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Some emotion involved in this,...............?

Did you read the comment made by Jose-luiscruz? It'll make more sense if you do.

you sound bitter that is ashame second you seem to be enjoying yourself preeching your religion here good luck with trying to convert us believers into nonbelievers .it does seem to get sticky when you start getting into peoples beliefs don't you think

Assuming that people practice their religion out of stupidity or fear seems as ignorant as them assuming that you need saving.

Yes they are some really bad examples of religious people who make the rest of them look bad. Similarly there are some bizarrely aggressive anti-religion people who think they're doing people a favor.

IMHO people goto religion not out of fear or old stories. They go to be around other people who want to be better people.

Some people are happy with where they're at, and can deal with life, these people probably don't have a lot of use for the tenets of religion, and good on then.

But life is bad for some people, lots of things out of their control, and even if the end benefits don't exist, doesn't mean it didn't make them feel better in the meantime.

Ah yes, my children gather and listen! I offer you salvation through yourself. I say I have stood before the light and I see reason! The world is a beautiful place and you are only limited by your will and ingenuity. I do not believe God speaks through me, and even if he did, we should all agree that you can't hear him through any means but your own. The world is scary, and your life will pass before you know it, but rejoice in the fact that it was ever given to you in the first place. You will not find truth on your knees before the pulpit. Your priest is a human, like me, like you. His clothes do not make him any better. Faith will keep you strong, and doubt will keep you flexible.

That's preaching.
Kiss, kiss love.

Well at least I'm honest and don't act all passive aggressive leaving you wondering about what I really want like some people who say they love me then threaten me with an eternity of torture. "IMHO people goto religion not out of fear or old stories. They go to be around other people who want to be better people." Well, that's one way to look at it, but in my experience, people go to church to be around people who all agree on the same principles and that's how you get religious groups that protest outside of funerals holding signs that say "Thank god for dead soldiers" or outside churches with signs saying "God hates fags" and they give their churches specific names so you know what prejudices they have.

And I'm not bitter, I'm baffled.

I tend to agree,...........but go to a Unitarian church in Austin Texas with the christians n wiccans n "gay power" spiritual-humanists n agnostics n whatnot,.....and you DO rapidly get a sense of people striving for a sense of " 'G'reater Community,......lesser 'g'od. "

---damn,....I just mad a T-shirt.

Yah. Did. I just don't have an emotional reaction to it. As long as he is not "LIVE",...screaming in my face and impeding my ability to freely walk down a sidewalk,....well,...I don't like hypocrites,...ever,....THAT pisses me off. That guy actually MAY wear a hair shirt and mortify his flesh; not my thing,...but internal consistency is central to my value system. I don't know him,...so no button pushed.

Besides,....you are a "TAUNTER",....I assume it keeps your blood flowing and your interest up.

You know me so well.

Well the title talks about "Bible" studies, and the reporting site has likely only cherry picked examples of persecution of Christians.

I suppose the headline "Half a Million US Churches doing just fine and not being bothered by anybody" has less of a ring to it.

We're really missing some vital details here.

Are the police specifically targeting these religious meetings, or are they responding to neighborhood complaints?

If the police are showing a pattern of institutional discrimination, that's clearly an issue and something that needs to be addressed.

However if the police are being summoned by locals, and they respond and find a violation, they clearly have to enforce the law. The fact that the locals are inconsistent with complaining really isn't something anyone can do anything about.

Bad neighbors can make anyone's life difficult. There isn't much to do about it other than keeping your nose clean and obeying local ordinances.

If I can`t park outside my house, you can`t have a bible party.

a drunk hippie who apparently drank too much wine

Welcome back slarabee. Meet GodsnLiberals. I'm sure you will become fast friends.

that might be true.
take away science books and the same thing happens.

i dont get it

thats the secret to religion... you cannot see god hence the "chaos and darkness" part lol

That`s just like a Conservative, let`s go back to the middle ages and act like Muslims. I suppose you would keep on lowering people`s living standards until you could be the leader of your own all boys choir.

jay-z?? the drug dealer turn tapper??

yeah your saved..

brilliant words :D

STFU! Jay-z is a legend in the music industry

Jay-z is a genius! You ever listen to his lyrics? It's obvious he puts a lot of thought into it.

