[quote]thunderbolt23 wrote:
Aren’t his ratings declining? I heard they were, which is why he feels like he has to do this kind of stuff.
Even if I were Catholic, I wouldn’t worry about it. No one pays attention to Jon Stewart. Smart people caught on to his trying-to-have-it-both ways schtick, and as such he isn’t the voice of a generation that he was once advertised to be.
Which is good - he’s actually a very good actor, I think.[/quote]
Yes, plus Colbert is much more humorous if you’re looking for non-news news.
[quote]tonypluto wrote:
Yeah he did
I seen it
so what?
the Only difference between catholicism/ christianity
and any other cult on the planet
is the number of followers.
If you’re mad about ppl not taking your religion seriously
Join the scientologists and sue someone
or the Muslims and blow up something completely unrelated.[/quote]
Nice writing style. I understand it’s Cinco de Mayo.
However, I don’t care if anyone takes us seriously. I’m sure most people actually do take us seriously. But, what I am concerned with is respect. I give others respect, and I want respect back. Interesting thing this country was founded on.
While I agree with the posts saying that if you’re gonna insult one, you gotta do them all. But it’s pretty laughable that ZEB calls people who aren’t brainwashed and indoctrinated in his bullshit religion “simple minded idiots” when the simple minded idiots are the people who believe being gay or a single mother is the same as murder. Although I believe in religious freedom it doesn’t take away from the fact i beleive religion has caused many of the worlds problems and holds society back from advancing.
[quote]tonypluto wrote:
Yeah he did
I seen it
so what?
the Only difference between catholicism/ christianity
and any other cult on the planet
is the number of followers.
If you’re mad about ppl not taking your religion seriously
Join the scientologists and sue someone
or the Muslims and blow up something completely unrelated.[/quote]
Wow, you’re a big boy now and you’ve got it all figured out.
[quote]qsar wrote:
Jon Stewart also showed a Christian right representative calling Mormons people who worship a false god. Isn’t that self-deprecating? Isn’t it the same god?[/quote]
No.
They make the claim, yes. However, their theology is off track.
Judaism split in two directions Rabbinical Judaism and Catholicism.
No for Mormons.
But, Mormons don’t believe in the Trinitarian God. Muslims claim they believe in the one God of Abraham.
[quote]As Jews believe Christians worship a false prophet in Jesus (well, maybe a prophet but nothing more). But each one traces their god to the same source (the one with Adam and Eve).
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Yeah…no. That doesn’t mean they are the same God. Sorry.
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There is only one God. It doesn’t matter what religion you are. Haven’t we been through this a million times?
The whole Jon Steward segment began with a Christian (priest I think?) shown strongly wishing the gay member of Mitt Romney’s team would be fired. Then rejoicing when it happened. Wasn’t that exceptionally un-Christian? Wishing ill-will towards others, I mean. He was certainly not loving his neighbor.
Your post was riddled with speculation. And second, one Christian does not represent Christianity as a whole. Case in point.
[quote]qsar wrote:
The whole Jon Steward segment began with a Christian (priest I think?) shown strongly wishing the gay member of Mitt Romney’s team would be fired. Then rejoicing when it happened. Wasn’t that exceptionally un-Christian? Wishing ill-will towards others, I mean. He was certainly not loving his neighbor.
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[quote]qsar wrote:
The whole Jon Steward segment began with a Christian (priest I think?) shown strongly wishing the gay member of Mitt Romney’s team would be fired. Then rejoicing when it happened. Wasn’t that exceptionally un-Christian? Wishing ill-will towards others, I mean. He was certainly not loving his neighbor.
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That depends on what he actually said and felt in his heart. Can you be happy that a homosexual is no longer part of a candidates campaign? Sure, nothing non Christian about that. Christians have a set of values based on scripture and obviously homosexuality lies outside those values. However, if he celebrated such the bible is pretty clear that God does not look favorably on that.
By the way I personally couldn’t care less who Mitt Romney has on his team. As long as that team can win!
This country is in very bad shape and I don’t care what the man’s religion (or personal lifestyle) is who can fix it or help fix it.
