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by vk4gsd on 27 May 2014 - 06:05
oh and here is some more facts, again check the sources;
It's suprising how many people say to me, "You're an Atheist? You must have no conscience about commiting crime then." Nothing could be further from the truth. In fact, if we examine the population of our prisons, we see a very different picture: In "The New Criminology", Max D. Schlapp and Edward E. Smith say that two generations of statisticians found that the ratio of convicts without religious training is about 1/10 of 1%. W. T. Root, professor of psychology at the Univ. of Pittsburgh, examined 1,916 prisoners and said "Indifference to religion, due to thought, strengthens character," adding that Unitarians, Agnostics, Atheists and Free-Thinkers are absent from penitentiariers or nearly so. During 10 years in Sing-Sing, those executed for murder were 65% Catholics, 26% Protestants, 6% Hebrew, 2% Pagan, and less than 1/3 of 1% non-religious. Steiner and Swancara surveyed Canadian prisons and found 1,294 Catholics, 435 Anglicans, 241 Methodists, 135 Baptists, and 1 Unitarian. Dr. Christian, Superintendant of the NY State Reformatories, checked 22,000 prison inmates and found only 4 college graduates. In "Who's Who" 91% were college graduates, and he commented that "intelligence and knowledge produce right living" and that "crime is the offspring of superstition and ignorance." Surveyed Massachusetts reformatories found every inmate religious, carefully herded by chaplins. In Joliet, there were 2,888 Catholics, 1,020 Baptists, 617 Methodists and 0 non-religious. Michigan had 82,000 Baptists and 83,000 Jews in their state population. But in the prisons, there were 22 times as many Baptists as Jews, and 18 times as many Methodists as Jews. In Sing-Sing, there were 1,553 total inmates with 855 of them Catholics (over half), 518 Protestants, 177 Jews and 8 non- religious. There's a very interesting qualified statistic. Steiner first surveyed 27 states, and found 19,400 Christians, 5,000 with no preference, and only 3 Agnostics (one each in Connecticut, New Hampshire, and Illinois). A later, more complete survey found 60,605 Christians, 5,000 Jews, 131 Pagans, 4,000 no preference, and only 3 Agnostics. In one 29-state survey, Steiner found 15 unbelievers, Spirtualists, Theosophists, Deists, Pantheists and 1 Agnostic among nearly 83,000 inmates. Calling all 15 "anti-christians" made it one half person to each state. Elmira reformatory overshadowed all, with nearly 31,000 inmates, including 15,694 Catholics (half), and 10,968 Protestants, 4,000 Jews, 325 refusing to answer, and 0 unbelievers. In the East, over 64% of inmates are Catholics. In the national prison population they average 50%. A national census found Catholics 15%. They count from the diaper up. Hardly 12% are old enough to commit a crime. Half of these are women. That leaves an adult Catholic population of 6% supplying 50% of the prison population. Liverpool, England produces three percent as many young criminals as Birmingham, a larger city, 28% coming from Catholic schools. What does this tell you about parochial school systems or claims that religion is the guardian of morals? * Fifty-two percent of people belong to no church, yet live clean lives and * * supply less than 1% of the total criminal population. So much for * * religious indoctrination.
by vk4gsd on 27 May 2014 - 06:05
and here is what YOUR evil bible says about rape;
Murder, rape, and pillage at Jabesh-gilead (Judges 21:10-24 NLT)
So they sent twelve thousand warriors to Jabesh-gilead with orders to kill everyone there, including women and children. "This is what you are to do," they said. "Completely destroy all the males and every woman who is not a virgin." Among the residents of Jabesh-gilead they found four hundred young virgins who had never slept with a man, and they brought them to the camp at Shiloh in the land of Canaan.
The Israelite assembly sent a peace delegation to the little remnant of Benjamin who were living at the rock of Rimmon. Then the men of Benjamin returned to their homes, and the four hundred women of Jabesh-gilead who were spared were given to them as wives. But there were not enough women for all of them. The people felt sorry for Benjamin because the LORD had left this gap in the tribes of Israel. So the Israelite leaders asked, "How can we find wives for the few who remain, since all the women of the tribe of Benjamin are dead? There must be heirs for the survivors so that an entire tribe of Israel will not be lost forever. But we cannot give them our own daughters in marriage because we have sworn with a solemn oath that anyone who does this will fall under God's curse."
