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At least you know your Bible. There was never no fish monkey. This Countries pledge is "One nation under GOD" not "One nation under 6% athiest" Why would that be? Things were a whole lot tougher back when they made that quote. They didn't have all the lux items we have today. They were fighting to stay alive. But yet, they had faith in God and knew God. And why are there so few athiest? Because people know your theories are a bunch of mess. I know, I sound like a religious senile preacher. You know, I am going to see if I can get a preacher on here. He will be able to explain a whole lot better. We will see who was right one day. And I know it will not be you.
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Katelyn wrote:Things were a whole lot tougher back when they made that quote.
You mean in 1948? http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pledge_of_ ... der_God.22

The Founding Fathers wrote a Constitution which separated church and state. Have you heard of the First Amendment Katie?
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/First_Amen ... nstitution
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Yes, I have. abridging the freedom of speech is also part of it. I have a right. A right to speak my mind. I am not going to sit down and shut up because I'm 13. No one will walk on me. I am not a doormat. I'm not my brother. I 'm not going to let people control me. I have a life. I have a voice. And I will speak. Not you, nor the president, or anyone else in this world is going to stop me. I will speak. God didn't give us children voices for nothing. He didn't say, "Once you're 18, then you can speak." No. I may be 13. And you may not ever believe what I say. I may just be a silly little girl to all of you, but look at it from my side. You are trying to destroy the very thing that has held me together since I was born. You try having someone tell you your God isn't real. You try having someone tell you that everything you ever knew to be true, isn't. Well, I have news for you. It is true. And I'm not backing down. You want to start on admendments, okay. 14th admendment. Life. Millions of babies are killed every single day. And PepsiCo products are putting them into products to lower calories and add "bursting with flavor". What about that admendment? That baby had a heartbeat. But because some selfish brat decided she didn't want a baby, that poor thing was torn apart and boby parts were sold. I want to cry and puke about that. What happened to the greatest country on earth? WE ARE NOT THE GREATEST ANYMORE! Not when we act like heathens. We used to make fun of the indians because of their ways. Well, at least they don't kill their children and stick them in soda! We are sick! And you wonder why our country is in such a mess. I'll tell you why. We have turned our backs on God. Now He's turning the tables. He's turning His back on us.
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(author) Katelyn wrote:Millions of babies are killed every single day. And PepsiCo products are putting them into products to lower calories and add "bursting with flavor". What about that admendment? That baby had a heartbeat. But because some selfish brat decided she didn't want a baby, that poor thing was torn apart and boby parts were sold. I want to cry and puke about that. What happened to the greatest country on earth? WE ARE NOT THE GREATEST ANYMORE! Not when we act like heathens. We used to make fun of the indians because of their ways. Well, at least they don't kill their children and stick them in soda! We are sick! And you wonder why our country is in such a mess. I'll tell you why. We have turned our backs on God. Now He's turning the tables. He's turning His back on us.
Uh... what?

Did your mom tell you they put baby parts in soda?
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What happened to the greatest country on earth? WE ARE NOT THE GREATEST ANYMORE!
Meanwhile, we are one of the most religious countries on Earth. Don't listen to the propaganda Katie, research these things yourself. You think you understand the moral implications of abortion? You don't, I can tell by the emotion in your post. It seems to me you would be the type to force a young woman to give birth to the child of her rapist father. Your moral compass is all whack because it points erratically to some sky-daddy who doesn't exist. Search within yourself, you have a moral compass of your own.
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Omw! No. Research PepsiCo shareholders: "fetus" (really baby) cells. I'm gone. Au revoir!
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Well, well.

We are getting into some stupefying wrong now, aren’t we, Katelyn?


@ Interbane, You are convinced that there isn't a God. That is also something that can't be proven.
While it is generally true that you can’t disprove A god in general, whenever you make a claim about a particular god, then there is something to work with. For instance, claiming in no uncertain terms that if anyone has as much faith in their heart as a mustard seed they can move mountains, and then that said faith fails to motivate any stone into motion, then at least that god has been disproven. And that would be your god, Katelyn.
Yes, I have faith there is a God. And the lady (Sorry, can't remember all these usernames.) is right. That is how I mean 'know'.
We understood that from the start, but what you continue to fail to understand is that there is a very important difference between know and believe. That difference comprises everything that there is about “know”.
No one, nothing will stop me. Not you, not the devil, nothing.
If you got through our responses, I think you will find no reference at all to anyone trying to stop you from writing. In fact, I have made a couple of comments meant to encourage you. Just who are you railing against Katelyn?

