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Oh dear Greta, you really need to study some Christian history if you think that Christians haven't claimed God's command as justification of however many atrocities. And also just read the link I provided you with to see that some of them are still doing it.

but when you want to see the king of the hill of atrocities look to the atheists. By comparison christians were saints. I mean if you want to look at history.

What unmitigated bullshit. In fact, on the contrary, atheism has not been responsible for such death and destruction even close to any of the religious killers.

Actually, Obama has already authorized more killings with drones than the entire Spanish Inquisition.

.....and they are political killings not in the name of any faith in any religious faith.

Seriously. This was a lively and interesting discussion, which we just can't have around here unless it culminates in proving how once again, everything bad that has ever happened on this earth, in any century, is somehow nitpicking and an irrelevant waste of time compared to the antichrist that is Obama.

More unmitigated bullshit. First the so-called 'Christ' is a mythical (mystical) figure, so to proclaim someone as something called 'the anti-christ' is also therefore mere mythology or simply a concoction of one's imagination. You even as most do...fail to define the term 'anti-Christ.'

Rather, it is current faith in the mystical that succeeds only because of the selectivity of what is orthodox and to what extent any deviation from that orthodox...is apostasy.

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they are claiming it because it is true.

http://www.jewfaq.org/whoisjew.htm

"A Jew is any person whose mother was a Jew or any person who has gone through the formal process of conversion to Judaism.

It is important to note that being a Jew has nothing to do with what you believe or what you do. A person born to non-Jewish parents who has not undergone the formal process of conversion but who believes everything that Orthodox Jews believe and observes every law and custom of Judaism is still a non-Jew, even in the eyes of the most liberal movements of Judaism, and a person born to a Jewish mother who is an atheist and never practices the Jewish religion is still a Jew, even in the eyes of the ultra-Orthodox. In this sense, Judaism is more like a nationality than like other religions, and being Jewish is like a citizenship. See What Is Judaism?"

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they are claiming it because it is true.

http://www.jewfaq.org/whoisjew.htm

"A Jew is any person whose mother was a Jew or any person who has gone through the formal process of conversion to Judaism.

It is important to note that being a Jew has nothing to do with what you believe or what you do. A person born to non-Jewish parents who has not undergone the formal process of conversion but who believes everything that Orthodox Jews believe and observes every law and custom of Judaism is still a non-Jew, even in the eyes of the most liberal movements of Judaism, and a person born to a Jewish mother who is an atheist and never practices the Jewish religion is still a Jew, even in the eyes of the ultra-Orthodox. In this sense, Judaism is more like a nationality than like other religions, and being Jewish is like a citizenship. See What Is Judaism?"

Thanks for posting that.

I know it's the tradition, but I confess I have a certain disquiet about anyone other than the individual deciding whether s/he's Jewish. I suspect it stems from the dark chapters of history.

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this is bound to go over really well with the "pretty much anything goes" population:

"Pediatricians Call Youth Transgenderism 'Child Abuse'"

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The transgender bathroom issue. I've never felt uncomfortable with transgender using female bathrooms, perhaps Asian men transgender are like, very small boned, and they are even more petite than regular women. Infact, they look so feminine, there is no way you can tell they are men at all until they start talking.

But I sometimes imagine a big manly girl like bruce jenner walking into a female bathroom who looks obviously male, and more like a drag in female clothings. It may be quite threatening and uncomfortable. Because you don't know the guy. His much larger. And you don't know if his a real transgender or not. Or is it just a man wearing female clothings and being a pervert in female toilet.

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Look, there's an easy answer to the bathroom issue. Simply mandate three bathrooms. Male, female and LGBT.

That way, the transgender, the lesbians and the gay men who feel oppressed by cis men and women can have their own bathroom wherein everyone will be wonderfully warm and accepting.

Of course, the cost of the retrofit to every office building in the country might be a bit of a hassle - but such is the price of progress.

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Look, there's an easy answer to the bathroom issue. Simply mandate three bathrooms. Male, female and LGBT.

That way, the transgender, the lesbians and the gay men who feel oppressed by cis men and women can have their own bathroom wherein everyone will be wonderfully warm and accepting.

Of course, the cost of the retrofit to every office building in the country might be a bit of a hassle - but such is the price of progress.

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Shouldn't the LGBT community fund the office building retrofit?

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Look, there's an easy answer to the bathroom issue. Simply mandate three bathrooms. Male, female and LGBT.

That way, the transgender, the lesbians and the gay men who feel oppressed by cis men and women can have their own bathroom wherein everyone will be wonderfully warm and accepting.

Of course, the cost of the retrofit to every office building in the country might be a bit of a hassle - but such is the price of progress.

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Look, there's an easy answer to the bathroom issue. Simply mandate three bathrooms. Male, female and LGBT.

That way, the transgender, the lesbians and the gay men who feel oppressed by cis men and women can have their own bathroom wherein everyone will be wonderfully warm and accepting.

Of course, the cost of the retrofit to every office building in the country might be a bit of a hassle - but such is the price of progress.

Personally if they can stick prayer rooms everywhere these days in offices, airports and major buildings, shopping malls, for the Muslims. They can build transgender bathrooms.
Jews and Christians should start demanding for their personal prayer rooms too. Like seriously.

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I've worked at several large corporations (publicly traded companies) and none of them have had prayer rooms. I've also never seen a prayer room at a shopping mall nor at an airport.

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I've worked at several large corporations (publicly traded companies) and none of them have had prayer rooms. I've also never seen a prayer room at a shopping mall nor at an airport.

Where are you located again?

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In the US.

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I've worked at several large corporations (publicly traded companies) and none of them have had prayer rooms. I've also never seen a prayer room at a shopping mall nor at an airport.

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I've worked at several large corporations (publicly traded companies) and none of them have had prayer rooms. I've also never seen a prayer room at a shopping mall nor at an airport.

Hold on, there, Sparky!

I used to work for one of the country's largest insurance companies and we abso-fuckin'-lutely had a "Muslim Prayer Room" (Third floor, right next to the gym).



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I've worked at several large corporations (publicly traded companies) and none of them have had prayer rooms. I've also never seen a prayer room at a shopping mall nor at an airport.

Hold on, there, Sparky!

I used to work for one of the country's largest insurance companies and we abso-fuckin'-lutely had a "Muslim Prayer Room" (Third floor, right next to the gym).



Michael

And it was labelled "Muslim Prayer Room"? I've seen "quiet rooms" that Muslim coworkers used for praying (and others used for making phone calls) but never a labelled room for prayer.