Then they thought of the annual festival of the LORD held in Shiloh, between Lebonah and Bethel, along the east side of the road that goes from Bethel to Shechem. They told the men of Benjamin who still needed wives, "Go and hide in the vineyards. When the women of Shiloh come out for their dances, rush out from the vineyards, and each of you can take one of them home to be your wife! And when their fathers and brothers come to us in protest, we will tell them, 'Please be understanding. Let them have your daughters, for we didn't find enough wives for them when we destroyed Jabesh-gilead. And you are not guilty of breaking the vow since you did not give your daughters in marriage to them.'" So the men of Benjamin did as they were told. They kidnapped the women who took part in the celebration and carried them off to the land of their own inheritance. Then they rebuilt their towns and lived in them. So the assembly of Israel departed by tribes and families, and they returned to their own homes.
Obviously these women were repeatedly raped. These sick bastards killed and raped an entire town and then wanted more virgins, so they hid beside the road to kidnap and rape some more. How can anyone see this as anything but evil?
2) Murder, rape and pillage of the Midianites (Numbers 31:7-18 NLT)
They attacked Midian just as the LORD had commanded Moses, and they killed all the men. All five of the Midianite kings – Evi, Rekem, Zur, Hur, and Reba – died in the battle. They also killed Balaam son of Beor with the sword. Then the Israelite army captured the Midianite women and children and seized their cattle and flocks and all their wealth as plunder. They burned all the towns and villages where the Midianites had lived. After they had gathered the plunder and captives, both people and animals, they brought them all to Moses and Eleazar the priest, and to the whole community of Israel, which was camped on the plains of Moab beside the Jordan River, across from Jericho.
Moses, Eleazar the priest, and all the leaders of the people went to meet them outside the camp. But Moses was furious with all the military commanders who had returned from the battle. "Why have you let all the women live?" he demanded. "These are the very ones who followed Balaam's advice and caused the people of Israel to rebel against the LORD at Mount Peor. They are the ones who caused the plague to strike the LORD's people. Now kill all the boys and all the women who have slept with a man. Only the young girls who are virgins may live; you may keep them for yourselves.
Clearly Moses and God approves of rape of virgins.
3) More Murder Rape and Pillage (Deuteronomy 20:10-14)
As you approach a town to attack it, first offer its people terms for peace. If they accept your terms and open the gates to you, then all the people inside will serve you in forced labor. But if they refuse to make peace and prepare to fight, you must attack the town. When the LORD your God hands it over to you, kill every man in the town. But you may keep for yourselves all the women, children, livestock, and other plunder. You may enjoy the spoils of your enemies that the LORD your God has given you.
What kind of God approves of murder, rape, and slavery?
4) Laws of Rape (Deuteronomy 22:28-29 NLT)
If a man is caught in the act of raping a young woman who is not engaged, he must pay fifty pieces of silver to her father. Then he must marry the young woman because he violated her, and he will never be allowed to divorce her.
What kind of lunatic would make a rape victim marry her attacker? Answer: God.
5) Death to the Rape Victim (Deuteronomy 22:23-24 NAB)
If within the city a man comes upon a maiden who is betrothed, and has relations with her, you shall bring them both out of the gate of the city and there stone them to death: the girl because she did not cry out for help though she was in the city, and the man because he violated his neighbors wife.
It is clear that God doesn't give a damn about the rape victim. He is only concerned about the violation of another mans "property".
6) David's Punishment - Polygamy, Rape, Baby Killing, and God's "Forgiveness" (2 Samuel 12:11-14 NAB)
Thus says the Lord: 'I will bring evil upon you out of your own house. I will take your wives [plural] while you live to see it, and will give them to your neighbor. He shall lie with your wives in broad daylight. You have done this deed in secret, but I will bring it about in the presence of all Israel, and with the sun looking down.'
Then David said to Nathan, "I have sinned against the Lord." Nathan answered David: "The Lord on his part has forgiven your sin: you shall not die. But since you have utterly spurned the Lord by this deed, the child born to you must surely die." [The child dies seven days later.]
This has got to be one of the sickest quotes of the Bible. God himself brings the completely innocent rape victims to the rapist. What kind of pathetic loser would do something so evil? And then he kills a child! This is sick, really sick!
