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Religion / Re: Christian And Christianity by xerxesII: 6:40pm On Feb 14, 2016 |
I bet he was touching himself while watching them go at it! Creepy god! |
Religion / Re: My People. Free Yourselves From Mental Slavery!!! by xerxesII: 5:28pm On Feb 14, 2016 |
Nice one bro I endorse this thread! 1 Like |
Religion / Re: The Journey Of Soul by xerxesII: 5:22pm On Feb 14, 2016 |
I'm so Loving this!
At least this one sounds abit real. . . But. . . Anyway come update, I'm following 1 Like |
Religion / Re: Share A Testimony With Us by xerxesII: 5:15pm On Feb 14, 2016 |
I woke up this morning with an _erection! Praise _fucking jesus! |
Religion / Re: Praise The Universe.... I Finally Became An Atheist! by xerxesII: 5:55pm On Feb 09, 2016 |
^^^ No, _fuck that! I don't engage animals That _bitch is evil. . . |
Religion / Re: Praise The Universe.... I Finally Became An Atheist! by xerxesII: 5:18pm On Feb 09, 2016 |
hockeyoilers: _pussy nigga be quiet! Hope you choke on her panties |
Religion / Re: Praise The Universe.... I Finally Became An Atheist! by xerxesII: 7:46pm On Feb 08, 2016 |
But why do christians take it personal when you tell them you don't believe in their useless sky daddy? That analice107 _bitch is one cold-hearted mofo. . . Evil bitch...that's why you're still single at 42! 1 Like |
Religion / Re: Lets Talk About Feb 14 Should Christians Celebrate Valentine?? by xerxesII: 11:35pm On Feb 06, 2016 |
Duh! King solomon celebrated it na...what are u telling me |
Religion / Re: WTS In Crisis: Frustration Grws @bethel As Governing Body Focuses In Warwick by xerxesII: 6:45am On Feb 06, 2016 |
paulGrundy: Lol ok You're free to _fuck off now |
Religion / Re: WTS In Crisis: Frustration Grws @bethel As Governing Body Focuses In Warwick by xerxesII: 11:14pm On Feb 05, 2016 |
From your profile, I see you're more active in the job/vacancy section... Hmm that explains it! Get a job unemployed nigga you need it! |
Religion / Re: If Jesus, Buddha, Krishna, Muhammad Met. Wht Do U Think They Would Do? by xerxesII: 8:31pm On Feb 05, 2016 |
They would have _threesome 1 Like |
Religion / Re: Unraveling Watchtower’s Misinformation On Blood Transfusions by xerxesII: 7:50pm On Feb 05, 2016 |
Bro when should we expect another dumb JW thread? Cretin! |
Religion / Re: Which Of These Pastors In Nigeria Inspires You? by xerxesII: 6:12pm On Feb 05, 2016 |
A female pastor with a round sizable edible ass would |
Religion / Random Thoughts Of A Free Thinker by xerxesII: 3:38pm On Feb 04, 2016 |
Recently I have been compelled to start a journey to answer the question, "how do I know my beliefs are true?" Like most people, I have merely accepted what everyone that I love and trust in my life has told me to be true. It was not until recently when I was giving a good friend of mine some grief for his religious beliefs that it occurred to me that I have never taken the time to verify why my own beliefs are true. My entire life I have been fed the notion that the Bible is 100% literal, accurate, truth. So you can imagine my surprise when I began a course to investigate the testable claims of the Bible and discovered that many things in the Bible conflict with history. Not only conflict, but overwhelming evidence to the contrary exists to some of the most popular claims in the Bible. First of all, it is a well established historical fact that Hebrews have never been enslaved by Egyptians. That was a total shock right out of the gate. I'm not going to flesh out why. There is plenty of information out there regarding that. Secondly, I have never accepted a literal, global flood but I discovered that the flood story was actually passed around to all of the Middle Eastern cultures. The story is all the same. <Insert deity name> wants to destroy humanity and picks his disciple <insert person's name> to save a few people and all the animals. This is not a story unique to Judaism, in fact it predates Judaism several times. Just a few excerpts from the flood stories that predate Judaism, same story, different players: SUMERIAN: The gods had decided to destroy mankind. The god Enlil warned the priest-king Ziusudra ("Long of Life" of the coming flood by speaking to a wall while Ziusudra listened at the side. He was instructed to build a great ship and carry beasts and birds upon it... BABYLONIA: Three times (every 1200 years), the gods were distressed by the disturbance