Comments on: Shooting at the Family Research Council’s Headquarters (Updated)

By: pax58

pax58 — Thu, 16 Aug 2012 01:39:47 +0000

It is a reminder that we live in a very divided country right now and that some very unstable people, regardless of political views, are reacting with physcially harm to those with whom they disagree. Thanks for a well written response, we may not be able to control how those who oppose our very existence “use” this tragedy, but our community’s united condemnation of this action will be the most important thing in the long run.

By: Timothy Kincaid

Timothy Kincaid — Wed, 15 Aug 2012 23:55:19 +0000

ooops… sorry, Ryan, I didn’t see your response when I deleted his message. There was no raving loonness about your response.

By: Ryan

Ryan — Wed, 15 Aug 2012 22:59:01 +0000

Thanks for putting truthspew’s deleted comment back in as a blank space. Without it, I looked like s raving loon. :)

By: Ryan

Ryan — Wed, 15 Aug 2012 21:53:26 +0000

Truthspew, you’re either a despicable troll or someone who needs psychiatric help. Either way, please go away. In other news, NOM has wasted no time lying about the FRC, claiming the shooting happened because the SPLC called them a hate group and the only reason it did that was because the FRC opposes “traditional marriage”. Even though NOM itself opposes gay marriage and is not labeled a hate group. There’s literally nothing they won’t lie about.

By: Truthspew

Truthspew — Wed, 15 Aug 2012 21:47:12 +0000

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By: Timothy Kincaid

Timothy Kincaid — Wed, 15 Aug 2012 21:42:53 +0000

Priya Lynn, Zeke, Blake,

Let’s get back on track, okay? Obviously there are a number of opinions about the historicity of Jesus (though I’d not heard that one before) and we could go on for ever on that, but let’s not do that here.

By: Blake

Blake — Wed, 15 Aug 2012 21:16:51 +0000

Woah Zeke, you might want to double check history on that one.

By: Andrew

Andrew — Wed, 15 Aug 2012 20:15:39 +0000

Man, it just feels like people all over are being pushed to the breaking point. The lack of decency in political discourse – and let’s be frank, it’s by vast majority coming from the right – has agitated anyone with a couple of loose screws… but all of us have to live in the wake of it.

By: TampaZeke

TampaZeke — Wed, 15 Aug 2012 19:50:51 +0000

Priya Lynn is right.

And actually Timothy, not to wander too off topic but the people of Palestine and Egypt were VERY aware of the Buddha’s words in the first centuries BCE and CE thanks to the Greeks who had largely converted to Buddhism by that time. It was the Greeks who were responsible for depicting the Buddha in statuary, complete with the top knot of Apollo. Christianity is very clearly a melding of Buddhist philosophy with the Horace myth of Egypt. “Jesus” was almost certainly metaphorical. Even his disciples names were taken directly from the names of the Buddha’s disciples.

By: Joseph Singer

Joseph Singer — Wed, 15 Aug 2012 19:48:28 +0000

Or it could be a publicity stunt cooked up by FRC. I wouldn’t put it past them.