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Half The World's Christians Live In These 11 Nations

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Having previously mapped the world's Muslims, we thought it only politically-correct (and fair-and-balanced) to highlight where the world's Christians make their home...

 

 

But what about the Jews, Buddhists, Hindus, and others...

 

 

Source: @ConradHackett and Pew Research

 

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Mon, 10/13/2014 - 20:19 | 5326760 X.inf.capt
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100 million christians go to church regularly in this country...

the most in the world!

in CHINA...

the most christian nation on earth...

HMMMM!

Mon, 10/13/2014 - 20:19 | 5326774 ACP
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The muslims live in the hottest areas on earth. No wonder they're always so fucking pissed off all the time.

Mon, 10/13/2014 - 20:20 | 5326776 medium giraffe
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Apart from the middle-east.  Apparently no muslims live there. 

Mon, 10/13/2014 - 20:31 | 5326806 Dr. Engali
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You're confused. This map represents what the world will look like once the maniacs in Washington get their way and turn the Middle East into glass.

Mon, 10/13/2014 - 20:42 | 5326838 bunzbunzbunz
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Ummm no. Glass is pretty fucking hard to drill through.

Mon, 10/13/2014 - 21:02 | 5326899 Rememberweimar
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Jews are the supreme chosenite GODS. The rest of us exist to serve and obey them. If you disagree then you hate Jews and are anti-Semitic.

Mon, 10/13/2014 - 21:11 | 5326920 Rememberweimar
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Did I say "Jew"? Oops.. I meant to say "superior race of Israelis"

Mon, 10/13/2014 - 21:14 | 5326962 Rememberweimar
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No one has the right to criticize or offend jews. Ever. All Jews are perfect and everything they do to enslave and impoverish mankind is for their own good.

Mon, 10/13/2014 - 21:16 | 5326977 Rememberweimar
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That's why Jews are justified to collect taxes from the rest of us. It's not like the Jews can just print money... Oh wait...

Mon, 10/13/2014 - 21:18 | 5326985 Rememberweimar
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And the Jew owned and controlled Media... Well if the Jews wanted us to think they would tell us what to think...

Mon, 10/13/2014 - 21:45 | 5327090 JLee2027
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Is something wrong with you?

Mon, 10/13/2014 - 21:52 | 5327120 NuckingFuts
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Yeah JLee, I guess he thinks about Jews a lot. Probably more then is healthy. Yeah they are Gods chosen people but whatever.. /s/

Tue, 10/14/2014 - 00:58 | 5327634 Four chan
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cults and superstitions are for the brainwashed dim. or small children under 5.

Tue, 10/14/2014 - 02:03 | 5327682 The9thDoctor
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The only difference between religion and cults are size.

Tue, 10/14/2014 - 02:20 | 5327694 JLee2027
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Any religion composed of men will have flaws, as does everything that men do. If you're expecting perfection, look to GOD, not men.

Tue, 10/14/2014 - 05:08 | 5327785 BringOnTheAsteroid
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How does one "look" to god? Where do I "look"?

Do you mean the concept of god in the human mind gives rise to the concept of a perfect entity, that is, by definition, the god people imagine would be perfect . . . . . for some reason? (Why can't god have just a teensy weensy flaw?)

That's it, isn't it?

Because no one has seen god. No one has spoken to god and received a verbal reply (the voices in your head don't count).

No one has physically interacted with god in any way shape or form throughout human history (other than in their delusions which also doesn't count) so let's face it, this is one ethereal fucking concept if I've ever heard of one.

Tue, 10/14/2014 - 05:42 | 5327819 barre-de-rire
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" china - christianism "

 

ok i no longer read ZH  religion based articles. BS too.

 

 

Tue, 10/14/2014 - 06:18 | 5327837 SunRise
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Just wondering:  How is your knowledge extensive enough to know no-one else has seen or interacted with God,  unless you are God?  Surely you can't be God, because you just used a 4-letter word!

Tue, 10/14/2014 - 08:11 | 5327988 BringOnTheAsteroid
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Oh stop being bloody stupid.

Tue, 10/14/2014 - 19:07 | 5331224 SunRise
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Guess I needed a SARC tag on that last sentence.  I stand by the first one.

Tue, 10/14/2014 - 02:40 | 5327706 bunnyswanson
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What if.  What if Jewish people are given better financial advice.  What if the Jewish in financial sector went above and beyond ordinary networking with other Jewish people, in an orchestrated effort to protect their holdings/assets while decimating others, in a form of ... Transfer of Wealth.

 

What if the Jewish men in banking (2-3% of US population Jewish, 33% of millions are Jewish) meet secretly and discuss the means to accomplish this, year after year for a fucking CENTURY

What if their investments, if they meet the criteria, are held in safer places?

 

WTF IF?

 

This is from my Jewish friend, a lovely woman whose daddy left her a forture, about today's market activity:

"Markets fluctuate; it's a marathon not a sprint. And, it's all about balance."

Sent from my iPad

Mon, 10/13/2014 - 21:45 | 5327047 Harbanger
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Very few here ever have studied or understand anything about Christian theology.  Christ is not a prophet, he is the Lord.

Mon, 10/13/2014 - 21:55 | 5327134 NuckingFuts
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Make assumptions for the rest of us much? Yes, that is the entire basis of fundamentalist Christianity. God incarnate.

Mon, 10/13/2014 - 22:27 | 5327181 Harbanger
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Yes, God incarnate is the basis of Christianity.

