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Nearly 4000 Muslims Attack Christian Homes in Egypt, Torch Church

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Do they plan on doing that to billionaire Soros also? Or just the evil right?

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What's clear from all of that, Adriorn, is that no one is waking up one morning and deciding they want to be gay. It's not a choice. It's the result of a lot of other factors. POSSIBLY! The key word here is possibly. What might be clear from that is that all the social and psychological factors end...

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Well, because the article I posted earlier talked about experiments that had disproved it as a pathology. As a negative pathology, mostly, yes. There are still some that position it as one psychological aspect mixed in with possible biological ones. It's like saying that ADHD is 100% biological. Ye...

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I read the whole article Kifle, and my points don't ignore the article, they try to refute it. My point, which is what I said at the end, is almost exactly the same you used at the end of your post :) Furthermore, as much as we'd like to contextualize the behaviors of the animal kingdom to those of ...

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Kifle wrote:but statistics can only go so far, and most are useless.

Too easily manipulated, sadly.

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Is it just me, or are we Conservatives using "statistical" facts to destroy a fictitious, non-scientific point? Interesting!

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As someone with a degree in Psychology, I'd like to quickly point out two things, based on the two articles referenced by Sarvis and Kifle. Sarvis, that study, and similar studies showing a difference in hippocampus size, did indeed show size differences between homosexual and heterosexual men. The ...

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Thanks.

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That list is from 1999. 12 years old. Actually, here are the numbers for those states: Virginia 12th North Carolina 21st Texas 33rd Georgia 34th South Carolina 43rd And Wisconsin is currently ranked 18th... Also, here's a more current article, from this year: Two-Thirds of Wisconsin Public-School 8t...

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How? All you saw was my explanation of what he said... :P Yeah, just based on what you said I understood his point. Unless he goes further into contradiction, to me it meant not good enough without the true power connection...or whatever. A little poor analogy if anything. That wasn't meant to be a...

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He claims "We had a very earnest session of prayer, asking for guidance, and we put the project into God's hands." This is because he didn't feel he had enough ability to actually write the book. Great start to teach self-confidence, eh? Sarvis, I do the same thing every day when I go to ...

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Kifle, I'm not going to try to convince you of anything, I'm just going to try to show you how I (a Catholic) sees alot of the things you mentioned in your post. That's all. Did god want the Green Bay Packers to win this year? What about all the Steelers that were praying just as hard? Are you sayin...

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Laws which are created through moral perspective are tyrannical and counterproductive to societal growth and sustainability. These laws should be removed. Laws which are created through moral necessity are those which should stay -- because they are laws inherent in nature or created necessarily fr...

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Also, I love how you call "Hate speech is wrong" a "liberal value.") Placed right under the section dealing with attacks on Christianity/religion. You know it was placed there to reflect the liberal hypocrisy regarding "Hate Speech" and its non-application on Christian...

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Religious conservatives feel they need to legislate moral values. 1. We need to protect the planet and our future, and must mandate changes to ensure it. (light bulbs, emissions, etc.) 1b. We need alternative fuels , for cleaner air and less global warming. (corn fuel, sugar fuel, etc.) 1c. Humans ...

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Dugmaren wrote:I will consider this thread 100% victory when I get real spam!

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Iran rounds up Christians in crackdown. FYI.

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Ragorn... Are you forgetting the 1960's? Or do they not count? You are equating macho talk of violence with ACTUAL violence? Liberals can protest war and capitalism (and riot, and destroy property, and burn/loot), but Conservatives can't protest against big government and over-taxation? Days of Rag...

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As opposed to basically every decade previous? There was no "social change" in the '20s right? Or any time in the 1800s? Yes, as opposed to previous decades. No social change to the extent seen in a DECADE of the 60's had been seen in recent times. None. Put all the things I listed previo...

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Terror? Any bombings? Any killings? Any riots? Any lootings? You're trying real hard to equate comparing something that happened with the mentality of 500+ years ago, with that of 50 years ago. What's so magical about the last 50 years, Adriorn? Your stance is that talking about the Crusades is inv...

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Ragorn... Are you forgetting the 1960's? Or do they not count? You bring up the past alot Adriorn to try to criticize what others did before. Let's take the Days of Rage for example. Nowadays some view them as extremely negative, using modern-day morals as their sword. Had you been living back then...

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The Republicans haven't been the party of limited government for 40 years. The modern day Republican party is the party of warrantless wiretapping and extradition, waterboarding, airport security theater, expansion of the powers of the executive branch, signing statements, line-item vetos, expansio...

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Ragorn... Are you forgetting the 1960's? Or do they not count? You are equating macho talk of violence with ACTUAL violence? Liberals can protest war and capitalism (and riot, and destroy property, and burn/loot), but Conservatives can't protest against big government and over-taxation? Days of Rage...

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"Nazism (Nationalsozialismus, National Socialism; alternatively spelled Naziism[1]) was the ideology and practice of the Nazi Party and of Nazi Germany.[2][3][4][5][6][7][8][9] It was a unique variety of fascism that involved biological racism and antisemitism.[10] Nazism presented itself as p...

