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The key to overreacting depends on whether or not you want your fellow Americans to succeed, if you do, youâre probably a liberal.
If you already have success and youâre a selfish greedy pig, then you probably hate everything that isnât a pasty white reflection of yourself, then of course, you want to hear the most convoluted pejoratives about liberals, after all, fox news wouldnât report it if it wasnât true, right?
If you feel angry while watching the news, youâre probably a conservative watching fox news validate another liberal stereotype, without any facts, (like thatâs ever stopped them before?)
I would rather be able to listen to the likes of Walter Cronkite (sighâŠâŠâŠ.) now there was a news reporter!! Todayâs ânewsâ isnât. All it is is one or another networks sad conspiracy vs anotherâs. Was stuck at JFK for 10 hours. Heard the exact same ânewsâ (with the exact same misquesâŠ) about every 15 minutes on âliveâ CNN. Same pathetic attempts to turn little things into big conspiracies with no regard for reality. FOX is even worse.
Poor liberals. They just donât get it. The latest poll shows they are only 20% of the population, with the remaining 80% being conservative or moderate. Fox News is watched by all three groups. Fox viewers outnumber MSNBC (the admitted far left network) by more than three times. People want to hear the truth, even if it is slanted to the right. If you want proof that Fox is telling the truth, listen to Obama and his team whine. They canât point out errors, but donât like the âtoneâ of the coverage. âToneâ meaning they are being questioned instead of being slobbered over.
All of the news agencies are bad. You really have to keep one eye on each one to get a handle on what the news really is because each one has its biases. As much as people want to rag on Fox constantly, there is a reason its ratings are increasing while CNNâs are dropping like a rock. There are some stories that they are the ONLY ones reporting. it might be overreactive or sensationalistic, but at leas they have the balls to ask the questions and run the stories and they are breaking a lot of news right now. MSNBC is so far up GEâs backside that they will miss no opportunity to sing Obamaâs praises and run an environmentalist angle on every story they can. CNN is so pro-obamacare that you can barely get a single news story right now that they donât connect to the need for healthcare reform.
If you want news, turn off your TV. And donât go to blogs. The best sources â or at least the only to really balance your news reporting â is to read or listen to news agencies from a variety of other countries. They give it without the biases (toward sensation and profit) that most American news agencies live by.
âCable Newsâ has become an oxymoron. When CNN began it all, one could turn on the TV at any hour and get a news report - with very little opinion. Now all those networks are full of âpersonalitiesâ pushing their own agenda and there is very little reporting.
Of course, it is cheaper to subscribe to a wire service and pay someone to be on air than to send a real reporter into the field to do real researchâŠ.
Obviously this cartoon is referring to Fox. But what does âtoo much influenceâ mean? For a real leftist it means ANY influence. Itâs a common symptom of leftists to think that freedom of expression means freedom to agree with them and anyone who disagrees gets called names.
The right is under the mistaken impression that theyâre right. Still doesnât explain why they are acting like paranoid imbeciles. Who is gonna vote for abunch of morons who donât believe in science? Or, think the government has plans to kill people? Or think air polution has no effect on the environment?? We need stable people in the government, not reactionaries..
I donât think thereâs any single âobviousâ allusion here. The stripâs simply referring to cable news as a whole. FOX, CNN, MSNBC - doesnât matter which way they lean politically, theyâre all hysterical propagandists.
âCourse, Iâd argue none of them have any real political bias. What they really have (and in spades) is corporate bias - as in the corporation that owns the network. Rupert Murdoch is an Australian businessman. He doesnât give a flying ratâs bleeep about American social conservatism, he just wants to make money. Same goes for Jeffrey Bewkes and Jeffrey Immelt. Politics has nothing to do with it, theyâre simply pandering to their bases in order to increase profits. Itâs Capitalism 101.
OH NO⊠I heard noises coming out of the sewer drain thatâs polluting our stream⊠Danae was right it must be aliens! Quick call Fox, CNN and MSNBC⊠only they can get the facts right.
Are you freaking kidding me? All the government does is to raise the alarm repeatedly to keep us all in butt-puckering terror. They do this to keep people from knowing that whoever is in power is screwing us. Whoever is in power. Get it? Think about it. Republicans/Democrats? It doesnât matter. They are all about keeping us in the dark to keep us in power. Think about it. Think! THINK!
