God and the M60 Machine gun

[photosynthesis]

[quote name='journeyman' date='Nov 27 2005, 06:26 PM']we did too  (did not, did too, did not, did too, not, too) having gotten that out of the way, do you remember a trip to Vermont one summer when we camped out on the pasture? Had that little folding picnic table that disappeared on some scouting campout.  That's your mom's father's side of the family.  I think you guys did a day trip another time when you were in New Hampshire

I'm not sure if that's just a wing of the family that was married to some French Canadians . . . or if that is our wing . . . your mother could probably clarify, she seems to remember all those convoluted family tree branches
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i didn't know y'all were related!

[Guest T-Bone]

[quote]Another verse of scripture misquoted by many Liberal theologians as proof that guns are bad goes something like “the Bible tells us we should beat our swords (or in our case, guns) into plow shares.” The actual verse from Isaiah is written in the context of the second coming of Christ at which time “they will beat their swords into plow shares and their spears into pruning hooks” (Isaiah 2:4 NIV).
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He who beats his sword into a plowshare will plow for he who didn't.

[Matty_boy]

Wave that sword like a feather duster. Did anyone happen to see "Raiders of the Lost Arc?"

[Norseman82]

[quote name='Matty_boy' date='Nov 29 2005, 03:38 PM']Wave that sword like a feather duster.  Did anyone happen to see "Raiders of the Lost Arc?"
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Are you referring to the scene where the guy is waving his sword frantically and Indiana Jones calmly takes out a pistol and shoots him? That ranks as one of my all-time favorite movie scenes.

[Guest T-Bone]

[quote name='Norseman82' date='Nov 30 2005, 12:26 PM']Are you referring to the scene where the guy is waving his sword frantically and Indiana Jones calmly takes out a pistol and shoots him?  That ranks as one of my all-time favorite movie scenes.
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You know that wasn't the way it was written in the script?

Mr. Ford was sick that day, and wanted to wrap up the scene early. There was supposed to be a fight scene, but someone suggested that Indy just shoot the guy.

[track2004]

I really don't think God would have a problem with guns. I mean he's not corperal... so.... I have a problem with guns because getting shot evidently hurts, but I still think that they are useful sometimes. Though, I do rather like the idea of wars having to be hand to hand combat with swords, with lines, and all the good old tradition. I think it would make the army much more hard core.

I like math, and kind of relate it to God, it just works so perfectly... it's complicated, but it is how I see it. Just a quote to throw in: Mathematics, rightly viewed, possesses not only truth, but supreme beauty - a beauty cold and austere, like that of sculpture. Bertrand Russell

And 2+2 would equal 6 for very large values of 2, it would be 5 if they were very medium values...

[Socrates]

Just out of curiosity, Padre, were you expecting Phatmass to be largely anti-gun?

I thought it was common knowledge that the gun-control people are mostly liberals!

[Matty_boy]

...and by reading past polls, one would see that a very very large majority of Phatmassers are not liberals!

[PadreSantiago]

Umm so yea wars are not something that have to happen there are ways around it. It really doesn't matter if you are shooting them or cuting their throats, war...what is it good for, absolutly nothing.

and yea I assumed that catholics generally would be against guns and violence. I used this article because it has all those pretty bible quotes, it was my prememtive strike in case anyone argued.

[Guest T-Bone]

War is good for lots of things...like stimulating the economy.

[Matty_boy]

Appeasement works well. France just hasn't learned how to apply it successfully with the rioting unemployed immigrant youth.

People who say that war is never the answer and that you can talk your problems out don't seem to realize that evil exists and that you can't reason with evil.

What's "prememtive"?

Edited December 2, 2005 by Matty_boy

[Socrates]

[quote name='PadreSantiago' date='Dec 2 2005, 06:03 AM']and yea I assumed that catholics generally would be against guns and violence.  I used this article because it has all those pretty bible quotes, it was my prememtive strike in case anyone argued.
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Goes to show you have a lot a to learn!

And have you forgotten [url="http://www.phatmass.com/phorum/index.php?showtopic=441"]this poll[/url] already??
(Strange, since you were the last to post in it).
Only five of 85 phatmass voters believed there should be no right to own firearms!

I find it strange that you would make this assumption.
Maybe if you'd actually read what others post . . .

[PadreSantiago]

[quote name='Socrates' date='Dec 2 2005, 08:28 PM']Goes to show you have a lot a to learn!

And have you forgotten [url="http://www.phatmass.com/phorum/index.php?showtopic=441"]this poll[/url] already??
(Strange, since you were the last to post in it).
Only five of 85 phatmass voters believed there should be no right to own firearms!

I find it strange that you would make this assumption.
Maybe if you'd actually read what others post . . .
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I can't read