AnneBoleyn;1401700 wrote: Are you forgetting Paul was already a Jew? At first, only Jews were "members" (if I may be a bit loose with words).


I never said different!!

Why would anybody try to explain Bill O'Riely?

As far as Ann Coulter, nice to see beauty and brains in one package.

<t>AnneBoleyn;1401675 wrote: Jesus didn't start a religion. The apostles did & of course, all were Jews. Is this new to you?<br/> <br/> <br/> Not really.<br/> <br/> His Apostles, fellow Jews did not create the new religion. <br/> <br/> We can credit Paul (Saul of Tarsus) for creating that new re...

<t>gmc;713391 wrote: Not quite sure what you mean here. I was trying to highlight that liberal in US usage seems to be synonymous with left wing socialism and big government and lack of freedom when in fact the US owes a great deal to liberalism.<br/> <br/> <br/> I can give you that. At one time lib...

<t>Bryn Mawr;713415 wrote: The section of your post that I quoted in mine?<br/> <br/> It read, in case you cannot find it, :-<br/> <br/> Could you provide any evidence that the number of unwanted pregnancies bear no relationship to the amount of sex education given - that is, after all, what we were...

<t>RedGlitter;713295 wrote: When I made this thread, I had something totally different in mind. It seems now like it's taken on the same tone as the Christian thread.<br/> <br/> <br/> Well, seems I helped to hjack this thread so I owe you an answer.<br/> <br/> I am a Jew.<br/> <br/> I love my religi...

<t>gmc;712353 wrote: posted by tude gog<br/> <br/> <br/> <br/> so do we come to that except your loony left don't really seem to be loony left. ours still want to nationalise everything again.<br/> <br/> <br/> <br/> <br/> <br/> from the american edition of the oxford english dictionary<br/> <br/> l<...

<t>gmc;712353 wrote: posted by tude gog<br/> <br/> <br/> <br/> so do we come to that except your loony left don't really seem to be loony left. ours still want to nationalise everything again.<br/> <br/> <br/> <br/> <br/> <br/> from the american edition of the oxford english dictionary<br/> <br/> l<...

Bryn Mawr;712311 wrote: Would you care to back that up with anything substantive?

There's a mass of evidence to the contrary.


What do you want from me?

Contrary to what?

<r>gmc;712069 wrote: posted by tude dog<br/> <br/> I know it's nothing new I just wondered if it was becoming an issue in a big way.<br/> <br/> <br/> I would say no more than usual, and why not? We do live in a democracy with freedom to promote concepts you want.<br/> <br/> should be getting proper ...

<t>gmc;711752 wrote: Secular means not bound by religious rule.<br/> <br/> <br/> Fair enough.<br/> <br/> Also that in the likes of the court case you mention is the issue not whether a religious group should be able to impose it's belief system on everybody else.<br/> <br/> <br/> I sited that in the...

<t>gmc;711654 wrote: Is that why you now live in America? When do you plan to return home? Saddam was a problem best sorted by the Iraqis themselves now all they have to look forward to imo is years of internecine warfare of the worst kind. <br/> <br/> Or if you are an American would you prefer if t...

Iraq used to be a secular state-look what's about to happen there now.


Oh, what a joy it must have been to live in Iraq's secular state.

I sure do miss the good old days.

[QUOTEI watched the video and realized there were thousands of ways that he could have handled that situation, and he chose the most fearful way, you can see the fear in his eyes.


I always like a little humor.

Fear in his eyes, give me a break.

<t>abortretryfail;708452 wrote: I do not like Mitt Romney. I was made unhappy while watching this [link] of Romney explaining to a wheelchair-bound lifelong muscular dystrophy sufferer that he would indeed arrest him for his "crime". I don't understand how someone who considers himself so religious ...

<t>It is true that a Jew is defined by his/her birth to a Jewish mother or by conversion.<br/> <br/> I find it strange that someone should suddenly feel more fondness towards Judaism by the accidental knowledge of being a Jew by birth.<br/> <br/> The concept of identify by bloodline is a primitive o...