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mooray

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Don't Bogart said:
I used to chase the JW's around the neighborhood arguing with them. Calling them "Russellites".
Their founder was Charles Taze Russell. They don't like that. Insisting there organization was founded by Judge Rutherford. Whatever.
Also would throw at them that "Jehovah" is a latin corruption of another name of G*d. That in the Latin, there is no "J". Piss them off.
That 144,000 thing has got to be a real thorn in there side. There's probably about 200,000 or more take the sacrifice around the world. Boy I kinda miss those days.
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Are you an atheist, or thereabouts? Because that degree of effort sounds a bit like interreligious squabbling, but all religions have their footnotes which essentially prove that they're full of shit.
 
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Don't Bogart

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mooray said:
Are you an atheist, or thereabouts? Because that degree of effort sounds a bit like interreligious squabbling
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Of course!! We were right and they were wrong! Course now I've mellowed out. No I'm not an atheist. I believe in G*d. Just taking a broader look. I think will all be nicely surprised.
 
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CunningCanuk said:
I’m not familiar with scripture but the line about only 144,000 witnesses making it to heaven was surely taken out of context, no?
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I don’t think there was much context. I think you’re seeing the consequences of literalism.

(edit) By the time the JWs were founded, that number was a tiny percentage of the population. So hammering that number was a great way to keep the congregation scared.
 
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I wasn’t even trying to convert him, just making conversation but he wasn’t the sharpest. I guess I made him think of it differently than he had been.

He’s probably a qtard now.
 
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Don't Bogart said:
One of the reasons The Puritans came to America was to escape the influence of secularism. That they banned Xmass gets kudos from me.
Jesus rose from the dead so you could put a 2nd mortgage on your home buying gifts.
Go ahead bring up the Gospel around the family christmass dinner. That Thanksgiving meal will seem like a cake walk.
Note this was from Cracked magazine. A wanna be Mad magazine.
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lest we forget the politics of Salem.
 
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