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Russia offically bans Jehovah Witnesses - 4/22/2017 9:53:50 AM   
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https://sg.news.yahoo.com/russia-supreme-court-bans-jehovahs-witnesses-170533124.html

It never cease to amaze me that my country and NOW, Russia too, have decided that Jehovah Witnesses are more dangerous than Muslims.

What universe is this?

Jehovah Witnesses barely committed any terrorist act and they get banned. A whole Christian Religion!

Yet, nobody is taking any action on Islam.
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RE: Russia offically bans Jehovah Witnesses - 4/22/2017 10:02:04 AM   
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The Russians are fighting Islam with their military etc, but banning the fanatical cult we call Islam outright would be a tough slog.

They are already at war, all Muslims are at war with everyone who isn't them whether we are willing to admit that or not. Their book and other teachings demand it. "Allah" demands it

Officially banning their cult practices would only pour gasoline on the situation

Jehovah's Witnesses are pansies though, easy enough to push around. Like practically all other Christian groups they never commit terrorist acts these days. Christians have grown up, so to speak

Muslims are still murderous medieval bastards



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RE: Russia offically bans Jehovah Witnesses - 4/22/2017 12:56:25 PM   
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just to be clear guys---at the very least, the conservative and probably moderate Christian denominations consider the Jehovah's witnesses a cult.

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RE: Russia offically bans Jehovah Witnesses - 4/22/2017 1:04:07 PM   
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And if conservatives think so, it must be true.

Unless they're the kind of conservative who believe other conservatives are fooled if they think different, e.g., Mike Pence ( http://www.collarchat.com/fb.asp?m=5025364 )

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RE: Russia offically bans Jehovah Witnesses - 4/22/2017 4:14:59 PM   
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I don't consider them a cult so much as fucking annoying.

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RE: Russia offically bans Jehovah Witnesses - 4/22/2017 4:45:47 PM   
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And if conservatives think so, it must be true.

Unless they're the kind of conservative who believe other conservatives are fooled if they think different, e.g., Mike Pence ( http://www.collarchat.com/fb.asp?m=5025364 )



recall my "smug pompous ass" moniker for you.

allow me to illustrate. my post was just a straight up statement of fact.

cults have defining characteristics in general, and things in common in reference to Christianity.

as the church has been around for many centuries before the jw's, they are in a position to make those distinctions and youre certainly not in a position to be sarcastic about them, or that, without knowing the requisite information.

some people are indeed "fooled." some believe things with no basis for that belief, or even contrary to evidence.

you could have asked, "how is that conservative CHRISTIANS (not conservatives and you conveniently left out the moderate church) make such a judgment?" in which case I would have politely answered; but you took the opportunity instead to be snarky and judgmental.

you want to continue to pretend youre here to discuss other views?


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RE: Russia offically bans Jehovah Witnesses - 4/22/2017 4:48:48 PM   
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I don't consider them a cult so much as fucking annoying.


ive said before here, "the greatest crime in the desert is to know where the water is, and not tell."

all groups of believers, holding to the idea of that others are lost, evangelize.

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RE: Russia offically bans Jehovah Witnesses - 4/22/2017 4:52:03 PM   
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I'm just saying you're looking at the mirror, and you're illustrating why.

Now you're saying "You should ask WHY conservatives are right about this" instead of noting your belief that if it's a conservative position, it's automatically true.

ALL such generalizations are nonsense, whoever is making them. All conservatives, all liberals, all anybody's don't think alike in lock-step, don't like all the same things, don't react all the same ways, and yet reading the posts in this forum, that appears to be a common belief that in fact, the world really is just that simple.

So I offered a quick observation, noting a recent occurrence right in this forum that shows the assumption to be false.

You responded with defensiveness and name-calling. OK. No surprise considering the source. But you're over-reacting.

You could have simply said, "yeah, we don't all see things the same way, true," and we'd be done. You chose differently.

"Why my view is always right" is not a discussion of views.

It's why you and I don't have many discussions. And when we do--this is all you have to say.

