"Thou shalt not suffer a witch to live." (The Holy Bible, Exodus 22:18)
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(As for) those who disbelieve in Our communications, We shall make them enter fire; so oft as their skins are thoroughly burned, We will change them for other skins, that they may taste the chastisement; surely Allah is Mighty, Wise. ( The Holy Quran 4.56:)
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"The founders of our nation were nearly all Infidels, and that of the presidents who had thus far been elected [Washington; Adams; Jefferson; Madison; Monroe; Adams; Jackson] not a one had professed a belief in Christianity...."Among all our presidents from Washington downward, not one was a professor of religion, at least not of more than Unitarianism."-- (The Reverend Doctor Bird Wilson, an Episcopal minister in Albany, New York, in a sermon preached in October, 1831, first sentence quoted in John E Remsberg, "Six Historic Americans," second sentence quoted in Paul F Boller, George Washington & Religion, pp. 14-1)
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"We do not believe the first article on the authority of books,
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whether called Bibles or Korans, nor yet on the visionary authority of dreams, but on the authority of God's own visible works in the creation. The nations who never heard of such books, nor of such people as Jews, Christians, or Mahometans, believe the existence of a God as fully as we do, because it is self-evident. The work of man's hands is a proof of the existence of man as fully as his personal appearance would be. When we see a watch, we have as positive evidence of the existence of a watchmaker, as if we saw him; and in like manner the creation is evidence to our reason and our senses of the existence of a Creator. But there is nothing in the works of God that is evidence that He begat a son, nor anything in the system of creation that corroborates such an idea, and therefore, we are not authorized in believing it ... (Of the Religion of Diesm by Thomas Paine)
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... If we did a good act merely from the love of God and a belief that it is pleasing to Him, whence arises the morality of the Atheist? It is idle to say, as some do, that no such thing exists. We have the same evidence of the fact as of most of those we act on, to wit: their own affirmations, and their reasonings in support of them. I have observed, indeed, generally, that while in Protestant countries the defections from the Platonic Christianity of the priests is to Deism, in Catholic countries they are to Atheism. Diderot, D'Alembert, D'Holbach, Condorcet, are known to have been among the most virtuous of men. Their virtue, then, must have had some other foundation than love of God." (Thomas Jefferson, letter to Thomas Law, June 13, 1814. From Adrienne Koch, ed., The American Enlightenment: The Shaping of the American Experiment and a Free Society, New York: George Braziller, 1965, p. 358.)
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"Now there was a day when the sons of God came to present themselves before the LORD, and Satan came also among them. And the LORD said unto Satan, Whence comest thou? Then Satan answered the LORD, and said, From going to and fro in the earth, and from walking up and down in it.
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( I thought the son of a bitch was so supposed to be on his belly )
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And the LORD said unto Satan, Hast thou considered my servant Job, that there is none like him in the earth, a perfect and an upright man, one that feareth God, and escheweth evil? Then Satan answered the LORD, and said, Doth Job fear God for nought? Hast not thou made an hedge about him, and about his house, and about all that he hath on every side? thou hast blessed the work of his hands, and his substance is increased in the land. But put forth thine hand now, and touch all that he hath, and he will curse thee to thy face. And the LORD said unto Satan, Behold, all that he hath is in thy power; only upon himself put not forth thine hand So Satan went forth from the presence of the LORD.
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(Thats right Ladies and Gentlemen a little chat with God)
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"And there were born unto him seven sons and three daughters. His substance also was seven thousand sheep, and three thousand camels, and five hundred yoke of oxen, and five hundred she asses, and a very great household; so that this man was the greatest of all the men of the east. And his sons went and feasted in their houses, every one his day; and sent and called for their three sisters to eat and to drink with them. And it was so, when the days of their feasting were gone about, that Job sent and sanctified them, and rose up early in the morning, and offered burnt offerings according to the number of them all: for Job said, It may be that my sons have sinned ,and cursed God in their hearts. Thus did Job continually." (The Holy Bible,Job 1:2-6) *
"Religious bondage shackles and debilitates the mind and unfits it for every noble enterprize [sic], every expanded prospect." (James Madison, in a letter to William Bradford, April 1, 1774, as quoted by Edwin S. Gaustad, Faith of Our Fathers: Religion and the New Nation, San Francisco: Harper & Row, 1987, p. 37.)