7) Rape of Female Captives (Deuteronomy 21:10-14 NAB)
"When you go out to war against your enemies and the LORD, your God, delivers them into your hand, so that you take captives, if you see a comely woman among the captives and become so enamored of her that you wish to have her as wife, you may take her home to your house. But before she may live there, she must shave her head and pare her nails and lay aside her captive's garb. After she has mourned her father and mother for a full month, you may have relations with her, and you shall be her husband and she shall be your wife. However, if later on you lose your liking for her, you shall give her her freedom, if she wishes it; but you shall not sell her or enslave her, since she was married to you under compulsion."
Once again God approves of forcible rape.
8) Rape and the Spoils of War (Judges 5:30 NAB)
They must be dividing the spoils they took: there must be a damsel or two for each man, Spoils of dyed cloth as Sisera's spoil, an ornate shawl or two for me in the spoil. (Judges 5:30 NAB)
9) Sex Slaves (Exodus 21:7-11 NLT)
When a man sells his daughter as a slave, she will not be freed at the end of six years as the men are. If she does not please the man who bought her, he may allow her to be bought back again. But he is not allowed to sell her to foreigners, since he is the one who broke the contract with her. And if the slave girl's owner arranges for her to marry his son, he may no longer treat her as a slave girl, but he must treat her as his daughter. If he himself marries her and then takes another wife, he may not reduce her food or clothing or fail to sleep with her as his wife. If he fails in any of these three ways, she may leave as a free woman without making any payment. (Exodus 21:7-11 NLT)
10) God Assists Rape and Plunder (Zechariah 14:1-2 NAB)
Lo, a day shall come for the Lord when the spoils shall be divided in your midst. And I will gather all the nations against Jerusalem for battle: the city shall be taken, houses plundered, women ravished; half of the city shall go into exile, but the rest of the people shall not be removed from the city. (Zechariah 14:1-2 NAB)
by vk4gsd on 27 May 2014 - 06:05
no apologetics the scripture speaks for itself the bible condones rape, mass murder, torture, slavery, genocide .......

by Shtal on 27 May 2014 - 09:05
GSD Lineage (admin) WROTE: Number 1: Christianity has it's own problems now, with scandals involving priests and /or it's top leaders. Number 2: Shtal I don't think you understand evolution at all. I know it took me a while to really "get" it. Number 3: The KJV of the bible is extraordinarily difficult for me to understand. You can have a group of christians at a table for bible study and all will interpret something different from an identical passage. Number 4: To go On and On ignoring your surroundings, set in your ways, trying to dominate others and make them just like you. And if they don't conform, lets deny them God.
You have a rights to your own opinions GSD_Lineage and so do I. It will be good to go straight to book of Genesis past due with little bit of study that to begin with before we get into some these philosophy behind this because quite often theistic-evolutionists and other people want to compromise on the word of God, claim that they are getting there ideas from the word of God, from what they would say correcting interpretation of the word of God, so they think when you come to the early verses of Genesis chapter 1, you can in fact find space for millions of years that in those first few verses and I would disagree with that. I aurally reject the idea that you can fit millions of years into (Genesis 1) because one the Bible does NOT say that, in the Bible it was written to be clear.
