Posts Made By: Doug Matulis

Mike Strieber said:

...for expressing your displeasure with the great satin.

backward, islamic cavemen should not play with fire! 8O

Lee Spain said:

O.K., everybody, what's your take on "Burn A Koran Day?" A conservative Christian pastor in Gainesville, Florida, is planning to host a burning of the Koran on September 11th to bring attention to his belief that "Islam is of the devil".

Do you think the government should intervene?
What do you think about our General in Afghanistan weighing in against the protest?

[Officially, the 4th Quarter Christian Church of Gainesville does not condone any outrageous or inflammatory political or religious behavior that could interfere with SEC football. Trivia such as the cultural clash between East and West can wait until after all Bowl games are played.]

It will accomplish nothing good and is a waste of time.
If the church really wants to piss of muslims, they should love them even more, pray even harder for them, and evangelize them with even more vigor and boldness. We are never to repay evil with evil. This church's actions are clearly unbiblical and driven from hate. The leadership should be chastized for this behavior. They are just stooping to the unintelligent and barbaric methods of the enemy and this is clearly wrong!

Mike Strieber said:

Yes, it's real...

Not sure how bad it can get, but lets pray it keeps getting worse so that the margins are so wide in November, there won't be enough aliens and dead people to vote for the dems to steal the election with.

William Paolini said:

A pastor of a small evangelical Christian church in Gainesville, Fla has announced that he will be holding a Koran burning event in three days on Sept 11.

http://www.csmonitor.com/World/Global-News/2010/0908/Why-the-planned-Koran-burning-causes-outrage-and-alarm

Question...

I often hear the argument that when radical Muslim groups do something harmful why don't all the larger more establish and peaceful Muslim groups rise up around the world to publicly and severely admonish them? So now the shoe is on the other foot. Here we have a small Christian group doing something quite radical and extremely harmful to the Muslim community. So where are all the large and well established Christian denominations rising up to publicly and severely admonish that congregation? All I see is a small news article on it and nothing else.

So there are three days left...what do the Christians here think they, their local churches, and their denominations as a whole should do? Quick...the clock is ticking...

Every independent church and denomiation should denounce this guy as a nut case and make it clear that he is not a Christian nor representative of Christianity. I really don't want see this happen since it is someone claiming to be Christian doing it. I would have no problem if it was the Lions Club or Jaycees since they have no religious connections, officially anyway.

That said, an event like this can be useful to remind people the stark reality that Islam is really a religion of hate and killing of those who refuse to be in submission to their god. If they react with violence and the Imam's do not renouce that action, it will be a clear reminder that Islam is no friend of America and Americans. In fact it is an enemy of the state since everywhere Islam is allowed to spread, conflict araises and they seek to impose their Shiria law. Even some EU countries are now regretting letting so many Islamic immigrents and are now trying (too late) figure out what to do about it. Americans need to be re-awakened to the threat Islam is since we have fallen back asleep in the 9 years since 9/11.

david elosser said:

Uhh, no Dear. I uhh havn't. Found out. Uhhh Whose ass to kick. Uhh, yet. Be quiet on the golf course, Sweetheart.

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/39123485/ns/us_news/

David E

Quite frankly, this is one issue that liberals will never be able to fix, nor do I think they want to. Dependency is a powerful tool and getting people off the welfare roles is empowering for the individual, something liberal democrates don't want.

If the leadership of both sides of the isle, and the whimps who hang out in the middle were serious about fixing poverty and the economy, they close the borders, lower taxes, severely penalize companies who export jobs and import foreign workers, bring manufacturing jobs back, and make sure BHO's health system and cap and trade never see the light of day.

You just can sustain an economy based on giving people sun tans, painting their nails, and wiping butts! Sorry folks, but European-style socialism is a failure, lets not try a failed system in America!