Mon, 10/13/2014 - 22:33 | 5327256 NuckingFuts
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Yes I agree many folks don't get that. But isn't that the whole point? If they don't understand (they don't have believe, just understand) that this is why there is Christianity then they must be really fucking stupid.

Mon, 10/13/2014 - 22:49 | 5327305 Harbanger
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No, they're not stupid, in fact they think they know it all, just lost like a child that doesnt understand. 

Mon, 10/13/2014 - 23:02 | 5327351 NuckingFuts
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With all due respect, because I enjoy the civil conversation we are having. If my 7 year old got lost in the wilderness even though I gave him very clear directions, I might wonder about how stupid he his.

He's not, he rocks. But you get my point.

I understand that Muslims believe that there is only one god and he is Allah and Mohamed is his profit. Now I don't believe that, but, understand that this,is,their belief. (They say it enough)

With the point above. If you do not understand (not believe) that Christianity is founded on the idea of God incarnate then you are extremely ignorant.

Mon, 10/13/2014 - 23:21 | 5327404 Harbanger
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Christians believe in the one and only God who is our Father, and like a good father, He gives us instruction and direction.

If we do not follow him, like a good father he will still try to find us, if we still reject him then he will disown us.  When the Lord turns his face from you, it's all you and the prince of the earth babe.

Mon, 10/13/2014 - 23:23 | 5327419 NuckingFuts
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I think I got that covered for me and mine. 

Mon, 10/13/2014 - 23:29 | 5327447 BringOnTheAsteroid
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What a load of bullshit. If you were born in Saudia Arabia you'd believe in Allah you dill and call that the one and only god.

You are a Pagan worshipper. When you worship Jesus you are worshipping the sun. At some point people moved on from worshing balls of hydrogen and helium so personified the sun. This has gone on for millenia. Watch "The Unbearable Truth - Christianity is a Lie". It spells it out quite nicely.

Your jesus stories have been repeated dozens of times before by various cultures and races of human beings. You silly christians think all these stories are unique to your religion. You're all pretty silly really.

Mon, 10/13/2014 - 23:43 | 5327486 BringOnTheAsteroid
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By the way Christians, based on the above maps you have one kick ass cult going. You might even be winning. What you guys need is a football jumper with your own colours, song and mascot. OK, you've got the mascot covered, a man nailed to a device of torture but I'd suggest something a little lighter like a duckling or cuddly bear. All this work of revamping the churches to be a place of musical entertainment is really paying off. Putting a rock band on stage really helps people to be NOT SO BORED SHITLESS. It was a bold move for people who think the earth is 6000 years old, that animals lines up by twos on the ark, that jesus could feed a city with a loaf of bread, could turn water into wine, could walk on water and raise the dead. Yep, yes siree, turning church into a rock concert was bold indeed. 

Credit where credit is due, well done. In another 20 years there will be pole dancers and cheer leaders in skimpy bikinis cheering on the lords prayer and instead of putting money in the dish you'll be tucking bills into the garter belts of the hostesses. Shit, I might even go to church then.

Tue, 10/14/2014 - 01:24 | 5327658 JLee2027
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You reject Christ because you love pole dancers and sexy women. You'll find there will never be enough to satisfy you. The good feelings don't last. Then you have to do it over and over to get that same temporary feeling back.  Sin makes you a slave.

It's like an addiction, but you don't even realize you are addicted. But you are.

Only GOD can set you free. 

 

Tue, 10/14/2014 - 02:30 | 5327700 CCanuck
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Does God give you good feelings?

Tue, 10/14/2014 - 02:58 | 5327720 JLee2027
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GOD can bring peace inside you and remove worry and fear, so yes. 

Tue, 10/14/2014 - 05:20 | 5327795 BringOnTheAsteroid
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So rather than rely on this notion of god to remove worry and fear why not chose to be in a state of serenity. A conscious choice of a free thinking entity. It's odd you say god removes fear, when you in fact fearful of god, you are god fearing christian aren't you?

JLee, do me a favour and watch "The Unbearable Truth - Christianity is a lie". Just watch it, the first segment is only 9 minutes. I want to know how you feel when it becomes apparent that the jesus story has been "lifted", stolen, copied from other belief systems.

Does this not stun you into the realisation that it's all a gigantic con-job.

By the way, what is it that you fear? I don't understand this at all. Fear of dying right? You are scared to die?

Thing is, you won't be conscious after you are dead so you will be fear free for eternity and you don't even need a god. You didn't exist for eternity before being born, it never bothered you then. So why does not existing again for eternity bother you now?

Does going to sleep at night terify you? Beacsue being asleep must be a lot like being dead and I must say that it is  bloody pleasant.

Tue, 10/14/2014 - 10:15 | 5328438 JLee2027
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I've answered this claim already in this thread. Obviously, you never read the answer, didn't care to read the answer, or rejected the answer. Either way, it's not worth responding to again.

Tue, 10/14/2014 - 06:38 | 5327848 Refuse-Resist
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So can a bong rip of good kind bud, or a big fat line of cocaine snorted off of a stripper's ass (or so I've heard).

What was that?  An artificial feeling, created by the brain, that soothes and removes all the nastiness present in reality from the affected brain?

I call that a drug.

Now, where's my damn bong?

 

 

Tue, 10/14/2014 - 03:15 | 5327729 Space Animatoltipap
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Indeed, only God, Vishnu, can set you free. Jesus was one of the many lliberated lovers of God. He was also a spiritual teacher since he had disciples. Anyone who has the fantasy Jesus is the eternal the Absolute Truth is fanatical crackpot only. Like the only Allah crazies and the only us chosen Jews madmen. 

