touchstone3

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touchstone3 replied to the Political Fools board. 22:01

Re: Cameron PM 2016 100:1 against

I haven't been asked either and frankly, it is not a matter of any great interest or concern to me.

Well, if it is no great concern to you, that is fine.
I am sure you have noticed that it IS a matter of great concern for other [more]

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touchstone3 replied to the Political Fools board. 19:21

Re: Cameron PM 2016 100:1 against

The gay marriage bill has backing of majority of general voters.

Strange - I do not remember ever being asked my opinion. I do not recall it ever being a manifesto issue.
How do you know that the bill has the backing of the [more]

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touchstone3 replied to the Christian Fools board. 19:07

Re: Blood Sacrifice?

There have been people like Jehova's witnesses who refused blood transfusions and their children died.

Yes, that is true.
But I would argue that the JW reading of scripture is completely wrong on this matter. I do not think that [more]

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touchstone3 replied to the Middle Eastern Topics board. 19:02

Re: Dispossession of the people of Palestine

The security fence was built in response to suicide bombers who were murdering Israelis in Jerusalem and other Israeli cities.
That was how it was spun.

Well, the difference between information and spin is largely one of [more]

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touchstone3 replied to the Middle Eastern Topics board. 16:11

Re: Dispossession of the people of Palestine

There is some truth to that, but that is not complete.

Granted.
Israeli forces can be very heavy-handed and brutal indeed.

Even in periods of peace the Israelis have still continued to expand their settlements, and [more]

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touchstone3 replied to the Middle Eastern Topics board. 15:42

Re: Dispossession of the people of Palestine

Have you looked at the maps of the West Bank showing the ever decreasing amount of land available to the Palestinians as ever more settlements are built by Israel?
That is why ethnic cleansing is a realistic term.

Yes, I have seen [more]

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touchstone3 replied to the Christian Fools board. 15:12

Re: Blood Sacrifice?

I think there are many things in the bible that are contrary to what I would expect from God and having and killing slaves and both menstruating women and those following childbirth as being unclean and must be separated from the men, is not my [more]

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touchstone3 replied to the Scottish Independence Referendum board. 13:35

Re: The new closed Scotland

Does anyone know what the situation is like in Ireland?

When I visit my family in Ireland, those with Sky IRL usually have BBC and ITV as part of the package. (I presume that Sky have some licensing deal to enable them to do this, [more]

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touchstone3 replied to the Middle Eastern Topics board. 13:20

Re: Dispossession of the people of Palestine

a) “the population of Jews in Europe increased from 10.5 million in 1900 to 15 million in 2012,” and were then to comment:-
b) “if this is genocide the holocaust was not particularly effective”
there would be outrage, would there [more]

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touchstone3 replied to the Christian Fools board. 12:33

Re: Blood Sacrifice?

Whether anyone of whatever faith or non faith that does all these things will be condemned or experience God's wrath because they haven't thought much about religion or read much of the NT or don't subscribe to any faith in particular, I don't [more]

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touchstone3 replied to the Christian Fools board. 12:28

Re: Blood Sacrifice?

I just wish the Church would have thought through things like we try and do and not try and teach dogmatic beliefs that may or may not be true and not to persecute others for having a different view of these things and that goes for all [more]

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touchstone3 replied to the Christian Fools board. 02:28

Re: Blood Sacrifice?

Logic would suggest that IF it was God's will that his only son be sacrificed, it was a pre-planned event and so the Romans were obeying God and so why did they or need forgiveness for doing that?

It does seem to be rather [more]

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touchstone3 replied to the Christian Fools board. 02:07

Re: Glory hallelujah....

Hallelujah!!!



Stephen

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touchstone3 replied to the Middle Eastern Topics board. 18:06

Re: Dispossession of the people of Palestine

I repeat, “the issue is a moral one - on which side of ethnic cleansing does one stand, for or against?” Or ambivalent? "It’s ok if I /we /our friends do it to the wogs, but evil if Germans / Serbs / Sudanese / or Burmese do [more]

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touchstone3 replied to the Middle Eastern Topics board. 20:23

Re: Dispossession of the people of Palestine

But it is NOT an al-Jazeera production. It is merely at the moment being shown by them. It is “A Benny Brunner Production for ARTE”.

I had not noticed that.
My criticism stands, whoever it was made the series.

I like [more]

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touchstone3 replied to the Interfaith Dialogue board. 19:58

Re: "Christian" Marriage

Worth making the distinction between a wedding and a marraige. The wedding is a ceremonial thing which can be as functional or as elaborate as you feel. A marraige is a legal contract and in many cases a personal commitment to a [more]

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touchstone3 replied to the Interfaith Dialogue board. 14:38

Re: "Christian" Marriage

A Christian marriage is, in its pure form, a marriage between Christians, blessed at some stage, by a Christian empowered to do so, usually in a Christian church. <\i>

certainly it is a marriage between Christians, but (AFAIK) the [more]

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touchstone3 replied to the Interfaith Dialogue board. 10:46

Re: "Christian" Marriage

We used to know that the real thing began the day after the honeymoon.

I think this is very true.
I cannot help feeling that far too much emphasis is placed on the wedding day, when the thing that really matters is the life that [more]

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touchstone3 replied to the Scottish Independence Referendum board. 09:59

Re: Nicola Sturgeon's Speech

Yes = two socialist parties in power for a long time.


Hmmmm,
Well, the SNP certainly counts as a socialist party. But which is the other one?
The Lib Dems do not have much traction in Scotland, nor do the [more]

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touchstone3 replied to the Middle Eastern Topics board. 09:43

Re: Dispossession of the people of Palestine

I learn that the series is not new but was made in 2008, and seems not to have aroused any serious accusations of factual inaccuracy or propaganda (or any such accusations at all) since then, so I wonder if the BBC will take out a licence or [more]