from human overpopulation. The gods dealt with the problem first by plague, then by famine. Both times, the god Enki advised men to bribe the god causing the problem. The third time, Enlil advised the gods to destroy all humans with a flood, but Enki had Atrahasis build an ark and so escape. Also on the boat were cattle, wild animals and birds, and Atrahasis' family... ASSYRIAN: The gods, led by Enlil, agreed to cleanse the earth of an overpopulated humanity, but Utnapishtim was warned by the god Ea in a dream. He and some craftsmen built a large boat (one acre in area, seven decks) in a week. He then loaded it with his family, the craftsmen, and "the seed of all living creatures... CHALDEAN: The god Chronos in a vision warned Xisuthrus, the tenth king of Babylon, of a flood coming on the fifteenth day of the month of Daesius. The god ordered him to write a history and bury it in Sippara, and told him to build and provision a vessel (5 stadia by 2 stadia) for himself, his friends and relations, and all kinds of animals... ZOROASTRIAN: Enlargement of the earth was necessary again after 600 years. When the population became too great after 900 years, Ahura Mazda warned Yima that destruction was coming in the form of winter, frost, and subsequent melting of the snow. He instructed Yima to build a vara, a large square enclosure, in which to keep specimens of small and large cattle, human beings, dogs, birds, red flaming fires, plants and foodstuffs, two of every kind... Finally, I learned that not only is the military takeover of Canaan as described in Joshua not an historical fact, but there is overwhelming evidence to the contrary which points to the fact that Judaism flourished from within Canaan and eventually became the predominant religion with no warfare at all. You can imagine what learning these facts had to do to my faith. Having learned that the Bible is 100% literally true, and learning facts to the contrary constitute a huge philosophical problem for me. I am not the type of person who can look at hard evidence and say, "well, that conflicts with the Bible, so it's false." Nor do I find people with that ability particularly virtuous, even though cognitive dissonance is praised as a virtue in just about all world religions. Continuing my journey to investigate the claims of the Bible has been an interesting experience thus far. It has given me the opportunity to gain lots of different perspectives, not only on christianity, but on life and other religious beliefs in general. Having talked to numerous christians about my philosophical belief problem in the face of overwhelming evidence to the contrary of my established beliefs has certainly been interesting. I have spoken with christians who range in philosophical differences from "you absolutely cannot be a christian unless you believe the Earth is literally 6,000 years old" all the way to "yes, many of the stories in the Bible are only allegories meant to convey the nature of God, many of the events of the Bible definitely did not happen" and everything in between. Numerous christians have told me that my lack of faith is nothing more than a hardened heart and open rebellion against God. Other christians have told me that my honest search for truth is closer to Christ-like than many will ever get in their entire lives of blind, unquestioning devotion. After several months it has finally occurred to me that my entire life I have not been sold christianity. I have been sold an orthodoxy. Biblical literalism is a very young, theological idea prevalent mostly among Protestants, and Baptists fall on the farthest end of that literalism spectrum. Christians have always accepted the Bible as "truth" but they have not always accepted the Bible as "actual literal events". Biblical literalism is fairly new to the theological game. My journey is not complete but I think what I have learned the most is many people have many wildly, differing opinions on whether I'm drawing closer to Christlike, rebelling against God, being a heretic, being a vigilant seeker of truth, doing something God loathes, doing something God admires, etc. Despite all of their differing opinions, they all have one thing they agree on, "MY BELIEF IS THE CORRECT ONE!" 1 Like 2 Shares |
Religion / Re: The Journey Of Soul by xerxesII: 2:38pm On Feb 04, 2016 |
benodic:Thanks! 1 Like |
Islam for Muslims / Re: Why Do Muslims Rush To Christian Countries Rather Than Islamic Countries? by xerxesII: 9:33am On Feb 04, 2016 |
