en-us https://www.intensedebate.com/users/940020 Comments by Eric http://zionica.com/2012/07/16/bars-bibles-and-beer/#IDComment403484691 LOL. And now your logic has failed. It's been a real pleasure talking past you... Tue, 17 Jul 2012 13:55:07 +0000 http://zionica.com/2012/07/16/bars-bibles-and-beer/#IDComment403484691 http://zionica.com/2012/07/16/bars-bibles-and-beer/#IDComment402920271 Of course they're silly, that's the point. But they are silly in the same way as is blaming drunkenness on a liquid substance in a bottle, which is what you did when you said "the death, the broken homes, the broken lives, the sheer misery that is directly attributed to alcoholic beverages." Mon, 16 Jul 2012 21:12:56 +0000 http://zionica.com/2012/07/16/bars-bibles-and-beer/#IDComment402920271 http://zionica.com/2012/07/16/bars-bibles-and-beer/#IDComment402911268 "Losing one's senses" had nothing to do with what KnowTheTruth posted. I wasn't trying to excuse anything, I was trying to point out that KnowTheTruth's logic failed. And as far as eating sugar is concerned, I will send my children to your house the next time they have spent all day with their grandparents. Then you can try and convince me of the non-relationship between sugar and losing sense. Mon, 16 Jul 2012 20:51:40 +0000 http://zionica.com/2012/07/16/bars-bibles-and-beer/#IDComment402911268 http://zionica.com/2012/07/16/bars-bibles-and-beer/#IDComment402867926 Let's try this logic with other items: If I had never seen a Bible and all I had was the statistics on obesity in this country - I would not want to be part of it and would not tell people it is ok to take a bite. OR If I had never seen a Bible and all I had was the statistics on diabetes in this country - I would not want to be part of it and would not tell people it is ok to eat sugar. The problem is not with the item (whether it's food or drink or ___ ), the problem is with the individual. Banning or pretending the item does not exist does not deal with the real issue--the sinful heart of man. Mon, 16 Jul 2012 19:15:34 +0000 http://zionica.com/2012/07/16/bars-bibles-and-beer/#IDComment402867926 http://zionica.com/2012/07/11/study-claims-muslim-extremists-not-looking-for-world-domination/#IDComment399794703 Ummm, OK. So then according to these brilliant researchers even "extremists" have their limits? They only blow up stuff and terrorize others because they are concerned about the survival of their "culture"? What a crock. You have to be educated to be so dumb. Wed, 11 Jul 2012 13:32:58 +0000 http://zionica.com/2012/07/11/study-claims-muslim-extremists-not-looking-for-world-domination/#IDComment399794703 http://zionica.com/2012/07/06/where-health-care-can-happen/#IDComment396989691 "This article is wrong in so many ways it is not worth replying." Sheer brilliance. Chris has stated it to be wrong, so it must be so. My response to people who make the claim that "there is so much wrong with this, I don't even know where to begin" is always the same: Start with the first wrong thing and continue from there. Fri, 6 Jul 2012 21:16:52 +0000 http://zionica.com/2012/07/06/where-health-care-can-happen/#IDComment396989691 http://zionica.com/2012/06/27/would-finding-aliens-shatter-religious-beliefs/#IDComment396277678 What do you use to study miracles then? What do you use to study logic? If logic studies logic, how do we know which one is illogical: the logic we begin with or the logic we are studying? Likewise with religion; if religion studies religion, which "religion" gets tossed when a conflict arises? Thu, 5 Jul 2012 19:19:36 +0000 http://zionica.com/2012/06/27/would-finding-aliens-shatter-religious-beliefs/#IDComment396277678 http://zionica.com/2012/06/26/on-the-way-down/#IDComment395646767 TULIP is a popular summarizing of the five points, but you really need to read the source of the summary in order to fully understand the biblical arguments that are being put forth. It must be remembered that the Synod of Dort (an ecumenical council of sorts of Protestant scholars and pastors), after much debate and study, declared the five points of the Remonstrance (Arminianism) as heresy. This wasn't something that was taken lightly or ignored. Wed, 4 Jul 2012 19:50:06 +0000 http://zionica.com/2012/06/26/on-the-way-down/#IDComment395646767 http://zionica.com/2012/06/26/on-the-way-down/#IDComment395469689 "After reading the true 5 points of calvinism" And what exactly are these? What "true" 5 points did you read? If it was anything other than the declaration of the Synod of Dort, you have not read the actual five points. Also, understand that these 5 points were in response to the initial 5 points of students of Jacob Arminius. Wed, 4 Jul 2012 13:25:22 +0000 http://zionica.com/2012/06/26/on-the-way-down/#IDComment395469689 http://zionica.com/2012/07/03/penn-states-catholic-problem/#IDComment394930198 Don't play the martyr card daves. It's not you that people don't like, it's your liberal politics and theology. You're probably a swell guy apart from everything you're wrong about... :) Tue, 3 Jul 2012 18:04:34 +0000 