It doesn't matter what your past is, it doesn't matter what your profession is, you can be a good person regardless.

what if you are a Catholic priest and organize a boys choir, how can you be a good person

Being a child molester isn't a career choice.

I agree with godsnliberals, Jay-Z is no Dylan. I didnèt know he even played an instrument.

Just keep it to yourself.

Its all a lie that youv'e been lead to believe by your fake religion. Jesus was real but a false prophet of a LIE! Im not satanist because the devil isn't real too. Nothing like that is real, beleive what you want.

I don't want your love. It is not unconditional, you hide all sorts of stipulations in it. I will ever face your god because he doesn't exist. I do believe in God, but not the same way you do. I say I believe in God for the same reason I say I believe in gravity: it doesn't exist, but it's a lot easier to say I believe in gravity than to say I believe in the pressure created by space/time. Simply: God is too valuable a tool for me not to use. You hide behind a mask of good will when you mean to say you're better than me and I'm going to burn for eternity while you sit on marshmallows, jackin off with Jesus to the sound of a cherub playing a harp. Do you even realize how ridiculous that really is?
I live my life well, and if your god is really so petty that he would damn me because I have a different definition of him, than that would only further justify my contempt for him. Keep your love to yourself, unless you promise to contain it in a basement, perhaps?

like you said earlier just keep it to your self

+^d

OMG no way?

Kittens only? Can I keep my cat?

NO. OBAMA WILL TAKE IT WITH YOUR GUNZ. YOUR GUN CAT. IT'S TRUE CUZ FOX NEWS SAID SO.

NNOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!!!!!!!!!!

Seriously people, if an article sounds suspicious, it probably is. Especially if the website is from the, um, "enthusiastically" named: SIGNS OF THE LAST DAYS!!!! D= Sometimes the denizens of Current make me question their I.Q. *sigh* Just...wow.

The reason i voted this down is that I don't believe our message is crap, it's the manner in which we go about spreading the word of God. I certainly don't evangelize, I have friends that do. Faith is a very personal matter and I firmly believe that if people seek to find Christ then they will. But perpetuated intolerance is certainly not the way to go let's be more positive! *that last part had a little sarcasm, but I think you get my point.*

You look like such a cute sweet girl. I'm surprised you're being so rash. As though all Christians are out waving their crosses in the streets damning people to hell. You wish that they'd be afraid to worship? What would they be afraid of? That non-christians will go around burning down churches and the government will pass laws against Christians? Sounds pretty irrational and intolerant. And no, not all Christians are kooks. The ones that make the news are kooks and those are the only ones you hear about!

I think she is absolutely right. Either your a classical christian and believe things from the bible, of which a lot are just downright stupid, or you're one of the "modern" ones who says the bible is pretty much BS....but lets just selectively take out the good stuff and believe in that. You dont need wierd mumbojumbo to follow the Golden Rule.

it's usually a bad idea to think you know someone based on their appearance.

I couldn't agree more.

It's a shame that because you're tired of hearing something you think others' rights should be violated.

I get what you're saying, but what you're saying simply isn't true. It's a personal choice ("you can lead a horse to water...) but I still get people knocking on my door all the time trying to convert me, and I really just want to be left well enough alone. I really do wish they would just go away, or stay in their basements. Hey, if they liked the great outdoors better, I'd tell 'em to go get lost in the woods.

I used to be Christian, and they wanted me to be afraid of something I couldn't see/touch/explain, I'm just wanting to return the favor. And leave my looks out of it. Your pic looks like a huge wang, and you're on God's side?

Thanks Uncle_B, good lookin' out.

