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  1. jvarnell

    Does Religion Cause Violence?

    Look at the original question. "Does religion cause violance" and the answer is no. Except one. If you look at all the sacrad text of all religions you will see none execpt one telling people that everyone must convert or die.
  2. jvarnell

    Does Religion Cause Violence?

    But it is not religion rasing the army but God. Religion is not the word of God but the inturpation by man of that word.
  3. jvarnell

    Does Religion Cause Violence?

    I can tell you did not understand what I said. In the old testement certain land is the isralites and they have to kill everyone to make it there's. Then they were told to beat the swards in to plows. This is not religion. This is one nation being told to do this one time and one time only...
  4. jvarnell

    Does Religion Cause Violence?

    No it is not telling someone to do that it is prodicting that.
  5. jvarnell

    Does Religion Cause Violence?

    Please look before replying to my post: Qur'an (9:29) - "Fight those who believe not in Allah nor the Last Day, nor hold that forbidden which hath been forbidden by Allah and His Messenger, nor acknowledge the religion of Truth, (even if they are) of the People of the Book, until they pay the...
  6. jvarnell

    Does Religion Cause Violence?

    I don't know what your point is the only text that talks about genocide in the Bible is old testement and in a spesfice case. Which is reporting history and not know. The Qurain is the only openended book that says to kill untill all are eather converted of dead.
  7. jvarnell

    Does Religion Cause Violence?

    You said a key words "justification/rationalization". The only religion that has say to do something is Islam. There are some that use there religous doctran to justification/rationalization but not comeout and say to do it like the Qoran. Justifications are in man mind orders from the...
  8. jvarnell

    Does Religion Cause Violence?

    Most Religions do not cause violance. Only one that I know of actuly states that everyone shall be converted (now the violance) and if not by there own will be forced to or shall die. Most don't have it writen into there holly book about doing something to those that don't become a beleiver.
  9. jvarnell

    Does Religion Cause Violence?

    When someone uses just one of the Seven deadly sins in a argument I have trouble with it. The other gard rail to Greed is Envy. It takes two to have a conflict and when someone points out Greed I will ask is Envy the reason someone is pointing at Greed. Greed is if someone is not using the...
  10. jvarnell

    Hello from Texas

    Y'all should have seen Cutis when he turnd in his EA work last week. He did it all in one. impressive is all I can say. John C Pelt is blessed to have new Masons that are that good.
  11. jvarnell

    An Introduction to Scotch

    Tours are good but won't take the place of actual experance. The hot taste is the methonal and acetone and I remove more of the head than 5%. The tail is because it in mostly water. low specfic gravity readings. The wood resions do give it taste but the char on the barrel traps the bad...
  12. jvarnell

    An Introduction to Scotch

    The port barrel has less acetone in it becaus wine is 80 percent of the port and the brandy is about 20 percent. Brandy is just distilled wine.
  13. jvarnell

    An Introduction to Scotch

    no ethenol boils at about 173, aceaton 132, Methonal at 148. So when you start a still the mash heats up from room temp to 173 it boils off some acetone and methenol that goes into the same condencer as the ethenol does you get those chimicals into what you catch that is why you through away...
  14. jvarnell

    An Introduction to Scotch

    It is not really loaded up the wood just has more of it.
  15. jvarnell

    An Introduction to Scotch

    Yep they use the barrels and that is where the bad tastes are captured....in the wood of the barrel. The char inside of a barrel is there to filter out methanol and acetone which are made as the liquid is heated. Methanol and acetone boil at lower tempatures so they come off the distlation...
  16. jvarnell

    Hello from Texas

    I shook you your hand after your EA and glad to see others from our lodge showing up here on the fourms.
  17. jvarnell

    An Introduction to Scotch

    I think single malt scotch is of but I think here in the US we should have good old US whisky like GW made. The makers of scotch use our used white oak barrels to age it. The char inside a barrel is a char coal filter that takes out some of the flavers (asatone, methanol...). Then the scotch...
  18. jvarnell

    Transfer

    What area are you in now. If you are coming from West TX to and area like Big D. I would say John C Pelt 1321 Duncanville is only formal dress on special occasion. I would call it a Cowboy style lodge. It is not the external but the internal. Now if you are going from West TX to west TX...
  19. jvarnell

    MEMORIZING THE WORK!

    I had problems untill I started getting on my bike right after I worked with my mintor and and saying it out load in my helmet to my self.
  20. jvarnell

    moving to Texas

    I like the pic and i understand the diff. When you get to Texas make sure you go gett some Texas bbq at Stanleys. I don't live ther but when I travel through that is where I stop. There are BBQ places I stop in almost every town also.
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