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RE: Russia offically bans Jehovah Witnesses - 4/22/2017 5:18:00 PM   
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ORIGINAL: BoscoX

The Russians are fighting Islam with their military etc, but banning the fanatical cult we call Islam outright would be a tough slog.

They are already at war, all Muslims are at war with everyone who isn't them whether we are willing to admit that or not. Their book and other teachings demand it. "Allah" demands it

Officially banning their cult practices would only pour gasoline on the situation

Jehovah's Witnesses are pansies though, easy enough to push around. Like practically all other Christian groups they never commit terrorist acts these days. Christians have grown up, so to speak

Muslims are still murderous medieval bastards





yeh they are fighting a religious war of their + us + uk's making. SSDD.

If someone would not stop pissing in your cheerios youd be a murderous medieval bastard as well.


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RE: Russia offically bans Jehovah Witnesses - 4/22/2017 6:00:05 PM   
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https://sg.news.yahoo.com/russia-supreme-court-bans-jehovahs-witnesses-170533124.html

It never cease to amaze me that my country and NOW, Russia too, have decided that Jehovah Witnesses are more dangerous than Muslims.


And thereby have Russia and Singapore ventured further into anything like a modern world by 2% or more with that one step. There is hope after all. They did a medical study and ascertained that the brainwaves of Jehova Witnesseses were too close to the worms and amoeba for their comfort.

The US on the other hand, being initially far ahead by way of innovation in thought, decided that societal decline and contra-evolotion was -better for business- and caught on with Reagan and Jerry Falwell and "the moral majority," and other lunatics, etc. "Religious nutjobs should have their say, too," so the argument went.

Even though the US came about in the first place as much in response to that as anything else.

Whatever backstops the US used to have against such lunacy as to put us (and the world) where we are today, essentially in a state of perpetual warfare, have been assiduously and relentlessly eroded since 1981.

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Yet, nobody is taking any action on Islam.


You find anything to do with hostilities 'more inspirational' when yelled or screamed at a political rally, so it is no wonder that your chemically altered and infested addled brain pushes news of actual events aside and considers that killing hundreds of thousands of civilians and spending trillions of dollars in the effort constitutes 'nobody taking any action.'


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RE: Russia offically bans Jehovah Witnesses - 4/22/2017 7:48:32 PM   
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https://sg.news.yahoo.com/russia-supreme-court-bans-jehovahs-witnesses-170533124.html

It never cease to amaze me that my country and NOW, Russia too, have decided that Jehovah Witnesses are more dangerous than Muslims.

What universe is this?

Jehovah Witnesses barely committed any terrorist act and they get banned. A whole Christian Religion!

Yet, nobody is taking any action on Islam.


You claim to have many friends who are muslims yet they have not killed you yet...why?
Second point: Muslims do not go door to door pestering people.


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RE: Russia offically bans Jehovah Witnesses - 4/22/2017 7:52:53 PM   
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yeh they are fighting a religious war of their + us + uk's making. SSDD.

If someone would not stop pissing in your cheerios youd be a murderous medieval bastard as well.[/color]

I spent a bit of time being a murderous medieval bastard and no one pissed in my cheerios.

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RE: Russia offically bans Jehovah Witnesses - 4/22/2017 7:57:07 PM   
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Yet, nobody is taking any action on Islam.

The only thing stopping you is common sense and cold fear.
If you are so hot to trot stop running your punkass mouth,grow some balls, get a gun and solve your imagined issues.


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RE: Russia offically bans Jehovah Witnesses - 4/23/2017 12:08:26 AM   
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quote:

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Jehovah's Witnesses are pansies though, easy enough to push around. Like practically all other Christian groups they never commit terrorist acts these days. Christians have grown up, so to speak
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Interestingly it was these very "pansies" who were the only "Christian" group who stood up to Hitler during WWII and called him out for who and what he was and were thrown into the concentration camps for it, while the other "stouthearted" "Christian" groups cowered in fear.

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RE: Russia offically bans Jehovah Witnesses - 4/23/2017 12:41:22 AM   
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Ok, so annoying proselytizers don't get visa approval for Russia. It is their country and their call after all.