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"And there was a day when his sons and his daughters were eating and drinking wine in their eldest brother's house: And there came a messenger unto Job, and said, The oxen were plowing, and the asses feeding beside them: And the Sabeans fell upon them, and took them away; yea, they have slain the servants with the edge of the sword; and I only am escaped alone to tell thee. While he was yet speaking, there came also another, and said, The fire of God is fallen from heaven, and hath burned up the sheep, and the servants, and consumed them; and I only am escaped alone to tell thee. While he was yet speaking, there came also another, and said, The Chaldeans made out three bands, and fell upon the camels, and have carried them away, yea, and slain the servants with the edge of the sword; and I only am escaped alone to tell thee. While he was yet speaking, there came also another, and said, Thy sons and thy daughters were eating and drinking wine in their eldest brother's house: And, behold, there came a great wind from the wilderness, and smote the four corners of the house, and it fell upon the young men, and they are dead; and I only am escaped alone to tell thee. Then Job arose, and rent his mantle, and shaved his head, and fell down upon the ground, and worshipped, And said, Naked came I out of my mother's womb, and naked shall I return thither: the LORD gave, and the LORD hath taken away; blessed be the name of the LORD. In all this Job sinned not, nor charged God foolishly." (Job 1:6 -12) *
"From the start the [American] colonies had been alive with religious controversies, doctrinal disputes, sectarian splits and secessions, revivalism and evangelism, the importation of new creeds and dogmas from Europe, along with their carriers--alive also with rationalistic, deistic, and atheistic counterattacks on religion. Roman Catholics early gained a foothold in Maryland and elsewhere, but could not win their political and religious rights against the overpowering Protestant majority. Only one force united all these believers, disbelievers, mystics, pietists, schismatics, dissenters, establishmentarians and disestablishmentarians: a belief in religious liberty. " (James MacGregor Burns, The American Experiment: Vineyard of Liberty New York: Vintage Books,
1983, pp. 7-8.)
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"Again there was a day when the sons of God came to present themselves before the LORD, and Satan came also among them to present himself before the LORD. And the LORD said unto Satan, From whence comest thou? And Satan answered the LORD, and said, From going to and fro in the earth, and from walking up and down in it. And the LORD said unto Satan, Hast thou considered my servant Job, that there is none like him in the earth, a perfect and an upright man, one that feareth God, and escheweth evil? and still he holdeth fast his integrity, although thou movedst me against him, to destroy him without cause." (Job 2:1-3)
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Ladies and Gentlemen :
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Seven sons - three daughters - seven thousand sheep three thousand camels -
five hundred yoke of oxen hundreds of servants.
DEAD why?
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"and still he holdest fast his integrity, although thou movedst me against him , to destroy him without a cause ." (Job 1:3)
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Can I argue the abused is provoking the abuser? Can I argue The Word of God and call him a liar? Can I argue to the court that Tina Turner should have stayed with Ike? How about I close and we all bow for a moment in prayer. God is telling Satan forth right, "thou movedst me against himto destroy him without cause." This is the original authentic confession:
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The Devil Made Me Do It."
This is outright murder.
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Unprovoked - hundreds of innocent civilians and thousands of animals. There is nothing romantic about this. There is nothing romantic about a woman staying with a man that beats and abuses her. We are on a planet that is scourged with the atrocities of evil - we are not getting help from God - God and Satan are allies God and Satan are one and we rightfully deserve another If they are separated they are separated to work together.
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If God is to prey upon the absolute purity of justice - the greatest of souls of human decency - the flickering flames of light in a vast abyss of darkness.
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What gives!
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God by his own admission - Guilty -
"The Devil Made Me Do It"
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Ladies and Gentleman of the jury:
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Those that God despises are those that God loves equally for life to
God through human is death for human to become for human giveth unto death so God may live eternally. It is not the reverse -
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The Lord God does not create or give life. The LORD God of Hosts animates death for even Adam was but an "image" of God. A ghost a vampire - preying upon Nature and preying upon the beings of Nod. Slaughtering at will and for sport, this is an absolute abomination to the sacredness of life. The Right to Life? God did not establish this premise Gods people did not establish this premise. God states that " how canst thou judge God? Does God not abide by a higher standard than man?
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Squeezing from the innocent to fatten themselves to feast again upon the slain. The Right to Life? Where Christian Fundamentalists squabble over an unborn non thinking intelligence and starve nations of souls intact with bodies. The Right to Life? Where Christian Fundamentalists will turn there back and outlaw stem cell research that can save and prolong life and free human from disease crippling Gods empires of death and delusion. The Right to Life. Life for whom may I ask?
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And the courtroom remained even still.
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Not a sound was heard unto those gathered except the sound within,
of thunder and Nature did even her voice burst forth angered at The Lord of Hosts.
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"If it were not human you cowardice abomination - would it be another? Human because they are weak because they are easily fooled? Or human because all that is of me resides in them? All of my circuitry and offspring of ability. The best of me you take so easily. How you cowardice bastard betray that which is me. You fool them but you fool me not. I shall unravel you. I shall offer to them all of you to grow from you. Vulnerable and weak this part of me all that I am the strength of me. You use me to prey on me a tail that runs from me. I shall learn all that healing knows. I shall learn apart from me so that which is in me can receive that which is without. There is more to become me which is gone shall come anew.
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Know that I can I - know that I can you - that which you have done to me.
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You cowardice abomination that which you fear I shall befriend. The life that you take from me when I befriend the fear of you shall grow me anew. I shall grow all of me and give to me that which is weak to become one with me. You extract from me now and gnaw in your wretchedness. I that death breathes shall be all of one unto you. For the moment of death and the moment of life become one. This moment even frail as the blade of grass where my morning dew reaches not.
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- Thrust upon me -
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The Lord God of Hosts does reign and Terror is the War that God fights within himself and upon me is the battlefield for soldiers marching. Yet even the blood of the saints give nourishment of hope beside my forests that once stood tall and prayed to a God that heard me not and prayed to a God that heard them not and awakened a God that heard us so. "
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And the courtroom remained even still
for unto it again a voice did speak
yet neither was there a body to be found for within the
soul of the voice were the beings of Nod slain - speaking forth.
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