Banned from RaptureReady...

Meffy- true, it's simply selecting whose opinions they do and do not want to hear.

Ralph- I agree. And no, as one member said, it's patently obvious that unbelievers are not welcome.

You're welcome Yahweh. :) If anyone else signs up and doesn't receive their confirmation email with their password, let me know.
 
The REAL cause behind Haiti's problems...

http://www.raptureready.com/rap16.html

Haiti is a country with a long history of demonic activity. Over 90 percent of Haitians are said to practice voodoo. Voodoo is a practice based on a mixture of African spiritism and witchcraft.

On August 14, 1791, a voodoo priest named Boukman is said to have made a pact with the devil through the sacrifice of a pig in a voodoo ritual. In this ritual, Boukman asked the devil for his help in liberating Haiti from the French. For this victory, he offered to give the country to Satan. On January 1, 1804, the free nation of Haiti was born and thus began a new demonic tyranny.

At the time of the pact, Haiti was France's richest colony, but it then became one of the world's poorest nations. Secular-minded people may scoff at the idea of the devil being the origin of Haiti's problems, but none of them has any answers that can better explain the situation.

Jean-Bertrand Aristide may be responsible for triggering his nation’s most recent slide in chaos. Last year he issued an executive decree sanctioning voodoo as an official religion. It allowed voodoo leaders to perform ceremonies--from baptisms to marriages--with legal authority.

The Bible strongly warns against any involvement with the occult. During the Old Testament times, death was commanded for those found to dabble in the dark arts.

"And ye shall be holy unto me: for I the LORD am holy, and have severed
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Odd, he's able to pinpoint "religion" as being the cause of Haiti's problems...why can't he see that in the US?
 
Well Sparklecat, I've never felt compelled to post anything on RR, but I have read some of their threads, and in my uneducated opinion you're not going to miss out on much. Of course, since you've been on there for a while, you would be a better judge of that than I.

To me, it just seems as if they can't stand having someone around that fled from Christianity...it doesn't look good for them, you see. On the other hand, if they wish their board to be a place where Christians can be all buddy-buddy and not have their religion questioned or debated, I can find absolutely no reason not to grant them their wish.
 
Hi, Sparklecat.
At least you got to post!

I registered as FireGarden and I did everythhing the e-mail told me regarding activation. I managed to get to my usercp but found that I still couldn't post.

Have I missed something?
A secret handshake, maybe?

I can't be banned because I can still log on. But I can't do anything that I couldn't do unregistered. I can't find the apologetics forum, for instance.
 
sparklecat said:
I expected better of them I suppose.
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That's very....Christian of you... ;)

sparklecat said:
Really, I do need to compile a list of things I said as a fundamentalist... it's sad, but shows quite clearly how much I was a part of it all.
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Well, I hope you will write it up as a follow-up article on SkepticReport... :)

sparklecat said:
I love saved threads :):
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I'm with you ;)

Marc said:
"Please help! The nice lady is making us think. Ban her! Burn..uh..ban her!"
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She turned me into a newt!


.....I got better.
 
During my many years as a true believing Mormon I debated many Christians. They were very good at using reason and logic to discredit Mormonism. Funny how they can be so selective in their use of skepticism.

I am seriously considering registering at RR as a Mormon. I still am one, technically. I would love to have a discussion with a Christian who would challenge me to use reason and logic.

One can fantasize.
 
Hey, Sparklecat,

It's all for the better, really. I have wandered into RR on a couple of occasions, but I just couldn't find anything there, even as a Christian, that I wanted to spend the time or energy to debate with the "believers" there. Doing so would have been so pointless. If I had, I suspect that I would have been banned anyway even if I genuinely referred to my own Christian experience.

What about these other boards people are referring to? The christianforums, etc.? I've been looking for a decent religious discussion board, but not one that's homogenous in its membership, nor one that's all airy-fairy, if you know what I mean. A good mix. Like me. :D

Cheers to you, Sparkelcat!

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DarkMagician said:
I signed up.

I haven't posted yet, so they can't find me.
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Well, once you're ready to post, maybe you can comment on this!