Tue, 10/14/2014 - 05:26 | 5327803 BringOnTheAsteroid
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Oh no, another interpretation. Vishnu is a new comer to this forum. OK, who's Vishnu, which cult is he the head of? Sounds like Hari Chrishna territory to me. Kudos for the symbols, chanting and ultra skinny girls, they always make the streets a brighter place even though I suspect they are somewhat fucking crazy.

Tue, 10/14/2014 - 03:21 | 5327732 John_Coltrane
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Actually, you've got it backwards, only DOG can set you free.  I'm guessing widespread dyslexia may explain what I call organized superstition, but many call religion.  I'll take a hot pole dancer anyday over a boring sermon based upon children's fairy tales of a 6000 year old earth.

Tue, 10/14/2014 - 05:23 | 5327799 BringOnTheAsteroid
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OK, you can be first to sign up for my cult when I start it?

Tue, 10/14/2014 - 05:27 | 5327801 Space Animatoltipap
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Arrogant nitwits will meet God also. God appears as "death" for them. Bye bye arrogance and stupidity. btw The earth is about 4.6 billion years old. A universe exists 411 trillion 40 billion years according to the Vedic information. The energy itself is eternal within a cycle.

Tue, 10/14/2014 - 05:29 | 5327806 BringOnTheAsteroid
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What the holy hell - ANOTHER INTERPRETATION ?????????????

411 trillion years ???????

This earth is a great big fucking nut house.

Tue, 10/14/2014 - 03:09 | 5327717 Space Animatoltipap
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So Jesus arranges for war, famine, poverty? And Jesus is present in every atom? And he is in the heart of every living entity? Indeed, you're a funny person. More precise, a total nitwit when it comes to the Absolute Truth. Jesus was one of the many, many liberated lovers of God, Krishna. Who is also known as Adonai, Allah, Jaweh, Gopala, Govinda. And it's everyone's birthright to reach that position having arrived in the human form of body.

Tue, 10/14/2014 - 05:27 | 5327802 css1971
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You missed the most important one. El: IsraEL, Allah is just El in another dialect.

 

All of judeo christian and muslim religions are based on the Canaanite worship of El. Read up on the bloke, it will clear a load of weirdness up for you.

Mon, 10/13/2014 - 22:04 | 5327162 zerozulu
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In case, in America, if infectious Jewbola spread, their population will shrink dramatically.

Mon, 10/13/2014 - 20:57 | 5326900 Surly Bear
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All my adverts are for European, Russian and Chinese singles...what? no Christain Mingle? haha, I know, I know....

Mon, 10/13/2014 - 20:30 | 5326809 X.inf.capt
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'i like your jesus christ, but not your christians, because very few christians are christ-like'....GHANDI

Mon, 10/13/2014 - 21:47 | 5327097 JLee2027
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And neither was Ghandi - 'christ-like' -, because he rejected Christ as his Lord.

Mon, 10/13/2014 - 21:59 | 5327145 NuckingFuts
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Why the down arrows. It's a quote and has some real merit.

And no one ever said Ghandi was a Christian, of course he wasn't .

Mon, 10/13/2014 - 22:22 | 5327222 Abbie Normal
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Who is more Christ-like?  Someone that is "born again" and continues to lead an immoral life, or someone that does not accept Christ but still leads a moral life?

Mon, 10/13/2014 - 22:29 | 5327243 Seek_Truth
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Indeed. Jesus taught the same through the Parable of the Two Sons:

28 “What do you think? There was a man who had two sons. He went to the first and said, ‘Son, go and work today in the vineyard.’

29 “‘I will not,’ he answered, but later he changed his mind and went.

30 “Then the father went to the other son and said the same thing. He answered, ‘I will, sir,’ but he did not go.

31 “Which of the two did what his father wanted?”

“The first,” they answered.

Jesus said to them, “Truly I tell you, the tax collectors and the prostitutes are entering the kingdom of God ahead of you. 32 For John came to you to show you the way of righteousness, and you did not believe him, but the tax collectors and the prostitutes did. And even after you saw this, you did not repent and believe him.

-Matthew 21:28-32

Tue, 10/14/2014 - 00:01 | 5327527 BringOnTheAsteroid
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Are you a minister Seek_Truth? I've never seem anyone on this site so obsessed with quoting scripture. It's as if you don't have any of your own thoughts, it's just all cut and paste from the bible.

So tell me, what does the statements after "Jesus said to them" got to do with 28, 29, 30 and 31. This is the problem with the bible, it's gobblygook. To be meaningful in any sense of the words after the statement "Jesus said to them" would need to reference the preceding statements to form a coherent dialog. One bit is talking about sons lying to their fathers and the next bit is talking about prostitutes and tax collectors.

Do you really have to wonder why people think the bible is claptrap? You don't question it though. You don't question it though. You are happy with two completely disjointed dialogs and worse still, think it's revealing some deep and hidden truth.

Are you a minister Seek_Truth? Are you on the payroll? 

Mon, 10/13/2014 - 23:34 | 5327460 BringOnTheAsteroid
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I think you mean he rejected the sun as his Lord. You worship the sun JLee, just the words and script have been "modernized", hahahahaha, if you can call it that. People eventually found out that it was pretty fucking stupid worshipping rocks, trees, wind, fire, water, animals, stars and planets so needed to rework the script to be more "believable" - hahahaha - if you can call it that.

