Only two defining forces have ever offered to die for you:
Jesus Christ and the American G.I.
One died for your soul, the other for your freedom.
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An elaborate spoof on Intelligent Design, The Gospel of the Flying Spaghetti Monster is neither too elaborate nor too spoofy to succeed in nailing the fallacies of ID. It's even wackier than Jonathan Swift's suggestion that the Irish eat their children as a way to keep them from being a burden, and it may offend just as many people, but Henderson, described elsewhere as a 25-year-old "out-of-work physics major," puts satire to the same serious use that Swift did. Oh, yes, it is very funny. -- Scientific American
“A true patriot loves his country all the time and his government when they deserve it.” - Mark Twain
To Joe and the SSgt - Thank you for both your service and your words.
while we’re on this topic; i’m canadian. our taxes go to supporting OUR troops to help YOUR troops because there are people like the poster who agree with the war; which could’ve been georges fault in the first place! if you want george to kill of all of your troops, and ours, you’re support is really helping.
so far no GI has died for my freedom
and i’m sure that there is no evidence that some guy named jesus from the town of nazareth existed
much less that he died for my soul and then came back to life
“and Vin Diesel so loved the world that he gave it his only son: Superman”
“And those of you who believe the spaghetti monster is real know it is fake, but you also know that God is real.”
Hmmm…I didn’t know that I knew that God is real, but now that I’ve been told, I guess I do.
Oh, wait. Nope. Still not real.
I just celebrated 21 years in the US military, the same day my wife celebrated 2 (yes, she started late). I don’t see any doctrine of the FSM that opposes us, or our service. Nor do I respect the attempt to persuade me by stereotype that as an American I must believe in God (Which I don’t) and support the war (Which I do) and hate science (Which I don’t).
The ultimate irony is that, if there is truly no God, Christians won’t have a chance to feel stupid about it when they die and nothing happens.
Jesus died for hollywood hahaha.
So directors could make money with movies like ‘Jesus christ super star’!! (movies about Jesus are stupid)
“Only two defining forces have ever offered to die for you:
Jesus Christ and the American G.I.
One died for your soul, the other for your freedom.”
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I have heard something similar before, oh yeah that was it, the 9/11 bombers said something along the same lines. They were dying in Gods honor to show people the light and evils of the west so as to save their souls.
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Jesus never died for me or you, in fact there is very little evidence that Jesus was actually alive or a real person.
Also, considering tha a good number of non-americans are active on this site, it’s a little presumptious to say that only american GIs have ever died for our freedom. not to sound too much like an arse, but america was late to join both world wars.
(note - i am not condoning world wars here)
What if we’re not American?
Think. The United States is not an island in an endless sea.
“What if we’re not American?”
Is that even possible? :P
May all these non-believers be graced by His Noodly Appendage. ;D
Now now,
I think we’re doing Tyler a disservice here. I mean he’s only using the argument that organised religion has used for centuries - people died to protect *my* right to try and repress *you* from expressing the same right. It seems somewhat hypocritical, trying to use the freedom that those soldiers died for to try and repress that freedom.
Of course, this is the stated goal of the people that the soldiers are dying to try and defeat. They want to stop you from believing in your God, instead you must believe in theirs. Sound familiar anyone?
On the other hand, I have to disagree with WPoFD. I doubt anyone (with a brain) thinks that the separation of church and state is anything but a good thing.
Big respect to Staff Sgt Snieder - brilliant post, and I agree completely.
Scotty (first post!)
@Tim Montague.
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Whilst I appreciate that humans all have their very own foibles, I worry about your scientific training when you so clearly fail to self-apply. For example, you believe in the existence of the Krebs cycle because of the positive evidence presented for it. You fail to believe in the millions of other possible cycles out there because of a *lack of evidence presented*. Quite simply, a good scientist should utilise Occam’s razor to its fullest, and believe only that for which evidence exists.
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There is not, and can never be, empirical evidence for God, thus the ONLY rational recourse should be disbelief. You got your PhD, as I got mine, from a university. I put it to you that Universities and Academia can never be anything but diametrically opposed to organised religion. Academic endeavour is an attempt to elucidate truth, without any pre-conceived notion of what that truth is. Religion seeks to shoe horn any non-contradictory facts to suit its preconceived notions, and to reject the ones that do contradict it.
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May the FSM guide you to a greater understanding,
RAmen
Scotty
I’ll keep my soul AND freedom with the FSM, thank you very much