A lack of jingle jangle tunes, really.

So you don't have a problem with Christian songs?

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We have a winner. I was hoping my avatar wouldn't give the joke away.

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He who makes a beast of himself gets rid of the pain of being a man.
Dr. Samuel Johnson

Respectfuly is there not anything in your moral makeup that you can not find that is atributed from your religious upbringing. I think you will find the small base of your morals of good is. I was raised baptist my wife catholic and we find both to be well we don't go to church as adults will our daughter when she gets older ya because it helps in the aspect of teaching them to be kind to others be giving honest a lot of things we as parents try to teach and church helps drive it home ya they use things like or the devils going to get you but it works and that is all that matters and it don't scare them. Hell we as parents use some of the same tactics don't get out of bed at night the boogy man will get you. I see everything you do when in fact you walk out in the back yard and peek in there bedroom window to see if there doing what you told them not to. All to achieve one purpose teach them to be decent , kind, responsable wether you are with them or not wether it is family members or any other human being. And you dred the day that comes in all childrens life and that is they figure out it was all a bluff but hopefully by that time it has instilled the basic morals in them for life and it's ok to tell them ya your right but it worked and you laugh about it. No disresect but at five is not your job to guide wether they want to do it or not because who knows better if they are smart enough at five to make there own decisions then hell why do they need us to teach them and guide them? My question is do you ask him and let him decide in everything if not then why not I mean if he is old enough to do so with regards to church then why not. What if he decides he does not want his bedtime to be 7pm you allow him to go to bed when he wants. Decide what he eats for super because he rather have ice cream instead of meatloaf. You seem to be a decent guy moraly and good or bad and wether you liked it or not beleave or not the fact is your church days as a child along with other things in part made you the person you are today did it not. I have had a lot of things in my child hood I hated but would I change it No not when I look at it because it made me the person I am today each part good or bad played a roll in who and what I am.

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Why should he I don't like rap but my wifes cousin blares it when I go to his shop and work on his tractors and stuff for him I don't say shit because well it aint killing me is it. He ask me if I like it jokingly because he knows I like country I tell him hell know I don't like it so he ask me if I would like him to change it I say no don't do that because it's your thing go for it. Tolerance folks you act like it's going to create a bunch of little Nazi's pull your heads out there are real issues out there.

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no, that's not what i'm saying. read it again. it's a christian song, but what the writers of the song weren't aware of is that there was NO actual "christ" child. just a rising sun in the low winter sky going from waning to waxing, while the "3 kings" of orions belt align with and follow sirius so as to pay "homage".

when the sun lowers in the winter sky, it gets to its lowest point (waning); and after 3 days begins to rise again (waxing). this refers to the ancient pagan ritual of the "sun god" dieing, and resurrecting after 3 days. the myth of jesus was the LATEST in a long string of "gods" who were assigned these attributes.

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But in absolute truth no one can say for sure wether god exist or not because no one knows that for a fact.

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When you came into this world you cried.
Live your life so that when you die.
The world cries. the shadow

But you fail to address the fact that because some "false" God's were in fact worshiped does not mean that when the real one came along that he was not who he said that the was. As all men have the same lineage of heritage, dating back to the original Adam, as proven by DNA samples....and All religions have their base "grounded" in the truth of such. Because some that were part of the original chose to worship in a false manner and pay their respects to graven images, does not make the "one" true messiah that met all the "predicated" criteria for being the real deal was not actually "HE"...the great I AM....as the roots of the only "true" faith can be traced back to the beginning of mankind and the coming of a predicted messiah was indeed foretold from such as the original history. So basically what you are "professing" is...that just because there might happen to be 100 different ideologies that gained their faith from the same roots that "all" must be wrong.....the truth is it only takes one to be correct and the "TRUTH".....and the only one that can be backed by scriptual doctrine dated from the beginning is the one and only "CHRIST". BD

whereas the only thing that CAN be said for certain is that many of the worlds religions rely upon astrology, and the same ancient tales to reinforce their faiths. christianity being the most recent, of course.

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and which dna samples would those be? please don't say mitochondrial dna, because the proponents of that themselves say it originated well over 100,000 years ago; whereas the myth of "adam & eve" only goes back maybe 10,000 years, at best.

so when was the bible story first transcribed? clue: long after many of the older, more ancient religions. the bible story borrows a host of ancient astrological allegories; but they weren't the first to do so.

such as crosses? btw, the "christian" cross owes its origins to the zodiac cross, and has its origins in the aforementioned waning/waxing sun (called the "southern cross", or "crux"). look at some of the early catholic church crosses. why do you think they all have that strange circle around it's mid-point? THAT is the zodiac cross. jesus was a representation of the sun, who travelled around with his 12 "disciples" (the 12 constellations).

see above.

the stories of joseph in the old testament, and jesus in the new testament were the same ancient allegory told by different story tellers.

joseph had 12 brothers
jesus had 12 disciples

joseph began to teach others at the age of 12.
so did jesus.

josephs brother judah suggests they sell joseph for silver pieces.
jesus' disciple judas sells jesus for silver pieces.

joseph began his lifes work at the age of 30.
so did jesus.

and so on, and so forth.

incorrect. "christ" was the latest in a long line of religions borrowing ancient astrological allegories. before religion even existed, all man knew was that the sun was the giver of life. from there they studied the stars, and were able to determine predictable events and ages. from there many ancient tales were woven in to localized legends, each borrowing from the original astrological tale.

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Again you are quoting facts not in evidence.....we can only trace our modern history back 5000 years...and as such, any guessing as to dating anything is actually just that, a guess....even with the so called radiometric carbon dating...which can only be calibrated to a length of our proven history conformation. You live and accept to live in world of "theory" that has no actual facts to back up anything that you profess as actual truth...the difference between I and some idiot that you perceive that you are in communication with is that I know the "facts" of both science and history....and anything dated past the 5000 years range is mere "speculation" grounded in theory only with no factual base of conformation nor offering any such proof thereof. Its a simple statement....if you do not wish to believe and accept faith....please do not, but your projections of disclaiming and proving that faith is based in lies.....is just pure "bullshit", and I simply give it the attention that it deserves. BD