It must be hell to live in perpetual fear of your all mighty creator - but like stockholm syndrome - it doesn't feel that way to you. Having something to bow to in reverence somehow gives the feeble mind a happy place in the universe. 

Tue, 10/14/2014 - 00:29 | 5327576 JLee2027
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Paganism is always related to the moral decay and fall of civilization. So the first stage is worship of the Lord, but as generations pass some become pagans and begin worship of objects.

The Bible tells us in many places that when people fell away from GOD they began to worship other things. One place is Egypt, founded by Noah's grandson, Mizraim (in Hebrew and his name translates as "Egypt").  They worshiped the Lord at first and their civilization quickly grew. Later they fell into paganism and enslaved the Israelites until Moses arrived (1446BC is the date given to the Exodus).

A quick study of human history shows that pagan civilizations come and go, while those that worship GOD prosper and endure, more so, than others. This is not a coincidence.

 

Tue, 10/14/2014 - 05:37 | 5327812 BringOnTheAsteroid
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Do me a favour and watch "The Unbearable Truth - Christianity is a Lie".

The whole story of jesus, resurrection, miracles, virgin birth, it's been played out dozens of times before.

You are pagan JLee, but instead of worshipping the sun, you are worshipping the sun rebranded as jesus.

It's sort of funny in that if we are going to worship anything it actually should be the sun, because the sun is the ultimate source of life on earth.

It would be hilarious if the universe actually did intend for humans to worship their star as the ultimate giver of life but we actually strayed from the true path and started worshipping heretics like jesus and allah and whatever the one the jews worship - ah that's right - money.

Tue, 10/14/2014 - 10:17 | 5328449 JLee2027
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I answered your statement and you responded by changing the subject. Do you accept my answer regarding paganism? 

Thu, 10/16/2014 - 07:01 | 5340288 BringOnTheAsteroid
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I have not studied civilisations based on their religious worship, so I don't know and therefore can neither accept or deny your views on Paganism.

Aborigines in Australia could not be more removed from your god or your jesus and they prospered for tens of thousands of years until a christian race came along and well and truly fucked them over.

Does Allah count in your civilisations that prosper by worshipping god or do you only mean christian nations. That is a rhetorical question by the way.

I don't think you are understanding or listening when I say that you are worshipping a rebranded sun, the stories of christ have been lifted from paganism just as have the rituals and holidays. YOU ARE ARE MODERN PAGAN. The objects have been personified and called jesus, allah, chrishna, virgin mary etc.

Mon, 10/13/2014 - 20:37 | 5326826 Hulk
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No wonder dearborn is such a happy place !!!

Mon, 10/13/2014 - 22:36 | 5327273 Steaming_Wookie_Doo
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I'm still wondering what is up in Canada...is there a category for "Hockey as God"? Maybe Molson?

Mon, 10/13/2014 - 23:00 | 5327335 sylviasays
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Dearborn (aka  Dearbornstan) is now majority Muslim and the Muslim children are taught they are superior to infidels in all things and that violence against infidels is always justified by the Qur’an. Hate crimes by Muslims are on the upswing in Michigan such as the following case:

At the end of a football game between two private schools in Dearborn, Michigan, four Muslim football players rushed a Christian quarterback, knocked off his helmet and beat him unconscious. Although this occurred in October of last year, the media kept a tight lid on the story until the district attorney’s office was finally forced to file minor charges against the four Muslims involved. There is no mistake that the attack was deliberate. The Lutheran Westland  team was beating the Star International Academy which is all Muslim, by a score of 47 to 6 at the end of the fourth quarter. It was the last minute of the game and Lutheran’s quarterback was going to “take a knee” and run out the clock. Knowing this, the referee had told both teams that there could be “no contact” on the play. As the Lutheran quarterback kneeled with the ball the Muslims busted through the unprepared defensive line and beat him after taking off his helmet. Parents of the victim had to push for months for charges to be filed despite the fact that the entire attack was captured on video. Islamic groups are now claiming that the minor charges filed against the four Muslim players are “racist.”

http://www.religiousfreedomcoalition.org/2012/01/27/hate-crime-violence-...

Mon, 10/13/2014 - 23:51 | 5327501 Escrava Isaura
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In the internet you can be whatever you want. Why some chose to remain stupid is beyond me.

 

Chris Hedges: … if human history is any guide, we, like past societies in distress, will retreat into what anthropologists call “crisis cults.” The powerlessness we will feel in the face of ecological and economic chaos will unleash further collective delusions, such as fundamentalist beliefs in a god or gods who will come back to earth and save us. The Christian right provides a haven for this escapism.

These cults perform absurd rituals to make it all go away, giving rise to a religiosity that peddles collective self-delusion and magical thinking. Crisis cults spread rapidly among Native American societies in the later part of the 19th century as the buffalo herds and the last remaining tribes were slaughtered.

The Ghost Dance held out the hope that all the horrors of white civilization—the railroads, the murderous cavalry units, the timber merchants, the mine speculators, the hated tribal agencies, the barbed wire, the machine guns, even the white man himself—would disappear. And our psychological hard wiring is no different.

In our decline, hatred becomes our primary lust, our highest form of patriotism.

