Don't Shave you Beards !

Originally posted by RocasAtoll
I believe we should put serial killers on a barge, sail it to the middle of the Pacific, give one of them rations for a week, and come back a month later. Anyone who survives gets life without parole.

No, if we want to go into strange psychological forms of punishment I say create an aritifical island, with everything they need to have a little society, and then let them go. It can be as good or as bad as they want.

Originally posted by Imperial_Samura
No, if we want to go into strange psychological forms of punishment I say create an aritifical island, with everything they need to have a little society, and then let them go. It can be as good or as bad as they want.

They'd have too much dependence on the US economy. Cost too much to do it in my mind.

Originally posted by RocasAtoll
They'd have too much dependence on the US economy. Cost too much to do it in my mind.

Not necessarily - I'm not talking about supplying them with materials like a full blown nation needs. They don't need iron or masses of oil or anything like that. A simple farming community like any number that still exist throughout Eurpoe, they grow what they eat, can trade the rest out maybe. Maybe grow some other crops, keep some flocks of animals.

Originally posted by Imperial_Samura
Not necessarily - I'm not talking about supplying them with materials like a full blown nation needs. They don't need iron or masses of oil or anything like that. A simple farming community like any number that still exist throughout Eurpoe, they grow what they eat, can trade the rest out maybe. Maybe grow some other crops, keep some flocks of animals.

True. I do believe this could work. If only I were in the Senate. 🙁

Prison is its own social and economic society for inmates. Each prison is like a city unto its own. With leaders, enforcers, workers and slaves. They have most everything they want. Drugs, alcohol and sex.

Originally posted by Lord Urizen
But they do not matter if the laws are no longer relevant, does it ?

Shaving your beard is a Sin in the Old Testament, but suddenly because Jesus arrived, it is no longer a sin? Then why bother having it written? You say as a guideline, a guideline for what?

Why do we need to be told not to shave our beards if it no longer applies ? This makes me beleive that a lot of the Bible is inapplicable today (as if i already didnt beleive that) 🙄

Originally posted by FeceMan
We no longer are bound by the strictures of the Law.

Oh great, so we are no longer bound by the 'Being gay is a sin' stricture, so we can all be happy and gay and have as many abortions as we please.

Thank the Lord for that one, folks! 😱

Originally posted by Mr. Sandman
WHEEEEEE

The Japanese murder rate is about 1.1 per 100,000 people; West German has a rate of 3.9, Britain a rate of 9.1, and the U.S. 8.7 per 100,000 people.

http://www.bookmice.net/darkchilde/japan/crime.html

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crime_in_Japan

Today, about one to two million Japanese are Christians (about 1% of Japan's population). Most of them live in Western Japan where the missionaries' activities were greatest during the 16th century.

http://www.japan-guide.com/e/e2298.html

"Godless" as in the top 3 religion's view of the monotheistic triad excuse for a Judeo-Christian God.

And the original article I read: http://www.humaniststudies.org/enews/index.html?id=219&article=7

and it's source http://moses.creighton.edu/JRS/2005/2005-11.html

But, correlation does not infer causation.

Originally posted by FeceMan
Paul is saying that we are no longer justified by the rules and regulations of the Old Testament. Rather, Christ took the place of those, so we would not have to be bound to following the OT to the letter. That does not mean, however, that certain things are not sinful.

Dude, you can't just have it both ways....you Christians are very accepting of Biblical contradictions aren't you?

Logically....how can we no longer be subject to the laws of the Old Testament, which DEFINE and outline Sin, and then all of a sudden still have to beware not to commit these sins which the Old Testament binds us to ???

Is Shaving your beard no longer a sin? It is certainly a Sin according to the Old Testament....so you no longer have to worry about it, even though it's still sinful?

Which is it bro ? WTF are you talkn about ?

So apparently, being Gay is no longer a sin, because it's an Old Testament law, yet somehow it's still sinful regardless? WTF man ?

Make up your mind !

Originally posted by Regret
But, correlation does not infer causation.

You're right. We'll make an experiment. You take everyone who is religious to the Western Hemisphere, and I'll take everyone who is not to the Eastern Hemisphere.

We'll see who bombs who first.

I bet it's you guys, seeing as not even two Christians know how to agree with each other(over 13 denominations, some with over 13 sub-denominations), much less other religions(coughCrusadescough), and even less with people who don't even believe in God.

Originally posted by Mr. Sandman
You're right. We'll make an experiment. You take everyone who is religious to the Western Hemisphere, and I'll take everyone who is not to the Eastern Hemisphere.

We'll see who bombs who first.

I bet it's you guys, seeing as not even two Christians know how to agree with each other(over 13 denominations, some with over 13 sub-denominations), much less other religions(coughCrusadescough), and even less with people who don't even believe in God.

Yes....paradoxically, as Religion tries to create unity, it ends up creating more disunity... 🙁