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		By: Roger Nasier		</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Roger Nasier]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 19 Aug 2015 18:54:21 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Chaka,

  I thank you for your insightful blessed light you have shed on this article.  An article which clearly seeks to move us away from and definitely not closer too, the lord almighty!  May god always be with you!!!]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Chaka,</p>
<p>  I thank you for your insightful blessed light you have shed on this article.  An article which clearly seeks to move us away from and definitely not closer too, the lord almighty!  May god always be with you!!!</p>
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		By: Chaka		</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Chaka]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 12 Aug 2015 15:59:31 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[As for the Pope, he and Catholicism have nothing to do with Christianity. In fact, in many ways Catholicism contradicts Christianity. John Calvin realized this. The Pope acts as if he is &quot;Vicar of Christ&quot;, but the Bible teaches there is ONE mediator between God and man - Christ.

The Bible speaks of those not of God who will forbid others to marry. The catholic church does just that with its leaders, even though the Bible says marriage is holy in ALL.

The Pope states there can be no personal relationship with God and that everyone must come through the catholic church. That is not what the Bible says. The catholic church uses similar terms as Christianity but it is &quot;another gospel&quot;, a false gospel with another doctrine spoke of in the Bible. The Bible warns against this.

The Bible teaches our sins are forgiven by hat Christ has done and the acceptance of that sacrifice, along with repentance. The catholic church teaches that people have to get in a box and be absolved of their sins by a priest. WRONG AGAIN!

These differences just scratch the surface.]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>As for the Pope, he and Catholicism have nothing to do with Christianity. In fact, in many ways Catholicism contradicts Christianity. John Calvin realized this. The Pope acts as if he is &#8220;Vicar of Christ&#8221;, but the Bible teaches there is ONE mediator between God and man &#8211; Christ.</p>
<p>The Bible speaks of those not of God who will forbid others to marry. The catholic church does just that with its leaders, even though the Bible says marriage is holy in ALL.</p>
<p>The Pope states there can be no personal relationship with God and that everyone must come through the catholic church. That is not what the Bible says. The catholic church uses similar terms as Christianity but it is &#8220;another gospel&#8221;, a false gospel with another doctrine spoke of in the Bible. The Bible warns against this.</p>
<p>The Bible teaches our sins are forgiven by hat Christ has done and the acceptance of that sacrifice, along with repentance. The catholic church teaches that people have to get in a box and be absolved of their sins by a priest. WRONG AGAIN!</p>
<p>These differences just scratch the surface.</p>
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		By: Chaka		</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Chaka]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 12 Aug 2015 15:52:46 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[To The Author of This Article,

Your assertions are not accurate. But the truth of who Yeshuah is goes far beyond the anglo-saxon version or diversion if you will. You will need to do a lot more research than a philosophical or existential analysis can provide.

The &quot;Messiah&quot; was not from here and there is a ton of evidence to show just that, even evidence written by those who were not his followers.]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>To The Author of This Article,</p>
<p>Your assertions are not accurate. But the truth of who Yeshuah is goes far beyond the anglo-saxon version or diversion if you will. You will need to do a lot more research than a philosophical or existential analysis can provide.</p>
<p>The &#8220;Messiah&#8221; was not from here and there is a ton of evidence to show just that, even evidence written by those who were not his followers.</p>
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		By: Eric L. Wattree		</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Eric L. Wattree]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Fri, 07 Aug 2015 04:30:26 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Steve,

I take it from the crickets I&#039;m hearing in response to my challenge that (&quot;I’ll be waiting to hear from you with great anticipation&quot;), that you&#039;ve chosen not to assert your &quot;a priori&quot; convictions, but as I pointed out at the time, I anticipated as much. But, by the way, you never did answer my question - are you a first year philosophy student?]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Steve,</p>
<p>I take it from the crickets I&#8217;m hearing in response to my challenge that (&#8220;I’ll be waiting to hear from you with great anticipation&#8221;), that you&#8217;ve chosen not to assert your &#8220;a priori&#8221; convictions, but as I pointed out at the time, I anticipated as much. But, by the way, you never did answer my question &#8211; are you a first year philosophy student?</p>
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		By: Eric L. Wattree		</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Eric L. Wattree]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 04 Aug 2015 13:20:47 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[TruthSurge,