 

http://www.truthdig.com/report/item/chris_hedges_jan_27_column_transcript_collapse_of_complex_societies_2014012 

 

Tue, 10/14/2014 - 02:16 | 5327685 ACP
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Yeah, you can pretty much find anything on the internet, except for stories about asshole liberals who will bend over backwards to allow muslims to have their way, even in public areas. Where did this story go on the web?

Where's the ACLU on this bullshit? WHERE ARE THE PUSSY COCKSUCKER SO-CALLED ATHEISTS ON THIS SHIT?

http://blog.sfgate.com/matierandross/2013/06/09/airports-garage-now-musl...

SFO is now a FUCKING MOSQUE.


Here's a great fucking quote from the story (link):

"As for using public resources?

Yakel says the costs were nominal, with the work done by in-house plumbers."

Yeah, but when a Christian so much bows his head in prayer at a high school football game, the whole country is turned on its head. But...it's OK to use "nominal resources" to appease muslims.

 

PLEASE, EXPLAIN HOW THIS IS ACCEPTABLE.

HELP ME UNDERSTAND.

 

It seems to me the so-called multiculturalist pieces of SHIT are more than happy to promote islam in public places where...hmmm...they generally shouldn't?

 

FUCK your crisis cults, it's all bullshit to explain your cowardice.

 

Mon, 10/13/2014 - 21:16 | 5326983 maxamus
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Seems to me I see a whole lot of pissed off christians all the time.  You know, them crying how they are being persecuted and all....

Mon, 10/13/2014 - 21:59 | 5327149 NuckingFuts
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W W W What about the war on Christmas by the left /s/

Mon, 10/13/2014 - 22:32 | 5327254 Seek_Truth
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Who are these crying "christians" you refer to?

Actual Christians know better:

"Remember what I told you: 'A servant is not greater than his master.' If they persecuted me, they will persecute you also. If they obeyed my teaching, they will obey yours also." - John 15:20

Mon, 10/13/2014 - 23:06 | 5327362 sylviasays
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"Seems to me I see a whole lot of pissed off christians all the time.  You know, them crying how they are being persecuted and all...."

Christians in the Middle East are being persecuted to the point of extinction by Muslims. 

http://www.nytimes.com/2014/09/14/opinion/sunday/ross-douthat-the-middle...

Mon, 10/13/2014 - 23:15 | 5327392 Manic by Proxy
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The force of ignorance is strong with this one.

Mon, 10/13/2014 - 20:28 | 5326802 Millivanilli
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Christians ought to develop a PORK BOMB that aerosolizes.  It could take care of some "issues."

Mon, 10/13/2014 - 20:15 | 5326761 TeamDepends
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Well, if the lucies get their way all of these numbers will waterfall.

Mon, 10/13/2014 - 20:21 | 5326762 Racer
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Religion as it is said.....etc

And a reason to keep the war monger companies in rich profits fighting the 'this is the one true religion keep buying our drugs,and buy the Scroll of the Dead and the way to the afterlife' and you must be converted company, er, religious enlightenment we can give you much better drugs, er, religion that those other non believers in cocaine, er religion

Mon, 10/13/2014 - 20:23 | 5326772 Dr. Engali
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It's too bad it can't be broken out by people who are practicing Christians and people who say they are Christians but are cool with killing and maiming brown people (all in the name of security of course) as long as it doesn't interfere with Sunday afternoon football.

Mon, 10/13/2014 - 20:25 | 5326792 Zhuge Liang
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or more importantly, which Christians will side with zionism in the ongoing wars, and which will actuall follow the teachings of Jesus and demand a stop to oft discussed evils perpetuated in the name of zionism around the world.  the very thing that led to his crucifiction two thousand years ago.

Mon, 10/13/2014 - 21:06 | 5326930 Rememberweimar
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Bingo!

Mon, 10/13/2014 - 21:06 | 5326931 Rememberweimar
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We have a winner!

Mon, 10/13/2014 - 21:25 | 5327018 Chupacabra-322
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It's incredible & boggles the mind how some people "Claim" to be Christan but still support the Zionist Ideology. You cannot, it's heresery. The Council of Nicea outlawed other forms of Christianity that were not supportive of Rome as heresery.

So, when you get Douche Bag Politicians like Ted Cruz & many others for example, who claim to be Christian but support Zionism, the ultimate goal is to cloud the masses.

Mon, 10/13/2014 - 21:55 | 5327128 Zhuge Liang
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If ted cruz isnt a crypto, ill eat my shoes.

Mon, 10/13/2014 - 21:55 | 5327130 Zhuge Liang
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If ted cruz isnt a crypto, ill eat my shoes.

Mon, 10/13/2014 - 21:55 | 5327132 Zhuge Liang
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If ted cruz isnt a crypto, ill eat my shoes.

Mon, 10/13/2014 - 22:22 | 5327221 jaxville
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Real Christians don't worship at the synagogue of Satan

Tue, 10/14/2014 - 06:45 | 5327856 Refuse-Resist
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Who in the fuck is downvoting all this?

I didn't realize how many cultists had accounts here.

Cheesepopes, zombie worshippers, and head choppers oh my!

Lock and load bitchez.

Tue, 10/14/2014 - 06:44 | 5327857 Refuse-Resist
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double post.  It's the devil making me do it!

 

 

Mon, 10/13/2014 - 20:32 | 5326811 WillyGroper
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You including John Paul in that little box?

Mon, 10/13/2014 - 20:40 | 5326827 Dr. Engali
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What's your point? You take issue with the fact that I don't think most Christians act like very Christ like?