The media is the governmentâs lapdog. Itâs not âMoney 411â segment any more, itâs âMONEY 911â. Most are truly blind to this.
For the best, un-biased news reporting in America, try the Christian Science Monitor, www.csmonitor.com
The masthead reads âTo bless all mankindâ. Mrs Eddy started it in 1907 to address the âyellow journalismâ of the early 20th century.
There is a âreligious articleâ at the end of the paper, but the majority is devoted to concise, truthful, un-biased reporting of world & national events.
On the other hand, you have a point if by not believing in science you mean the people who think Adam and Eve rode around on dinosaurs. By adhering to faith, they admit they donât have reason or reality on their side. They are the reason I dropped my Republican registration back under Reagan.
But if by not believing in science you mean people who question global-warming dogma, you ignore the growing numbers of scientists who resist the bad science, alarmism, and political radicalism behind the âclimate changeâ movement. It is interesting that as many Baby Boomer scientists are retiring, they no longer have to worry about losing their jobs and are beginning to speak freely.
By planning to kill people, you apparently refer to claims of âdeath panelsâ. I doubt anybody is actually intentionally planning any such thing, but recent events in Britain show how it is an unavoidable result of cost-cutting government end-of-life care when they start cutting services to people who would otherwise survive for many more years. Not plans, just consequences.
Gee, I would have thought reactionaries would be the most stable people. I think we have a disagreement on definitions here. But the real disagreement is the implication that because you think the Right is wrong, the Left must be right. Right?
pshearer, at least youâre fair. I was using the vernacular that neo-cons use and speak so fluently, because I knew they would be able process it better, I.. But what do you call someone who shouts down cripples at town hall meetings? Upstanding citizens? I guess Iâm talkng about the extream cases (the kind that are in the news), not republicans. Iâve known republicans all my life, none of them ever acted like the neo-conservatives do these days.
I was using the part of the definition of reactionary that
referes to them apposing political or social change. I think the definitions of republican and conservative have gone their separate ways. They used to have a similar meaning. Donât think they do anymoreâŠI get particulaly irked by âsocial conservativesâ, the ones who want to control what other people do. Economic conservatives have a legit arguement, and I have no problem with themâŠ.
See no evil, hear no evil, speak no evil.
Better uninformed than misinformed.
No news is good news.
Silence is golden.
Que sera, sera.
Maranantha.
Chill.
Sadly, it isnât just Faux, but âsaturation of the inaneâ all day long on all of the ânewsâ outlets. âLiberalâ just means concerned about facts, open to learning and new ideas, accepting of others- which is why there really isnât any âliberalâ media any longer.
Wiley is good BECAUSE he punctures balloons of all stripes, with a pen, not a pinhead.
Joe Allen DotyâŠ.The truth is the word âBibleâ isnât in the Scriptures either .
You nailed the âChristianityâ isnât in the book either.â
gbruce shows perfectly why watching Fox is so dangerous. He gets the numbers exactly backwards. The only thing worse than an uninformed voter is a misinformed one.â
Read the paper, though he is a tad off. Itâs about 30% liberal.
âbilldogGenius_badge said, about 4 hours ago
The latest CREDIBLE polls show only 20% of Americans are still willing to admit they are Republicans. This commenter must get his ânewsâ from the extreme right wing echo chamber ONLY!â
NBC news: about 30% claim Democrat. Thatâs down from a half a year ago.
Pew: (which leans a slight left) Fox News has been found to be more reliable than MSNBC, CNN, and the network news.
I wish many of you who claim be be âLiberalâ really were. And I can say the same for some âConservatives.â
Both are Libertarian, those who claim âLiberalâ or âConservativeâ have shown themselves as Authoritarians.
Socialists-Fascists.
Hereâs some news; all these âCzarsâ show Obama as a Fascist, or if you wish, a Right Leaner.
They have 24 hours to fill, with over 10 minues per hour of commercials to sell. The higher the rating the more they can charge the advertisers. Their job is to hold your attention between ads. WEâRE ALL GONNA DIE. Itâs just the flu.
All that soap boxing over a comic strip, one would think they would go before congress with their stuff, anyhow, it looks like those folk are on the corner of âwalkâ and âdont walkâ.
