Wait, do people seriously think Obama is one of the worst presidents in US history?

Who wants to go out all dressed up and pay twenty bucks for some bangers and mash?

Um, people who want something better than a frozen burger thrown on the grill?

I thought brits were supposed to be classy and shit. Don't you guys have any nice Italian restaurants and shit?

Like kinder said the Bible doesn't actually say that, it is assumed by a lot of people who didn't do proper research.

Regardless of what the Bible does or does not say, people believe this to be true.

Quote from: Mad Max on September 07, 2014, 04:45:18 PM

Quote from: Kinder_ on September 07, 2014, 04:32:31 PM

People should not take the Bible literally for a multitude of reasons.

But then wouldn't people stop believing in God?

Yeah, no

You don't need to conform your beliefs by reading a book. All you need to do to be Christian is to accept God and Jesus Christ as your savior, along with being a decent person and not purposely do bad things. I don't read the Bible, I don't go to church, and I don't pray as much but I know I'm still a Christian. All that stuff is just extra people think they need to do

People wouldn't think God existed if the Bible didn't say so.

Quote from: Mad Max on September 07, 2014, 02:16:29 PM

How do people pay with cards at nice restaurants then? Y'know, not places where you swipe your own card like a neanderthal?

You go up, order your food, put your card into the reader, key in your PIN number, remove your card, go sit down and wait for your meal.

No, I'm talking about places where you don't run your own card. Where a server gives you your bill and you place your payment in it. I'm not talking about McDonalds. Places without an ordering counter and shit. Surely those exist outside of America...

How do people pay with cards at nice restaurants then? Y'know, not places where you swipe your own card like a neanderthal?

EDIT: to be clear, I don't ever tip.

And you're called an asshole rightfully so. if you don't tip at the take-out counter or don't tip the guy at Wendy's, that's understandable.

if you don't tip someone who just waited on you for 30+ mins, you're a dick.

You have game giveaways?!

Yep. Every few days I give away a game.

I see you post this in every thread where people have a disagreement.

What exactly do you expect? There are reasonable people that will agree it's a violation of the Constitution then you have the fascists who only want Christians serving in the first place. Of course there's going to be friction. This community never has been mature enough to handle these discussions and it never will be.

Because all it is is the same 4 fucking people throwing shit at each other for no fucking reason.

I thought the whole point of Serious was to avoid this petty bullshit.

It's fucking stupid. All of you need to grow the fuck up and stop being assholes all the time.

I'd say it's a lot of both, but more positive than negative.

I think globalization is unavoidable. Our reliance on technology requires everyone to be on board, or lose out entirely and fall by the wayside. If we didn't have the internet, cell phones, and emerging markets elsewhere in the world, I would feel differently about globalization, but we live in a global world now where we all rely on each other for a variety of different reasons.

People laugh at the US for it's economic troubles, but if we dropped off the map or cut our ties with foreign countries, they'd take a massive, perhaps unrecoverable, hit. The same goes for most other countries. India. China. UK. etc.

Globalization comes with a myriad of complications, as far as how to navigate business, taxes, politics, etc, also, but I think it's the logical progression.

Luther

Such a brilliant show.

Not a big deal at all.

If you want to serve, you need to make sacrifices.

Why does God have to be involved at all? Just leave him out, and it's fine.

Like I said on B.net, it's really not that big of a deal.

That's the whole point - you shouldn't have to keep your head down and play along. Whether you're a Christian, Muslim, Jew, atheist, or whatever, you have a constitutional right to NOT have religion forced on you by the government, which is a secular institution.

Christians can just steamroll these things because there's so many of them. The number of people complaining about it is comparatively few.

An atheist airman at Creech Air Force Base in Nevada was denied reenlistment last month for refusing to take an oath containing “so help me God,” the American Humanist Association said Thursday.

And in a Sept. 2 letter to the inspectors general for the Air Force and Creech, Monica Miller, an attorney with the AHA’s Apignani Humanist Legal Center, said the airman should be allowed to reenlist without having to swear to a deity, and instead given a secular oath. Miller said the AHA is prepared to sue if the airman is not allowed to reenlist.

According to the AHA, the unnamed airman was told Aug. 25 that the Air Force would not accept his contract because he had crossed out the phrase “so help me God.” The airman was told his only options were to sign the religious oath section of the contract without adjustment and recite an oath concluding with “so help me God,” or leave the Air Force, the AHA said.

That is unconstitutional and unacceptable, the AHA said.

“The government cannot compel a nonbeliever to take an oath that affirms the existence of a supreme being,” Miller said. “Numerous cases affirm that atheists have the right to omit theistic language from enlistment or reenlistment contracts.”
[...]
Air Force Instruction 36-2606 spells out the active-duty oath of enlistment, which all airmen must take when they enlist or reenlist and ends with “so help me God.” The old version of that AFI included an exception: “Note: Airmen may omit the words ‘so help me God,’ if desired for personal reasons.”

That language was dropped in an Oct. 30, 2013, update to the AFI. The relevant section of that AFI now only lists the active-duty oath of enlistment, without giving airmen any option to choose not to swear an oath to a deity.

“Reciting ‘So help me God’ in the reenlistment and commissioning oaths is a statutory requirement under Title 10 USC 502,” Air Force spokeswoman Rose Richeson said Thursday. AFI 36-2606 “is consistent with the language mandated in 10 USC 502. Paragraph 5.6 [and] was changed in October 2013 to reflect the aforementioned statutory requirement and airmen are no longer authorized to omit the words ‘So help me God.’ ”

The Air Force said it cannot change its AFI to make “so help me God” optional unless Congress changes the statute mandating it.

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