William Paolini said:

Over in the Intelligent Design Forum there is a discussion where the concept of "nothingness" came up. Was wondering what others thought about this concept from a Scriptual or Religious standpoint. Can there truly be nothingness? If there is a state or a time in the past when there was actually nothingness, then to me that would imply that there was also no God either, because if there was God then that is something so not truly a nothingness.

From a religious and biblical viewpoint I'm not seeing how there could ever be nothingness. Anyone have any other thoughts?

It is commonly taught that God created Ex Nihilo, this is out of nothing. I believe this to be true, that God spoke the universe into existance and all the laws that govern it. I ain't no stephen hawking but I think this is possible, nothingness that is, because I believe God exists in another dimension that is outside of time and matter as we know it. The Bible says that a thousand years is as a day and a day is as a thousand years to God. To me that makes time irrelevant to God. But I don't know that I have much to add to this topic since I have not given it much thought. Most of this field consists of theories and wild ideas for which I doubt there will ever by much hard evidence for.

Mel Maki said:

http://www.nbcmiami.com/news/local-beat/Child-Gets-Expelled-For-Toy-Gun---a-Year-Later.html

How many districts are this strict?

Probabily has not been tested in very many districts in this way.
Knowing liberals and their reactionary responses and inability to think rationally, I suspect this would play out similarly in districts domintated by liberals. Rational conservative districts would have understood the circumstances and tailored the response, i.e. like taking into consideration the number of times the child has done this, the fact that was a child and it was a toy! Liberalism is a mental disorder.

William Paolini said:

A precept of scripture is the eternalness and constancy of God. Seeing the headline on AMart news (http://www.astromart.com/news/news.asp?news_id=1112) gave me a chuckle, and gives good reason why science and theology are really two completely different domains, the former being concerned with the how of things, and the latter being concerned with the why of things. Clearly the more we know makes us realize we know less - seems obvious as an infinite universe would imply infinite knowledge possibilities so we can never even scratch the surface of understanding.

So...as we dealve deeper into trying to discover more about what seems evident that constants may not be constant, will this breath more life into the frenzies by some groups on science vs religion? I hope not. How do you think mainstream religions will react?

If you take the constantcy out of constants, you have nothing! IMO, it opens the doors for a lot of new ideas. Clearly the implications of these statments, "If the laws of physics turn out to be merely local by-laws", or "the discovery will force scientists to rethink their understanding of Nature's laws" are clearly staggering. Gravitation may behave one way in our corner of the universe and totally different elsewhere. Light may travel at one rate in the Milky Way galaxy but at a slower or faster rate elsewhere.

Jim Brown said:

Doug Matulis said:

[COLOR="Blue"]Imagine there's no Heaven Jesus would not imagine this
It's easy if you try
No hell below us Jesus would not imagine this
Above us only sky Jesus would not imagine this
Imagine all the people
Living for today Jesus would not imagine this, this is clearly unbiblical. Earth, Creation is only temporary and not all there is.

Imagine there's no countries An Isrealite would never imagine this
It isn't hard to do
Nothing to kill or die for Jesus would not imagine this, what greater love that one lay down is life for another
And no religion too Jesus would not imagine this
Imagine all the people
Living life in peace Jesus would not imagine this, he knows our hearts all too well.

You may say that I'm a dreamer Jesus would definitely say this
But I'm not the only one
I hope someday you'll join us
And the world will be as one Jesus would say, not the tower of Babel again!

Imagine no possessions
I wonder if you can
No need for greed or hunger
A brotherhood of man
Imagine all the people
Sharing all the world Jesus would you are describing my kingdom, foolish man, you will never attain this on your own.

You may say that I'm a dreamer
But I'm not the only one
I hope someday you'll join us
And the world will live as one [/COLOR] Jesus would say John is a communist.

John Lennon

You could be right on "possessions, organized religion and nationalism", but there is a lot more to Lennon's song than these. In a perfect world perhaps his utopia could be a reality, but a perfect world never has nor never will existing until Christ returns and reigns. The reality of his song is that it is very dangerous and very antithetical to the American way of life, he was basically a new age one world government proponent.

