Gang banged on the bus 2

Bob Chiarelli, Coffee Cup Bob ......gone

We are mostly bacteria.

Well, it's not like Merrimack College is a REAL academy of education like, you know, McGill, NYU, Oxford, UofT, Cambridge, MIT, and of course, KING'S COLLEGE IN LONDON.

Well...I believe that the Temple being restored today in Israel would be a sign that God's Word is close to being completely fulfilled.

You are falsely claiming that all Muslims are bad because they're Muslim. Yet you won't make that same generalization against Christianity.

On your friends, coworkers or anyone that is willing LOL

Right, you are, Debra. Obama smiled that sly grin of his several times as more and more nations "dumped" their junk steel ,aluminum and other critical products on our shorelines.

False. God is evidence of something outside the universe. Himself. and He has proven Himself.

Killing people who do not belive what you do is "a bad idea" regardless of the justification, just to make that clear right of front.

Since the last trade deal was signed with them.

No. He did what he said he would do. He brought a title to a city that hadn't won anything since Bruce Lee was alive. He came back from a 3-1 hole against a 73 win team. And that isn't his greatest accomplishment. His greatest accomplishment was dragging this talentless team to the Finals.

Okay, you seem to be talking about "consciousness" at a much more meta level than I was.

In their conquest of the Promised Land, the Israelites were confronted with war chariots equipped with iron scythes. (Jos 17:16, 18; Jg 1:19) At one point during Saul?s reign, ?there was not a smith [metalworker] to be found in all the land of Israel.? Because of a ban imposed by the Philistines, only the king and his son Jonathan had a sword; Israel was forced to take all metal tools down to the Philistines to have them sharpened.?1Sa 13:19-22.

We seem to agree more than not, with our primary disagreement being whether or not parsonage tax exemptions violate the Establishment Clause. I realize you don't agree with me, but I'm certainly not moving any goalposts. You final comment is odd, since it was you who claimed that in order to show that the Establishment Clause has been violated, I need to show that the state targets one group over another.

Theism does nothing of the sort. There are plenty of theists whose chosen beliefs have absolutely NO moral code to speak of. Such as Deists.

- Just throwing this out there - the bit about not having original manuscripts and so on is not at all unique to the New Testament - we don't have the original manuscripts for almost any writing from this time period - most of what we have are just later copies, very often from centuries later, and when we have multiple copies, there are often textual variants. This is why textual criticism is important for *all* ancient writings, not just the New Testament.

Except it is accurate. Just read the common law rule as recited in the case.

It's pretty insulting to essentially say "You shouldn't feel that way" - invalidating another person's experience is often insulting at best.