Aposteriori, going back a few hours to your remark about, among other things, liberal stereotypes⊠Does it occur to you that in the preceding paragraph you employed a number of conservative stereotypes?
Oh, I can believe that only 20 percent of the public will answer a pollster by saying âIâm a liberalâŠâ Just as only 20 percent will answer âIâm a Republican.â These are just labels, and we assign our own meaning to them. Hence, the 60 or so percent that labels itself âmoderateâ or âcentristâ includes those who support single-payer health care and return of the 90 percent marginal tax rate, plus those who believe Medicare and income taxes should be abolished. We are all âmoderate,â because thatâs what we like to think we are. The only meaningful polls are those that ask specific questions about what people support or oppose. On these we find a majority supporting âliberalâ causes like increased taxes on the wealthy and a public option health care system.
But⊠does cable news really have that much influence? David Brooks, the kinda-conservative NYT columnist, thinks not and backs it up with this evidence: the Fox Brigade went tooth-and-nail against John McCain during the Republican primary season last year, claiming he was too liberal⊠but McCain won the nomination handily. Then Beck, Limbaugh, etc., slandered Obama left and right while practically nominating Sarah Palin for sainthood⊠and Obama won big anyway. Maybe, just maybe, big ratings arenât the same as actual influence over how the people voteâŠ
Donât believe everything you read.
I was curious if Joe Allen Doty was correct, so I used Google and found that the term Christian or Christianity is in the New Testament three times. Not trusting Google, I checked the New Testament that a Gideon gave to me, which I have kept in my desk, and lo and behold Google was correct. Check out Acts 11:26, Acts 26:28, and 1 Peter 4:16.
Who knew! Isnât the Internet wonderful? :-)
Happy Halloween!
Actually, the fact is âTrinityâ, and âhomoousiosâ (of one being) are not in the Bible either. Lots of things are not recorded in the Bible, as John himself says at the end of the Gospel. Which is why Jesus did not write a book, but found a community.
Wiley, A. Itâs fun. For political junkies itâs like a spirited rugby match. B. The signs in your cartoon, explain it. C. To win friends and influence people (OK, scratch that first one there.)
D. Itâs good practice for when you encounter a drunken uncle. E. â Discussingâ the news of the day has been a folk tradition for thousands of years F. Everyone, not just cartoonists sometimes play to an audience, And last but not least, G. Isnât reading comics at least an attempt to lighten up? ( I teach middle school, so Iâm tempted to add H. âHe started it!, but I wonâtâŠ.â)
Jacqueline0818âŠIt maybe in your Bible , but not in my Scriptures .
Come Out of Her, My People. Pages 68-71.
The Greeks used both the word Messias (a transliteration) and Christos (a translation) for the Hebrew Mashiach (Anointed). The word Christos was far more acceptable to the pagans who were worshiping Chreston and Chrestos.
According to The Interpreterâs Dictionary of the Bible, the word Christos was easily confused with the common Greek proper name Chrestos, meaning âgood.â According to a French theological dictionary, it is absolutely beyond doubt that Christus and Chrestus, and Christiani and Chrestiani were used indifferently by the profane and Christian authors of the first two centuries A.D. The word Christianos is a Latinism, being contributed neither by the Jews nor by the Christians themselves. The word was introduced from one of three origins: the Roman police, the Roman populace, or an unspecified pagan origin. Its infrequent use in the New Testament suggests a pagan origin.
christianos (G5546), âChristian,â a word formed after the Roman style, signifying an adherent of Jesus, was first applied to such by the Gentiles and is found in Act11:26; Act26:28; 1Pe_4:16.
Though the word rendered âwere calledâ in Act_11:26 (see under CALL) might be used of a name adopted by oneself or given by others, the âChristiansâ do not seem to have adopted it for themselves in the times of the apostles.
chrematizo (G5337), occasionally means âto be called or named,â Act11:26 (of the name âChristiansâ) and Rom7:3, the only places where it has this meaning. Its primary significance, âto have business dealings with,â led to this. They âwere (publicly) calledâ Christians, because this was their chief business. See ADMONISH, REVEAL, SPEAK, WARN.
