timothy_sfker

If anything, your posts have made me come to like Obama even more! It reminds me of that saying, "if they hate you, you must be doing something right."

I ignored Jesse's post but thoroughly enjoyed Geiiga's reply. Nice work!

[color="#9ACD32"][U][I][B][size="7"][font="Impact"]CHANGE YOUR FONT[/font][/size][/B][/I][/U][/color] please...

Poor form Leauki. Many insults have been hurled to the arab people this thread, and noone has accused anyone of being racist against Arabs. But when Scot made a statement regarding the actions of a STATE (not the people), you use a word that'll only stifle intellectual debate and cause division and anger on both sides to surface. At any rate, it reminds me of when the war in Iraq was still popular. If anyone criticised it, the 'patriots' would say something like "stop supporting terrori

[quote]The term "Church" is generally believed to be derived from the Greek, "Kurikon" which means belonging to the Lord. So, from this we know the Church of Christ must be the Church Our Lord established, and not a man-made Church. It's often traced to the Greek word, "ecclesia" which means "place of assembly", Christian assembly, that is.[/quote] In ancient Greece the word ekklesia described a gathering of citizens that made decisions that affected their welfare. In the Septuagint it

[quote]I am one of these people and asking myself what is my moral obligation towards the poor. When I say "moral", I am talking about what does God prescribe in the Bible. I read somewhere in the Bible state help not asking yourself of where they have come from or how they got there. This implies to help without trying to justify if they deserve help. I have also read in the Bible where God says let he who wants to eat work.[/quote] Jesus spoke a parable of the sheep and the

[quote]St.Matt. said of Christ's Chruch, "You are the light of the world. A city seated on a mountain cannot be hid." The New Testament writers point to this visible Church in 110 references. In St.Matt. the Church is also spoken of as "the kingdom of God"; "the kingdom of Heaven", or simply as "the kingdom" 36 times. So the visible Church with the good fish, bad fish, and cockle in the wheat is the Kingdom of God.[/quote] All of these references in the Gospel point to Jesus either desc

[quote]Can you explain what you mean by that? I read all three of those passages, and I still don't understand what you mean.[/quote] Sorry I didn't really state it well. What I mean is that Jesus said that God's forgiveness for sins depends entirely on your actions within the world, if you read the verses Jesus says that if you love much you'll be forgiven much, if you forgive others God WILL forgive you, and the parable of the sheep/goats where you are judged by God depending on how y

[quote]If that is the case, then a lot of people have kinda missed the whole point of Christianity. Worshipping in community was very central to Jesus' teachings.[/quote] Really? Where? Besides that one verse about peter being the rock. In Luke 11:27-28 you see Jesus directing worship away from himself, he often said that prayer was best done in private, and he made no mention of singing. In fact, Jesus also said some things that would directly imply that there shouldn't be a church (e.

For alot of people, myself included, belonging to a church is a very minor and periphery aspect to Christianity. I have a feeling Obama might be of a similar mindset. The reality was his church was continuing to be a liability and embarassement. The press just wouldn't shut up about it. He probably didn't have many strong feelings about the specific church one way or another, so he had no problem renouncing his pastor or leaving his church. Concerning priests, pastors, and whether it is right to

Counties would add an extra layer to the game that is unnecessary. Yes, democrats tend to be in the urban centres and republicans tend to be in the rural parts of a state. However, the game already takes into consideration that there are republicans in blue states as well, just not as many. The way that it could work was if you were playing a minigame where you are running for congress in a particular state. Then you'd need counties. Actually that sounds like a cool idea for the expans

I hope republicans run this every chance they get; free advertising for obama! Seriously though, from the video it just sounds like he's going to try and block any pork-barrell military spending (which there is lots), and make efforts to stabilise the world's nuclear arms through diplomacy. Sounds good to me.

[quote]Having stated the above do I believe that government at any level should start regulating oil company profits? The answer is an emphatic no. Government can only kill American economic growth by interfering with free market economy.[/quote] While it is true that some free market economists believe that any price "distortion" by the Government can only be bad, your statement is nonetheless incredibly radical. For a Government to even exist it has to interfere with the f

[quote]And anything that spells "USA is wrong" is accepted as proof even if it was Cobra Commander the one giving the information[/quote] What actions/behaviours do you please Bush was unfairly condemned for? If you're referring to the General Assembly, of course the third world speakers don't have many good things to say about America. While half of their populations are struggling to survive the western world are complaining about having to pay more to fill up their beautifu