And in discussions in general?

As far as I'm concerned, they are completely separate.

Even the state says they are separate from one another.

What's your take? Why are these lumped together?

...to never discuss politics or religion.   But in reality this is just the general high controversy topic area that would otherwise clog up the other forums.  If you had a separate religion forum here, I think almost no one would post to it.

both cause division, wars, death, hate between people, fights between family and at family gatherings.  
Because nobody agrees on one political or religious view.
Because people and countries have always mix politics and religion to brain wash and fight each other.  
I think there is more but I'll let Caca and the rest answer more.  

But I'm OK with it because it exists. I just haven't find the right religious belief or the right political belief. But as of lately I've very much on the side of Trump because he is funny, cute, different, unique, etc...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mFFDpvk_fEM

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z3ziQ2_I9lE

https\://www.youtube.com/watch?v=turYBhvV280

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We could call it the "Politics, Religion and other crap that no-one wants to see on the other TER boards"

 
I do agree that a board strictly for Religion would be about as active as the Kansas Regional Board. We could call it the "All Court, all the time" board. lol

 
I think it's telling that even among the rigthies on this board, there have been very few actual Thumpers on this board, a couple, but not many. Preaching the gospel here while conspiring with other guys on the best way to cheat on their wives really would be the ultimate in hypocrisy. Maybe we could invite Jerry Jr here for a little talk? lol

 
Sorry Court, I don't "mean" to make fun of your religion, but it's your own rules that you are breaking by committing adultery, not any of the rules us non-religious folks have EVER agreed to abide by.

It’s okay, Jesus still loves you. I am still pissed at how rude you are, but Jesus says when ppl persecute is for His name’s sake, they’re actually persecuting Him. It has nothing to do with me at all.

Another area where I fall short.  

By the way, in the New Testament, Jesus pretty much levels the playing field when it comes to sin. It seems the “worst” sins that infuriate Him are arrogant religious leaders who don’t do the major sins, but think they’re “good Christians.”

So like - if you were a Christian talking to a woman like this, you would be less justified than me.

However, when you are not, you aren’t accountable to it yet. I have a feeling one day you are going to be converted gambler. I am pulling for you, and I’m already praying for you. Last night I prayed for you. I didn’t really have anything to pray about, but as I was trying to pray for you, I’m just asking God about you, I blurted out, “God, is he really Asian?”. I felt God laugh with me

We had a Moment.  

God made sense of humor. So I believe he has one. Anyway, if I die before you, maybe I’ll see you in Heaven lol

I don't deny the existence of Hell. I don't know. How would I know. But in the unlikely chance that there is Hell or something close to it, all I have to say is:

 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f2YW18yhGio

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kdsJUxVIANk

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4e0VvHZMaTs

 

I really hope there is a Hell where we can continue doing everything we did before and we all can be just be ourselves again in spirit form that is.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Augustine_of_Hippo
Are there any similarities here?  
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"He tells this story in his autobiography, The Confessions. He remembers he stole the fruit, not because he was hungry, but because "it was not permitted." His very nature, he says, was flawed. 'It was foul, and I loved it. I loved my own error—not that for which I erred, but the error itself.""
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"In spite of the good warnings of his mother, as a youth Augustine lived a hedonistic lifestyle for a time, associating with young men who boasted of their sexual exploits. The need to gain their acceptance forced inexperienced boys like Augustine to seek or make up stories about sexual experiences."
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"At about the age of 17, Augustine began a relationship with a young woman in Carthage. Though his mother wanted him to marry a person of his class, the woman remained his lover for over fifteen years and gave birth to his son Adeodatus. ... In 385, Augustine ended his relationship with his lover in order to prepare to marry a ten-year-old heiress. (He had to wait for two years because the legal age of marriage for women was twelve.)"
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"Augustine's mother had followed him to Milan and arranged a respectable marriage for him. Although Augustine acquiesced, he had to dismiss his concubine and grieved for having forsaken his lover. He wrote, "My mistress being torn from my side as an impediment to my marriage, my heart, which clave to her, was racked, and wounded, and bleeding." Augustine confessed he had not been a lover of wedlock so much as a slave of lust, so he procured another concubine since he had to wait two years until his fiancée came of age. However, his emotional wound was not healed. It was during this period that he uttered his famously insincere prayer, "Grant me chastity and continence, but not yet."
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"In late August of 386, at the age of 31, having heard of Ponticianus's and his friends' first reading of the life of Anthony of the Desert, Augustine converted to Christianity. As Augustine later told it, his conversion was prompted by hearing a child's voice say "take up and read" (Latin: tolle, lege). Resorting to the Sortes Sanctorum, he opened a book of St. Paul's writings (codex apostoli, 8.12.29) at random and read Romans 13: 13–14: Not in rioting and drunkenness, not in chambering and wantonness, not in strife and envying, but put on the Lord Jesus Christ, and make no provision for the flesh to fulfill the lusts thereof.""
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I have encouraged GaG to write (himself or with a ghostwriter) his autobiography. I thought it could be a new version of The Happy Hooker. But maybe GaG will have an epiphany and his autobiography will be a new version of The Confessions http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Confessions_(Augustine) .
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The Confessions of St. Augustine is considered to be one of "the great masterpieces of western literature." How will The Confessions of GaGambler be received?

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Wow so well written, it's too much for me.
Could you write it in a summarized way?
What did that guy do?

...He also had a domineering mother so naturally he became a priest where he could continue to fuck underage girls as men of the cloth do to this very day.

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