G5547
ΧÏÎčÏÏÎżÌÏ
Christos
khris-tosâ
From G5548; anointed, that is, the Messiah, an epithet of Jesus: - Christ.
http://www.tgm.org/bible.htm
proâ fane
ââ/prÉËfeÉȘn, proÊ-/ Show Spelled Pronunciation [pruh-feyn, proh-] Show IPA adjective, verb, -faned, -fanâ ing.
characterized by irreverence or contempt for God or sacred principles or things; irreligious.
not devoted to holy or religious purposes; unconsecrated; secular (opposed to sacred ).
unholy; heathen; pagan: profane rites.
not initiated into religious rites or mysteries, as persons.
common or vulgar.
Uh, Wiley, the reason people post on here in the manner that they do is because your comics ARE commentaries, though you persistently claim that they are nothing moreâŠ
As far as cable news causing people to âoverreactââŠpretty sure Orson Welles caused a stir with his War of the Worlds radio-cast, which is just one example of human nature throughout history. So why pick on âcable newsâ?
Edcole1961 over 15 years ago
That must be at the intersection of Fox and Murdoch.
Aposteriori over 15 years ago
The key to overreacting depends on whether or not you want your fellow Americans to succeed, if you do, youâre probably a liberal.
If you already have success and youâre a selfish greedy pig, then you probably hate everything that isnât a pasty white reflection of yourself, then of course, you want to hear the most convoluted pejoratives about liberals, after all, fox news wouldnât report it if it wasnât true, right?
If you feel angry while watching the news, youâre probably a conservative watching fox news validate another liberal stereotype, without any facts, (like thatâs ever stopped them before?)
Allison Nunn Premium Member over 15 years ago
I would rather be able to listen to the likes of Walter Cronkite (sighâŠâŠâŠ.) now there was a news reporter!! Todayâs ânewsâ isnât. All it is is one or another networks sad conspiracy vs anotherâs. Was stuck at JFK for 10 hours. Heard the exact same ânewsâ (with the exact same misquesâŠ) about every 15 minutes on âliveâ CNN. Same pathetic attempts to turn little things into big conspiracies with no regard for reality. FOX is even worse.
gbrucewilson over 15 years ago
Poor liberals. They just donât get it. The latest poll shows they are only 20% of the population, with the remaining 80% being conservative or moderate. Fox News is watched by all three groups. Fox viewers outnumber MSNBC (the admitted far left network) by more than three times. People want to hear the truth, even if it is slanted to the right. If you want proof that Fox is telling the truth, listen to Obama and his team whine. They canât point out errors, but donât like the âtoneâ of the coverage. âToneâ meaning they are being questioned instead of being slobbered over.
11Wilderness11 over 15 years ago
All of the news agencies are bad. You really have to keep one eye on each one to get a handle on what the news really is because each one has its biases. As much as people want to rag on Fox constantly, there is a reason its ratings are increasing while CNNâs are dropping like a rock. There are some stories that they are the ONLY ones reporting. it might be overreactive or sensationalistic, but at leas they have the balls to ask the questions and run the stories and they are breaking a lot of news right now. MSNBC is so far up GEâs backside that they will miss no opportunity to sing Obamaâs praises and run an environmentalist angle on every story they can. CNN is so pro-obamacare that you can barely get a single news story right now that they donât connect to the need for healthcare reform.
cdward over 15 years ago
If you want news, turn off your TV. And donât go to blogs. The best sources â or at least the only to really balance your news reporting â is to read or listen to news agencies from a variety of other countries. They give it without the biases (toward sensation and profit) that most American news agencies live by.
twocentsworth over 15 years ago
âCable Newsâ has become an oxymoron. When CNN began it all, one could turn on the TV at any hour and get a news report - with very little opinion. Now all those networks are full of âpersonalitiesâ pushing their own agenda and there is very little reporting.
Of course, it is cheaper to subscribe to a wire service and pay someone to be on air than to send a real reporter into the field to do real researchâŠ.
pschearer Premium Member over 15 years ago
Obviously this cartoon is referring to Fox. But what does âtoo much influenceâ mean? For a real leftist it means ANY influence. Itâs a common symptom of leftists to think that freedom of expression means freedom to agree with them and anyone who disagrees gets called names.
Varnes over 15 years ago
The right is under the mistaken impression that theyâre right. Still doesnât explain why they are acting like paranoid imbeciles. Who is gonna vote for abunch of morons who donât believe in science? Or, think the government has plans to kill people? Or think air polution has no effect on the environment?? We need stable people in the government, not reactionaries..
