I'll give him credit for somebody to love, but this wasn't even close.

The quartet was completely off, and for fucks sake, FREDDIE DIDN'T ENUNCIATE!

In terms of a cover, this was decent. In terms of the second coming of Freddie Mercury, nah, not even close.

Maybe it's just because Bohemian Rhapsody is my favouritest queen song of all time that I'm being so critical, but I'm going to go listen to the original now to get this outta my head.

That nobleman stands in for God/Jeebs in that parable. But you should ask shiny, for him we're all slaves to the all-powerful dictator, only some of us (that is the evil atheists) are rebellious against his power.

>> ^messenger:

A character in one of Jesus' parables says that line. It's a "nobleman" who steals from the poor to make the rich richer, and kills anyone who doesn't accept his supreme authority. Is that Jesus' example of good Christianity?>> ^razzyl:
>> ^luxury_pie:
So when he reigns the holy spirit out of everyone, will there be these other religions too? What is going to happen to them, when your/ our lord comes over?
I mean they will probably have a chance to accept him then right?

I think when the Second Coming, umm, comes, non-believers' pleas for acceptance will be drowned out by the gleeful sounds of Christians murdering the shit out of them.
Luke 19:27 “But those enemies of mine who did not want me to be king over them—bring them here and kill them in front of me.”

A character in one of Jesus' parables says that line. It's a "nobleman" who steals from the poor to make the rich richer, and kills anyone who doesn't accept his supreme authority. Is that Jesus' example of good Christianity?>> ^razzyl:

>> ^luxury_pie:
So when he reigns the holy spirit out of everyone, will there be these other religions too? What is going to happen to them, when your/ our lord comes over?
I mean they will probably have a chance to accept him then right?

I think when the Second Coming, umm, comes, non-believers' pleas for acceptance will be drowned out by the gleeful sounds of Christians murdering the shit out of them.
Luke 19:27 “But those enemies of mine who did not want me to be king over them—bring them here and kill them in front of me.”

>> ^luxury_pie:

So when he reigns the holy spirit out of everyone, will there be these other religions too? What is going to happen to them, when your/ our lord comes over?
I mean they will probably have a chance to accept him then right?


I think when the Second Coming, umm, comes, non-believers' pleas for acceptance will be drowned out by the gleeful sounds of Christians murdering the shit out of them.

Luke 19:27 “But those enemies of mine who did not want me to be king over them—bring them here and kill them in front of me.”

Precisely. Christians are called to contributing members of society, and to do good works whenever possible. Not to be isolationists and pine away from the second coming. Our hope is in Jesus Christ, but until He returns our life is here on Earth doing His will.

>> ^Morganth:
At least for Christianity, Hitchens is really arguing against a minority position. This "screw the world, we want the apocalypse so we can go to heaven" mentality is a small portion and has not been the historical position of Christianity. This came about with American dispensationalism in the mid-19th century, where it's still confined to today so it's not only the minority position in Christianity, but also American Christian denominations. These are the churches that sadly ignore the fact that a lot of Jesus' ministry included feeding and healing the poor and outcast. These are people who ignore what Jesus said - that the law could be summed up with "love God and love your neighbor as yourself." In practice, these are the churches that never help their communities because they have an Us vs. Them mentality. Churches that say, "Screw you, go to hell" totally missed it. What did Jesus say about your enemies? Love them. Jesus asked God to forgive his murderers as he was dying a torturous death.
Hitchens is arguing against the minority position.

The real focus here is the antics of "your" imperial senator. Since he's on "your" side, do ya think he doesn't have to answer questions or be accountable? You'd think he'd be better prepared to defend himself since he's a big mouth crap talker.

Sure, you can attack the journalist and suggest Reverend Moon is whispering in his ear, even though the man's identified himself as an independent social journalist at (an) event sponsored by (the) City Club of Chicago and open to media and the public.

As for the other thing, what else can the left do but flip the script and blame Republicans for the debt crisis? Saint Obama is infallible as long as you ignore the effects of his runaway spending. While the Right isn't innocent, this debt crisis is the baby of this clueless administration. Or did the Tea Party cause Greece, Portugal and Ireland's economic meltdowns?


>> ^shuac:

Anyone who works for the Reverend Sun Myung Moon (publisher of the Washington Times who proclaimed himself the second coming of Jesus Christ) is immediately suspect.
I mean, you can see this reporter's not unstable at all. <- sarcasm.
Another stellar clip, Roomie. Thumbs up, buddy.

Anyone who works for the Reverend Sun Myung Moon (publisher of the Washington Times who proclaimed himself the second coming of Jesus Christ) is immediately suspect.

I mean, you can see this reporter's not unstable at all. <- sarcasm.
Another stellar clip, Roomie. Thumbs up, buddy.

The dude is a fucking liar. I will call him out right now.

If you make that much money in a year, then you live wherever the hell you want. Because you can afford to.

If he wanted to live on the north poll like santa claus, he would. And he would bitch about the cost of importing all his supplies, but he would live there.

If he moves to a different state, it's because he feels like a change, and can afford to move wherever he wants. There are probably a lot of other reasons he moved to Florida besides the tax situation. The weather for instance. Maybe he has an ailing parent who needs the climate. Or maybe even for the politicians that will suck up to him like he's the second coming. Whatever it was, there was some other reason.