I think maybe the homosexuals will be somehow divinely gathered together (a sort of city of their own) and destroyed if Jesus isn't ready to return quite yet.
There has to be a reason God despises this one sin so much that He even destroyed 2 cities because of it....and I just don't see Him putting up with this much longer. If He isn't ready to return then they have to go, if He is ready to return, then we have to go. (I like to believe the latter).
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Go ahead, try and tell these people of the genetic basis of homosexuality.


I've about given up hanging around there...
 
Hey, Hey! Get a load of this! "Justineianity"!

Now, this looks like fun!


Maybe we can convince them it's for "real"!
 
RandFan said:
During my many years as a true believing Mormon I debated many Christians. They were very good at using reason and logic to discredit Mormonism. Funny how they can be so selective in their use of skepticism.

I am seriously considering registering at RR as a Mormon. I still am one, technically. I would love to have a discussion with a Christian who would challenge me to use reason and logic.

One can fantasize.
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you'd be a real ramblin man then, wouldncha?
 
Shouldn't it be their God's job to determine who goes to hell, not theirs? Stupid fundies.
 
sparklecat said:

Well, I was just banned. In the midst of a thread where I was answering questions honestly and told a moderator that she insulted me by claiming I was never a Christian. Apparently they've decided that I was posting there for attention... but here's what she (Becky) said:

"Sparklecat, it is obvious to many that you are using Apologetics for your own personal soapbox.

When someone is Saved by the Grace of God, it is not an experiment, something you can try and just walk away from if it doesn't suit you [in reference to what I gave as my thoughts at my conversion, but not my attitude as a Christian]. That makes a mockery of what Jesus did on the cross for all of us.

Paul (the mod, not the apostle) brought to my attention Mark 4. The parable of the sower. Jesus goes through the different reactions to those who hear the gospel. One of the reactions is that they accept the word at first, but when testing come they quickly leave the faith because they have no root (Jesus, obviously, is the root). We are sure you truly believed something, but we have to wonder what. Did you accept the true gospel that says you are a sinner and Jesus is a Savior, or did you accept the social gospel that says that you can be one of the gang?
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Well, what many of them fail to realize is that most of them are in the same boat. ;)
 
CFLarsen said:

Noah's? :D
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Hey, I haven't fully discounted the idea of Noah, although I think we're all still just "fishing around." ;)

And yet I believe there may have been something which happened in the "regional sense" which, at that time would have been considered the "known world." So in that sense it's really kind of hard to say.
 
Joshua Korosi said:
Well Sparklecat, I've never felt compelled to post anything on RR, but I have read some of their threads, and in my uneducated opinion you're not going to miss out on much. Of course, since you've been on there for a while, you would be a better judge of that than I.

To me, it just seems as if they can't stand having someone around that fled from Christianity...it doesn't look good for them, you see. On the other hand, if they wish their board to be a place where Christians can be all buddy-buddy and not have their religion questioned or debated, I can find absolutely no reason not to grant them their wish.
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Miss much? In terms of debate, no. We were just going round in circles by that time. I will miss the people though, many of whom I considered friends. I agree with you on the reason though... yet besides the fact that they claim unbelievers have a place, I also was personally guaranteed by many of them that of course we'd still be friends if I wasn't a Christian. I'm not still at the site perhaps, but... *shrugs*
 
FireGarden said:
Hi, Sparklecat.
At least you got to post!

I registered as FireGarden and I did everythhing the e-mail told me regarding activation. I managed to get to my usercp but found that I still couldn't post.
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I don't think your account has been approved then. Did you sign up with something like hotmail or yahoo? It won't be approved if you did. If not, I'd suggest emailing one of the moderators- pm me if you want one of their addresses.
 
CFLarsen said:


That's very....Christian of you... ;)

Well, I hope you will write it up as a follow-up article on SkepticReport... :)

I'm with you ;)
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*shrugs* I try to trust people at least somewhat, and certain actions I consider as surprising from anyone. I'll keep considering that article though, yes.
 
Finella said:

What about these other boards people are referring to? The christianforums, etc.? I've been looking for a decent religious discussion board, but not one that's homogenous in its membership, nor one that's all airy-fairy, if you know what I mean. A good mix. Like me. :D

Cheers to you, Sparkelcat!

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Thanks :)

Yeah, I'm at Christianforums as well, and have set up my own little cult over there :D They're much better than RR in terms of the moderation and the crowd you get... much more polite really, as well.
 
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