:biglaugh:Sorry couldn't help myself! "leave their superstitions behind!" What do you call your beliefs, facts? You are no different believing what you believe, that there is a Christ who will save you, then they are for practicing voodoo. There is absolutely no difference, none, nada. You will whine about not being able to practice what you believe, yet you have the audacity to want to prevent others from practicing theirs. Talk about a double standard.
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Pat Robertson says Haiti under a Curse
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tumbleweed41
Resident Liberal Hippie
Ahh, so the tens of thousands who died horrific deaths were just an attempt to bring the survivors to Christ.
How noble....
Well you know the saying, "It's a dirty job, but someone has to do it"?
Autodidact
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Exactly. And though it is OT, that is what some Christians do to gay people.
Autodidact
Intentionally Blank
Even easier--just text the word HAITI to #90999 to give ten bucks to the Red Cross.
Autodidact
Intentionally Blank
Easy to say, but what about all the Americans who just lost their money from our government taking it all to help the bankers. Now the bankers won't lend the aid back out.
I think people are putting their money where their mouth is, trying to scrape enough together to put food on their tables. Please
Can you spare $10? Yesterday 500,000 Americans texted $10 to the Red Cross, which = $5 million in 24 hours, a record. If you can spare $10 and one minute, we can make it $10 million today.
Smoke
Done here.
And it was God who pronounced the curse, so all the bad things that happen anywhere are caused by God.
Smoke
Done here.
95% of Haitians are Christians, compared to 76% of Americans. Apparently, God doesn't care if you're a Christian or not, but he prefers American superstitions (like Evangelicalism) to Haitian superstitions (like Voodoo).
I believe he will have to stand before the Lord and confess his sins one day.
I would not want to be in his shoes. :no:
Autodidact
Intentionally Blank
*shudders* I'm glad LittleNipper's God doesn't exist, because if He did He would be horrible.
JMorris
Democratic Socialist
he may exist, are things not rather horrible in most areas of the world?
Yes I had seen those stats or at least similar ones. I don't understand the mindset that makes one way of honoring a diety better than another one. Just me I guess.
I agree, many can not separate Love and the dislike of the actions of another. I can love my kids without liking a thing the do.
I have gay friends that know I don't like it, we don't discuss that topic much. And I love them as much as any other person.
Actually I think we are quite capable of messing things up all on our own. It is our responsibility to make the changes we want to see and quit attributing everything bad to the devil. Those kinds of beliefs lead us to give up and shrug our shoulders and say things like "it's in gods hands". If there is a god, and it created us, then it gave us brains. Now it is our turn, we get to use those brains.
sojourner
Annoyingly Progressive Since 2006
That's because we've gotten too busy creating and maintaining members-only clubs, which goes against the grain of the Great Commission.There is always something that leaps into mind when I read discussions such as these- That Jesus didn't preach and teach the "holy" people, he taught the ones those same "holy" creatures called sinners. Jesus stopped a hooker from being stoned, Jesus cured demon-possessed people. Jesus taught a bunch of tax collectors.
In other words, Jesus only seemed to condemn those who thought they were better than those "sinners". He compared those "holy" people to tombs- nice and clean on the outside and full of dead, rotten things. And to a cup that is clean on the outside yet dirty on the inside.
We are supposed to follow in Jesus' footsteps. But hardly any one
seems to be doing that.
sojourner
Annoyingly Progressive Since 2006
Read Genesis again. The world was not complete until humanity had been created. And it was created good.
LittleNipper
Well-Known Member
What you you call EVOLUTION? Fact?:sarcastic
Voodoo never helped them, but GOD has certainly helped me, my family, and many of those I love. But I dare say more bad times will come. I've read Job.
sojourner
Annoyingly Progressive Since 2006
Way to judge!
Did you stop to think that perhaps their religion is as valid as yours?
LittleNipper
Well-Known Member
And Adam and Eve are humanity in the eyes of GOD ---- just as Jacob was ISRAEL...
sojourner
Annoyingly Progressive Since 2006
And they were created good. Which blows your previous theory out of the water. The world was not perfect until fallen humans stepped in and messed it up. The world was perfect until humans, created good, fell and messed things up. It's an important distinction.