[Vision2020] An Interesting Study

[Art Deco]

It's ironic that most of the end times believers based their beliefs on
religious fantasy rather than the more realistic probability based
scenarios of the combination of global warming, competition for essential
diminishing resources, and crackpot despots with WMD.  At least with the
latter there might be some chance of aversion with intervention based on
rational thought and behavior.

w


On Tue, Dec 11, 2012 at 2:50 PM, Scott Dredge <scooterd408 at hotmail.com>wrote:

> Maybe the condemnation piece of it is tantamount to good marketing. Fear
> is an effective selling point. Millions have been made by the 'End of Days'
> prognosticators.
>
> -Scott
>
> On Dec 11, 2012, at 11:09 AM, "Joe Campbell" <philosopher.joe at gmail.com>
> wrote:
>
> > There is no condemnation in the New Covenant? Doesn't it say below
> > that you get eternal salvation for belief, and supposedly eternal
> > damnation for lack of belief? Eternal damnation for LACK of belief!?!
> > That strikes me as condemnation. I can't imagine God being that petty
> > but maybe it just me.
> >
> >
> > On Tue, Dec 11, 2012 at 10:04 AM, Tom Hansen <thansen at moscow.com> wrote:
> >> Courtesy of the Letters section of today's (December 11, 2012)
> Moscow-Pullman Daily News.
> >>
> >> -------------------------------------
> >>
> >> An Interesting Study
> >>
> >> I find the Humanist signs on the south side of Moscow an interesting
> study.
> >>
> >> First, the billboards are intentional and targeting in their placement
> - in your face stuff.
> >>
> >> Second, does it agitate? Well for me and my Christian walk, the answer
> is no. My heart goes out to those behind the billboards. I shed tears for
> anyone of that mindset. The thing is they don't get it. They think we still
> live under the rules of the Old Covenant. The Old Covenant was in place to
> prove none of us, including me, can live by God's rules. We're all sinners.
> I fail all the time, but live under the New Covenant of Christ, which deems
> me free. Cut and dried, no works are righteous, no rules are added.
> Christ's last words were, "It is finished." Sin is paid for - for those who
> believe. That simple, almost too simple.
> >>
> >> If God doesn't exist, then when you see a deer in the glen, watch a
> flock of geese fly into a beautiful sunset, who does your heart sing to?
> Yourself because you created it all? Now that is illogical in my viewpoint.
> >>
> >> Being both a cancer survivor and a total stroke survivor, I've walked
> close to death several times. Close enough to know my life can end at any
> second, at God's will. I see it happening to others my age quite often. I
> have nothing to do with my time line here on Earth.
> >>
> >> But I do know that when my good Lord walks with me out of this world, I
> will walk into Christ's arms in the next world.
> >>
> >> There is no condemnation in the New Covenant. Christ says, "Come unto
> me, and I will give you peace." How about you?
> >>
> >> Wayne Olson
> >> Moscow
> >>
> >> -------------------------------------
> >>
> >> Now for a little heat venting posted as a comment to the letter above .
> . .
> >>
> >> Mr. Olson -
> >>
> >> During the five weeks my wife was a patient of Sacred Heart's ICU,
> suffering from life-threatening respiratory problems, and I took residence
> in the ICU's waiting room 7 days a week/18 hours a day, I placed my faith
> in more-tangible resources; doctors and critical care nurses. Thank God for
> medical science and technology (pun intended) and a subsequent 7-week stay
> at NIACH (Northern Idaho Advanced Care Hospital in Post Falls), consisting
> of intensive speech, occupational, and physical therapy, I was able to take
> my wife home to Moscow. In the absence of those tangible resources, my wife
> would have died almost immediately after the airlift from Gritman.
> >>
> >> And concerning those deer and geese you mention . . . think "evolution".
> >>
> >> ---------------
> >>
> >> And a very VERY special thanks to some very VERY special friends here
> in Moscow who, through constant email contacts and helping hands, kept my
> mind focused and my thoughts clear.
> >>
> >> Seeya round town, Moscow, because . . .
> >>
> >> "Moscow Cares"
> >> http://www.MoscowCares.com
> >>
> >> Tom Hansen, CPL  (Commie Pinko Liberal)
> >> Moscow, Idaho
> >>
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Art Deco (Wayne A. Fox)
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