Yikes Doug, do you speak for Jesus now, kind of like his PR man, or do you think you are Jesus? I didn't know Jesus was into politics by the way. Do you suppose he'd be into NASCAR if he were living as a man today?

The key part of John Lennon's song is profoundly "Christian". As a matter of fact I doubt that you could find any pop lyrics or even Gospel music lyrics that so beautifully sum up the most important part of Christ's teaching as these:


[COLOR="Blue"]Imagine no possessions
I wonder if you can
No need for greed or hunger
A brotherhood of man
Imagine all the people
Sharing all the world

You may say that I'm a dreamer
But I'm not the only one
I hope someday you'll join us
And the world will live as one [/COLOR]

John Lennon




Funny how rare it is to find someone who actually states the most important part of Christianity. Ironic that it would be John Lennon, who certanly was not a fan of organized religion.

[COLOR="Maroon"]"I like your Christ, I do not like your Christians. Your Christians are so unlike your Christ."[/COLOR]

Mohandas Gandhi
[/quote]
I don't speak for Jesus. I can only apply the teaching of Jesus and the Bible to the words in Lennon's song. Instead of getting emotional, why don't you take an objective look at the teaching of Christ and the words in lennon's little ditty. Words have power, words have meaning, works change history, Jim. You, of all people should know and appreciate this.

Do you really think Jesus would imagine there's no heaven or hell? Do you really think that Jesus would say there is nothing above us by sky? Do you realize the lies in these words? Do you realize the implication of one, especially on who is unregenerate, ingesting these words? Come on, nothing above us but sky, what do you think the implications of that phrase alone is?

Living for today? Do you think Jesus would say live for today? I guess you would if you believe he also would agree with a statement that says there is nothing above us!

Lets start here before we rip apart the rest of this song that came from the pit of hell. We'll have lots of fun when we get to the 'profoundly christian' part of the song. 8O

Dave Snope said:

Climate scientist Roger Pielke Sr has posted today an in-press paper which demonstrates that ocean temperatures flattened in 2001-2002 and have been on a negative trend since. The ocean temperature trend is far more important than the hopelessly adjusted & flawed land temperature record to assess global warming, as noted by Dr. Pielke. During this period, CO2 levels have steadily climbed, which according to the IPCC should have caused a positive radiative imbalance resulting in about .16C warming. The fact that ocean temperatures have instead been cooling falsifies the entire anthropogenic global warming hypothesis.

"There is an excellent new paper by Bob Knox and David Douglas that provides further insight into the issue of the monitoring of global climate system heat changes. The paper is

R. S. Knox, David H. Douglass 2010: Recent energy balance of Earth International Journal of Geosciences, 2010, vol. 1, no. 3 (November) In press doi:10.4236/ijg2010.00000."

ABSTRACT: A recently published estimate of Earth’s global warming trend is 0.63 ± 0.28 W/m2, as calculated from ocean heat content anomaly data spanning 1993–2008. This value is not representative of the recent (2003–2008) warming/cooling rate because of a “flattening� that occurred around 2001–2002. Using only 2003–2008 data from Argo floats, we find by four different algorithms that the recent trend ranges from –0.010 to –0.160 W/m2 with a typical error bar of ±0.2 W/m2. These results fail to support the existence of a frequently-cited large positive computed radiative imbalance.


http://hockeyschtick.blogspot.com/2010/09/paper-global-cooling-began-in-2003.html

I also bet you will find a correlation between ocean temps and cycles found there with the solar cycle. I bet it has nothing to do with how many SUV's are on the road and how many incandesant light bulbs are on nor how many people are exercising and expelling excess CO2. Hey, since there is a war against SUV's and incandesent light bulbs, why is there not a war against fitness clubs or baked beans!