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Glenn Beck: Japan Earthquake Might Be A 'Message' From God (AUDIO)

This post is why no one takes you seriously.

Your inability to come up with a real reply doesn't surprise anybody here son. Now go play with the other blond children.
 
To be honest, I'm tired of Glenn Beck acting like he's the leader of Christians or speaking for God. He has no authority to do so, and his theology is crazy. I think the guy does it to manipulate weak minded Christians that would follow anyone that invokes the name of God over a situation.
 
Maybe we should make all the fundie Christians live on the fault lines... then they can believe they are being punished by God every time a quakes hits...

Did Beck say the Japanese were being punished by God?
That's just sick..I think I'll stop watching him.:roll:
 
Before I start, I seem to have given the impression that I agree with Beck. I don't. I just played devil's advocate.

It's the other way around. Your beliefs are trying to contradict the facts. The fact is an earthquake happens because of an articulable process occurring along the tectonic plates. Your beliefs are trying to say God made that happen.

No, they really don't. While science can explain most things that happen, that does not preclude God from the picture. When the belief is that God is all knowing and all powerful the logical conclusion is that God created science and science obeys His will. You make the assumption that if God is involved it must appear to be mystical and magical with no rational explanation. While He can do that, He chooses the laws of science for the preponderance of his actions.



No, you don't get off that easy. Bullying is a criminally liable offense, calling somebody an idiot is not. It's actually protected speech.

What would you call what you are doing? Are you not using verbal abuse in an attempt to impose your will? Just because you are failing doesn't mean it isn't bullying.


The fact that you're sitting here trying to argue that your belief in God's role in earthquakes does not contradict the facts about the causes of an earthquake is all I need to prove that Republicans and the right wing of America as a whole have an agenda to promote ignorance. You're a member of the ideology who compares pedophilia to homosexuality. You're a member of the ideology that says God created the Bible in 6 days. You're a member of the ideology who is seeking to introduce religion into the classroom. You're a member of the ideology who seeks to argue that men who owned slaves wanted to abolish slavery. Really, the answer on how the right promotes ignorance is long. Which example would you like me to discuss?

We aren't going to discuss any of them, they are just things you made up.

Because your God doesn't exist. Get used to it.

He does exist...get used to it.

When you claim your God does X and then be ready to back that up. It's a claim based on the reality without any evidence supporting it.

Um...that's why they call it faith. But if you want evidence, it is simple to find and easy to understand. It is called the law of conservation of mass. Matter can be neither created nor destroyed. In order for the universe to exist is must have violated a law of physics. The only explanation that we have is for a deity to have done so.

Quit hiding behind your religion and your obvious ideological reshuffling. If you think God caused the earthquake, bring some evidence. Otherwise, your belief is stupid and has no more validity than saying that fairies split the fault lines and caused the earthqauke. End of story.

It wasn't fairies. It was trolls...they made the phones...they control the banks and they cause earthquakes. This is pure genius and Charlie agrees with me.

All kidding aside. You don't have to believe, but I'm not hiding behind anything. I am up front and honest about what I believe and I didn't come to my beliefs lightly. I did not inherit my beliefs. I came to them late in life.
 
This constant assertion that every natural disaster is somehow an expression of God's wrath is bad theology. The Bible speaks to human suffering. Its called "time and chance" in Ecclesiastes 9:11. Many good and bad things occur to people regardless of whether they are good or evil. As Jesus explained, God lets it rain on both the just and the unjust (Matthew 5:45). In fact, in Luke 13:4-5 Christ refers to a specific contemporary tragedy ". . . Those eighteen on whom the tower of Siloam fell and killed them, do you think that they were worse sinners than all other men who dwelt in Jerusalem? I tell you, no; but unless you repent you will all likewise perish" (Luke 13:4-5).

The lesson of every natural disaster and human tragedy is not that the other guy sinned (he did... and so did you), its that life is short. The end will come without notice, like a "thief in the night". Remember, no one gets off this planet alive, so you best be worried more about your treasures in heaven than your 401(k).