can something float around in outer space for billions of years (BTW, it wasn't anything. Because there was nothing.) and suddenly, KABOOM! there's everything? Who made it? How did it get there? It never was. Can you prove it was? No. All of your theories are false. You can't prove any of it. You can't. Go ahead. Prove it. I don't want to hear about babies with tails, 'cause that is a bunch of junk. I don't want to hear about Darwin, or any other stupid scientist. I want you to PROVE to me that there was a little fish swimming in outer space that blew into a giant monkey, that then turned into a hunchback man, who turned into a cave man, who turned into a modern man, and I guess this modern man became a woman. Do not correct me. I know that is not what schools teach, but it was basically the same. If ONE monkey turned into a man, what about women? Where did they come from? My faith makes sense. God makes ONE MAN and ONE WOMAN.
Katelyn, what you have there is so far off the mark it’s not even wrong.


This Countries pledge is "One nation under GOD" not "One nation under 6% athiest" Why would that be? Things were a whole lot tougher back when they made that quote. They didn't have all the lux items we have today. They were fighting to stay alive.
In the 1950’s.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pledge_of_allegiance
You want to start on admendments, okay. 14th admendment.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/14th_Amend ... nstitution
Read it.
Life. Millions of babies are killed every single day. And PepsiCo products are putting them into products to lower calories and add "bursting with flavor". What about that admendment?
Did you read the amendment? Did you bother to look it up before you started slapping your fingers at that keyboard?

Next, just what the hell are you talking about? You think pepsi is stuffing aborted babies into it’s drinks? You’re thinking of soilent green, Katelyn. It sounds to me that your parents forbid you to drink soda, and this is the retarded lie they told you to scare you away. And you bought it. Nice. Way to think things through.
That baby had a heartbeat. But because some selfish brat decided she didn't want a baby, that poor thing was torn apart and boby parts were sold. I want to cry and puke about that.
You know nothing at all about the kinds of choices that people have to make when considering abortion. Hell, you don’t even have the wherewithal to distinguish between a flagrant boogeyman tale to keep you off mountain dew and an understanding of what will sell soda.

What happened to the greatest country on earth?
It depends on which greatest country on earth you are talking about, Katelyn. Often times, it’s religious fanaticism and a rejection and suspicion of empirical thought that has crashed great civilizations.

WE ARE NOT THE GREATEST ANYMORE! Not when we act like heathens. We used to make fun of the indians because of their ways. Well, at least they don't kill their children and stick them in soda!
Who makes fun of Indians? Not surprisingly, nobody at all puts dead children in their soda. You are a fool to believe this.

Omw! No. Research PepsiCo shareholders: "fetus" (really baby) cells. I'm gone. Au revoir!

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Hm. No mention of fetus on there. Just a liberal lie, i'm sure.

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Are you pushing your own short comings on us and safely hating them from a distance?

Is this the virtue of faith? To never change your mind: especially when you should?

Young Earth Creationists take offense at the idea that we have a common heritage with other animals. Why is being the descendant of a mud golem any better?
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Uh...she's actually right about the pepsico story.

http://www.politicolnews.com/pepsi-usin ... flavoring/
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Sal_McCoy wrote:Uh...she's actually right about the pepsico story.

http://www.politicolnews.com/pepsi-usin ... flavoring/
Wow - PepsiCo responded, saying, “our collaboration with Senomyx is strictly limited to creating lower-calorie, great-tasting beverages for consumers.”

No denial I could find.

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Sal_McCoy wrote:Uh...she's actually right about the pepsico story.

http://www.politicolnews.com/pepsi-usin ... flavoring/
In all seriousness, there's barely a smidgeon of truth here. Pepsi contracts with Senomyx, which has used fetal cells from an "electively aborted baby" to do research on artificial flavor enhancers.

So there are no actual aborted fetal cells in a can of Pepsi. The aborted fetal cells are used to to mimic human taste receptors while conducting research on artificial flavor enhancers.

"Using isolated human taste receptors we created proprietary taste receptor-based assay systems that provide a biochemical or electronic readout when a flavor ingredient interacts with the receptor,” says the Senomyx website.

For what it's worth, I think this is pretty messed up. Regardless of your perspective on abortion, it seems amazingly insensitive to use biological material from an aborted human fetus to do research for a brand of soda.

http://www.lifesitenews.com/news/pro-li ... ell-lines/
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