I'll answer two of your posts in this thread with onepost.
Originally posted by ArcticBound:
I am really upset with this board.
What we "far right" have been accused of: being hot tempered, is what you far left have been doing!
Has it been on THIS board? I don't think Dr. Bob would allow it.
I was called a "blatant liar" by some ungodly person who didn't even take the time to do a little checking up on what I said. Then came along another ungodly person who is suppose to be teaching teens and says what I'm saying is HOGWASH.
Was it on this board? Or was it on one of those Yahoo groups?
No one likes to be called a liar. If I would say that about anyone on this Board, I would be attacked immediately! That is attacking someone's character!
This highly offended me, so I simply typed "Triquetra" in my search engine and I found many pages on WICCA. I went through them and found this quote:
"The triquetra is a triangular Celtic knot design which symbolizes all trinities"
"Pagan/Wiccan/Goddess Symbolism:
The Triquetra represents the threefold nature of the Goddess as virgin, mother and crone.
It symbolizes life, death, and rebirth and the three forces of nature: earth, air, and water. The inner three circles represent the female element and fertility."
"The Triquetra is on the cover on the "Book of Shadows," a powerful spell book, and on the Spiritboard, the prop department's idea of what a talking board looks like. The Halliwells might be surprised to learn that the Triquetra also appears on the Christian Bible, New King James Version, in real life. It may come as no surprise too, that there are some angry Christians out there who feel that the witches have stolen their symbol. Real life Wiccans claim that they had it first. Makes for an interesting situation, to say the least."
"The pagans have a few points in their favor, however. We can speculate knowing what we do of similar signs. The early Christians freely "appropriated" many pagan symbols, rituals, and holidays and took them as their own. The Mandorla (left), the Christians' sacred almond, was originally a pagan feminine symbol signifying fertility. The Christians changed it to one representing virginity and purity. It is pictured in early Christian art as the almond-shaped halo of Christ. So it's quite probable that the early Christians adopted the Triquetra, an interlocking triple Mandorla, also. In the final analysis, maybe the origin isn't nearly as important as its meaning to the group, or the individual. So whether you're pagan, Christian, or simply a fan of the television show "Charmed," you may believe what you want to believe . So can we"
LOOK at those words I put in BOLD...This is what some unsaved man says, "YOU MAY BELIEVE WHAT YOU WANT TO BELIEVE."
Just about every symbol or pictograph that's been around a long time is used by somebody for good and by somebody for bad.
What sayest thou concerning the fact that many copies of the AV 1611 have a logo of a SMILING SUN, same as found on more than one pagan object?
THAT'S WHAT I'VE BEEN HEARING ON THIS BOARD..."BELIEVE WHAT YOU WANT TO, WE HAVE NO ABSOLUTES" IT DOESN'T MATTER IF WICCA DOES IT, YOU CAN DO IT TOO ALL IN THE NAME OF THE LORD.
It seems to me that the only Absolutes are the ones set by the Liberals.
Then the KJVOs must be liberals. They've set their standard as the KJV, without considering any of the evidence that the KJV is NOT the only valid English BV.
I made an honest statement about the new king james version. A Christian doesn't adopt the things of the world, no matter how inviting they may be. A pagan symbol is a pagan symbol, I don't care who uses it.
Then you'd better toss any Bible you have that has a CROSS symbol anywhere on it or in it. The cross was a pagan symbol for thousands of years. Don't believe it? Just enter "cross pagan" into Google or any other good search engine. And did you ever check into the RCC tradition of HOT-CROSS BUNS on Easter? Or the cross on their Eucharist cookies? Not to mention the smiling sun on the cover of many copies of the AV 1611 I mentioned above.
I think some people owe me an apology.
I backed up my words!
If I said something out of line, please paste it and I'll gladly apologize, although I suspect you have someone else in mind. However, I do NOT apologize to anyone, any time for bombing the KJVO myth.