Mon, 10/13/2014 - 20:49 | 5326864 bunzbunzbunz
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I suppose you knew Christ personally then?

Not a lot written about the savior during the ages most people learn what it is to be human, man, decent, whatever they may be. He certainly could not have studied religions and learned what would convince people to dedicate life and resources towards one...Hmm.

Mon, 10/13/2014 - 21:00 | 5326908 Rememberweimar
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Christ didn't like counterfeiters or bankers. So the Jews killed him for that.

Mon, 10/13/2014 - 21:16 | 5326981 WillyGroper
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I was under the misguided notion Pilate was Roman.

Mon, 10/13/2014 - 21:22 | 5327006 Dr. Engali
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Who demanded that Christ be crucified and who washed their hands of the whole shitty situation?

Mon, 10/13/2014 - 21:49 | 5327110 JLee2027
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The Jewish religious leaders who had turned the religion into a personal power trip.

Christ's death had nothing to do with Zionism.

Mon, 10/13/2014 - 22:43 | 5327290 Zhuge Liang
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power trip? come now J. Lee... you are ignoring the plain language of the NT:

"You belong to your father, the devil, and you want to carry out your father's desires. He was a murderer from the beginning, not holding to the truth, for there is no truth in him. When he lies, he speaks his native language, for he is a liar and the father of lies."

John 8:44

power trip? or satanism...   has anything really changed?

Mon, 10/13/2014 - 21:31 | 5327049 Chupacabra-322
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Speaking of Rome:

In his book, E.w. Barnes’ careful review of all the information available goes to show that, until the time of Marcus Aurelius [Roman emperor from 161 to 180 C.E.], no Christian became a soldier; and no soldier, after becoming a Christian, remained in military service.The Rise of Christianity (London, 1947), E. W. Barnes, p. 333.

http://dominicanewsonline.com/news/homepage/features/commentary/early-ch...

Mon, 10/13/2014 - 21:50 | 5327116 JLee2027
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All Christians are soldiers of the light. You should try reading the Bible.

Mon, 10/13/2014 - 22:17 | 5327204 Chupacabra-322
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If I wanted to read Fiction I'd just pick up an issue of the NY or Washington Times.

Mon, 10/13/2014 - 23:13 | 5327358 JLee2027
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So you choose to read a man's view of religion (E.w. Barnes) and not the word of GOD. Interesting choice there chicken man.

Mon, 10/13/2014 - 23:49 | 5327493 Chupacabra-322
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No douche bag. I choose not to read a false book of narratives that have been retranslated at least a dozen times or more. Clear enough? By the way, dickhead, the Bible is the view of religion by man.

Tue, 10/14/2014 - 01:47 | 5327555 JLee2027
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The original latin (the Vulgate from the late 300's) or the 1948 found Dead Sea Scrolls (Hebrew) as well are available if you're concerned about the translations. 

And before you reject it, consider this. It has been established without doubt that the Dead Sea Scrolls were written hundrds of years before Christ was born. They correctly predicted his birth, death, and resurrection.  The Bible is far more than a narrative.

Tue, 10/14/2014 - 11:50 | 5328890 KanKhaderKhanKan
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They correctly predicted his birth, death, and resurrection.

As someone who had to study the Dead Sea Scrolls for a comparative religion elective at university I can say to you right now that your statement is a gigantic crock of shit: the scrolls, if you had bother to be attentive, referred to 'messiahs' plurals and not singular. Furthermore those 'messiahs' (note plural) were either military messiahs and as well as religious messiahs. Furthermore historical context of the Dead Sea Scrolls emerged in a period of history in Roman Judea in which there were MANY MESSIANIC JEWISH CULTS in which the cult of Jesus (a fact reiterated by the world famous Dead Sea Scrolls scholar Geza Vermes) was one amongst many and to highlight how ignorant your comment that somehow the Dead Sea Scroll corroborates your trinitarian christianity (which was a doctrine recognised a hundred years after Jesus's alleged ascenscion/death) much of the content within it deals with ritual purification and animal sacrifice which are concerns not found in the New Testament. Furthermore the New Testament you trinitarian christians have is not an original but an altered document modified by various christian scribes during various period of christological disputes (see Bart Ehrman's Orthodox corruption of scripture), so even if your above comment was true that the Dead Sea Scrolls corroborates the New Testament which New Testament you reffering to? Furthermore why should one accept the 5 current gospels in the New Testament as the 'accepted' cannon of New Testament literature instead of the original 13 gospels which included the gnostic gospels?

See that shredded straw man on the ground there? That's what I just done to your argument. Honestly you evangelical christians are breathtakingly ignorant of your own religion and to think you somehow the moral high ground to hector the rest of us for not subscribing to your peculiar doctrine/view of the world.

Tue, 10/14/2014 - 15:26 | 5330091 JLee2027
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What an untrue blanket garbage statment. There were no "Messiahs". There is only and was only one Messiah predicted.  The Dead Sea Scrolls contain the Book of Isiah entirely. 

http://www.gotquestions.org/Old-Testament-Christ.html 

 

I didn't bother to read the rest of your post. You are obviously ... corrupted.

Tue, 10/14/2014 - 00:13 | 5327566 BringOnTheAsteroid
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There's the sticking point - how do you know the bible is the word of god?

Please don't tell you think angels dictated it to scribes, I find humans depressing enough without being faced with the stark reality that adult human beings are categorically delusional.

Oh and please don't tell me you have faith that the bible is the word of god, human gullabilityn is deeply irksome.

