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Leftists might have started the game, but that hasn't stopped the Right from jumping in to play as well: Daily Caller: Pelosi Mobbed By Anti-Communists In Florida

In the video you originally posted, the FDA stated that CBD has no medical benefits. CBD is a main ingredient in all hemp oils and extracts; the concentration varies depending on strain and how it was processed. And hemp oils have to have THC levels below 4 or 5ppm to be classified as hemp oil, so there's virtually no illegal THC in them. There's plenty of peer reviewed scientific research results, not just second hand personal anecdotes, which show that CBD has profound medical properties. I agree with you that some of the "miracle cure" claims that are made by cannabis enthusiasts are overblown, but for the FDA to claim outright that it has no medical value is just absurd.

Guarantee many NFL refs are in on point shaving.

Somewhere in the world, Greg Little is watching our WR corps and is laughing his as.s off...

Where are our fuc.king WRs today?

"No medicinal value..." Right.... Scientific American: Marijuana Treatment Reduces Severe Epileptic Seizures - A rigorous study validates a cannabis-derived treatment for a rare, drug-resistant childhood epilepsy

Abortion of unborn children is murder, Woody, unless it's comes from the tip of the sword from one of God's chosen and under his divine supervision.

Again, if you'd have been paying attention to this thread, you would have seen exactly what my opinion is on this religious nonsense. Your failure to comprehend that is your own problem, not mine. The fact that you, at the very least, have children and grandchildren of your own, perhaps including daughters and granddaughters - and can look at them and love them while simultaneously rationalizing and condoning the wholesale slaughter, rape and sexual slavery of men, women and children under Divine warrant is terrifying. The sleep of reason brings forth monsters.

i sincerely hope that you posted this without reading what it actually contained. If not, and this is your actual belief, then your stance on abortion is hypocritical. You state abortion is murder, but what about the murder of already born children because they are in mortal sin of Adam, or because they'd die because they were orphaned by the forces of God, or because they'd supposedly go to a better place? Yet another demonstration on how religious belief can poison and corrupt an otherwise normal person into being able to rationalize away the most horrible of atrocities as long as they believe it was under instruction from "heaven". And these are the rules i'm supposed to derive my moral values from? N'thanks.

So God condoned and encouraged the pillaging and genocide of entire civilizations - while selling off their virgin daughters to be raped, impregnated and forced into marriages or sexual slavery with the very people who killed their families and people - just to lay the foundation for his plan to send his Son/himself in human form to be killed in some human sacrifice to forgive the sins of the people he instructed to commit these attrocites in the first place? How you can hold your head high and proudly enslave yourself to such a being and the belief that he is perfect and just is beyond me. The physicist Steven Weinberg was once quoted as saying that religion "is an insult to human dignity; with or without it you would have good people doing good things and evil people doing evil things. But for good people to do evil things, that takes religion". I think you just demonstrated his point for him, OBF, without a hint of regret or remorse. This, coming from a man who presumably has daughters and granddaughters of his own. To Cal and OBF, you ask why I hate religion? What OBF just posted is a prime example. Religion takes an ordinary and morally upright man - who'd rightly be devastated and enraged if rape or marriage to pillaging barbarians was unwilling forced upon females of his own family, and who can objectively and unequivocally believe that rape is wrong - and somehow poisons his mind to a point where he can rationalize and condone the same atrocities, all in the name of his religion. This is the true danger that civilization faces from religious dogma, and OBF just put it on full display for all to see.

Wow, politically motivated debate on a political message board? What a concept... And, if you've been reading along with the rest of your classmates, I have been posting about my "beliefs" when it comes to religion. Do keep up.

