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In reply to the discussion: Arkansas State Rep: ‘If Slavery Were So God-Awful, Why Didn’t Jesus Or Paul Condemn It?’ [View all]no_hypocrisy
(45,625 posts)128. Soooooo . . . . would Mauch be cool with Jesus being the slave of Herrod?
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Arkansas State Rep: ‘If Slavery Were So God-Awful, Why Didn’t Jesus Or Paul Condemn It?’ [View all]
Galraedia
Oct 2012
OP
Here we go again, with the supposed third party confirmations that Jesus really existed.
stopbush
Oct 2012
#103
You are right, a dude named Jesus did live, but he was just an average carpenter
snooper2
Oct 2012
#116
Nonsense. There's no proof that Paul actually existed. If you have such proof, produce it.
stopbush
Oct 2012
#51
If for those who don't believe in Jesus, the guy was a pretty admirable person
LynneSin
Oct 2012
#28
Yes, the Founders' ideas are unknown to most Americans. The GOPTeaParty rewrote history.
freshwest
Oct 2012
#60
I'd like to put in a pitch for the Book of Job, which is great in a black-humor
coalition_unwilling
Oct 2012
#163
Because they worship evil and Jesus doesn't qualify, but Paul most certainly does.
Vidar
Oct 2012
#84
What's funny about Paul is that most of "his" fundamentalist writings weren't written by him.
antigone382
Oct 2012
#88
They like Paul because he was a cranky bald dude who hated sex and feared women.
Ken Burch
Oct 2012
#175
Paul wrote the Epistles, converted the Gentiles, and is historically more significant than Jesus.
Bucky
Oct 2012
#186
therefore "IF being gay were so god-awful, why didn't Jesus or Paul condemn it"? nt
msongs
Oct 2012
#5
Er well um not everything they said was meant to be taking literally
4th law of robotics
Oct 2012
#143
Am not a believer in the rapture, however, if there really is one I hope God takes
southernyankeebelle
Oct 2012
#10
Me, I want to come back as a flea so I can bite rich Republicans in the ass. I would like to
coalition_unwilling
Oct 2012
#164
I remember when H. W. denounced David Duke when he was the Republican nominee for LA governor.
Mike Daniels
Oct 2012
#12
Dear Second Stone:"Jesus was absolutely clear everyone was to be treated as a loved one"
Manifestor_of_Light
Oct 2012
#58
The Republicans are going nuts in trying out-crazy each other in Arkansas. From yesterday:
Whovian
Oct 2012
#34
Leaving us the problem of figuring out when he was right and when he was wrong.
FiveGoodMen
Oct 2012
#38
State GOP pulls funds for now, but will start funneling money once the furor dies down.
bullwinkle428
Oct 2012
#43
The Abrahamic religions are flawed and inconsistent & contradict themselves.
Manifestor_of_Light
Oct 2012
#145
he's seen too many of those african cartoons boiling the missionaries in the pot
newspeak
Oct 2012
#142
Interesting analogue (precedent to Thanksgiving): would the lives of native Americans
coalition_unwilling
Oct 2012
#165
Do unto others as you would have them do unto you. You ignorant Arkansas fuckwad.
Lint Head
Oct 2012
#55
You know, this is gooing TOO f@cking far....black folks chafed under the lash
Ecumenist
Oct 2012
#68
this man really wants his state prison slave labor chain gangs back..with him as the whip cracker
Sunlei
Oct 2012
#76
Hmmm, lets see, they condemned adultery, can I watch while you stone Gingrich
still_one
Oct 2012
#79
They probably did until Rome rewrote Christianity in the mold of their slave state
Coyotl
Oct 2012
#93
Then you've got the GOP in Arkansas saying that there should be a Death Penalty
blkmusclmachine
Oct 2012
#109
This guy is the pioneer. In four years, expect a pro-slavery plank in the Republican platform.
tclambert
Oct 2012
#111
At which point, I think we can realistically expect to see Abraham Lincoln
coalition_unwilling
Oct 2012
#166
The 'abolition' of slavery had a lot to do with things Biblical. Radical
coalition_unwilling
Oct 2012
#167
Saying that John Brown and the radical abolitionists 'reinterpreted' or 'misread' the
coalition_unwilling
Oct 2012
#178
As I understand it, Brown found Biblical warrant for abolitionism in the
coalition_unwilling
Oct 2012
#181
Fundamentalists can and will sink lower than their imagined Satan ever would.
FiveGoodMen
Oct 2012
#122
The slavery we had in the US was completely different than that of those days. For one thing back
jwirr
Oct 2012
#121
Dante reserved the lowest circle of his Inferno to the hypocrites. That
coalition_unwilling
Oct 2012
#168
Soooooo . . . . would Mauch be cool with Jesus being the slave of Herrod?
no_hypocrisy
Oct 2012
#128
Because then, shit bag, slavery was common place and acceptable...
and-justice-for-all
Oct 2012
#140
Because they were ignorant, superstitious goatherders, that's why.
Manifestor_of_Light
Oct 2012
#146
I guess this is final proof that the neanderthals did mate with real humans.
truthisfreedom
Oct 2012
#162