Comment Re:Hitler/Stalin (Score 1) 367
Only because he was attacked by Hitler. Before that they cooperated very closely and attacked Poland together.
Some doctrines see this differently (e.g. in Eastern Orthodox contraceptives are allowed, not sure about Protestant/Evangelism etc) but in general - most things related to sexuality are sin.
This ignores
- there are other deity options, so "eternal prize" is not guaranteed if you follow Christian religion
- you do give up quite a lot if you follow Christian religion - some might feel that the option of having sex in other purpose than having children is quite important. Non-procreation sex is a sin in Catholic doctrine (yes, even in marriage), possibly in other Christian doctrines too
- will God accept your "I believe just in case" belief as genuine if he exists?
Ah, the endless capacity of apologists to BS themselves by postulating what's not actually in the text. How cute.
Why don't you follow your own advice and look what's actually in the text?
A few examples from http://bible.cc/ezekiel/4-12.htm :
New International Version (©1984)
Eat the food as you would a barley cake; bake it in the sight of the people, using human excrement for fuel."
New Living Translation (©2007)
Prepare and eat this food as you would barley cakes. While all the people are watching, bake it over a fire using dried human dung as fuel and then eat the bread."
English Standard Version (©2001)
And you shall eat it as a barley cake, baking it in their sight on human dung.”
New American Standard Bible (©1995)
"You shall eat it as a barley cake, having baked it in their sight over human dung."
GOD'S WORD® Translation (©1995)
Eat the bread as you would eat barley loaves. Bake the bread in front of people, using human excrement for fuel."
King James Bible
And thou shalt eat it as barley cakes, and thou shalt bake it with dung that cometh out of man, in their sight.
Similarly, I can't enjoy a $1000 bottle of wine any more than a $100 bottle; but that's no reason to say that a $100 bottle of wine is just as good as the $1000 wine because the vast majority can't tell the difference.
Assuming that 100$ and 1000$ wine have some other differences apart from price. But I know a few people who, given the exactly same liquid and being told that one is 10 times more expensive, would find out many differences between them and genuinely believe in it.
Last time I checked, there was no fast way to report a spammer, you have to click 3 or 4 times and be redirected to different pages before having just one message successfully reported.
That must have been long time ago. Now you have "report spam" link right by the thread summary (you don't have to even open the thread) and at each message that doesn't result in opening new window/following the link.
The way Battle.net accounts are currently set up, if you receive a suspension on a World of Warcraft account attached to that Battle.net account, it has no affect on any other World of Warcraft accounts that may also be attached.
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So when did Poland get a proper government? The government that ruled Poland for decades after WW" was a continuation of that government
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In 1991, when there were first democratic elections. Before that were elections in 1989, but the communists were guaranteed 65% of places in the parliament at that time
"While most of the ethnic German population of pre-war Poland fled or was expelled, some were "rehabilitated" and offered their pre-war Polish citizenship back.[94] "Rehabilitation" was offered to people who had been subject to forced labour before, spoke Polish and were rated as not constituting a threat"
So some Germans were given Polish citizenship
Yes, after Poland regained independence and was no longer a Soviet satellite country. And could decide for itself.
If you say that it doesn't count, because Poland back then was influenced by the Soviets, then you could conveniently brush aside any of the possible bad things that happened during communist era and say "there was no independent Poland, Poland regained their independence when USSR fell".
Poland wasn't "influenced" by Soviets - it was ruled by Soviets. Officials (including "president" - the title was different) were appointed by Soviets. Polish government have to get approval for virtually anything from Soviet communist party and had to perform whatever they requested. There were Soviet military bases in Poland till 90s. So I'm not going to brush away "any" possible bad thing (there were, and still are, strong anti-Jew sentiments for example), but things ordered by the government (so in fact by Soviet communist party) hell yeah.
Because I was quoting the part that supported my point? The fact that many Poles helped Germans after WW2 does not change the fact that many Poles abused Germans after the war.
Good, you can admit we weren't only bad guys
"Polish" army was controlled by Red Army generals.
You make it sound as if Poland was independent country after the war - it wasn't - it was a Soviet puppet country. Likewise, German people couldn't be offered Polish citizenship (even if Polish people would agree, Soviet government wouldn't).
I'm not saying that Polish people didn't take part in that - many did - I'm saying that it wasn't organized and ordered by Poland.
And why didn't you quote whole paragraph but omitted last sentence?
"The attitude of Polish civilians, many of whom had experienced brutalities only surpassed by the treatment of the Jews during the preceding Nazi occupation, was ambiguous.[12] Many engaged in looting, robberies, beatings and even murders and rapes.[12] On the other hand, there were incidents when Poles, even freed slave labourers, protected Germans by e.g. disguising them as Poles.[12]"
It's quite dishonest to claim that the expulsions were done by the Russians, and Poland had nothing to do with it.
But they were done by the Soviets. USSR had decided on the new borders and decided that all the Germans have to move to new Eastern Germany country, just as Polish citizens were displaced from lands to the east which were used to form Latvia, Belarus and Ukraine subrepublics of USSR (not independent countries). Poland was shifted to the west by about 50% of its area (i.e. after the war eastern border moved to roughly middle of the pre-war country and western area was moved the same distance). The people from "old" Poland were moved to new "one" - they were as much mistreated as Germans moving to "new" Germany.
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