Now what was the epic disagreement you and Seek_Truth had a few weeks/months back. That was pure entertainment and just so patently ironic to see two christians at each others throats. When I say the human race is Monty Pythonesk, you two could have starring roles.

Tue, 10/14/2014 - 01:00 | 5327583 JLee2027
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There's the sticking point - how do you know the bible is the word of god?

Study. Searching for truth with an open mind. If you cannot do that, you'll never get there.

Tue, 10/14/2014 - 05:17 | 5327798 css1971
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Seems more like a mix of a bad acid trip and lots of mistranslation to me.

Tue, 10/14/2014 - 05:41 | 5327818 BringOnTheAsteroid
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How do you know you have an open mind?

Tue, 10/14/2014 - 10:20 | 5328409 JLee2027
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I answered your statement.

There's the sticking point - how do you know the bible is the word of god?

Study. Searching for truth with an open mind. If you cannot do that, you'll never get there.

Do you accept my answer?

Tue, 10/14/2014 - 11:52 | 5328904 KanKhaderKhanKan
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Here's an even better question: how does he know that the current 5 gospels in the New Testament are the correct ones and not the 8 other gospels (e.g. the gnostic gospels) that were rejected by the church fathers?

Tue, 10/14/2014 - 15:28 | 5330131 JLee2027
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Have you accepted my other answers? Why do you change the subject, don't acknowledge my answer and then ask something completely off-topic?

Mon, 10/13/2014 - 21:06 | 5326928 Dr. Engali
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Uhmmmm he was pretty clear on how we were supposed to treat each other.. Be charitable, watch out for the poor, don't judge other people, don't cast stones...... I'm pretty sure there's nothing in the gospels about bombing the shit out of people while sipping on a cold brew.

Mon, 10/13/2014 - 21:07 | 5326936 Rememberweimar
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Your only supposed to bomb people that the Jews don't like...

Mon, 10/13/2014 - 21:19 | 5326971 WillyGroper
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Nope.

The point is one world religion. NWO agenda. The "Coexist" thingy. 

Just like the never ending PC complete with behaviour legislation, Christ is being legislated out as evidenced with the military chaplains among other things.

To each his own with regards to religion or no, but the choice is being removed, just as incrementally as the deindustrialization of the USSA.  

That is my point.

Mon, 10/13/2014 - 21:23 | 5327015 Dr. Engali
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You won't find any argument from me there.

Mon, 10/13/2014 - 21:30 | 5327045 WillyGroper
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You must have replied before I could edit to ask, do you not think it odd or even question the pontiff kissing the Qur'aan? The agenda behind such a display?

Mon, 10/13/2014 - 22:24 | 5327233 Harbanger
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Our dumbass Progressives believe they are smarter than others and are driven by their own ego.  They believe they can use the muzzies against their political opposition.  The fools are putting themselves and all of us in harms way.

Mon, 10/13/2014 - 23:28 | 5327446 WillyGroper
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I see the removal of choice, property, etc. & forced conformity under a jackboot in the future. 

If you want to point the finger at progressives, I agree, many more have their hands in this mess. 

Centralization & compartmentalization keeps the folks from getting the bigger picture and allows for much easier manipulation. 

Tue, 10/14/2014 - 06:49 | 5327861 Refuse-Resist
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I see most in the liberal coastal areas having no problem bowining to their new masters and kissing the feet of their new Imam.

Look how they cheered after they were treated like prisoners in Boston circa 4/2013.

Do you all think they won't welcome their new overlords?  You're delusional if you think those feminized urban metro liberals will fight for anythign except the iDiot6 phone.

Flyover country may not be exactly the same in terms of will to fight and means to fight.

 

Mon, 10/13/2014 - 23:07 | 5327364 Manic by Proxy
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How about the parallel analysis pertaining to the proportion of Muslims who ARE Mohammed-like? You know, murdering butchers. Oh, and pederasts. Just to be fair and balanced.

Mon, 10/13/2014 - 21:13 | 5326969 darteaus
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They're no slouches when it comes to killing white people either: WWI & WWII.

Mon, 10/13/2014 - 21:53 | 5327121 Harbanger
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"...people who say they are Christians but are cool with killing and maiming brown people (all in the name of security of course) as long as it doesn't interfere with Sunday afternoon football."

You're projecting your old thoughts that haunt you Mr. Engali, they are not Christian.  I'd rather an honest atheist than a fake sofa Merikan.

Tue, 10/14/2014 - 06:58 | 5327872 Refuse-Resist
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Somebody get this guy an apsirin, I think he got knee'd in the pussy.

I like your posts usually, but your bruised vagina is showing hence the downvote.  Plenty of Baptists in these parts would gladly push the button to turn the ME into glass.

Their notion of Christian Charity extends as far as their denomination + Israel. All other possible religions (including other Christian flavors) are false and those adherents are hell bound as I've been told by a number of these cult-members.

Upon moving here, I attended a service at the request of a new acquaintance. When they said the pledge of allegiance to start the service (felt like elementary school as all the drones around me recited it loud and proud), I walked out.

It's a militant christianity that would make the Inquisition era Spanish Catholics proud. All the Baptists are waiting for to start burning non-believers is for the central government to go away -- then they will enact God's will as they see it.

I will resist them with equal ferocity as any Muslim cult member.  In my book they're the same thing. Ignorant, superstitious, and many are sociopaths who only want to control others.

I ain't buyin' what they're a sellin'.