malvisguy212:Lmao Circus clown I'm a free-thinker |
Religion / Re: The Journey Of Soul by xerxesII: 9:31am On Feb 04, 2016 |
benodic: Same old ishhh bro
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Islam for Muslims / Re: Why Do Muslims Rush To Christian Countries Rather Than Islamic Countries? by xerxesII: 9:07am On Feb 04, 2016 |
malvisguy212: Face your religion and stop _bitching around like a _senile _pussy! Damn! |
Religion / Re: The Journey Of Soul by xerxesII: 8:03am On Feb 04, 2016 |
benodic: Bro the link is broken |
Religion / Re: The Journey Of Soul by xerxesII: 9:22am On Feb 03, 2016 |
Interesting! I'd love to read more on this! Could you like send me the soft copy of the book you extract this from? 3 Likes |
Islam for Muslims / Re: Why Do Muslims Rush To Christian Countries Rather Than Islamic Countries? by xerxesII: 7:51pm On Feb 02, 2016 |
unphilaz: bruv,that old jobless negro is over-doing it. He creates thread every _fucking hour- hate threads. Was that how jesus preached when he was (allegedly)on earth? even your bible says "too much of everything is bad" |
Islam for Muslims / Re: Why Do Muslims Rush To Christian Countries Rather Than Islamic Countries? by xerxesII: 7:40pm On Feb 02, 2016 |
truthman2012: Nigga, stop disturbing NL server with your dumb, _retarded threads Its not like as if your threads r getting any converts so give it a rest _bitch boy And FYI I'm not a muslim |
Islam for Muslims / Re: Why Do Muslims Rush To Christian Countries Rather Than Islamic Countries? by xerxesII: 7:22pm On Feb 02, 2016 |
Give it a rest old nigga! |
Religion / Re: Christians, Why Do You Believe In The Biblical God? by xerxesII: 8:21pm On Feb 01, 2016 |
KingEbukasBlog: Bro you just did 'wuruwuru-to-the-answer' kindof explanation. . . Lmao at 'we can say he just ceased work on the seventh day' Bro to cease working is diff from resting Here are synonyms to 'to cease work': abandon, abdicate, bail out, bow out, capitulate, cease work, cede, demit, divorce oneself from, drop, drop out, end service, fold, forgo, forsake, give notice, give up the ship, hand in resignation, hand over, hang it up, leave, quit, Why didn't your bible use thse words instead of 'rest'. . . you suppose translate bible too o...make u name am NKEV(new king ebuka version) Nigga I'm done 1 Like |
Religion / Re: Christians, Why Do You Believe In The Biblical God? by xerxesII: 7:57pm On Feb 01, 2016 |
KingEbukasBlog: Hmm Bros how you take know?
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Religion / Re: Churches Turned Into Mosques by xerxesII: 7:35pm On Feb 01, 2016 |
Annunaki:_fucking hypocrite |
Religion / Re: Christians, Why Do You Believe In The Biblical God? by xerxesII: 7:22pm On Feb 01, 2016 |
betterpikin28:You mean he took a day off? He got exhausted? 1 Like |
Religion / Re: Churches Turned Into Mosques by xerxesII: 7:04pm On Feb 01, 2016 |
Annunaki:Obviously you are a victim of yahweh's fairy tale . My simple question to you is that what convinces you that christianity is true despite the fact that it's founder has such a terrible track record and was indeed a serial killer? Clean the dust in your eyes negro! |
Religion / Re: Jehovah's Witnesses: 17 Facts People Should Know About Them by xerxesII: 8:45pm On Jan 30, 2016 |
Y'all JW never cease to amaze me Imagine, some set of caucasians(governing body) instruct y'all not to allow your kids go to the university but their own kids have several academic degrees. . . I know of an elder that had to pull his daughter from school coz he doesn't wanna lose the 'privilege' as an elder who does that? |
Religion / Re: Jehovah's Witnesses: 17 Facts People Should Know About Them by xerxesII: 8:39pm On Jan 30, 2016 |
joyandfaith: Heheh apostate. . . What if I don't return? |
Religion / Re: Jehovah's Witnesses: 17 Facts People Should Know About Them by xerxesII: 9:03am On Jan 30, 2016 |
Just so you know, I have been to their bethel home. . . I see how the white mofos treat the nigerians, I see how they look at the nigerians. . . Its not religion that makes you a good guy, bad guy and what not. . . Its who you are. Many JW I know are _assholes- true story I don't do religion anymore coz its all filled with lies and hypocrisy. . . I'm on a spiritual journey to discover self, until then, _fuck JWs (apart from my family tho) |
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