Luke 21:34 "Be careful, or your hearts will be weighed down with dissipation, drunkenness and the anxieties of life, and that day will close on you unexpectedly like a trap"

Ya, I gave the impression I was agreeing with Beck and that wasn't the case. I was just playing devil's advocate for a moment. You are 100% correct.
 
Beck is a total tool, and was much more entertaining when he didn't have a T.V. show and you thought that he might be kidding, a la Colbert. His radio show used to be funny. But now that he is on T.V., and you see the sincerity in his diatribes, you realize his is a few grapes short of a fruit salad.
 
Ya, I gave the impression I was agreeing with Beck and that wasn't the case. I was just playing devil's advocate for a moment. You are 100% correct.

I wasn't taking you to task as much as your previous post was the best set-up for what I wanted to say. It drives me nuts every time we have a disaster some fundie wants to blame it on the evil that is going on in the country where the disaster occurred. Its bad theology.
 
Well let's compare. I'm a registered republican. I believe that Obama was born in Hawaii. I know that he was raised in Indonesia, by his step father and mother, but we sent to live with this maternal grandparents around the age of 10, who also lived in Hawaii. I know that his father was from Kenya. I know that Obama is, according to family a third generation muslim (by birth) according to his Aunt Sarah an I quote "And I quote "There's three generations of Muslims in the family,"Auntie Sarah interjected, from the kitchen. She wiped her hand and came over to join us. "The religion of your birth is Islam, George, because that is the religion of your father's side of the family. You know, you're a third-generation Muslim in our eyes."

Page 107 ~ Homeland by George Hussein Obama
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Anything else?

All this proves to me is that you may not be a birther, but you have chosen to take another road to the same outcome which is to plant the seed of doubt about Barrack Obama's citizenship and religion, it's clear that since the repubs with their obvious repeated failures at governing had to come up with some way to manipulate the facts. The facts are clear the republican party has not been able to find a presidental candidate who is capable of leading since 1973
 
Another brilliant thread from another lib who won't be accountable for IGNORING CONTEXT.. he was baiting you.. and it WORKED.. :doh

You folks realize he does things like that to suck you in and make you look like a fool, don't you?:lamo:lamo:lamo
 
What a Jackass both him and Limbaugh, and that RAPER, 50 CENT are disgusting to make these comments that they did about this horrible disaster.
 
Another brilliant thread from another lib who won't be accountable for IGNORING CONTEXT.. he was baiting you.. and it WORKED.. :doh

You folks realize he does things like that to suck you in and make you look like a fool, don't you?:lamo:lamo:lamo

Oh, is that why he talks nonsense so much of the time, to make "libs" look like fools! Here, I thought he did it in order to gather an audience that could be used to make money from advertisers.

So, are "libs" people who actually believe the nonsense that comes out of his mouth? Is that how he's making them look like fools?

From the OP:

"there's a message being sent. And that is, 'Hey, you know that stuff we're doing? Not really working out real well. Maybe we should stop doing some of it.' I'm just saying."


So, libs look like fools because they actually believe that the earthquake was a "message from god" that we "should stop doing some of the things we've been doing." Yes, if the "libs", whoever they are, actually believe that, then they do look like fools.
 
I wasn't taking you to task as much as your previous post was the best set-up for what I wanted to say. It drives me nuts every time we have a disaster some fundie wants to blame it on the evil that is going on in the country where the disaster occurred. Its bad theology.

But Beck didn't say that.
 
But Beck didn't say that.

Barb I find it hard to beleive that you would defend Beck for the comments that he himself has made on the Japanese disaster. I listened to beck show during the time he made this comment and I was disgusted that he would say such a thing.
 
Um........ My mistake because I thought that is what they called themselves as they are Rap artist ie a Raper.

You mean rapper. Is there some connection between being a rapper and being a rapist? I thought rappers just made music that some people appreciate, and others (like me) don't.
 
