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This site is a kind of laboratory for me for something I'm working on. In broad terms, I'm trying to determine how tolerant people who profess to be religious really are. I admire you as a tolerant but committed person. The sanctimony and intolerance of others is unfortunately more typical of reactions I've gotten in several places.

WHAT A TOTAL CROCK. LET'S SEE, HMMMM, SOMEONE ELSE HERE IS WORKING ON THE GREATEST BOOK EVER WRITTEN. AND IMAGINE, YOU APOLOGIZE ONLY TO MIKE, HMMMM, VERY TELLING INDEED.

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Originally posted by A.P. Koros:
Mile, I am not mocking your religious beliefs and I apologize if I've offended you. This site is a kind of laboratory for me for something I'm working on. In broad terms, I'm trying to determine how tolerant people who profess to be religious really are. I admire you as a tolerant but committed person. The sanctimony and intolerance of others is unfortunately more typical of reactions I've gotten in several places.

Thank you.

You REALLY need to come up with a new scheme. The transparency of this one, and the utter failure to fool people has apparently escaped nobody but you.

I should add that mocking peoples spiritual beliefs is as low-handed a gesture as there is, and using an individual's personal spiritual beliefs as a weapon against them, and as a means to get people to post negative posts against each other is a sure sign of how desperate one can become.

I stand in amazement at the measures some will take to cast dispersions at others.

The shame you bring on yourself does not sufficiently describe how you have mocked others beliefs. And while it ultimatley is not mine to judge how callous you can be, the omnipresent and onmiscient God has witnessed your craftiness as well.

I was born and raised Catholic, but I don't go to church. There are some positions the church takes that I just don't agree with, but I wouldn't argue these positions with anyone, it's simply how I see the world. Does that leave me as a Catholic, or a person with no religion or what?

When a person goes to heaven does he/she have a body? How do we recognize our relatives and friends?

Why don't you ask Scooby. She asked this very question a few weeks ago, receiving a plethora of biblically-based answers.

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When a person goes to heaven does he/she have a body? How do we recognize our relatives and friends?

Herb, you are a Marxist-Liberal which makes you null and void from any recogniton in Heaven or for that matter Hell, you wack-jpb...

I did not know Groucho was a Liberal. I think I will see Nature Boy in Hell. He is already dressed for it. There is a special place in Hell for Conservatives. They will all be chained together watching the nudes prance around and not be able to touch them.

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When a person goes to heaven does he/she have a body? How do we recognize our relatives and friends?

Herb, I don't think we have a physical body, but a spiritual body. We won't recognize our family they would be like people we just met
sounds weird I know but I never had someone die and then ask them what its like, because they are indeed dead.

Jose, Why do many people say that they will see their loved ones in heaven.

What do we do in heaven. Sing, play cards, or seek out those virgins? What about watching the Yankees?

Sorry but all this is hogwash.

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hogwash.

Yeah, and you're the hog.

I also believe that those departed watch us from heaven, I would never never do anything wrong with my blessed mother watching over me, I'd be afraid she'd strike me dead, saying, "my little Jose, I taught you better". Wack!

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"my little Jose, I taught you better". Wack!

hahahahaha wonderful! I think they just watch us from right here, they are always close by as angels.

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hogwash.

Yeah, and you're the hog.

Lovely woman.

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Lovely woman.

THANK YOU!

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Lovely woman.

THANK YOU!

I was being facetious.

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I was being facetious.

REALLY? NO KIDDING? WOW, AND HERE I THOUGHT YOU WERE SINCERE. JEEZ DO YOU REALLY THINK I'M THAT BACKWARD, THAT I CAN'T CATCH ON TO WHAT YOU SAY?

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I was being facetious.

REALLY? NO KIDDING? WOW, AND HERE I THOUGHT YOU WERE SINCERE. JEEZ DO YOU REALLY THINK I'M THAT BACKWARD, THAT I CAN'T CATCH ON TO WHAT YOU SAY?

Yes.

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Yes.

oh yeah, right. you know better.