And before we get into Genesis 1, I want to go to KJV Deuteronomy Chapter 27 verse 8, and God speaking to Moses and Moses is the man that God used to write torah, write Genesis and he says in the verse: And thou shalt write upon the stones all the words of this law very plainly. You see Moses was instructed; this is the letter of the law but also spirit of the law, Moses was instructed to relay in clear, plain language - the word of God. He was NOT told to make a confusing or making to where ONLY thousands years later some astrophysics maybe able unwrapped for you. It is contrary to scripture for someone to say that you have to have a PhD in some modern science astrophysics to say that is how you have to understand the scripture; you know God is NOT a God of confusion, he just let a little children come, faith of the child, alright, and he tells Moses btw do this very plainly, when you relay to your people, write down clearly what it says. And so with that we go back to (Genesis 1) and when you look at that creation account, it would NOT be very clear at all if each one of these days were millions of years, no one would in the right mind – can read text and come up with that, it’s NOT there. In fact one of the things is that really absurd and I will use that language this gap theory, this idea there is millions of years between verse 1 and verse 2. I seeing some people say there are millions of years between verse 2 and verse 3, they want put millions of years in there, but let’s read really these first verses in (Genesis 1) In the beginning God created the heaven and the earth. Now, understand that the Jewish perspective coming from the Jewish publication society is torah commentary in year 1917 and that is important commentary because that is orthodox rabbinical commentary for Genesis, explains really these first 3 verses beautifully. Now in our modern language we put chapters and verses in there, well that’s a group thing; you know original Hebrew did NOT have chapters and verses; and what it’s explained by these Jewish rabbi’s is that verse 2 which is the earth was without form, and void; and darkness was upon the face of the deep. And the Spirit of God moved upon the face of the waters; was parenthetical to verse 1, so what we mean by that is verse 1 - In the beginning God created the heaven and the earth. Now when we look around us today we see land, we see trees; we see stars, moon and things like that. And so the earth and heavens we witness today is NOT the same is when it was first initially created and God made it clear then, he was being very detailed and said - In the beginning God created the heaven and the earth. Now let me explain to you what that earth was? It was without form and void, nothing was on it and darkness was over the face of the deep and the spirit of God was hovering over the face of the waters. So that tell us wow when he first did it; it didn’t look like what’s it look like today! And then verse 3 is the conclusion to the opening thought in verse 1. So verse 3 – 5 says: And God said, Let there be light: and there was light. And God saw the light, that it was good: and God divided the light from the darkness. And God called the light Day, and the darkness he called Night. And the evening and the morning were the first day. So the idea that gap theory is crazy, it doesn’t work in any way because verse 1 in the beginning thought, there is parenthetical verse 2 and then verse 3 wraps up the beginning thought in verse 1. And so we can confirmly dispatch the gap theory. So all of this is one whole piece here, that’s what it is one thought, as it is written.
You know it the westernize world we have fragmentary approach to a lot of things and that’s really Greek approach. Greek approach is that there is no real truth, we are piecing things together and trying to build something. But Jewish thought and really entire Bible is Jewish work, is that it’s NOT fragmentary approach, it is a absolute truth giving to us and we make deductions and so when we divided the word of God or actually imposing fragmentary approach against the word of God, here it is bits and pieces, we are trying to make sense of it but actually what it is God says here is authoritative truth, now deduce from that; so it is a different way of looking of scripture.
You see people have a lack of faith, and that’s really what it comes down too, is that people being challenged inside the church because scientists were telling them that things where millions, millions of years old. Now what they didn’t know was Charles Lyell who published principles of geology in 1830’s all right actually wrote in the letter that it was his goal to free scientists from Moses. Well, Moses was a Jewish man who wrote the Jewish torah and so he was trying to free basically scientists from the Jewish history which is torah, which is our Bible. And so it is really anti-Semitic approach to scripture. And so once you start or how would you do it? How would you free scientists from Moses, well basically saying Moses is a liar? That you can’t believe anything that he said and these words are NOT true and no it was NOT in SIX days, it was millions of years, therefore entire foundation of the word of God can be tossed out and that was the foundation of evolution. What I am saying evolution is anti-Semitic religion which is absolutely true, it was made and geared keep people from the Messiah, well our messiah was Jewish, it’s geared to keep everyone from Jewish messiah, it attacks our messiah directly or head-on.
Also, theistic-evolutionist would need to make Genesis chapter figurative because they would need to how a days of creation being long periods of time because it’s NOT just theistic-evolutionists would say that, all old earth creationists would say too, they have to have chapter being long periods of time, the days being long days, being determine time or different lengths. Many of them jump through called hula hoops, okay; absolutely there is no space what’s so ever in any way, it is impossible to read the first chapter of Genesis in any way other than SIX literal days with the rest on the seventh, okay; what I mean by SIX literal days; six, twenty four hours periods. If you look at JPS Torah commentary which were reference earlier, its there explanations on six days, is very, very clear. Is there six periods of time there of equal length in success, one right after the other; okay, it is a morning and evening, so God is qualifying that Hebrew word “YOM” the Hebrew term “yom” is what we use for day and he goes through and God is so as it is – when he told Moses right very plainly, he did that, he goes – Moses said “yom” meaning day, then he said morning and evening and so on each day he reaped of that, redundant with the fact that these are days with the morning and evening and they are six equal units of time and that is JPS commentary very, very clear about. And we don’t have a concept of millions, millions years until secular scientists who wanted free scientists from Moses, came up with the concept that universe is millions and billions of years old, ONLY then the church people, theologians feel threatened, okay; and look Genesis and go well we need to re-determine what it says and I really think it’s about fear, people are afraid being called stupid, people are afraid to be called NOT intelligent and they wanted to be accepted by the world, but that is NOT are a lot in life, that is NOT what we are called to do, we are NOT called to be accepted by the world, we are called to be a salt and light, to be a light to the world, we should impress our faith basically on society is us, we should really engage society and change society. What is happening in the church is the rise of the apostasy, you see the secular world impressing them-selves upon us and we need to stop that.