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RE: Russia offically bans Jehovah Witnesses - 4/23/2017 1:31:28 AM   
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quote:

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Jehovah's Witnesses are pansies though, easy enough to push around. Like practically all other Christian groups they never commit terrorist acts these days. Christians have grown up, so to speak
...

Interestingly it was these very "pansies" who were the only "Christian" group who stood up to Hitler during WWII and called him out for who and what he was and were thrown into the concentration camps for it, while the other "stouthearted" "Christian" groups cowered in fear.



So long as your idea of 'standing up' means letting yourself be destroyed, sure.


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RE: Russia offically bans Jehovah Witnesses - 4/23/2017 2:50:25 AM   
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Second point: Muslims do not go door to door pestering people.


That's true.

But Jehovah Witnesses does that???

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RE: Russia offically bans Jehovah Witnesses - 4/23/2017 3:22:57 AM   
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Ys Greta, they are all over theplace here. Actually the Mormons do it as well.

The JWs however believe that only 144,000 will be saved at the end of the world so I wonder why they bother. And of course I am sure they believe that 144,000 will come from among their ranks.

The olman read the Bible and the Book Of Mormon cover to cover and had a serious discussion with the Mormons when they came. They never came back. The JWs pretty much the same.

If they ever bother you, just answer the door fully nude and they will not come back. You might try a "NO SOLICITING" sign in front of the house but I am not sure in this country if that applies to the religious. I never checked.

I suspect that if I looked into this Russian law I would find that it is overblown. The law is probably not against the religion at all, only about the solicitation. Just like Gays. People were told that Gays were illegal in Russia but in truth their law only forbids promoting homosexuality to minors.

Anyone got an actual translation of the law against JWs ? Are they forbidden to build churches ? Are they forbidden to have meetings in their house ? Speaking of that one state tried that shit here, forbid religious meetings at private homes. Totally unconstitutional but these legislators are clueless. Seriously fucking clueless.

It is like anything else. Like ALL Muslims want to kill us. Sure some do, but not all. If all of them did there would be more of us dead. They are i our convenience stores, banks, fast food joints, everywhere. Most of them can buy guns. But by and large they don't do that. The media has people thinking they do. Mind you I want no more of them in my country, in fact I want no more of anyone in my country. I want the borders closed, period.

T^T

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RE: Russia offically bans Jehovah Witnesses - 4/23/2017 3:31:07 AM   
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ORIGINAL: Milesnmiles


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Jehovah's Witnesses are pansies though, easy enough to push around. Like practically all other Christian groups they never commit terrorist acts these days. Christians have grown up, so to speak
...

Interestingly it was these very "pansies" who were the only "Christian" group who stood up to Hitler during WWII and called him out for who and what he was and were thrown into the concentration camps for it, while the other "stouthearted" "Christian" groups cowered in fear.



So long as your idea of 'standing up' means letting yourself be destroyed, sure.


Actually, even though Hitler said he would exterminate them and had them also put to death, more wittnesses came out of the camps than went in. If that is what you call being destroyed.

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RE: Russia offically bans Jehovah Witnesses - 4/23/2017 4:02:29 AM   
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ORIGINAL: Greta75

https://sg.news.yahoo.com/russia-supreme-court-bans-jehovahs-witnesses-170533124.html

It never cease to amaze me that my country and NOW, Russia too, have decided that Jehovah Witnesses are more dangerous than Muslims.

What universe is this?

Jehovah Witnesses barely committed any terrorist act and they get banned. A whole Christian Religion!

Yet, nobody is taking any action on Islam.

What it comes down to is; what do you consider to be dangerous?

In a "totalitarian dictatorship", what is wanted is the complete control of the hearts and minds of their nation and JWs being spiritual warriors will fight them tooth and nail for those same hearts and minds, which make them even more dangerous extremists in the eyes of the government than the Muslims who could care less about hearts and minds and just want to kill and destroy indiscriminately.

Thus JWs get banned and Islam pretty much gets a free pass.

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