Bibles in Cumberland County

Oh, I know all that Hught...Thomas Jefferson and all. No, it doesn't really have that much of an impact upon me or my beliefs which are rather ordinary when it comes to Christianity. As for the role of religion and Christianity in the formation of the United States, click this link...

http://www.loc.gov/exhibits/religion/

That will be your U.S. Library of Congress. Pretty interesting data.

Oh, and Merry Christmas Hught.

 

Be honest...it was when the "Nature Boy" Ric Flair endorsed Huckabee, that put him over the top for you!!!

 

Whooooo! Space Mountain, brutha!

No, I wasn't aware that Ric Flair had endorsed him. I guess if elected, Chuck Norris will be Secretary of Defense and Nature Boy can be Secretary of State. Let's see the Iranian President get out of Flair's Figure 8 leg lock. If he does, Chuck can give him a spinning kick to the head.

Actually, I haven't watched any wrestling in probably 10 years and only in that time was it a passing thing. I watched it some when I was younger when Wahoo McDaniels, Dusty Roades, Freight Train Jones and Ricky Steamboat was big. It certainly doesn't appeal to me anymore.

 

Thanks, great link, I have bookmarked it!

I would like to point out the opening paragraph:

Note the "many", not "all". At least for both Adam's they were religious, my point is they did not believe in the Trinity, which you indicated as a sign of a cult, which I personally also have a problem with. In that my Religion also does not believe in the Trinity.

 

No, no, no...I did not indicate that at all. Reflect back on my posts. I said that...and I quote myself here:

First, I did not say anything about the Trinity in my own definition. Furthermore, I used the Bible for an example and not as the standard by measuring a cult. I don't care if you adhere to my definition or not, but you should at least read a person's post before making accusations that are not true.

 

Like I said, that is the official U.S. Library of Congress website, which seems to have a grasp of where Christianity stands in the formation of the United States.

 

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The word "cult" means so many different things to different people, it has become almost worse than useless. All manner of misunderstandings come about when the speaker or writer means one thing, and the hearer or reader understands another. To me a cult is a small, secretive group with a powerful leader who exercises complete control over the members. To someone else, a cult is a group that espouses some, but not all, of the beliefs they consider necessary to "the" religion.

Words are only useful to the extent they convey information, and if we don't have a common definition, the result is confusion and worse.

 

http://www.britannica.com/ebc/article-9362450

 

And the definition of "cult" by Britannica...

 

Well that eliminates my religion, we don't have anyone I would consider "Charismatic". :mrgreen:

 

Point taken. Very few religious leaders do possess much charisma.

 

:roll: just more of the same

web-ster, can we please have a yawning smilie for Christmas?

 

And yet you keep coming back :roll:

 

The school was not providing the Bibles, the Gideons were.

 

Were the Gideons handing them out?

 

No one was "handing them out" They were placed on a shelf in the classroom (presumably by the Gideons, whose imprint they contained).

 

Scientology fits the theme of an Occult. I fiction writer creates a religion. People fall for it. If they had a religion for cynics. Hugh would be the pastor.

 

I think I would watch the "Fiction" comment in a thread like this.

Sure, I will buy that! 8)

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

 

cyn·ic (sĭn'ĭk) Pronunciation Key
n.
A person who believes all people are motivated by selfishness.
A person whose outlook is scornfully and often habitually negative.
Cynic A member of a sect of ancient Greek philosophers who believed virtue to be the only good and self-control to be the only means of achieving virtue.

adj.
Cynical.
Cynic Of or relating to the Cynics or their beliefs.


[Latin cynicus, Cynic philosopher, from Greek kunikos, from kuōn, kun-, dog; see kwon- in Indo-European roots.]


Word History: A cynic may be pardoned for thinking that this is a dog's life. The Greek word kunikos, from which cynic comes, was originally an adjective meaning "doglike," from kuōn, "dog." The word was probably applied to the Cynic philosophers because of the nickname kuōn given to Diogenes of Sinope, the prototypical Cynic. He is reported to have been seen barking in public, urinating on the leg of a table, and masturbating on the street. The first use of the word recorded in English, in a work published from 1547 to 1564, is in the plural for members of this philosophical sect. In 1596 we find the first instance of cynic meaning "faultfinder," a sense that was to develop into our modern sense. The meaning "faultfinder" came naturally from the behavior of countless Cynics who in their pursuit of virtue pointed out the flaws in others. Such faultfinding could lead quite naturally to the belief associated with cynics of today that selfishness determines human behavior.