But the question who cares, Okay? some people believe earth is old and some believe its young; common it doesn’t really matter, maybe I am just messing with all of us getting alone on this forum. But the question should we just focus on Jesus! But here is the issue? Is that you know according to evolution, there is no literal Adam, there is some ape man that evolved into Adam, well if there is no literal Adam who was created from dirt, breed life into it, creating without sin, if there is that Adam is NOT real and there is no real sin he committed, if there is no real sin he committed, there certainly can’t be punishment for that sin and there is no punishment for that sin and surely can’t damnation and if there is no damnation, why in the world someone would need seek salvation, if you don’t need seek salvation, why in the world we would need a savior? You see evolution “one fell swoop” erases light - meaning message of our messiah without ever mention his name. Because the whole purpose he came in is to destroy the works of the devil which happened in the Garden when Adam sinned. Evolutionism is a literal a lie from the father of lies himself; it’s destroying Christ without mentioning Christ.
One last thing; Jesus actually said from the beginning God made them Male and Female, well from the beginning is the approximately ~6,000 thousand years ago and there is Adam and Eve but according to theistic-evolutionist and others they think the beginning was 13.7 billion years ago. Theistic-evolutionist are NOT winning over atheist, they are NOT winning over people to believe in Messiah, what they are doing they are getting people in the church to stop believing that the word of God is the word of God. Many people have different versions of science claiming as authority, which is his/her science and pressing upon the word of God and it is NOT our job to put our views into word of God, the word of God is there so its shapes us; alright, the Bible was fascinating, every author writers to lay their message to the reader. For some reason “satanic reason” I say that the Bible is becoming ONLY book where the reader can determine the meaning of the text instead the author.
And again as far as Genesis concerned and what’s fascinating is the Gospel told right there in the very first verse, it fascinating; in the beginning God created heavens in the earth, created; the Hebrew word for that is “BARA” and that is the supernatural creation act, we are NOT capable bara event. Okay when God is saying that, he is saying he created something that is novel, that is unexampled, is no where to be seeing, he speaks into existence is purely by God and what is fascinating in Psalm 51:10 Create in me a clean heart, O God; and renew a right spirit within me. That word create in Psalms is the same word bara, so to understand what David was saying – you have to understand what Genesis was saying and it is absolutely beautiful, and so entire word of God is interconnected through the entire thing. I hope I properly extrapolated the truth for you and the word of God. Thank you for reading. Shtal.
by vk4gsd on 27 May 2014 - 09:05
you repeat the gibberish that not even the other xtians here believe you ignore that to in order to protect your delusion.
you have your own religion and you have.no proof for any of it.
you are a lost soul and mentally ill.
oh and your bible horror story of a scared fearful murderous jealous and vengeful god sux.
the angels chose to go to hell than be next to god and they stood in his presence and didn't like the guy.

by Shtal on 27 May 2014 - 09:05
by vk4gsd on 27 May 2014 - 10:05
by vk4gsd on 27 May 2014 - 10:05
and i will supply data and evidence to expose your baseless propaganda for the lie it is, like your lie about atheists and morals...... the EVIDENCE. shows your a fail.

by gouda on 27 May 2014 - 10:05
Goodmorning Hundmutter
I had the Toynbee statement in my notes with a date of April 1989.
I dont have the complete statemend written in my notes
I imagine that the numbers are alot higher now.
Thank you for being polite.
John
by vk4gsd on 27 May 2014 - 10:05
his vast work now ignored and forgotten except for a few quotes that fundies perpetuate to try give their propaganda some authority....like you did.
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