 

 

Tue, 10/14/2014 - 05:15 | 5327793 css1971
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I find it amusing and ironic that I get funny looks from the sheeple when I say "Oh I'm not a Christian".

The choice where I came from used to be protestant or catholic and if you answered incorrectly you would get stabbed. Turns out there is a third way.

Mon, 10/13/2014 - 20:27 | 5326800 nmewn
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99% of lunatics send their kids to Berkeley, maybe we should start there ;-)

Mon, 10/13/2014 - 20:30 | 5326810 bbq on whitehou...
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Looks lie China has more then half of the worlds problems. Good luck china.

Mon, 10/13/2014 - 20:39 | 5326829 disabledvet
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Bali is 100% Hindu.

Just thought I'd point that out.

Mon, 10/13/2014 - 20:51 | 5326867 bunzbunzbunz
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Nothing is 100% anything.

Mon, 10/13/2014 - 21:12 | 5326959 darteaus
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"Nothing is 100% anything."

Now THAT is a logic puzzle!

Mon, 10/13/2014 - 20:41 | 5326833 One of We
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And then there were the godless Canadians....

Mon, 10/13/2014 - 20:53 | 5326882 mjcOH1
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Are we forgetting 'Hockey'?

Mon, 10/13/2014 - 21:02 | 5326914 Rememberweimar
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Canadians are Jews too

Mon, 10/13/2014 - 21:29 | 5327039 One of We
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And the queen.  Her moose are delicious....

Mon, 10/13/2014 - 21:31 | 5327044 One of We
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.

Mon, 10/13/2014 - 23:10 | 5327374 Tsunami Wave
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Are there any christians up in Canada? Or are they far and few in between?

Mon, 10/13/2014 - 23:20 | 5327408 Moccasin
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Canada must have too small of a population to be noticed. It is interesting that it was not included in the map of Christian nations, after all it is US protectorate. :)

Tue, 10/14/2014 - 07:35 | 5327921 cherry picker
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Who are you kidding?

I don't need big brother from the south looking after me.

All I see is a super power in decay, violence in their streets, a place you can't carry cash, so many laws no one has been able to count them all, a nose that is in everyone's business and a border security detail that treats everyone like a criminal.

In WW2 this tiny population in Canada flexed its muscles and never got recognized for it as we don't have hollywood to tell the world how great and good we are, but often as not Canucks were front line troops in the thick of it.

US Protectorate, ha, ha, ha.....

 

Mon, 10/13/2014 - 20:45 | 5326852 starman
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I was hopig to see a 50 and a 200 day mooving average chart for these relegions! 

And is it Allah , God, Bhuda or whoever is in charge can have a speak wih the world leaders?! 

Because shit is about to hit the fan!

 

Mon, 10/13/2014 - 20:51 | 5326876 Bumbu Sauce
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Let's call thisa "sign of the times."

Mon, 10/13/2014 - 20:52 | 5326883 OhNo
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More Zeroshit-Where are the fuckin jew fucktards-Oh tylers are jews no way man.

Mon, 10/13/2014 - 20:56 | 5326892 mjcOH1
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Here, here!   Let's not go confusing the issue with the facts!

Mon, 10/13/2014 - 20:58 | 5326903 OhNo
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Ive got a new one Jew-sa Jew-sa repeat after me Jew-sa.Oh you yanks are fucked.

Mon, 10/13/2014 - 23:19 | 5327405 sylviasays
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Ive got a new one Islama Islama repeat after me Islama. Oh you limey bastards in Londonstan are fucked.

Mon, 10/13/2014 - 21:00 | 5326905 BullyBearish
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Any religion, except that religion which is solely between you and your God is of the world and thus is doomed to corruption.

Tue, 10/14/2014 - 05:35 | 5327811 Space Animatoltipap
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Correct, but then you have to know God, Krishna. Not just some mental idea but in reality, 24/7. 

Mon, 10/13/2014 - 21:11 | 5326954 darteaus
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75% of the world's Fascists live in Washington, DC.

Mon, 10/13/2014 - 21:22 | 5327011 bigrooster
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And we will defeat all of the Muslims.  Pick a side.  

Mon, 10/13/2014 - 21:35 | 5327052 Hail Spode
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The story from these charts is that there is one truly global religion- Christianity.  The only one close would lose half its adherents overnight if it did not use compulsion to force adherence in nations where it is ascendent.

Tue, 10/14/2014 - 08:06 | 5327974 Hail Spode
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Downvote me.  That ought to change the information in the charts right?

Mon, 10/13/2014 - 21:44 | 5327085 Fuku Ben
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This post is a trap

Mon, 10/13/2014 - 21:51 | 5327118 FPearl602
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Such dim-witted commentary...Jekyll Island had Christians and Jews and very few Americans in attendance...greed has is own religion.

Mon, 10/13/2014 - 22:47 | 5327302 nmewn
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Kinda like the jizya tax? ;-)

Mon, 10/13/2014 - 23:21 | 5327411 sylviasays
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Under Islamic law, jizya or jizyah is a per capita tax levied on a section of an Islamic state's non-Muslim subjects

Mon, 10/13/2014 - 22:58 | 5327339 OhNo
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Jew SA Jew SA Jew SA .Fuck yeah

Mon, 10/13/2014 - 23:02 | 5327350 swmnguy
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The Middle East isn't on the map of where Muslims live because those nations aren't very populous, compared to places like Egypt, India, Pakistan, Bangladesh and Indonesia.  It certainly isn't an oversight.

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