Cackles over 15 years ago
I donât think thereâs any single âobviousâ allusion here. The stripâs simply referring to cable news as a whole. FOX, CNN, MSNBC - doesnât matter which way they lean politically, theyâre all hysterical propagandists.
âCourse, Iâd argue none of them have any real political bias. What they really have (and in spades) is corporate bias - as in the corporation that owns the network. Rupert Murdoch is an Australian businessman. He doesnât give a flying ratâs bleeep about American social conservatism, he just wants to make money. Same goes for Jeffrey Bewkes and Jeffrey Immelt. Politics has nothing to do with it, theyâre simply pandering to their bases in order to increase profits. Itâs Capitalism 101.
Potrzebie over 15 years ago
I get all my news from NPR, and everyonce in a while I will actually watch a few minutes of CNN and sundays I actually read a few op-ed essays.
grinstoya over 15 years ago
OH NO⊠I heard noises coming out of the sewer drain thatâs polluting our stream⊠Danae was right it must be aliens! Quick call Fox, CNN and MSNBC⊠only they can get the facts right.
Dry and Dusty Premium Member over 15 years ago
And round and round we go, and where it stops, nobody knows!
mjensen9999 over 15 years ago
Are you freaking kidding me? All the government does is to raise the alarm repeatedly to keep us all in butt-puckering terror. They do this to keep people from knowing that whoever is in power is screwing us. Whoever is in power. Get it? Think about it. Republicans/Democrats? It doesnât matter. They are all about keeping us in the dark to keep us in power. Think about it. Think! THINK! The media is the governmentâs lapdog. Itâs not âMoney 411â segment any more, itâs âMONEY 911â. Most are truly blind to this.
OMC-USNR over 15 years ago
For the best, un-biased news reporting in America, try the Christian Science Monitor, www.csmonitor.com
The masthead reads âTo bless all mankindâ. Mrs Eddy started it in 1907 to address the âyellow journalismâ of the early 20th century.
There is a âreligious articleâ at the end of the paper, but the majority is devoted to concise, truthful, un-biased reporting of world & national events.
Try it - youâll like it.
OMC
pschearer Premium Member over 15 years ago
Dracip: Your name-calling helps make my point.
On the other hand, you have a point if by not believing in science you mean the people who think Adam and Eve rode around on dinosaurs. By adhering to faith, they admit they donât have reason or reality on their side. They are the reason I dropped my Republican registration back under Reagan.
But if by not believing in science you mean people who question global-warming dogma, you ignore the growing numbers of scientists who resist the bad science, alarmism, and political radicalism behind the âclimate changeâ movement. It is interesting that as many Baby Boomer scientists are retiring, they no longer have to worry about losing their jobs and are beginning to speak freely.
By planning to kill people, you apparently refer to claims of âdeath panelsâ. I doubt anybody is actually intentionally planning any such thing, but recent events in Britain show how it is an unavoidable result of cost-cutting government end-of-life care when they start cutting services to people who would otherwise survive for many more years. Not plans, just consequences.
Gee, I would have thought reactionaries would be the most stable people. I think we have a disagreement on definitions here. But the real disagreement is the implication that because you think the Right is wrong, the Left must be right. Right?
David_J Premium Member over 15 years ago
Just a matter of keeping things in perspective. Cable is for entertainment, reading for education.
Varnes over 15 years ago
pshearer, at least youâre fair. I was using the vernacular that neo-cons use and speak so fluently, because I knew they would be able process it better, I.. But what do you call someone who shouts down cripples at town hall meetings? Upstanding citizens? I guess Iâm talkng about the extream cases (the kind that are in the news), not republicans. Iâve known republicans all my life, none of them ever acted like the neo-conservatives do these days. I was using the part of the definition of reactionary that referes to them apposing political or social change. I think the definitions of republican and conservative have gone their separate ways. They used to have a similar meaning. Donât think they do anymoreâŠI get particulaly irked by âsocial conservativesâ, the ones who want to control what other people do. Economic conservatives have a legit arguement, and I have no problem with themâŠ.
lazygrazer over 15 years ago
See no evil, hear no evil, speak no evil. Better uninformed than misinformed. No news is good news. Silence is golden. Que sera, sera. Maranantha. Chill.
