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PrintableBishop31 said: FuNkeNsteiN said: 
I agree. I'm not saying every single Christian is a hypocrite and an asshole, I just had a problem with Bishop implying that being Christian automatically means you are compassionate and 'better' than the rest of us. That's bullshit. Me saying that "..because I am a Christian, I care about peoples feelings", doesn't imply that I feel that I am "better" than anybody. I was simply saying that my Christian values inside of me leads me to treat everybody with respect & kindness. Now, every Christian doesn't follow these principles. But, that doesn't mean ALL of us don't. It's OK if you don't agree with the Christian faith. That's your right. And it's my right to express my beliefs. Peace. 
[Edited 8/5/08 13:21pm] You shouldn't have to rely on a set of rules and a club to tell you to be good. Wouldn't you be good and decent without? "A Watcher scoffs at gravity!" | |
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meow85 said: Bishop31 said: Me saying that "..because I am a Christian, I care about peoples feelings", doesn't imply that I feel that I am "better" than anybody. I was simply saying that my Christian values inside of me leads me to treat everybody with respect & kindness. Now, every Christian doesn't follow these principles. But, that doesn't mean ALL of us don't. It's OK if you don't agree with the Christian faith. That's your right. And it's my right to express my beliefs. Peace.
[Edited 8/5/08 13:21pm] You shouldn't have to rely on a set of rules and a club to tell you to be good. Wouldn't you be good and decent without? It's not a "set of rules" or a "club" that makes me do good. It's the spirit inside of me. That spirit given from God. | |
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Off the SF Chronicle -
Greyhound scraps ads after Canada bus beheading
By ROB GILLIES, Associated Press Writer Wednesday, August 6, 2008 (08-06) 10:13 PDT TORONTO, Canada (AP) -- Greyhound has scrapped an ad campaign that extolled the relaxing upside of bus travel after one of its passengers was accused of beheading and cannibalizing another traveler. The ad's tag line was "There's a reason you've never heard of 'bus rage.'" Greyhound spokeswoman Abby Wambaugh said Wednesday a billboard and some tunnel posters near a bus terminal in Toronto are still up and would be removed later in the day. "Greyhound knows how important it is to get these removed and we are doing everything possible," Wambaugh said. "This is something that we immediately asked to be done last week, realizing that these could be offensive." Vince Weiguang Li, who immigrated to Canada from China in 2004, is charged with second-degree murder in the death of 22-year-old carnival worker Tim McLean. He has yet to enter a plea. Thirty-seven passengers were aboard the Greyhound from Edmonton, Alberta, to Winnipeg, Manitoba, as it traveled at night along a desolate stretch of the TransCanada Highway about 12 miles from Portage La Prairie, Manitoba. Witnesses said Li attacked McLean unprovoked, stabbing him dozens of times. As horrified passengers fled the bus, Li severed McLean's head, displaying it to some of the passengers outside the bus, witnesses said. A police officer at the scene reported seeing the attacker hacking off pieces of the victim's body and eating them, according to a police report. Wambaugh said the ads only appeared in Canada and that some in Ontario and western Canada have already been removed. About 20,000 inserts of the Greyhound ads were scheduled to be put into an Alberta Summer Games handbook but they stopped the presses. A working class Hero is something to be ~ Lennon |
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meow85 said: PurpleJedi said: Nope. The "stupidest" - that would probably be Community Service. The "most illogical" - that would be "house arrest". ...and "completely ineffective"? I think that to punish a maniacal murderer by execution is as effective as it gets...unless you know how to bring back the dead. Where the hell do you live that a killer gets community service?  There was a case (I can't recall where) of a man who enetred a home and killed a person. He was apprehended after he mentioned the act in a AA meeting. He was sentenced to jail, but it was then reduced down to community service (or probation?) by the judge, who decreed that whatever is said at a AA (Alcoholics Anonymous) meeting should be protected. x 1,000
Nope. Ineffective. Killing to punish killing as justice? Bullshit. The state's hands are left just as bloody.
The state's hands are ALWAYS bloody. By St. Boogar and all the saints at the backside door of Purgatory! | |
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