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I have a friend who's Dad was a religious leader. He went on a 2-year mission for his church. Now he is not a big Richard Dawkins fan. He recently posted this on his facebook page... "The God of the Old Testament is arguably the most unpleasant character in all fiction: jealous and proud of it; a petty, unjust, unforgiving control-freak; a vindictive, bloodthirsty ethnic cleanser; a misogynistic, homophobic, racist, infanticidal, genocidal, filicidal, pestilential, megalomaniacal, sadomasochistic, capriciously malevolent bully." I would like to take these accusations one at a time. When God said he was a jealous God, he was telling his followers to not worship Ba'al. Worshipers of Ba'al would get their Golden statues glowing hot, and put living babies on the alter. It wasn't wrong for God to tell his followers to not worship other other Gods. If I really was the true God, and I had worked miracles, to prove it, then I would be jealous also if people started wo...

One of my favorite quotes stories is when Chris explained the sacrement and it weirded everyone out and they stopped following him. Then he asked his apostles or disciples if they were going to leave too. And I think it was Peter who said, Were would we go? You are the only one that has the words of Eternal Life. I thought that was cool

Reasons to agree :   % Reasons to disagree :   % You can believe that the Old Testament was mostly inspired, but not believe every story.  Short stories don't tell every detail. You shouldn't judge the God of the Old Testament from one short story without knowing all the detail. It is better to focus on all the stories, and try to get a general direction. This story was probably exaggerated over the years, so that it no longer relates what really happened. The moral is to not make fun of religious leaders, but well intended translators over the years probably oversimplified the story, so that the story sounds unjust to our more sensitive ears.           R2D (-): 3        R2AD (-): 0        R2DD (+): 0         Total Score : -3

Anyways I want to do a really good job of outlining the major arguments about immigration, as I think it is one of the major issues facing our country. So what I want to do is sort of a wikipedia style group effort of outlining the issues… with that said, I'll just jump in. John McCain said: "It would be impossible to identify and round up all 10 to 11 million of the current undocumented." He said this in a May 13, 2005 press release titled "Members of Congress Introduce Comprehensive Border Security & Immigration Reform Bill [S 2611]. In the future, I would like to outline all the issues here , but for now we can have a Normal conversation. Here are some of the reasons that I have heard to disagree with McCain: No one is proposing that we "round illegal aliens up".  Illegal Aliens came to America on their own; they don't need someone to drive them away  You wouldn't have to get all 11 million illegal aliens to go back, just 1/2 of them in 10 y...

Reasons to disagree : Unions often represent the needs of the "average people", as long as you define "average people" as union members. Union members are often average people, i.e. good hard working Americans. However, more precisely, unions are the lobbying firm of their union members . It may be true that the "average person's" needs are aligned with the union members, but often the union member's desires may conflict with the desire of the larger community of average people. For instance the average person may want the government's budget to be balanced, however a union, as any good special interest, is focused on a more narrow band of goals: the desires of union members. The average person may want to have their kids to have good teachers. The average person may not have a pension, may have to pay for their health care, and may want the people teaching his children to be rewarded and advanced with merit pay. In all these cases the union is...

The LDS church is fond of saying that "no success can compensate for failure in the home".  A home is a house with love. A house is made up of many components, and so is love.  I propose that no success can compensate for failure in the bedroom. However this belief can often lead to performance anxiety, which all goes to the larger issue of how you define success... But lets expand the analogy. What other rooms are their in a house? Very hungry Mormons believe that no success can compensate for failure in the kitchen.  Our toilet plunger can attest that no other success can compensate for failure in the bathroom... The church has been very successful at keeping many facts in the closet, but less successful at keeping people in the closet.   Of course what they mean is no success can compensate for failure with your family. But does passing around sayings like this make anyone's life better? Do people really decide to succeed at work...

Reasons to agree : Ron Paul can say all he wants that Iran won't ever use a nuclear weapon against us. He has a right to evaluate the intelligence, and come to that conclusion. However everyone would have to agree that we must not allow a nuclear 9-11. That is the starting point. It is so obvious that it has to be acknowledged. To allow a nuclear 9-11 would be the worst thing that could happen to this planet. If our federal government can not tell our citizens that they are going to be willing to kill hundreds or thousands of Iranian scientist and their families who might be with them at these nuclear facilities, to prevent them from getting the bomb, then we need to tell the residents of New York, Los Angeles, and Chicago to consider moving outside of the blast zone. The leaders in Iran are so stupid that their may be greater than a 3% chance that they would try to sneek a bomb into our country.  The sacrifices proposed to prevent a nuclear 9/11 are not as bad as living ...

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Reasons to agree : Jihadist are not trying to lift their country up, they are just trying to bring down America. Jihadist are willing to commit suicide in order to advance their cause. Jihadist have no return address for us to bomb. Jihadist don't think that we can retaliate. They do not know that we would destroy the middle east if a bomb was detonated in America, Europe, or Asia. They may miss calculate their strength, or think God will help them, making them most likely to use a nuclear weapon. They don't have an organized command structure, and so their are thousands of  Jihadist trying to get nuclear weapons. If any of them miscalculate our willingness to destroy the middle east, they could make a fatal mistake.  Reasons to disagree:   Jihadist know that if a nuclear bomb went off in America, the whole world would destroy them. We can tell where a bomb would come from. Anyone who allowed the bomg to go off would be killed. Jihadist have ...

Belief: Alcohol is a bigger problem for America than terrorism. Reasons to agree : Alcohol causes significantly more deaths than terrorism Alcohol-related deaths in America far exceed those caused by terrorism. Approximately 85,000 deaths per year in the U.S. are attributed to alcohol. Every year, tens of thousands of lives are lost prematurely due to alcohol, affecting families and communities. Alcohol contributes to a high percentage of deaths from various causes 60% of homicides involve alcohol. 45% of deaths in automobile accidents are alcohol-related. 40% of accidental falls involve alcohol use. 30% of deaths from fire-related accidents are due to alcohol. 30% of accidental drownings are alcohol-related. 30% of suicides involve alcohol. 15% of deaths from respiratory diseases are linked to alcohol. 5% of deaths from circulatory diseases are linked to alcohol. The economic and social burden of alcohol is immense Alcohol-related problems cost the U.S. $249 billion in 2010 ...