Dtroutma over 15 years ago
Sadly, it isnât just Faux, but âsaturation of the inaneâ all day long on all of the ânewsâ outlets. âLiberalâ just means concerned about facts, open to learning and new ideas, accepting of others- which is why there really isnât any âliberalâ media any longer.
Wiley is good BECAUSE he punctures balloons of all stripes, with a pen, not a pinhead.
Varnes over 15 years ago
Good analysis, Doc.
Wiley creator over 15 years ago
I truly wonder why some of the folks posting here bother reading comics. Lighten up.
Ronshua over 15 years ago
Joe Allen DotyâŠ.The truth is the word âBibleâ isnât in the Scriptures either . You nailed the âChristianityâ isnât in the book either.â
http://www.tyndalearchive.com/Scriptures/www.innvista.com/scriptures/compare/heathen.htm
strodgers over 15 years ago
âMarkH77 said, about 5 hours ago
gbruce shows perfectly why watching Fox is so dangerous. He gets the numbers exactly backwards. The only thing worse than an uninformed voter is a misinformed one.â
Read the paper, though he is a tad off. Itâs about 30% liberal.
âbilldogGenius_badge said, about 4 hours ago
The latest CREDIBLE polls show only 20% of Americans are still willing to admit they are Republicans. This commenter must get his ânewsâ from the extreme right wing echo chamber ONLY!â
NBC news: about 30% claim Democrat. Thatâs down from a half a year ago.
Pew: (which leans a slight left) Fox News has been found to be more reliable than MSNBC, CNN, and the network news.
I wish many of you who claim be be âLiberalâ really were. And I can say the same for some âConservatives.â
Both are Libertarian, those who claim âLiberalâ or âConservativeâ have shown themselves as Authoritarians.
Socialists-Fascists.
Hereâs some news; all these âCzarsâ show Obama as a Fascist, or if you wish, a Right Leaner.
ChukLitl Premium Member over 15 years ago
They have 24 hours to fill, with over 10 minues per hour of commercials to sell. The higher the rating the more they can charge the advertisers. Their job is to hold your attention between ads. WEâRE ALL GONNA DIE. Itâs just the flu.
strodgers over 15 years ago
âWileyGenius_badge said, 38 minutes ago
I truly wonder why some of the folks posting here bother reading comics. Lighten up.â
I agree, bring back Lars and Captân Eddy. I think Eddy should be in charge of the country.
wicky over 15 years ago
All that soap boxing over a comic strip, one would think they would go before congress with their stuff, anyhow, it looks like those folk are on the corner of âwalkâ and âdont walkâ.
SClark55 over 15 years ago
Aposteriori, going back a few hours to your remark about, among other things, liberal stereotypes⊠Does it occur to you that in the preceding paragraph you employed a number of conservative stereotypes?
puddleglum1066 over 15 years ago
Oh, I can believe that only 20 percent of the public will answer a pollster by saying âIâm a liberalâŠâ Just as only 20 percent will answer âIâm a Republican.â These are just labels, and we assign our own meaning to them. Hence, the 60 or so percent that labels itself âmoderateâ or âcentristâ includes those who support single-payer health care and return of the 90 percent marginal tax rate, plus those who believe Medicare and income taxes should be abolished. We are all âmoderate,â because thatâs what we like to think we are. The only meaningful polls are those that ask specific questions about what people support or oppose. On these we find a majority supporting âliberalâ causes like increased taxes on the wealthy and a public option health care system.
But⊠does cable news really have that much influence? David Brooks, the kinda-conservative NYT columnist, thinks not and backs it up with this evidence: the Fox Brigade went tooth-and-nail against John McCain during the Republican primary season last year, claiming he was too liberal⊠but McCain won the nomination handily. Then Beck, Limbaugh, etc., slandered Obama left and right while practically nominating Sarah Palin for sainthood⊠and Obama won big anyway. Maybe, just maybe, big ratings arenât the same as actual influence over how the people voteâŠ
Jacqueline0818 over 15 years ago
Donât believe everything you read. I was curious if Joe Allen Doty was correct, so I used Google and found that the term Christian or Christianity is in the New Testament three times. Not trusting Google, I checked the New Testament that a Gideon gave to me, which I have kept in my desk, and lo and behold Google was correct. Check out Acts 11:26, Acts 26:28, and 1 Peter 4:16. Who knew! Isnât the Internet wonderful? :-) Happy Halloween!