You&#039;ve brought out much to be considered, but unfortunately, those who choose to be &quot;believers&quot; of man&#039;s nonsense is allergic logic.  They&#039;ve already made the decision to believe the fairy tales manufactured by man rather than believing the creator&#039;s greatest blessing to mankind - our logical mind. Thus, whenever the logic bestowed by God begins to kick in, the &quot;believers&quot; will listen to man instead, who tells them that God&#039;s logic is &quot;The Devil&quot; trying to mislead them. As a result, it&#039;s next to impossible to carve past the ignorance of man.  That&#039;s the primary source of all of our problems - man having more &quot;faith&quot; in what other men say, than what God has actually done.
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I was listening to a preacher over the radio this past Sunday.  The ignorance spewing made me want to throw up.  He was quoting the Bible as though every syllable came directly from the mouth of God.  How can Black people believe this stuff when the people who taught it to them obviously didn&#039;t believe a word of it?  They had us tied up next to the mules as they were teaching it to us, and they used to let church out early so the membership could get a good spot to watch lynchings.  Black people will NEVER &quot;overcome&quot; until we get over the fear of going to Hell for using our minds.
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KNOW THE TRUTH AND THE TRUTH SHALL SET YOU FREE - John 8:32]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>TruthSurge,</p>
<p>You&#8217;ve brought out much to be considered, but unfortunately, those who choose to be &#8220;believers&#8221; of man&#8217;s nonsense is allergic logic.  They&#8217;ve already made the decision to believe the fairy tales manufactured by man rather than believing the creator&#8217;s greatest blessing to mankind &#8211; our logical mind. Thus, whenever the logic bestowed by God begins to kick in, the &#8220;believers&#8221; will listen to man instead, who tells them that God&#8217;s logic is &#8220;The Devil&#8221; trying to mislead them. As a result, it&#8217;s next to impossible to carve past the ignorance of man.  That&#8217;s the primary source of all of our problems &#8211; man having more &#8220;faith&#8221; in what other men say, than what God has actually done.<br />
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I was listening to a preacher over the radio this past Sunday.  The ignorance spewing made me want to throw up.  He was quoting the Bible as though every syllable came directly from the mouth of God.  How can Black people believe this stuff when the people who taught it to them obviously didn&#8217;t believe a word of it?  They had us tied up next to the mules as they were teaching it to us, and they used to let church out early so the membership could get a good spot to watch lynchings.  Black people will NEVER &#8220;overcome&#8221; until we get over the fear of going to Hell for using our minds.<br />
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KNOW THE TRUTH AND THE TRUTH SHALL SET YOU FREE &#8211; John 8:32</p>
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		By: TruthSurge		</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 03 Aug 2015 18:08:59 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Interesting.

1) When studying the map of Islamic and Christian population one notices that its credited by often-times violent expansions at the hands of European/Middle Eastern powers. There were many other local cultures that were virtually annihilated in a purely &#039;Darwinistic&#039; fashion. Perhaps the real religion from God was wiped out many centuries ago

A) Would God let faith such as these two spread in such a violent occupying matter? How are the Crusades, Inquisition, and Slavery just? Simply because God is &quot;above it all&quot;? Really? 

B) Why would God create two religions that spread not only in never-ending past violence BUT in many cases share many similarities, yet billions of people could enter hell because of their belief system (Christianity&#039;s 2.2 billion vs Islam&#039;s 1.5 billion)

2)How do we know that religion HASNT been altered. Think of all the lies America and nation states around the world tell. Christianity and Islam started small then the Umyaad and Rome came into religion (essentially an equivalent of globalist banksters and how they pimped and corrupted capitalism)

3)Does the rising of Christ from the dead sound real? Maybe Muhameeds (who was illerate) being spoken to in a cave also makes sense?

4) Adding in Judiasm we are presented with even more trouble. Is the original correct or is the successor correct? Judiasm---Christianity--Islam. Given the variety of scriptures Christianity doesn&#039;t completely throw away Muhammed (The Pope/Catholics) and some Jews don&#039;t completely throw away Jesus. Why the complexity and at the same time does God use HUMANS to tell stories that are in part ripped off  pagan and Indian religious stories?

5) Christianity is the only religion that features a Man-God or exhibits traces of both God and individual Man, even worse this Man-God was written up hundreds of years AFTER he died, claiming he was brought back to life in a bizarre retcon storytelling by the romans. The Abrahamic religions are complex enough, but this is sheer insanity. This &#039;trinity doctrine&#039; scares Muslims and Jews the same way Donald Trump scares progressives/independents. 

6)Virgin Births, talking snakes, giants, etc. I treat it like WTC7 if its the only documented official occurrence and its this incredulous. Chances are its not &quot;official&quot; and it was contrived/greatly altered. 

7) Why would Islam have to almost RETELL Biblical stories in a movie-like reboot of events. Why would God let this happen? Why would God need to retell stories that have no significant impact on the faith? Why would God let scriptures be &#039;altered&#039; first of all as muslims/progressive christians claim (altered by the Romans) What scripture haven&#039;t been altered then?

