said that God had a plan for her, as she held back her tears. Still makes me sad.
On the other hand, she may have become the Hitler of documentation. Given her writing ability, we could have lost six million users!
Why don't more so-called Christians understand the message of their own scripture, the Book of Job - that sometimes bad things happen to good people who don't deserve it?
So, why didn't God prevent Hitler sperm and Hitler egg from meeting? Or, why didn't God make Hitler's Mom infertile? Or make his Dad get mumps? I am confused.
... rather than an entire system of European nations in conflict which had been getting progressively more brutal, with both sides trading atrocities, for 300 years.
I was sharing a car or berth or something with an Italian in a train returning from Vienna to Verona in the dead of winter (Jan 1985) and he joked as the train got really cold after leaving Bolzano (at the Swiss border) that the heater went on sciopero (strike.) (I love the Italians --they do my passive aggressive East Indian heart good.)
Soooo then why were the original Hitler and Stalin ever born?!! If that's gods method for weeding out the bad ones then we should have never seen them exist at all!! Makes zero sense! I'm sure his answer would be something along the lines of "because satan..."
That's their entire argument for their entire religion. It's either "Because God..." or "Because Satan..." Might as well be "Because Bert... or Because Earnie"
I don't like to think of him as "televangelist scam artist" or "blood diamond merchant." Those terms are so loaded. I always think of Rev. Robertson as "one-time LEADING CANDIDATE FOR THE GOP PRESIDENTIAL NOMINATION!" Way to go, Iowa Republicans...
"Satan" is a title, not a character, who originally served as a kind of prosecutor in God's own court. It evolved into a character representing pure evil much later when Christianity made him an amalgamation of everyone else's gods. Pan's hooves, Poseidon's trident (pitchfork), etc.
Merci, bobbert
Agreed. Stalin had a drunken abusive father. He was also enrolled in a church school at ten, sang in the choir, and later studied at Tiflis Spiritual Seminary. Where he probably learned all about hell, which may be one of the reasons he tried so hard to make the earth like it. Pat Robertson is a venal dehumanized dog turd. Actually that's flattering to him and quite an insult to dog turds.
*reads headline*
Alright, show me.
*reads article*
Hm . . . maybe not the worst, but definitely in his Top Five.
Easy, peasy. There were about six million potential Pol Pots He needed to get rid of.
I had to fire a sweet young Mennonite girl because she just didn't have the technical appitude for writing documentation. At the end she said that God had a plan for her, as she held back her tears. Still makes me sad.
On the other hand, she may have become the Hitler of documentation. Given her writing ability, we could have lost six million users!
Why don't more so-called Christians understand the message of their own scripture, the Book of Job - that sometimes bad things happen to good people who don't deserve it?
So, why didn't God prevent Hitler sperm and Hitler egg from meeting? Or, why didn't God make Hitler's Mom infertile? Or make his Dad get mumps? I am confused.
Also, Hurricane Katrina and New Orleans and all those people on rooftops W. and Brownie let drown. Plus the nightmare at the Superdome.
Who knows what evil the Bush in the jar on the mantle would have perpetrated!
Holocaust deniers say there were no gas chambers, the Jews just went on a holiday in Cambodia.
... rather than an entire system of European nations in conflict which had been getting progressively more brutal, with both sides trading atrocities, for 300 years.