I'll Get Flamed For This I Know

[SPKrazy]

why is it necessary to broad brush a whole belief/religion such as Christianity based on the actions of the most fundamentalist of its believers?

I'm rather an eclectic person spiritually.

The Jesus action figure doll is weird. I mean, I don't get why anyone would want one in the first place.

I just read through the thread though and it struck me that while everyone is laughing at the doll and the silliness of it all, it also comes across in a way that people might be laughing at the religion.

We all have a right to believe what we do or don't want to believe.

Democrats and progressives come in all stripes when it comes to that fact.

So I just thought I'd ask, and I'm donning my flame suit, I have been flamed before, and will be again.

:hi:

[boston bean]

1. I dare you to re post this in GD. nt

:P

[SPKrazy]

2. Is that okay to do that?

I would do it...

:D

[SPKrazy]

7. done

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=389x2451895

[no name no slogan]

3. You know who else got flamed for this?

these guys

[SPKrazy]

9. pffftttt....

okay :P

[bicentennial_baby]

4. Er...wrong forum d00d....

:P

Oh, and I own one of these:



:hi:

[SPKrazy]

10. is it the action figure though?

:shrug:


what and why is it the wrong forum?

:shrug:

[bicentennial_baby]

14. it's Buddy Christ....

and, I hate it when teh lounge gets series...I really, really do. x(

[SPKrazy]

19. sometimes

it is needed i guess

sorry, i posted here because the thread was here that i saw the posts in.


:hi:

[bicentennial_baby]

24. it's ok, i'm just a lounge purist...

If I had it my way, all serious posts would be relegated to their proper forums, and we could just be our loungy selves. :D

[SPKrazy]

29. and i'm always such a series poster

i could turn this into a sex thread :evilgrin:

:rofl:

[Bucky]

5. Nice post, Judas.

DUers do enough actual laughing at religion. I don't think snark about the Jesus doll comes close enough to bother anyone who might bother to be offended by what goes on here.

[SPKrazy]

11. No, I agree

it wasn't so much the snark about the doll

as the feeling surrounding the snark about the doll

:shrug:

[PVnRT]

6. You know who else was eclectic?

/Godwin

[SPKrazy]

12. Okay

:shrug:

[PVnRT]

15. Godwin's Law

The first to mention Hitler on a message board loses. Therefore I lose.

I just responded because I was bored. Usually my posts get ignored.

[SPKrazy]

18. gotcha

:rofl:

[LeftyFingerPop]

8. Because....

we're all a bunch of stoopid idiots. :D

No flames from me my friend.

[SPKrazy]

13. perhaps

:shrug:

I'm just asking

and it isn't a personal issue for me really

I just wonder what Christian DU'ers think

[AlCzervik]

16. all i can picture is Rod and Todd Flanders sitting around the living room with

Ned playing with Jesus and that makes me giggle.

[SPKrazy]

21. that makes me giggle too

:eyes:

lots of things do

and that isn't what i was referring to, but :hi:

how are ya?

[AlCzervik]

25. i think just the very idea of a Jesus action figure makes people laugh, when i think

action figure i don't think Jesus, maybe people are laughing at that.

[SPKrazy]

28. could be

:shrug:

[AlCzervik]

30. and gd has worse than usual since sunday and i think people just need to laugh.

[SPKrazy]

31. mebbe so

:shrug:

it is pretty bad in there

and this thread is there too :P

[AlCzervik]

32. i saw and Nightwatcher has about the post ever in there.

[RedCappedBandit]

17. Honestly..

I just find it laughable that any person would buy into all this religious hoo-hah.. But I would try to avoid personal attacks because of it.. :shrug:

[SPKrazy]

22. many people find many kinds of "hoo-hah"

I appreciate your avoiding personal attacks

I try to avoid them too

:hi:

[Gormy Cuss]

20. Nice post, Pilate. n/t

[SPKrazy]

23. Thanks Mary

Magdeline even :hi:

[Whoa_Nelly]

26. The Mary Magdelene Doll

In case you want to make a new thread :D



http://marymagdalenedoll.com/doll.html


...and as Cecil B. DeMille "saw" her 80 years ago


http://www.brightlightsfilm.com/51/king.htm

[SPKrazy]

27. no new threads required

i've got my hands full here and in GD right now

:hi:

[Gormy Cuss]

34. Thanks Whoa_Nelly

I found a use for it.
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[Whoa_Nelly]

35. ROFLMAO!

:thumbsup: :rofl:

[otherlander]

33. A doll that says "love thy neighbor" is probably made in a Chinese sweatshop.

It's ironic in the way that Che shirts made in Honduras are ironic.

As for that actual Jesus guy, he seemed pretty cool. But he was only human. So people were able to kill him. And they did. Possibly because he wanted everyone to have plenty of bread and wine. Imagine that. Everyone. Come to think of it, a lot of people have been killed for that reason...