8) Why did the Romans have the need to &#039;dress up&#039; the New Testament while the Old Testament and the Koran read like war-books. (The Romans didn&#039;t actually care for religion only power unlike the Jews or Muslims and preferred to write in pacifying tones in comparison) If Christians believe in the Old Testament to what extent is the belief shared by the Jews who believe in much more that Christianity doesn&#039;t accept. (The Jews don&#039;t even call it the Old Testament)

9) God would never make the back-story to religion this human-oriented, contested, flawed, and war-like. By peaceful AND negative verses, the same book that powers a secular multi-faith tolerating muslim/good caring Christian also convincingly enough be used to embolden ISIS, the KKK, mass murders or pedophillia. Pedophillia in claiming that God created all men need to know back then, and nothing is actually wrong with having sex with an eight year old like what was practiced AND accepted in ancient times unlike Homosexuality. CLEARLY the battle between Good and Evil squaring off in say Christianity and Islam is illogical to the unity of God. Having Good and Evil simultaneously squaring off WITHIN the particular individual religious books nullifies whatever little meaning still exists.

9A. If God TRULY wrote/&#039;green lighted&#039; all the positive/negative verses in the Old Testament/Quaran he is beyond schizophrenic at best.]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Interesting.</p>
<p>1) When studying the map of Islamic and Christian population one notices that its credited by often-times violent expansions at the hands of European/Middle Eastern powers. There were many other local cultures that were virtually annihilated in a purely &#8216;Darwinistic&#8217; fashion. Perhaps the real religion from God was wiped out many centuries ago</p>
<p>A) Would God let faith such as these two spread in such a violent occupying matter? How are the Crusades, Inquisition, and Slavery just? Simply because God is &#8220;above it all&#8221;? Really? </p>
<p>B) Why would God create two religions that spread not only in never-ending past violence BUT in many cases share many similarities, yet billions of people could enter hell because of their belief system (Christianity&#8217;s 2.2 billion vs Islam&#8217;s 1.5 billion)</p>
<p>2)How do we know that religion HASNT been altered. Think of all the lies America and nation states around the world tell. Christianity and Islam started small then the Umyaad and Rome came into religion (essentially an equivalent of globalist banksters and how they pimped and corrupted capitalism)</p>
<p>3)Does the rising of Christ from the dead sound real? Maybe Muhameeds (who was illerate) being spoken to in a cave also makes sense?</p>
<p>4) Adding in Judiasm we are presented with even more trouble. Is the original correct or is the successor correct? Judiasm&#8212;Christianity&#8211;Islam. Given the variety of scriptures Christianity doesn&#8217;t completely throw away Muhammed (The Pope/Catholics) and some Jews don&#8217;t completely throw away Jesus. Why the complexity and at the same time does God use HUMANS to tell stories that are in part ripped off  pagan and Indian religious stories?</p>
<p>5) Christianity is the only religion that features a Man-God or exhibits traces of both God and individual Man, even worse this Man-God was written up hundreds of years AFTER he died, claiming he was brought back to life in a bizarre retcon storytelling by the romans. The Abrahamic religions are complex enough, but this is sheer insanity. This &#8216;trinity doctrine&#8217; scares Muslims and Jews the same way Donald Trump scares progressives/independents. </p>
<p>6)Virgin Births, talking snakes, giants, etc. I treat it like WTC7 if its the only documented official occurrence and its this incredulous. Chances are its not &#8220;official&#8221; and it was contrived/greatly altered. </p>
<p>7) Why would Islam have to almost RETELL Biblical stories in a movie-like reboot of events. Why would God let this happen? Why would God need to retell stories that have no significant impact on the faith? Why would God let scriptures be &#8216;altered&#8217; first of all as muslims/progressive christians claim (altered by the Romans) What scripture haven&#8217;t been altered then?</p>
<p>8) Why did the Romans have the need to &#8216;dress up&#8217; the New Testament while the Old Testament and the Koran read like war-books. (The Romans didn&#8217;t actually care for religion only power unlike the Jews or Muslims and preferred to write in pacifying tones in comparison) If Christians believe in the Old Testament to what extent is the belief shared by the Jews who believe in much more that Christianity doesn&#8217;t accept. (The Jews don&#8217;t even call it the Old Testament)</p>
<p>9) God would never make the back-story to religion this human-oriented, contested, flawed, and war-like. By peaceful AND negative verses, the same book that powers a secular multi-faith tolerating muslim/good caring Christian also convincingly enough be used to embolden ISIS, the KKK, mass murders or pedophillia. Pedophillia in claiming that God created all men need to know back then, and nothing is actually wrong with having sex with an eight year old like what was practiced AND accepted in ancient times unlike Homosexuality. CLEARLY the battle between Good and Evil squaring off in say Christianity and Islam is illogical to the unity of God. Having Good and Evil simultaneously squaring off WITHIN the particular individual religious books nullifies whatever little meaning still exists.</p>
<p>9A. If God TRULY wrote/&#8217;green lighted&#8217; all the positive/negative verses in the Old Testament/Quaran he is beyond schizophrenic at best.</p>
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		By: Eric L. Wattree		</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Eric L. Wattree]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Mon, 03 Aug 2015 13:10:10 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Steve,