Lets see 51% of registered republican voters do not believe that President Obama was born in the USA another 23% are not sure. Does that mean that 75% of registered republicans voters believe that the RNC would not have checked to make sure that President Obama was born in the USA? Would that suggest to you that a large percentage of conservatives don't bother to check or do you think that they just want to believe what ever they hear?

Democrat Truthers And Teaching 9/11 The Liberal Way » Pirate's Cove

These whack jobs are teaching our children.

So what's your point?
 
Democrat Truthers And Teaching 9/11 The Liberal Way » Pirate's Cove

These whack jobs are teaching our children.

So what's your point?

Your link said nothing about "democratic truthers". There was a link to the story within the blog you cited. I'm not sure what you meant by "truthers", but usually the term refers to people who are telling the opposite of the truth. In this context, "truthers" are generally people subscribing to the wacky conspiracy theory that the government was involved in the attack of 9/11. There is nothing like that in the link at all.

From the link within a link:

The families that I know do want the story told," he said. "They do want people to understand what happened, and they want it told right."

The curriculum includes about 150 lessons -- 50 each for elementary grades, middle school and high school -- with the idea that teachers may only have time in a given year to use just a few, said Helen Simpkins, a retired Vernon educator who worked on the effort.

Winkler said the lessons wrestle with the differences between terrorists and freedom fighters, and how the United States is viewed by others around the world. Students also learn how day-to-day life has been changed by the 9/11 attacks, and ways in which people create memorials and remembrances.

Read the rest here

Can you point out exactly what it is that you're objecting to and referring to as "whack jobs"?
 
Democrat Truthers And Teaching 9/11 The Liberal Way » Pirate's Cove

These whack jobs are teaching our children.

So what's your point?

Tell me again why as DEMOCRAT I'm somehow a conspiracy nut case not all democrats are conspiracy nut cases as the article you post suggest. However, I do beleive that Republicans and a lot of other people have just lost their darn minds since Obama became president because of the polls I have seen in the media. Like for example this article in the daily beast.

And this one in the USA And this Political Daily article that says that 43% of people think he is a Muslim
 
You mean rapper. Is there some connection between being a rapper and being a rapist? I thought rappers just made music that some people appreciate, and others (like me) don't.

I was just trying to make a crack. I figured it was a typo for rapper.
 
Democrat Truthers And Teaching 9/11 The Liberal Way » Pirate's Cove

These whack jobs are teaching our children.

So what's your point?

There's a big difference here, though. This does not represent anything like a majority of Democrats by almost any measure. If the statistic was that 10% of Republicans believed Obama was not born in the US, I'd think nothing of it. 10% of any large group of people probably believes some weird ****. 51% is a little different. Unless the margin of error on that poll is something like 35%, that's a lot of Republicans. (and I wouldn't trust a poll with a margin of error of 35% to tell me that most people think the sky is blue)
 
Your link said nothing about "democratic truthers". There was a link to the story within the blog you cited. I'm not sure what you meant by "truthers", but usually the term refers to people who are telling the opposite of the truth. In this context, "truthers" are generally people subscribing to the wacky conspiracy theory that the government was involved in the attack of 9/11. There is nothing like that in the link at all.

From the link within a link:



Read the rest here

Can you point out exactly what it is that you're objecting to and referring to as "whack jobs"?

Let’s remember the study about 9/11 in which 61 Percent of Democrats either believe or are not sure that Bush knew in advance about the 9/11 attacks.

Perhaps I got the idea from the fact that 90% of campaign donations from teachers unions, go to the democratic party. :)
 
Perhaps I got the idea from the fact that 90% of campaign donations from teachers unions, go to the democratic party. :)

Which means what?

If your point is that those Democrats are "truthers", i.e., believe that Bush was behind 9/11, then your link doesn't support that idea. In fact, it would be difficult to support such a contention at all. Teachers tend to be educated people, and so not really gullible enough to be into the various WCT being repeated by the fringe groups on both sides.
 
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