And here are a few quotes from the Bible that caught my attention, and are pertinent to the subject at hand: Judges 21:10-24: 10 And the congregation sent thither twelve thousand men of the valiantest, and commanded them, saying, Go and smite the inhabitants of Jabeshgilead with the edge of the sword, with the women and the children. 11 And this is the thing that ye shall do, Ye shall utterly destroy every male, and every woman that hath lain by man. 12 And they found among the inhabitants of Jabeshgilead four hundred young virgins, that had known no man by lying with any male: and they brought them unto the camp to Shiloh, which is in the land of Canaan. 13 And the whole congregation sent some to speak to the children of Benjamin that were in the rock Rimmon, and to call peaceably unto them. 14 And Benjamin came again at that time; and they gave them wives which they had saved alive of the women of Jabeshgilead: and yet so they sufficed them not. 15 And the people repented them for Benjamin, because that the Lord had made a breach in the tribes of Israel. 16 Then the elders of the congregation said, How shall we do for wives for them that remain, seeing the women are destroyed out of Benjamin? 17 And they said, There must be an inheritance for them that be escaped of Benjamin, that a tribe be not destroyed out of Israel. 18 Howbeit we may not give them wives of our daughters: for the children of Israel have sworn, saying, Cursed be he that giveth a wife to Benjamin. 19 Then they said, Behold, there is a feast of the Lord in Shiloh yearly in a place which is on the north side of Bethel, on the east side of the highway that goeth up from Bethel to Shechem, and on the south of Lebonah. 20 Therefore they commanded the children of Benjamin, saying, Go and lie in wait in the vineyards; 21 And see, and, behold, if the daughters of Shiloh come out to dance in dances, then come ye out of the vineyards, and catch you every man his wife of the daughters of Shiloh, and go to the land of Benjamin. 22 And it shall be, when their fathers or their brethren come unto us to complain, that we will say unto them, Be favourable unto them for our sakes: because we reserved not to each man his wife in the war: for ye did not give unto them at this time, that ye should be guilty. 23 And the children of Benjamin did so, and took them wives, according to their number, of them that danced, whom they caught: and they went and returned unto their inheritance, and repaired the cities, and dwelt in them. 24 And the children of Israel departed thence at that time, every man to his tribe and to his family, and they went out from thence every man to his inheritance. Numbers 31:7-18: 7 And they warred against the Midianites, as the Lord commanded Moses; and they slew all the males. 8 And they slew the kings of Midian, beside the rest of them that were slain; namely, Evi, and Rekem, and Zur, and Hur, and Reba, five kings of Midian: Balaam also the son of Beor they slew with the sword. 9 And the children of Israel took all the women of Midian captives, and their little ones, and took the spoil of all their cattle, and all their flocks, and all their goods. 10 And they burnt all their cities wherein they dwelt, and all their goodly castles, with fire. 11 And they took all the spoil, and all the prey, both of men and of beasts. 12 And they brought the captives, and the prey, and the spoil, unto Moses, and Eleazar the priest, and unto the congregation of the children of Israel, unto the camp at the plains of Moab, which are by Jordan near Jericho. 13 And Moses, and Eleazar the priest, and all the princes of the congregation, went forth to meet them without the camp. 14 And Moses was wroth with the officers of the host, with the captains over thousands, and captains over hundreds, which came from the battle. 15 And Moses said unto them, Have ye saved all the women alive? 16 Behold, these caused the children of Israel, through the counsel of Balaam, to commit trespass against the Lord in the matter of Peor, and there was a plague among the congregation of the Lord. 17 Now therefore kill every male among the little ones, and kill every woman that hath known man by lying with him. 18 But all the women children, that have not known a man by lying with him, keep alive for yourselves. Deuteronomy 20:10-14: 10 When thou comest nigh unto a city to fight against it, then proclaim peace unto it. 11 And it shall be, if it make thee answer of peace, and open unto thee, then it shall be, that all the people that is found therein shall be tributaries unto thee, and they shall serve thee. 12 And if it will make no peace with thee, but will make war against thee, then thou shalt besiege it: 13 And when the Lord thy God hath delivered it into thine hands, thou shalt smite every male thereof with the edge of the sword: 14 But the women, and the little ones, and the cattle, and all that is in the city, even all the spoil thereof, shalt thou take unto thyself; and thou shalt eat the spoil of thine enemies, which the Lord thy God hath given thee. Zechariah 14:1-2: 1 Behold, the day of the Lord cometh, and thy spoil shall be divided in the midst of thee. 2 For I will gather all nations against Jerusalem to battle; and the city shall be taken, and the houses rifled, and the women ravished; and half of the city shall go forth into captivity, and the residue of the people shall not be cut off from the city. It seems that the God of the Old Testament is pretty clear on where he stands on the treatment of women by his chosen people: if they are lucky enough to have already been deflowered, they are killed by the Israelites along with their husbands, parents and male children. If they had the misfortune of being virgins, they were to be taken away as spoils of war, raped and forced into marriages or sexual slavery with the very people who pillaged their lands in the first place. All of which happens, btw, under the indifferent eye of God at the least, or at the worst, an approving and commanding eye of God. And the Jews and Christians have the tenacity to feign indignation against ISIS for their use of the Koran to justify the taking of sex slaves? Its all rotten fruit from the same poisonous tree. Again, OBF, i'll call your attention to what I posted earlier in the thread: Jesus himself endorsed the Old Testament teachings and believed that the actions written in it were true and divinely inspired - that is to say, that Jesus himself believe the events described above happened as stated, and that they were directed and inspired by God himself; that the rape and pillaging of young women and their homes by Jesus' own people not only happened, but happened under divine warrant. And since Jesus is of God, whether him being the Son of God, an aspect of God, or God himself incarnated into human flesh, he, by extension, agreed with God and condoned the atrocities committed against women by divine direction. And this is the leader of a religion whom you say I should square my moral compass with in regards to women and potential rape? How you can say that with a straight face and clear conscience is beyond my understanding.

You are the one who created this thread, on a public message board, to extol the supposed virtues of the Christian religion. What you say or do or believe in the privacy of your own home or church is not my business; i'm not going around bursting into churches during Sunday services to debate atheism with the congregation. But you open your views to debate and criticism once you bring them into the public forum.

Logic, it seems you've stumbled on the inverse relationship between the quality of miracles and the quality of scientific knowledge; ie. "as scientific knowledge about our world increases, the scale and grandiosity of proclaimed miracles seems to decrease". Thousands of years ago when the Bible was written and the scientific knowledge about our world was scant, things like being swallowed by whales for day on end, Arks that could fit every species on it, stopping of the Earth's rotation so that the Sun would remain in the same place in the sky for hours, resurrection of the dead, etc. were common. But once things like the germ theory of disease, Newtonian physical principles like gravity and orbital mechanics, and evolution were discovered, the spectacle of miracles seemed to be reduced to the mundane like seeing the Virgin Mary on burnt toast and the Jesus weeping sewer water.

This "miracle" has been discussed on this board already. It's Groundhog's day every day when arguing religion with people.