Religion and Christianity

[Mattforclark]

. Flame away. !

:evilgrin:

[Van Helsing]

1. Christians rule!

Woo-Hoo! :bounce:

[Az]

2. And we can't get them to stop

:evilgrin:

[liberalhistorian]

21. Unfortunately, as a liberal Christian,

I have to agree with you on that one. Religion and government MUST be separate, end of discussion. I wonder how the fundies would like it if atheists acted like they did and forced their own version of law and morality on the rest of society.

I have no more right to demand that everyone adhere to my beliefs and that such beliefs be codified into the laws governing EVERYONE in society, not just Christians or any other religion, than atheists/agnostics/new agers, etc., have to do the same. I will share my faith with people who ask and genuinely want to know, but I don't force it on people or make them listen when they don't want to do so.

These fundie nutballs have twisted my religion into something damn near unrecognizable, and have turned countless numbers of people off; they've done more damage in just a couple of short decades than anything and anyone else. They have been responsible for more human suffering than almost anything else. I really have to wonder if they've even read the Bible at all, particularly the New Testament, because I don't think Christ would recognize them at all as followers of his, and I don't think they'd know him if he stood before them in nine hundred feet of thunder, lightning and glory.

On the other hand, I sometimes get the condescending, dismissive treatment from atheists and agnostics who put me down for having religious beliefs and for believing in something they don't. Live and let live, I say. People have the right to believe what they want, they don't have the right to judge others for not sharing their beliefs, or lack of beliefs.

[Mattforclark]

33. That's the longest, most well-thought out

post I have ever seen in the lounge. Congrats!

[liberalhistorian]

40. LOL!

Yeah, I do tend to be a bit wordy at times. Guess that happens when you grow up the daughter of two English teachers and when you're a paralegal surrounded by lawyers all the time!

[Az]

41. Sux Syntax

Nuff said :bounce:

[Az]

34. You can imagine

how I feel about the dismissive treatment you recieve from those that share some of my beliefs. I look at this as a journey we are all on. We are born screaming and blind into this world and only by helping each other can we make any progress in it. So we are not all on the same page as far as what we make of this world. There are other things we can agree on.

[liberalhistorian]

38. Very true,

and I'm also sorry about what the fundies are trying to do to those (even among their own) who don't get in grateful lockstep behind them.

[Mattforclark]

4. Your post deeply offends me!

What do you think you are doing? Do you think you can just bounce there like that and nothing will happen?

[Van Helsing]

5. Heck yeah I do!

:evilgrin:

[Mattforclark]

7. Bouncing doesn't exist!

And you should not do it in front of children. Please, stop. For Think of the children.

[Van Helsing]

8. Heh!

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[Mattforclark]

10. Stop that or I'll alert you!

[Van Helsing]

13. LOL!

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All those poor children and kittens! :evilgrin:

[liberalhistorian]

26. AHHHHH! Thou sacriligious blasphemer!!

Thou shalt burn in hell for that one!!!!!!:evilgrin:

[Van Helsing]

32. NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO

:( :bounce: :bounce: :bounce: :bounce: :bounce: :bounce: :bounce: :bounce: :bounce:

:evilgrin:

[Az]

11. Think of the kittens

[Bertha Venation]

3. flame away at what?

:shrug:

[Az]

6. This is an example of mocking

the recurring megathreads concerning religion and in particular Christianity.

[Mattforclark]

9. Stop mocking my thread

[Az]

14. Smock smock smock

Don't knock my smock!

[liberalhistorian]

30. Don't knock the clock

onto the smock!!:bounce: :bounce: :bounce: :bounce: :bounce: :bounce: :bounce: :bounce: :bounce:

[Bertha Venation]

12. no wonder I didn't get it --

I don't pay attention to those. :)

For the record, I am a former fundamentalist evangelical Christian, a former atheist, a current Christ-following agnostic, and a lesbian married to a devout Episcopalian hillbilly woman who was raised Southern Baptist. (Top that! ;))

[Az]

15. Not without surgery

I am just a lil ole Atheist, Taoist, Humanist, Unitarian Universalist with extreme leftist tendencies. I got nothing on you. :evilgrin:

[liberalhistorian]

31. Unitarians, those

are definitely good people! I think we'll keep ya around, after all! :evilgrin:

[Mattforclark]

16. You're a flip-flopper!

You should learn to make up your mind and stick with it, no matter what no informatino arrises and no matter what happens.

[Bertha Venation]

22. If I did that, I'd still be a Republican.

}(

[liberalhistorian]

28. Wow!

I don't think ANYTHING can top that, lol!!!

[Az]

36. You know those UU churchs

You can find some that could give her a run for her money hanging around there on a slow day. :evilgrin:

[SheepyMcSheepster]

17. oh no! discussion about religion! I am immediately offended!

:silly:

[Van Helsing]

18. I'm offended by that creepy guy in your avatar!

[Bertha Venation]

24. offended by Beaker?!

mi-mi-mi-mo-mi mi mi-mi-mo-mi mi-mi-mo?

[SheepyMcSheepster]

25. Back off man! He's a scientist.

[Van Helsing]

27. AAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHHH!

That creepy guy is gonna replace the clowns in my nightmares!!! :scared:

[Bertha Venation]

29. you need to see "The Muppet Movie"

If you do, Beaker won't freak you anymore.

[SheepyMcSheepster]

37. yes, "Beaker" is your friend.

i would watch out for the swedish chef if i were you.

[Bertha Venation]

46. Swedish Chef is cool: He tosses cabbage in the air, shoots it, and

it rains brussels sprouts.

[Mattforclark]

42. That brings up the question

Has science or religion caused more fire throughout history?

[Az]

43. I blame Prometheus

Bugger knew what he was doing when he gave us fire.

[SheepyMcSheepster]

44. i hear some say he did it out of spite!

that spiteful bastard!

[La Lioness Priyanka]

19. jesus is fucking hot!

[Canuckistanian]

20. I'm pre-emptively offended!

At whatever you mean by that potentially inflammatory post!
:grr:

[Canuckistanian]

23. I call it the Canuckistanian Doctrine

[Mattforclark]

35. You're right, my post was a gathering threat

And I commend you for acting immediately against that threat.

[SheepyMcSheepster]

39. not only was it a gathering threat, but......

i think it contained devices of potential offensiveness related program activities!

[moof]

45. deeply offended that you equate

religion and christianity with homosexuality

there is no proof that religion and christianity are

any more prone to flaming away than any other.

Frankly, if you'll allow frankness, it is becoming quite clear that

sexual orientation as well as ability to believe in the supernatural

are functions of brain develpoement during specific times of

development during gestation.

P.S. sorry if the inclusion of some factual information in this
farcical post caused anyone to take it seriously.