Well, unless he's a certifiable plutomaniac. I suppose that's possible. But then he would be wearing second-hand clothes and things like that.

Even the most basic, cursory study of the Bible debunked the pastor Rapture prediction. The scripture really is pretty specific on the issue of Christ's second coming in the sense that it gives no timeline for it. Quite to the contrary.

"Watch therefore, for ye know neither the day nor the hour wherein the Son of Man cometh."
"The day of the Lord cometh as a thief in the night"
"But of that day and that hour knoweth no man, no, not the angels which are in heaven, neither the Son, but the Father".
"Then if any man shall say unto you, Lo, here is Christ, or there; believe it not...Wherefore if they shall say unto you, Behold he is in the desert; go forth: behold he is in the secret chambers; believe it not."

Really not sure how the subject could be any more clear-cut, simple, and plain. Christ's second coming was talked about by Christ himself on many occasions, and has at least 4 different parables that discuss the topic directly. In every instance, Christ tells the faithful to always be watchful and dilligent because his coming would be unexpected. Any real believer knew instantly that this whole Rapture prediction was pure hooey because no man knows the day or hour. The attempte by atheists to try and make it sound like this guy represented "all" Christianity is specious. What small number of Christians actually got suckered by this bozo really need to go back & study what scripture actually says as opposed to how this guy was wresting it. Sad that some are deceived by such nakedly blatant hucksters. Really now seeing how ANYONE who has actually read the Bible could possibly be taken in by this.

Well, Christianity as it is practiced in America is extremely skewed..most of those evengelicals, the trinity broadcasting network, the lunatics known as the republican party..their brand of Christianity is a disgrace and a perversion. Things like the prosperity gospel should make any Christian sick to their stomach. Sadly a lot of people buy into it because living prudently, with a healthy dose of self-denial is not very popular in this gross materialism we are drowning in. I can understand why atheists cant stand these people..because I cant stand them either.

>> ^dag:
It's great of you to concede this SB.
Christianity in America is more like a personal empowerment and wealth creation seminar than a religion. Christ never said "the Lord helps those who help themselves" - though that's the primary tenant that most American Christians seem to follow. Maybe Tony Robbins is the second coming.
>> ^shinyblurry:
Sadly, he's right. I was fairly astonished that so many Christians didn't see anything wrong with celebrating someones death, Bin Laden or not. Though, what Bill Maher doesn't mention is that there was also a large number of Christians who did understand that was wrong and spoke out against it.
Many people do follow Christ in name only. The bible says they are only borrowing the name at a price. It's really no different however than anything else human beings do. That humans can mess up something good should be no surprise to anyone.

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It's great of you to concede this SB.

Christianity in America is more like a personal empowerment and wealth creation seminar than a religion. Christ never said "the Lord helps those who help themselves" - though that's the primary tenant that most American Christians seem to follow. Maybe Tony Robbins is the second coming.

>> ^shinyblurry:

Sadly, he's right. I was fairly astonished that so many Christians didn't see anything wrong with celebrating someones death, Bin Laden or not. Though, what Bill Maher doesn't mention is that there was also a large number of Christians who did understand that was wrong and spoke out against it.
Many people do follow Christ in name only. The bible says they are only borrowing the name at a price. It's really no different however than anything else human beings do. That humans can mess up something good should be no surprise to anyone.

@Lawdeedaw, I didn't mean to offend. I just get tired of the accusations that Obama somehow wants Gitmo to stay open, likes it being open, didn't even try to close it, etc. I think on the topic, he's tried, and has pretty much been defeated. I don't think lack of committment was the issue, and I don't think the politics of it would play out differently for Ron Paul. Also, Obama wasn't President in 2008, that was George Bush, who opened it, liked it being open, and argued that the world would end if someone closed it.

Also as sick as I am about bad intentions being ascribed to Obama, I'm just as sick of hearing noble intentions ascribed to Paul.

You know how everybody likes to trot out things Obama, Bush, Clinton, etc. said they'd do, but didn't get done? The same would happen with Paul. All the shit he promised to do, or not do, won't happen. He'd abandon some promises, break others, and sometimes just plain fail to deliver. He's a politician, not the second coming.

Also, the office of the President itself doesn't really have much power. Most of your power comes from your political coalitions, and Paul wouldn't have one at all. Even a proven consensus builder like Obama has found that Congressional partisanship trumps everything anymore. Paul, being a crank and a confrontational ideologue would get absolutely nowhere with either party. He's been in Congress for what, 30+ years? What's he ever accomplished? Even his wikipedia page struggles to find any legislative accomplishments.

Oh, and the media shitstorm that engulfs every President would absolutely eat him alive.

But all this is academic because he can't win the Presidency. He won't win the Republican nomination unless he abandons his principles, and if he doesn't win the nomination he won't run as an independent. If he did run as an independent, he'd just split the Republican vote and Obama would win reelection handily.

Didn't Pat Imanutjob Robertson also predict the second coming?

Anyone who thinks god has anything to do with earthquakes or tsunamis is ah... should go back to high school because they [i]clearly[/i] flunked earth science.

I would like to say more but I'm sure it'd just piss people off. Then again it is glenn beck we are talking about here. The guy thinks he's the second coming after all.