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You may remember these brave Americans. They reunited with the family of another woman they helped. Nice is overrated "It's every freedom-loving individual's duty to lie to the government." Airsoftguy, June 29, 2018 | ||
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Very nice story. ___________________________________Sigforum - port in the fake news storm.____________Be kind to the Homeless. A lot of us are one bad decision away from there. | |||
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Nice story, but all the religious remarks are a turn off. Right or wrong, no one wants someone else's religious views pushed on them like that. End result is less than ideal, similar to when the commie Democrats try to force feed you their opinion. -c1steve | |||
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I didn’t feel any “religious views pushed” on me. I did notice the man expressing HIS religious views. I believe there’s a difference. | |||
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If you come and save my soon to be shot, tortured, raped or whatever soon to be dead ass I don’t care if your first words to me are about the space ship and Tom Cruise sent them I will happily discuss whatever crazy ass shit they want whenever they want....forever....over drinks on me. "Guns are tools. The only weapon ever created was man." | |||
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I do NOT find the references to God, and those prayers, to be a turn off. If you do not believe, your choice. But I do not recommend criticizing other people because they choose to believe. Elk There has never been an occasion where a people gave up their weapons in the interest of peace that didn't end in their massacre. (Louis L'Amour) "To compel a man to furnish contributions of money for the propagation of opinions which he disbelieves and abhors, is sinful and tyrannical. " -Thomas Jefferson "America is great because she is good. If America ceases to be good, America will cease to be great." Alexis de Tocqueville FBHO!!! The Idaho Elk Hunter | |||
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The person on the video can believe anything he wants, but when he goes on and on stating his belief, it is a turn off. He would have had better effect if he eloquently stated his views in a sentence or two at the end. I greatly appreciate his service to humanity. -c1steve | |||
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^^^^^^ Personally, I find your attitude and comments offensive. But, that is just my opinion. Your opinion is no more worthy than mine and mine is no more worthy than yours. As to the comments the person made on that video, he has every right to say whatever he wants and your opinion does not abrogate his rights. God's mercy: NOT getting what we deserve! God's grace: Getting what we DON'T deserve! "If the enemy is in range, so are you." - Infantry Journal Bob P239 40 S&W Endowment NRA Viet Nam '69-'70 | |||
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The Free Burma Rangers are a mainly Christian pro-active, pro-democracy humanitarian group who work throughout Burma but concentrate primarily on the heavily forested border region, delivering emergency ... Wikipedia https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Free_Burma_Rangers God's mercy: NOT getting what we deserve! God's grace: Getting what we DON'T deserve! "If the enemy is in range, so are you." - Infantry Journal Bob P239 40 S&W Endowment NRA Viet Nam '69-'70 | |||
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| Step by step walk the thousand mile road |
They could wear Templar over mantles and I'd not care. They were there, in the midst of a Hellish battle, pulling those who ISIS tried to murder to safety. If it was their faith that motivated them and that they believe God protected all involved, then they can shout it from the rooftops five times a day because it was more than I did to help those folks. Nice is overrated "It's every freedom-loving individual's duty to lie to the government." Airsoftguy, June 29, 2018 | |||
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He’s over there risking his life helping people, I think he has earned the right to thank his God for helping him. I’m sure that video was not meant to indoctrinate anyone but in his eyes he felt God was instrumental in helping them help those people so he expressed it. Honestly I’m a Christian but if a Buddhist, Hindu or Islamist saved me or a family member from a situation like like I wouldn’t care what they said or who they thanked. | |||
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I didn’t interpret his comments as proselytizing at all. To me, he sounds like a fellow who puts his faith into action. _____________________________________________________________________ “One of the common failings among honorable people is a failure to appreciate how thoroughly dishonorable some other people can be, and how dangerous it is to trust them.” – Thomas Sowell | |||
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Awesome story. Imagine asking God for help in a dire situation like that and the answer is standing right next to you. WOW! | |||
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Um, did I watch a different video? It isn't like he was preaching to her on the battlefield. He was retelling a story and sharing his beliefs. Should she not have made comments thanking God (Allah) either? Great story, great outcome, God bless them. “People have to really suffer before they can risk doing what they love.” –Chuck Palahnuik Be harder to kill: https://preparefit.ck.page | |||
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Genuinely good people. I don’t care about whether they are Jews, Christians or atheists: they save innocent lives, and that’s all that matters. | |||
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How about this: when you volunteer to run through a hailstorm of enemy fire to rescue women from sexual slavery and ritual torture, then you can say whatever you want on a video about your adventures. And I’ll listen. These guys earned the right to their opinion. Instead of being turned off by his comments, maybe you should ask yourself if the outcome of his deeds lend any weight to his comments giving praise to God. | |||
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I don't care what motivated him to do what he did. I don't care how he rationalized how it happened the way it did. I am just glad he was there. Bruce "The designer of the gun had clearly not been instructed to beat about the bush. 'Make it evil,' he'd been told. 'Make it totally clear that this gun has a right end and a wrong end. Make it totally clear to anyone standing at the wrong end that things are going badly for them. If that means sticking all sort of spikes and prongs and blackened bits all over it then so be it. This is not a gun for hanging over the fireplace or sticking in the umbrella stand, it is a gun for going out and making people miserable with." -Douglas Adams “It is just as difficult and dangerous to try to free a people that wants to remain servile as it is to try to enslave a people that wants to remain free." -Niccolo Machiavelli The trouble with fighting for human freedom is that one spends most of one's time defending scoundrels. For it is against scoundrels that oppressive laws are first aimed, and oppression must be stopped at the beginning if it is to be stopped at all. -Mencken | |||
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Personally I think that it's ABSOLUTELY FINE that he looks to the Lord for guidance, inspiration, motivation and strength. Frankly it's the people who get upset, disgusted and/or squeamish whenever they hear 'God', 'prayer' and 'Jesus' that I think need to keep all of that negativity to themselves and let these and all good people do what they do. Besides as someone has clearly shown in this thread, a person don't have to be religious to be intolerant of others' views. | |||
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