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No, I don't hate the little tribes living in the jungles of Central America. They are uncivilized by our terms, but they are not barbaric. They don't blow up crowds of civilians, they don't stone women, they don't...many things. Except for the ones who mutilate women's genitals, and the ones who ta...

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Read the headline and article, if bored.

The crappy headline caught my eye, and then the poor writing and grammar in the article completed the fail. Is it just me?

AP Writers in this case.

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After Firefox recently separated their plug-ins from the main program, I've felt Firefox started slowing down and being meh. I was gonna try out Chrome, but I've read several articles commenting on how they keep track/store anything you type in the Omnibox or whatever they call it. I.E. a security c...

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I know you think I'm anti-Christianity and pro-Muslim. I think that people who try to defend the terrorists by apologizing on their behalf or immediately bringing up the Crusades as a counter-example are, yes. The bottom-line is that somehow you see Christianity as having hurt you in some way, poss...

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Hope all is well.

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A little piece inside me just died. Thanks Corth.

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Bad-ass.

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As we agreed on before, we need both more taxes AND to cut spending. Republicans are not going to do either. Democrats would at least tax more. I don't think we need to tax more, at all. What we need is to dismantle the bureaucracies currently in place in so many government offices and services thr...

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I think all of Ragorn's points are true and valid, if applied to RINOs. The recent Conservative political outcry in the form of the Tea Parties, election results, etc, show that a large part of the Conservative population does not want those RINOs representing them. As for big government, you find t...

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i think the argument is pretty silly (agreed) . are we all exactly the same? no. are we all completely and totally different? no. 99.9% genetic similarity, all born on the same planet, all DNA/RNA/carbon based life, vast majority with brain structures that allow breathing, learning, etc. yes, some ...

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Kindi asked a very interesting question which you and Adriorn have simply ignored several times. I'd like to see your answer. Really? I keep going back to this sentence. It's disturbed me since I first read it. It keeps reading: "They stone women to death, but hey, we're all the same, no biggi...

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Sure, some Middle Easterners hate Americans because of how much we've meddled in their lives and often made things worse. Actually, I won't say that there are no barbaric cultures in the world... I WILL say that the Middle East is probably a lot more civilized than you give it credit for and that a...

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Pertinent interview with Condi about this. Well responded by her in my opinion.

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No Adriorn, you just don't get it. You earnestly believe that the person blowing something up in the name of their religion is different than the person blowing something up in the name of their religion. Nope, I think you're still missing the point. And like Teflor just said, it's the same thing a...

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See, even Kiryan just said it... and HE talks to God directly! Kiryan also just said this: "but in an actual religious context I do not immediately consider Mormons or Catholics to be christians" Wait. What?! It has to do with Religious Extremists. Nope, it has to do with Islamic extremis...

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Your religion says anything anyone does is ok if they believe in Jesus. That's it. This is a completely erroneous and untrue statement. We can start with something as basic as the 10 Commandments for starters, the Golden Rule after, etc. Read up well on Christianity before criticizing it. Believing...

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Ok fine, whatever. That really wasn't the point... the point is that you're blaming them for being "Barbaric" for doing the same things Christians have done and some would love to do again. I don't think you're seeing it Sarvis. You keep going back to the past, instead of actually analyzi...

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You think the creationists bombing abortion clinics are different from Muslim suicide bombers somehow? There have been 9 deaths due to abortion clinic attacks worldwide. 9. Contemporary Islamic extremist attacks are at over 3,000. We all have the same drives and emotions. Disagree here. Same emotio...

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Sarvis wrote:...making us not so different from your "extreme muslims."

Yeah, I think that pretty much ends the discussion.

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Economic Left/Right: 0.62
Social Libertarian/Authoritarian: 1.13

So, completely in the center. And yes Corth, too many loaded questions.

Zabam wrote:I’m glad to see that the Dalai Lama, The Pope, and George Bush also took the time to take this survey.

hehe

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Kindi, did you read the entire article? "But WikiLeaks' newly-released Iraq war documents reveal that for years afterward, U.S. troops continued to find chemical weapons labs, encounter insurgent specialists in toxins" "In 2008, our military shipped out of Iraq -- on 37 flights in 3,5...

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On an interesting note, it appears Wikileaks might vindicate Bush and the presence of WMDs in Iraq.

Interesting.

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"Democrats delay action on young immigrants bill"

Hmmmmmm. I wonder where they stand on ILLEGAL immigration. "Young immigrants", funny. Good 'ole non-biased media.

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I think most people would protest if their boss walked into their place of employment and said we're cutting your salary in half. I alluded to it earlier, but you laud CEOs making millions each year because the market must think they are worth that much. Now that someone is fighting to make the sam...

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You know, this lead my to think about something else, somewhat related. If I were making 200k, and had mandatory retirement in 20 years, I'd feel BLESSED to be making that much money. Yes, I'd be more stressed (possibly), but I CHOSE to go into that field. If all of a sudden I had to drop down to 10...

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