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January 6, 2010 7:54am by David Farrar

General Debate 6 January 2009

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stephen

Another religious debate about to break out – RUN FOR THE HILLS.

Agree almost entirely. Maybe we could hire the A Team?
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January 6, 2010 3:33pm
Brian Smaller

Another religious debate about to break out – RUN FOR THE HILLS.

Agree almost entirely. Maybe we could hire the A Team?

Would that be the Atheist Team, or the Agnostic Team just in case they weren’t sure?
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January 6, 2010 3:35pm
stephen

Would that be the Atheist Team, or the Agnostic Team just in case they weren’t sure?

I vote the original A Team to just bring the pain to both sides real good.
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January 6, 2010 3:39pm
andrei

According to your link Malcolm this innovation is needed out of sensitivity to non Christians who use our calendar.

Isn’t it odd that Christians have coped with Month names like January, named after Janus a pagan God, for two millennia without worrying – and indeed Moslems should be more outraged by those pagan Gods names than the use of the coming of Christ whom they hold to be a great prophet.

Surely consistency would demand new month names to go along with the new base year naming convention?

Its actually quite obvious – militant secularists can cope with Roman Gods and Goddesses because they know they don’t exist but not with the Risen Christ because they are scared he does.
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January 6, 2010 3:42pm
Pete George

Shouldn’t Charlie’s Angels be involved too?
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January 6, 2010 3:42pm
kowtow

andrei@316pm
I too hate BCE etc another assault on tradition.
In James Micheners novel The Source 1965 at the outset a Christian archaelogist is writing up the find of a bullet in Israel from 1950AD and he erased AD and writes CE. Working in a Jewish country that used to be Muslim and here”the use of Anno Domini was frowned upon;yet the worldwide system of dating had to be respected,and that required a Before Christ and an After Christ whether Muslims or Jews liked it or not, Just as all longitude was measured from an English observatory near London, whether Anglophobes liked that or not. So Cullinane wrote his date 1950 CE , which had originally signified Christian Era but which was now universally read as Common Era”.
So CE is actually Christian but the Orwellians have changed it to Common.
The Source is a good read by the way.
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January 6, 2010 3:43pm
Swiftman the infidel

‘I received a good New Year present from the Dominion Post when they published my opinion piece on the Head of State Referenda Bill under the title “Hands up for a president of Aotearoa”. This has kicked off the debate I had hoped around my Head of State private members bill, which enables Kiwis to choose between keeping the monarch or moving towards a democratically selected head of state.’ – Keith Locke

This Marxist masturbatory doesn’t even know we live a country called ‘New Zealand’.
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January 6, 2010 3:45pm
Pete George

You have to give him some credit Swiftman, he didn’t call the piece “Hands up for a chief of Aotearoa”.

I quite like his aims, but I’m not so hot on his method.
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January 6, 2010 3:49pm
stephen

Charlie’s Angels are a bit old to run around high kicking everybody I think.
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January 6, 2010 3:51pm
MikeNZ

Surely you jest Andrei?
I thought the scriptures saith “that they knew deep in their hearts and that’s what makes them scared”.

but not with the Risen Christ because they are scared he does.

But back to the original question…
Ryan Sproull (3188) Says:
January 6th, 2010 at 2:57 pm

What alternative do you believe, Red?
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January 6, 2010 3:58pm
starboard

…havent you got some washing to do PG…
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January 6, 2010 4:02pm
Redbaiter

“Take a trip up to the far north and I will add the ear of a mouthbreather to my sexual experience.”

Like I said- Deliverance country.
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January 6, 2010 4:52pm
Redbaiter

” What alternative do you believe, Red? ”

I have already answered this question as best I am able. How can anyone have any kind of “belief” concerning something so undefined? I have nothing but curiosity.

Next time a bird enters your house, and knocks itself out trying to exit through a closed window, wait for it to regain consciousness, and then explain to it about how glass is made, what its purpose is, and that it is a barrier that a bird cannot fly through. See if the bird understands.
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January 6, 2010 5:01pm
side show bob

I think the younger generation are turning into a bunch of pussies. Driving the tractor along the main road and was passed by two large green trucks with Event Showers on the side of them. No doubt they were heading for the peace festival that starts at Parihaka tomorrow. Whats wrong with the kids these days, surely they can go three days without having a wash. If we went to a rock festival the only wash you would get is if it rained or you rolled around in a puddle. The world is turning soft.
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January 6, 2010 5:06pm
tristanb

Next time a bird enters your house, and knocks itself out trying to exit through a closed window, wait for it to regain consciousness, and then explain to it about how glass is made, what its purpose is, and that it is a barrier that a bird cannot fly through. See if the bird understands.

That happened to me yesterday. A little sparrow flew into my ranchslider. I asked the bird what happened, and it stated it was a magical forcefield, created by bird-God and His son Jesus Chirp. I tried to explain that it was glass, basically made from molten sand, but the bird just argued back that sand was opaque. I couldn’t convince it, and it wouldn’t respond to reason. The sparrow then pulled out a miniature bird-Bible from under its wingspan, and told me told read it. Damn fundamentalists.
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January 6, 2010 5:32pm
TimG_Oz

Slightly better news today – one of the idiot few protesters was arrested today – the one with the loud hailer. This illegitimate protest is just annoying the majority. I’m glad New Zealanders are starting to see sense against these morons.

http://www.stuff.co.nz/national/3209596/Arrest-over-protest-against-Israeli-tennis-player
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January 6, 2010 5:41pm
tristanb

Oops, ran out of time to edit the punchline. Meant to just call it a bird throughout, then end with “Damn fundamentalist chickens”. Apologies.
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January 6, 2010 5:54pm
Hurf Durf

Check out the dude busted from trolling Shahar Peer.

Greasy fucker.
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January 6, 2010 6:10pm
kowtow

Dreadlocks ,just love the way they express the individuality of the belocked,along with the hundreds of others with dreadlocks these days.
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January 6, 2010 6:42pm
Kris K

Kowtow 3:43 pm,

andrei@316pm

Is that anything like John @ 3:16?

I too hate BCE etc another assault on tradition.

Ditto – refuse to use it.
The fact that our calendar hinges upon the coming of the Lord Jesus Christ really gets many atheists, Muslims, and no doubt not a few Jews going.
My response: Tough!

That day when they find themselves bowing before Him they may reflect on the irony of such previously held views.
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January 6, 2010 6:43pm
Psycho Milt

I doubt you have ever received a pay cheque that wasn’t underwritten by some government endeavour.

Your doubt and $3.00 will get you a cup of coffee.
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January 6, 2010 6:43pm
calendar girl

Pete George @ 10.03:

“Like the weather, I don’t think the science can ever be settled.”

You may be right. Which would suggest at best questionable hypotheses at the heart of the global wrming debate. So why are the politicians in a panic to introduce ETSs, carbon taxes and legally-binding commitments that could cause destabilisation of the world economy and major limitations on traditional national sovereignty?
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January 6, 2010 9:40pm
Southern Raider

Just saw Minto on TV again. I just hate that guy. Why does the media give him any airtime.

He justified tonight that we should ban the Israeli tennis player because Dubai did. Um wake up Mr Minto all Israelis are banned from Dubai as they are from most Middle East countries and have been since 1948.

If I was a paying tennis fan having to listen to the protesters drums and loud hailers blaring into the tennis stadium I think I would be justified in smacking these pricks out.

Who would have any respect from a protest with signs titled “Socialist Aoteroa” anyway.
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