Kosher71 over 15 years ago
The News Hour . PBS .
bmonk over 15 years ago
Actually, the fact is âTrinityâ, and âhomoousiosâ (of one being) are not in the Bible either. Lots of things are not recorded in the Bible, as John himself says at the end of the Gospel. Which is why Jesus did not write a book, but found a community.
Varnes over 15 years ago
Wiley, A. Itâs fun. For political junkies itâs like a spirited rugby match. B. The signs in your cartoon, explain it. C. To win friends and influence people (OK, scratch that first one there.) D. Itâs good practice for when you encounter a drunken uncle. E. â Discussingâ the news of the day has been a folk tradition for thousands of years F. Everyone, not just cartoonists sometimes play to an audience, And last but not least, G. Isnât reading comics at least an attempt to lighten up? ( I teach middle school, so Iâm tempted to add H. âHe started it!, but I wonâtâŠ.â)
johnnydoc5 over 15 years ago
Wiley, I wouldnât explain it if I were you, might lose half your followingâŠ
bmonk over 15 years ago
Wiley, whatâs the problem? You got all of us posters to either react or overreactâŠ
Ronshua over 15 years ago
Jacqueline0818âŠIt maybe in your Bible , but not in my Scriptures .
Come Out of Her, My People. Pages 68-71.
The Greeks used both the word Messias (a transliteration) and Christos (a translation) for the Hebrew Mashiach (Anointed). The word Christos was far more acceptable to the pagans who were worshiping Chreston and Chrestos.
According to The Interpreterâs Dictionary of the Bible, the word Christos was easily confused with the common Greek proper name Chrestos, meaning âgood.â According to a French theological dictionary, it is absolutely beyond doubt that Christus and Chrestus, and Christiani and Chrestiani were used indifferently by the profane and Christian authors of the first two centuries A.D. The word Christianos is a Latinism, being contributed neither by the Jews nor by the Christians themselves. The word was introduced from one of three origins: the Roman police, the Roman populace, or an unspecified pagan origin. Its infrequent use in the New Testament suggests a pagan origin.
http://www.tyndalearchive.com/Scriptures/www.innvista.com/scriptures/compare/heathen9.htm
christianos (G5546), âChristian,â a word formed after the Roman style, signifying an adherent of Jesus, was first applied to such by the Gentiles and is found in Act11:26; Act26:28; 1Pe_4:16. Though the word rendered âwere calledâ in Act_11:26 (see under CALL) might be used of a name adopted by oneself or given by others, the âChristiansâ do not seem to have adopted it for themselves in the times of the apostles.
chrematizo (G5337), occasionally means âto be called or named,â Act11:26 (of the name âChristiansâ) and Rom7:3, the only places where it has this meaning. Its primary significance, âto have business dealings with,â led to this. They âwere (publicly) calledâ Christians, because this was their chief business. See ADMONISH, REVEAL, SPEAK, WARN.
G5547 ΧÏÎčÏÏÎżÌÏ Christos khris-tosâ From G5548; anointed, that is, the Messiah, an epithet of Jesus: - Christ.
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proâ fane ââ/prÉËfeÉȘn, proÊ-/ Show Spelled Pronunciation [pruh-feyn, proh-] Show IPA adjective, verb, -faned, -fanâ ing.
characterized by irreverence or contempt for God or sacred principles or things; irreligious. not devoted to holy or religious purposes; unconsecrated; secular (opposed to sacred ). unholy; heathen; pagan: profane rites. not initiated into religious rites or mysteries, as persons. common or vulgar.HabaneroBuck over 15 years ago
Uh, Wiley, the reason people post on here in the manner that they do is because your comics ARE commentaries, though you persistently claim that they are nothing moreâŠ
As far as cable news causing people to âoverreactââŠpretty sure Orson Welles caused a stir with his War of the Worlds radio-cast, which is just one example of human nature throughout history. So why pick on âcable newsâ?
sophieschoice over 14 years ago
My favorite strip.
comicalstart about 2 years ago
Episode 237