I&#039;ll be waiting to hear from you with great anticipation.]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Steve,</p>
<p>I&#8217;ll be waiting to hear from you with great anticipation.</p>
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		By: jdgwisd		</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 02 Aug 2015 20:44:17 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Actually Steve, to buttress some of Mr. Wattree&#039;s argument about the first known books of the Christian Bible, the Gospel of Thomas may have been the first recorded book of Christian history, written between 60-70 AD.  The essay was clear and the point of view was an interesting one. I have no dog in this hunt.  No matter what road someone takes to search for something greater than themselves, let  be their concern.  Let us not be so condensending of others point of view.  I think Eric feels that organized religion is too much the &quot;Opiate of the Masses.&quot;  It&#039;s how one defines faith outside of their religion that defines them.  Mr. Wattree may feel that religion has become a force unto itself, misleading believers into gullibility, while the priestly class becomes wealthy.  On that front he is correct.  But not all believers are gullible, and not all questioners of someone&#039;s faith are devils.]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Actually Steve, to buttress some of Mr. Wattree&#8217;s argument about the first known books of the Christian Bible, the Gospel of Thomas may have been the first recorded book of Christian history, written between 60-70 AD.  The essay was clear and the point of view was an interesting one. I have no dog in this hunt.  No matter what road someone takes to search for something greater than themselves, let  be their concern.  Let us not be so condensending of others point of view.  I think Eric feels that organized religion is too much the &#8220;Opiate of the Masses.&#8221;  It&#8217;s how one defines faith outside of their religion that defines them.  Mr. Wattree may feel that religion has become a force unto itself, misleading believers into gullibility, while the priestly class becomes wealthy.  On that front he is correct.  But not all believers are gullible, and not all questioners of someone&#8217;s faith are devils.</p>
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		By: Steve		</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Steve]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sun, 02 Aug 2015 17:41:58 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Talkin&#039; snakes? Ha ha. That&#039;s a good one.
Just when I thought I didn&#039;t have anything to write about, you&#039;ve given me a great deal of inspiration. For that I am eternally grateful. 
Stay tuned...if you dare.]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Talkin&#8217; snakes? Ha ha. That&#8217;s a good one.<br />
Just when I thought I didn&#8217;t have anything to write about, you&#8217;ve given me a great deal of inspiration. For that I am eternally grateful.<br />
Stay tuned&#8230;if you dare.</p>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Eric L. Wattree]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sun, 02 Aug 2015 16:50:47 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Steve,

This rant isn&#039;t even worth addressing. And as I mentioned in my earlier response, I don&#039;t acknowledge the intellect of people like you. It&#039;s a waste of time, because it&#039;s always more about pretentious strutting about than the legitimate search for knowledge.
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Finally, when I wrote the article I said everything I had to say on the issue. I dotted every &quot;i&quot; and crossed every &quot;t&quot; so there&#039;s nothing to debate.  You have my position on the subject.  If you want to challenge it, you write an article on the subject and I&#039;ll be more than happy to take it apart on this very site.  But until then - and I&#039;ll be sure not to hold my breath until you publish it - you can continue to go about your life believing in talkin&#039; snakes. 
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Have a good day, my man.]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Steve,</p>
<p>This rant isn&#8217;t even worth addressing. And as I mentioned in my earlier response, I don&#8217;t acknowledge the intellect of people like you. It&#8217;s a waste of time, because it&#8217;s always more about pretentious strutting about than the legitimate search for knowledge.<br />
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Finally, when I wrote the article I said everything I had to say on the issue. I dotted every &#8220;i&#8221; and crossed every &#8220;t&#8221; so there&#8217;s nothing to debate.  You have my position on the subject.  If you want to challenge it, you write an article on the subject and I&#8217;ll be more than happy to take it apart on this very site.  But until then &#8211; and I&#8217;ll be sure not to hold my breath until you publish it &#8211; you can continue to go about your life believing in talkin&#8217; snakes.<br />
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Have a good day, my man.</p>
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