The reference must be taken in light of all Jesus' teaching about prayer. Here's a hint: prayer is not promised as a sort of personal Genie that fulfills wishes.
So all the people that were there at that time get shafted with a lie. He says that he is telling the truth and through prayer your wants "shall" be done not maybe not kinda similar. They will be done, sure seems like a wish to me.
And might it have occurred to you that the fig tree may be symbolic? Hard to imagine, I know. A work of literature that uses metaphor. Crazy.
It doesn't read like that at all. He goes to the fig tree and destroys it then tells everyone present that they can do the same. Oh and move mountains...
Politicians will pander to whomever will get them elected. In reality, there's no difference in terms of policy between Obama and any republican the Christian right would put in office.
There's the problem.
You did. A skeptic couldn't win election, you said.
Upon re-read, I supposed it is implied the way it reads.
Anyway, you may not like the underlying motivations for their decisions, but in practice it doesn't amount to much. The science crowd swooned over Obama's election, but as I said he's hardly much different than any Holy Roller Republican.
They may have swooned because they thought he was going to do what he promised, "change".
I agree. It's a stupid argument to hold onto. But believe it or not, it's not just the religious right who defend these kinds policies, which was discussed in the debate I linked to.
Right it isn't but they are the majority. As for the debate; I post a lot from work and am unfortunately unable to watch it at this time. I do enjoy watching them though.
And, even if you have your rational president, you still have to contend with various state statutes and constitutional challenges in the courts.
True but by electing such a president the people would have to change as well. Here were we come back to religion damaging the country.
This is really just your boneheaded misconception. Our ethics are codified in the Bible, yes, but there really are good reasons for adhering to them. It's not merely because they're written down in a book.
No there isn't. There is only good reason to adhere to them if they are true. If they are true there is no reason to have a book that contradicts itself to no end. Especially one that is supposed to be the word of an omnipotent deity, that for some reason can't seem to keep his "word" pure through the centuries.
Hating gays is wrong, yet it is there in the bible that god detests them. Please don't make the argument that he loves them but hates the sin, that is just dumb. Gay is a part of who they are.
The point is, the problem is bigger than religion. Science literacy in this country would still be dismal without the evangelical attack on Evolution.
Maybe it wouldn't be up to par with other countries. However, you would not have parents getting pissed when their kid is taught reality. You wouldn't have teachers afraid to teach evolution for fear of the backlash. Your attitude is "well the car would still be a piece of shit. So why change the oil?", get rid of problems. Even if it is one at a time.
Conservatives are worse. Or at least the loud conservatives that everyone sees and hears all the time. And the conservatives that sit on school boards in places like Texas and Kansas that decide what our kids actually get to learn.
But evolution is a theory, just like creationism.
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Truly I say unto you. I thought it was an odd post from you.
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