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Old 11-05-2018, 04:21 AM   #4746
zeek
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Default Re: Politics and the Church

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Originally Posted by Ohio View Post
The Bible is filled with "devil talk" you should read it.
I read it most days.

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My comment about "the Devil's Blue Army" was in response to your mocking God and His "red army."
You thought the author was mocking God. I didn't read it that way.

What part of "God's Red Army" don't you like? The people the author referred to believe they have special relationship with God. "Red" is the conventional color for the Republican Party. And "Army" refers to the way the pastors are organizing those folks for political action.

Rather an innocuous and apt trope, I thought. Whereas if you read history you'll see that people who Christians associated with the devil were burned at the stake. Today a guy with an AR-15 might feel justified to murder a bunch of them in what he supposes to be a "synagogue of Satan." It happens.

Anyway, to take offense at being associated with God like you did seems rather hyper-sensitive. Your reaction was a bit like one would expect from those people you mock as "snowflakes". Ironic, don't you think?

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If you read my post, you will see that I listed activities which were the work of the devil. I did not call anyone names. Do you acknowledge abortion as murder, and the work of the devil? Obviously not, because you can't even be sure if there is a God. With such "assurance" in your belief system, do you even believe there is a devil?
No. Abortion is not murder. It's legal in Florida until the last trimester of pregnancy when it's prohibited except when necessary to save the life of the mother when her life is physically endangered and no other medical procedure would suffice for that purpose. At that point it can be a third degree felony depending on the circumstances.

And Florida's abortion laws are, generally speaking, more restrictive than those in many other states. Nothing about the devil in there. You have my "assurance" on that.
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