As I’ve said before if you got into a bad accident and needed an immediate operation to save y our life you wouldn’t ask the doctor if he was a Christian before going under the knife. You’d simply want him to be qualified to perform a successful operation.
Obama is taking us to a very, very bad place economically. And I truly believe that Mitt Romney with his business background (and former Chief Executive of a state) can help turn it around. Therefore, as far as I’m concerned he can hire a team of homosexual atheists, if they can help turn us around I’m voting for Romney!
[quote]ZEB wrote:
As I’ve said before if you got into a bad accident and needed an immediate operation to save y our life you wouldn’t ask the doctor if he was a Christian before going under the knife. You’d simply want him to be qualified to perform a successful operation.
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What about a less immediate operation where not choosing that doctor doesn’t imply death?
[quote]ZEB wrote:
As I’ve said before if you got into a bad accident and needed an immediate operation to save y our life you wouldn’t ask the doctor if he was a Christian before going under the knife. You’d simply want him to be qualified to perform a successful operation.
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What about a less immediate operation where not choosing that doctor doesn’t imply death?[/quote]
That’s an easy answer but I’m not sure I want to talk to a religious bigot. And I’m very serious.
I am far more open minded about non religious people than you are religious people–BIGOT.
[quote]ZEB wrote:
As I’ve said before if you got into a bad accident and needed an immediate operation to save y our life you wouldn’t ask the doctor if he was a Christian before going under the knife. You’d simply want him to be qualified to perform a successful operation.
[/quote]
What about a less immediate operation where not choosing that doctor doesn’t imply death?[/quote]
That’s an easy answer but I’m not sure I want to talk to a religious bigot. And I’m very serious.
I am far more open minded about non religious people than you are religious people–BIGOT.[/quote]
I am only against those who are intolerant of others, maybe we aren’t so different after all.
[quote]qsar wrote:
Jon Stewart also showed a Christian right representative calling Mormons people who worship a false god. Isn’t that self-deprecating? Isn’t it the same god?[/quote]
No.
They make the claim, yes. However, their theology is off track.
Judaism split in two directions Rabbinical Judaism and Catholicism.
No for Mormons.
But, Mormons don’t believe in the Trinitarian God. Muslims claim they believe in the one God of Abraham.
[quote]As Jews believe Christians worship a false prophet in Jesus (well, maybe a prophet but nothing more). But each one traces their god to the same source (the one with Adam and Eve).
[/quote]
Yeah…no. That doesn’t mean they are the same God. Sorry.
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There is only one God. It doesn’t matter what religion you are. Haven’t we been through this a million times?[/quote]
You can say it a million times, doesn’t make it right.
Yes, there is but one God. That doesn’t mean that everyone worships it.
[quote]ZEB wrote:
As I’ve said before if you got into a bad accident and needed an immediate operation to save y our life you wouldn’t ask the doctor if he was a Christian before going under the knife. You’d simply want him to be qualified to perform a successful operation.
[/quote]
What about a less immediate operation where not choosing that doctor doesn’t imply death?[/quote]
That’s an easy answer but I’m not sure I want to talk to a religious bigot. And I’m very serious.
I am far more open minded about non religious people than you are of religious people–BIGOT.[/quote]
I am only against those who are intolerant of others, maybe we aren’t so different after all.[/quote]
You are the very definition of intolerant. You mock Christianity under the guise of humor. And I’ve read other snide remarks made about those who are religious. That is not being tolerant of others who share beliefs that you do not.
To bring this back on-topic, there are a lot of posters here who seem to take John Steward way too seriously. He was pointing out someone’s logical fallacy about Mormonism by using the same faulty logic with Buddhism and Christianity. I can’t see why anyone be offended by that.
[quote]qsar wrote:
To bring this back on-topic, there are a lot of posters here who seem to take John Steward way too seriously. He was pointing out someone’s logical fallacy about Mormonism by using the same faulty logic with Buddhism and Christianity. I can’t see why anyone be offended by that.
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That is how he operates. Humor is an insidius political tool.
“bla bla slam Catholics…bla bla bla…slam republicans…bla bla”