greg
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Elitist Quiz...ha ha ha.NOT from Canada!!
Oldtimer said:Definitely must be French- already surrendering :lol: :lol:
Not a single person has addressed my initial post or answered any of my questions.
What's wrong with refusing to extradite war deserters and people facing the death penalty?
And then after you've knocked off a few hundred civilians and turned their families against you, are those people dumb bastards as well? Where does it end?
Why are you so eager to become hostile?
Seeing how the U.S. government treats prisoners, ie. Guantanamo Bay and the sending of prisoners overseas to be tortured, Canada shouldn't send any criminals South of the border.
why should they condemn a person to the death penalty by sending them to another country that still systematically kills its own people?
Maybe there wouldn't be so many 'Islamic terrorists' if we didn't give them something to be angry at us for.
What I am suggesting is that there is another way to deal with criminals that might not involve systematic imprisonment and killing. In fact, there are many ways. Use your imagination. Just a thought...
What makes you think I am a 'liberal'?
Unfortunately, 'understanding' and 'communication' are not in the Republican vocabulary.
stevec said:Steve said:and the founder of an religion, seems to have become convinced that all events of the world are based on cause and effects.
like since the terrorist bombed the US we are bombing the crap out of them...
Jesus Christ believed in cause and effect, too.
He who lives by the sword shall die by the sword. That is all the "they bombed us so we bomb them" cycle brings. Death and more death.
To die in Jesus Christ is to live by the Word (ie. to live by the Word is to die by the Word) What this means is to follow ALL of the commandments, not just your favorite five. The political divide is essentially based on people following a different set of five commandments. (Take Clinton's impeachment because of adultery for example. His adultery was an important issue for some people, but not their own greed (coveting of thy neighbor's goods.)
It all comes back to the speck in another's eye versus the log in ones own eye. Of course the terrorists are hypocrites. And America is just as hypocritical in their response. Like Bush insisting that the democratically elected Hamas renounce violence, but continuing to celebrate the violence of George Washington and justifying his own violence as "just." And this is against a backdrop where Israel has built a wall very similar to Russia's Iron Curtain. Where the Soviet Union was the "evil empire" for doing such a thing, our ally Israel does it and not a word is said.
When both political sides dominate the conversation and the culture, and both sides (actually it is more like three or four different sides) are all hypocrites, then the narrow path of faith is to find a way between them all. Swapping sides is just swapping whom you hate. Faith is about loving everyone equally, despite their sins.
So yes, everything is based on cause and effect. One cannot learn to love and forgive until one realizes their own mistakes, first. Once you can see the log in your own eye, then you can understand the splinter in other people's eyes.
Matthew 11:15
He who has ears, let him hear.
Instead of defending the sins, defend the commandments.
greg said:Ditto,none of mine been answered either,you claim to be Canadian yet you can't answer a simple quiz.If you could answer my quiz you would understand why I think we're too leniant on criminals!! I don't believe in the death penalty for one reason.The chance an innocent person is sentenced to death.What a country does with thier own criminals is up to them not me!!
What this means is to follow ALL of the commandments, not just your favorite five. The political divide is essentially based on people following a different set of five commandments.
but you did not answer my questions.
Why would we have to lock them up without a trial? Why couldn't we look at the evidence for ourselves and make a decision,
Oldtimer said:Steve- You may have just solved our prison overcrowding problem- sentence them all to death sentences and then let them escape to Canada :wink: :lol:
Jesus said, "Think not that I am come to destroy the law, or the prophets: I am not come to destroy, but to fulfil. For verily I say unto you, Til heaven and earth pass, one jot or one tittle shall in no wise pass from the law, til all be fulfilled" (Mat. 5:17-18). Jesus did indeed fulfil the law. Jesus is the personification of Love. Paul, inspired by the Spirit of Christ wrote, "He that loveth another hath fulfilled the law" (Rom. 13:8) and "Love worketh no ill to his neighbour: therefore love is the fulfilling of the law" (Rom. 13:10) and "The law is fulfilled in one word, even this; Thou shalt love thy neighbour as thyself." Jesus loved even His enemies; even those who crucified Him, enough to die on the cross in incomprehensible agony.
The standard is much higher now, and Christians have the grace to live it by the power of God as we are led by the Holy Spirit. God said, "This is the covenant that I will make with them after those days, saith the Lord. I will put my laws [plural] into their hearts, and in their minds will I write them" (Heb. 10:16). The true Church is the "Israel of God" (Gal. 6:16). "If ye be led of the Spirit, ye are not under the [Old Covenant] law" (Gal. 5:18).
Please dont use the Bible to defend the death sentence.
I agree with the death penlty
Instead of defending the sins, defend the commandments.It all comes back to the speck in another's eye versus the log in ones own eye
I don't think that anyone can hold that against you. :lol:MsSage said:...I didnt read all of stevec's post...