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  How many people did Satan kill in the Bible?

  by Stan Conroy in

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  for some reason i've been wondering about this lately.

  i've read the bible end to end many years ago, and i can't recall how many people satan personally struck down.

  i'm not talking about twisted reasonings and long term implications.

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  plmkrzy, you are flying exactly in formation with my own thoughts on this. It is like a crazy game between two little kids where they are torturing ants with a magnifying glass for fun. After you let go of the superstition and awe over the "holy" bible, but start to look at things in a reasonable perspective, something strange happens!

  You start to realize that almost all of those OT fables put God and the Jews into a perfectly reprehensible moral light.

  It's not a "Satan" story, but one that always blew me away was the Jacob and Esau birthright thing. Just on the fairness issue. If that had happened here in Texas, you can bet that Jacob would have gotten jerked into family court so fast his head would spin, and the judge would have made sure he didn't even have a pot to make jambolaya in or do anything else with it.

  And isn't it sick how the JWs are sucked into these very stories to use as "positive" examples of what happens to bad little witnoids who don't do what Watchtower says?

  But, I guess it is all great background material for a religion who thinks their God is ready and waiting to kill off 4 billion plus people in a few months or so in the most painful way possible...he was just getting warmed up with that odds and ends stuff in Satanus' list...
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  September Special Issue Awake - Creation

  by mavie in

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  2. friends

  you can download the issue here thanks to dan-p. .

  http://www.jehovahs-witness.com/6/117876/1.ashx.

  i was reading this at home and had to stop when i came across this sentence on page 3:.

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  james_woods

  This just in, Jayhawk1...

  TOPEKA, Kan. - Conservative Republicans who approved classroom standards that called evolution into question lost control of the state Board of Education in Tuesday's primary election.

  Five of the 10 seats on the board were up for election in the primary, the latest skirmish in a seesawing battle between faith and science that has opened Kansas up to international ridicule.

  Last November, the Board of Education’s 6-to-4 conservative Republican majority rewrote testing standards for public schools to incorporate language supported by advocates of intelligent design, which holds that life is so complex it must have been created by some kind of higher power. The new standards say that some aspects of evolution are contradicted by scientific evidence.

  Maybe now they will get some reason back into place...
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  This is ridiculous -- Malawi Baptism.

  by Dune in

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  this was sent to me with the subject "malawi baptism -- isnt this faith strengthening?

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  edited to remove trojan horse pop-ups ~ scully

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  james_woods

  Have we made it this far without a reference to "Dumpster Diving"?
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  Scientologists to buy Neverland?

  by blondie in

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  http://www.postchronicle.com/news/original/article_21231726.shtml

  tom cruise' scientology to bid for neverland?

  by staff.

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  james_woods

  Actually, Tom Cruise is their Freddy Franz - (their Judge Rutherford is David Miscaevage who stole it from L.Ron.Hubbard).

  Their Nathan Homer Knorr is of course John Travolta...
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  This is ridiculous -- Malawi Baptism.

  by Dune in

  1. jw
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  this was sent to me with the subject "malawi baptism -- isnt this faith strengthening?

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  edited to remove trojan horse pop-ups ~ scully

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  james_woods

  No, not the artist, but I think I see Barbara Bush in the background top right...
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  Scientologists to buy Neverland?

  by blondie in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  http://www.postchronicle.com/news/original/article_21231726.shtml

  tom cruise' scientology to bid for neverland?

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  james_woods

  Hey, maybe Zeno the Alien really needs to have his own "petting zoo"-

  ...after all, the JWs apparantly have their own at Walkill.
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  How many people did Satan kill in the Bible?

  by Stan Conroy in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  for some reason i've been wondering about this lately.

  i've read the bible end to end many years ago, and i can't recall how many people satan personally struck down.

  i'm not talking about twisted reasonings and long term implications.

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  james_woods

  Sorry, Satanus - I see you had Uzzah in there! I was looking at it from the bottom up...

  This is a worse record than the Taliban, AlQuida, the Hezbolla, and the PLO combined.

  I hear the present day Jews are doing what they can to catch up, though...
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  How many people did Satan kill in the Bible?

  by Stan Conroy in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  for some reason i've been wondering about this lately.

  i've read the bible end to end many years ago, and i can't recall how many people satan personally struck down.

  i'm not talking about twisted reasonings and long term implications.

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  james_woods

  Satanus - "Killed by God" - right, but forget not to mention that poor guy who was elecrocuted or some such because he reached out to keep the Ark from falling into the river!

  Talk about a lack of appreciation for an honest effort in what a man thought was a good cause -
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  This is ridiculous -- Malawi Baptism.

  by Dune in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  this was sent to me with the subject "malawi baptism -- isnt this faith strengthening?

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  edited to remove trojan horse pop-ups ~ scully

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  james_woods

  Well, they probably have some issues with getting into lakes or streams -

  After all, this is Malawi where Dr. Banda used to toss them to the crockagators.

  Thanks to being told not to buy that ID card, BTW.
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  September Special Issue Awake - Creation

  by mavie in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  you can download the issue here thanks to dan-p. .

  http://www.jehovahs-witness.com/6/117876/1.ashx.

  i was reading this at home and had to stop when i came across this sentence on page 3:.

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  james_woods

  I agree - while they may really well be "intelligent creationists", they sure don't want to admit that anybody else is right about anything.

  -- Including the "intelligent creationists".

  What a supercilious load of it on "avoiding public activity over the issue" on grounds of "Christian Neutrality"! It sure never bothered them to go all the way to the supreme court whenever their precious "flag salute" issue came up. If they really believe this creationist stuff so much, then wouldn't the same principle apply to evolution things taught in school (I mean in comparison to saluting the flag)? Shouldn't they try to keep their kids out of normal science and biology class too? Of course, the active athiests have now taken up the gauntlet of trying to kill the flag salute in school, leaving the fundies to fight for "bible science study" to replace evolution. So, I guess they don't have to do much on either, as long as somebody else can carry the water for them.

  Wait, what am I saying? For them - a fundie "bible science study" would be just as wrong and bad as Darwin himself! (Might get indoctrinated into being born again, you know)...

  And further on this line of thought - isn't this the same magazine where whole sections are devoted to some kooky college professor who thinks that the "flagellem of bacteria disprove evolution" because obviously nothing so complex could possibly evolve! Is this guy the Ward Churchill of intelligent creation or what? They quote him where it is convenient for them, but his real overall view is kind of glossed over (selective evolution in limited steps). He is kind of on their side, but still part of the evil system of things - after all, he is a worldly college professor!!!