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http://reason.com/blog/2011/09/21/san-ju…
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The city of San Juan Capistrano, California is laying heavy fines on a local couple for hosting semi-regular bible readings in their home. From the Los Angeles CBS affiliate:
Homeowners Chuck and Stephanie Fromm, of San Juan Capistrano, were fined $300 earlier this month for holding what city officials called “a regular gathering of more than three people”.
That type of meeting would require a conditional use permit as defined by the city, according to Pacific Justice Institute (PJI), the couple’s legal representation.
The Fromms also reportedly face subsequent fines of $500 per meeting for any further “religious gatherings” in their home, according to PJI…

* Perceive temptation as sin, while the Bible says that temptation is inevitable and what we do with that temptation determines sin;
* Try to dictate who is and who is not going to Heaven, ignore John 3:17 and the words spoken by the Apostle Paul;
* Look at me stupid when I mention the Beatitudes;
* Can’t tell me the 10 commandments, the Fruits of the Spirit, the Gifts of the Spirit;
* Take single scriptures out of context with the verses before and after and completely ignorant of the conditions under which the words were spoken or written …..
Former Christian, Christian School student, haven’t stepped foot inside a church (except for one wedding) in almost 10 years — yet scriptures I haven’t read in over 20 years are ingrained in my memory and spill out onto the keyboard, Yet Christians who go to church every Sunday like clockwork and who claim to have their daily devotionals and Bible study time, can’t tell me the basic fundamentals of Christianity?
It’s probably a good thing I’m not phony, because I believe I could start a church and reign in all these ignorant, self-professed Christians and become the next Jim Jones on their dime.
I don’t get it. If you don’t love and devour the Holy Scriptures of your religion, regardless of that religion, then how can you affiliate yourselves as one of them?

Like I don’t attend church or read the bible or anything and I’m wary of the current understanding of god (i.e. a singular omniscient being ). I feel like if there is a god, its beyond human understanding of it. However when good things happen to me I tend to say thank you to I don’t know who or what out loud. I believe in karma and many principals that are considered religious, although I think they are more universal. But I don’t affiliate myself with any particular religion and don’t believe in organized religion (for me personally, that is). Is there a name for that sort of “religious” view?
I should note I was not raised religious, though my extended family is baptist and I went to Catholic school for 12 years. My mom is religious, but unaffiliated and my dad is an atheist.

My answer is …yes (one or the other) what is yours based on the information below.
Okay God most certiainly could created the world 6000 years ago. God can do anything. If He created it 6000 years ago, He would have by need have created it old. Because a new planet would not be hospitible to life. It would have to be CREATED Old. with fossils in place, erosion in place. the light we see from other stars would have been created in place 6000 years ago streaming into us at speed. So universe could most certainly be only 6000 years old. This is not beyond God’s ability to be sure.
OR
It could be 6 Billion ( or 4.5 or whatever the number du jour is)
Genesis 1:2 allows for an old earth that was restarted new.
2 The earth was without form, and void; and darkness was[a] on the face of the deep. And the Spirit of God was hovering over the face of the waters.
That word was, is actually not there in the original Hebrew, it a preposition that is implied by the tense used in the noun . In the some places in Genesis that same tense implication is translated as became so you could have:
And the earth WAS – BECAME without form and void
Implying that at the time of the narrative the earth was without form and void because it became that way….God in essence cooked the world for a few billion years getting it ready for man, and then wiped it out and started over. This would also explain all the gaps in the fossil records
Either way it was created, with an purpose and design. It did not blow out of an unexplained ball of mass, that magically spun in circles, that magically glomed together in stars which then fused the base hydrogen into every other element which then blew up again spewing this inorganic elements into space which again glomed together this times to form planets, in which these elements magically glomed together to form materials such as water and carbon dioxide, which formed in a puddle of in organic primordial ooze from which magically sprang (abiogenesis) a life for that survived to mutate into increasingingly more complex creatures for no apparent reason and no apparent environmental pressure to do so, surviving magically to form every kind of beast until one day its Pinnacle ..man was formed…who btw fills no ecological niche, has no enivromental function except to predate on all other enivornments and eco-systems….i think that is a fairy tale we can dismiss out of hand
So Christians what do you think? 6000 or 6 Billion?
Personally I am good with either.

It’s no secret that the Tea party claims to follow the constitution like a 2nd bible. That being said, why don’t Tea Party Republicans seriously consider repealing the 21 drinking age for everyone (not just members of the military). That would be very consistent with their ideology, since the federal government and the supreme court B S-ed their way around the constitution when the law was passed. Plus, remember that the Tea Party marketed itself as an organization that defends freedom. If they truly defend freedom, then they should be against the government telling legal adults what types of beverages they can have and at what age. What do you say?

It’s no secret that the Tea party claims to follow the constitution like a 2nd bible. That being said, why don’t Tea Party Republicans seriously consider repealing the 21 drinking age for everyone (not just members of the military). That would be very consistent with their ideology, since the federal government and the supreme court B S-ed their way around the constitution when the law was passed. Plus, remember that the Tea Party marketed itself as an organization that defends freedom. If they truly defend freedom, then they should be against the government telling legal adults what types of beverages they can have and at what age. What do you say?