http://zionica.com/2012/07/03/penn-states-catholic-problem/#IDComment394930198 http://zionica.com/2012/07/02/the-enduring-influence-of-the-book-of-revelation/#IDComment394910452 "The world was born in fire and ice" and the Green Lanterns protect it all... Tue, 3 Jul 2012 17:30:27 +0000 http://zionica.com/2012/07/02/the-enduring-influence-of-the-book-of-revelation/#IDComment394910452 http://zionica.com/2012/07/02/the-enduring-influence-of-the-book-of-revelation/#IDComment394908457 I limit God? And yet you are the one who claims that you can't "imagine a fire that will consume everything that is on this earth." The good news is that you don't need to. God will no more burn the entire earth than he will send 200 million horses and riders west out of China. Tue, 3 Jul 2012 17:26:53 +0000 http://zionica.com/2012/07/02/the-enduring-influence-of-the-book-of-revelation/#IDComment394908457 http://zionica.com/2012/07/02/the-enduring-influence-of-the-book-of-revelation/#IDComment394120922 LOL. I guess only 199,999,999 will make it to China. :) Mon, 2 Jul 2012 18:43:10 +0000 http://zionica.com/2012/07/02/the-enduring-influence-of-the-book-of-revelation/#IDComment394120922 http://zionica.com/2012/07/02/the-enduring-influence-of-the-book-of-revelation/#IDComment394113398 "where are 200 million horses going to come from" God will make them in Jerusalem after the rapture and have them gallop east... I'm pretty sure it says that in the Bible somewhere. ;) Mon, 2 Jul 2012 18:32:53 +0000 http://zionica.com/2012/07/02/the-enduring-influence-of-the-book-of-revelation/#IDComment394113398 http://zionica.com/2012/07/02/the-enduring-influence-of-the-book-of-revelation/#IDComment394048630 Whaat? You mean it's not about black helicopters, Patriot missiles, and a 200 million-man army from China? You obviously have not studied the Left Behind series closely enough... ;) Mon, 2 Jul 2012 16:36:51 +0000 http://zionica.com/2012/07/02/the-enduring-influence-of-the-book-of-revelation/#IDComment394048630 http://zionica.com/2012/06/30/in-the-aftermath-of-a-landmark-decision/#IDComment394020540 "We had four staunch conservatives who were true to their country and to their fellowman and did their job and we had one coward, afraid of what would happen if he voted ant-liberal. This is my honest opinion!!!" It may be your honest opinion, but that doesn't make it correct. As the author pointed out in the article above, Kennedy was the swing vote that all eyes were on. Had Roberts sided with the conservatives (as most assumed he would), he would have had nothing to fear. The fact that he decided to leave the conservative corral and vote as he did showed much more courage than simply voting along ideological lines. Claiming that he "did not have the guts to do his duty" is completely dishonest. You may not like his vote, but this does not make it "cowardly" by any stretch. Mon, 2 Jul 2012 15:42:47 +0000 http://zionica.com/2012/06/30/in-the-aftermath-of-a-landmark-decision/#IDComment394020540 http://zionica.com/2012/06/29/most-evangelicals-disapprove-of-healthcare-ruling/#IDComment392174599 Why are evangelicals any different than most people? Surely you are not making the claim that most non-evangelicals are any more "balanced" in their news gathering. Fri, 29 Jun 2012 18:16:37 +0000 http://zionica.com/2012/06/29/most-evangelicals-disapprove-of-healthcare-ruling/#IDComment392174599 http://zionica.com/2012/06/29/rand-paul-obamacare-is-not-constitutional/#IDComment392138053 Ummm, no. The Supreme Court does not "define" what is constitutional, it interprets what the Constitution says. This is why later courts sometimes disagree with previous courts' rulings. Are you seriously telling me that if the SCOTUS ruled that the Constitution required you to eat nothing but beets and potato soup for your "general welfare" that you would simply obey and begin a new diet? After all, they do get to "define" what is constitutional... correct? Fri, 29 Jun 2012 16:58:45 +0000 http://zionica.com/2012/06/29/rand-paul-obamacare-is-not-constitutional/#IDComment392138053 http://zionica.com/2012/06/28/on-the-eve-of-a-landmark-scotus-decision/#IDComment391437184 My humble apologies. I am glad to count you as a brother in the fight to tumble hell's gates. I will check out your website. Thu, 28 Jun 2012 17:24:48 +0000 http://zionica.com/2012/06/28/on-the-eve-of-a-landmark-scotus-decision/#IDComment391437184 http://zionica.com/2012/06/28/on-the-eve-of-a-landmark-scotus-decision/#IDComment391388044 "There is no deliverance by politics." Who said there was? But unrestrained government is certainly where tyranny comes from. Maybe if Christians stopped retreating into their sanctuaries of piety and inaction, rulings like this would become fewer and fewer. But by all means, continue chanting your apolitical gospel of social neutrality. Does your so-called "repentance and faith" ever lead to any kind of doing? Or does it just lead to more praying and waiting on God? Thu, 28 Jun 2012 16:03:00 +0000 http://zionica.com/2012/06/28/on-the-eve-of-a-landmark-scotus-decision/#IDComment391388044