What about my right to sleep in without someone trying to instill the fear of God in me? I don't get apes waking me up wanting me to see the truth of Darwinism, so I like the apes more. The real fall of man wasn't eating from the tree, it was falling from the tree.
I feel violated when someone tells me they're going to pray for my soul. I feel violated when someone knocks on my door, and instead of a "Hi, how 'ya doin'?" I hear "If you died right now, would you go to heaven or hell?" I would much rather these people never see the light of day, but I'd be happy if they just stayed in their basements when they get the urge to convert someone, or preach at me about how badly I need saving, or about how beneficial being born again is. Unlike some people, I'm busy growing up (can you tell?).

Haha.

Or when they knock on the door. Open in and scream at them and have like satanic rituals going on in the backround. They'll never come back again.

I actually prefer it when they ask "If you die now, will you go to heaven or hell?" Because I can pretend to be scared, and ask if they're threatening to kill me. It really throws them off and if they take too long to leave on their own, I'll tell them I'm beginning to feel like I need to defend myself or call the cops and they really don't like it when you do that. I pretended I was having an orgy once... Awkward... Satanic ritual would be more fun.

Where the hell do you see a wang? It's a photo from my wedding where my husband is getting my garter. I have no idea how that could be mistaken for a wang. And no, i'm not on God's side. your comment was just a bit much.

They're not violating any of your rights, and this isn't characteristic of all Christians. IF you don't want to talk to them, you can walk away, they can't come into your house. By your logic, it's okay for fundamentalist Christians to take away homosexual rights because it makes them uncomfortable.

I can tell by your attitude, you aren't busy growing up; you have bigoted stereotypes about Christians.

I looked at SarahAna`s pic and it is clearly a wedding shot. Are you squinting or whatÉ

Ah, I guess it was an arm I saw, but in this little itty bitty pic, I still can see a wang...

Gay people hump indoors... Or at least I haven't had a couple in my front yard going at it.

From Dictionary.com
big·ot
   /ˈbɪgət/ Show Spelled[big-uht]
–noun
a person who is utterly intolerant of any differing creed, belief, or opinion.
Word Origin & History
1590s, from Fr. bigot (12c.), in O.Fr. "sanctimonious;" supposedly a derogatory name for Normans, the old theory (not universally accepted) being that it springs from their frequent use of O.E. oath bi God. Plausible, since the Eng. were known as goddamns in Joan of Arc's France, and during World War I Americans serving in France were said to be known as les sommobiches (see also son of a bitch). But the earliest French use of the word (12c.) is as the name of a people apparently in southern Gaul (which led to the now-doubtful, on phonetic grounds, theory that the word comes from Visigoth). Sp. bigote "mustache" also has been proposed as a source, though the sense is not adequately explained. The earliest English sense is of "religious hypocrite," especially a female one, and may have been influenced by beguine. Sense extended 1680s to other than religious opinions.
big·ot (bĭg'ət)
n. One who is strongly partial to one's own group, religion, race, or politics and is intolerant of those who differ.
[French, from Old French.]
Word History: Bigots may have more in common with God than one might think. Legend has it that Rollo, the first duke of Normandy, refused to kiss the foot of the French king Charles III, uttering the phrase bi got, his borrowing of the assumed Old English equivalent of our expression by God. Although this story is almost surely apocryphal, it is true that bigot was used by the French as a term of abuse for the Normans, but not in a religious sense. Later, however, the word, or very possibly a homonym, was used abusively in French for the Beguines, members of a Roman Catholic lay sisterhood. From the 15th century on Old French bigot meant "an excessively devoted or hypocritical person." Bigot is first recorded in English in 1598 with the sense "a superstitious hypocrite."

I don't fit this definition of a bigot because I have no problems with mustaches, or french nuns, nor do I have a problem with other thought processes, what I have a problem with is people who try to force their beliefs on me, who think that it's more important to agree on the name of god and read the right book with the right set of interpretations then it is to live a good balanced life. And if I've been hypocritical, I'm sure you would have jumped on that by now, so that's not the case. Sure I can walk away from any conversation I feel like, but maybe I've just had bad experience with people who've tried to convert me because some were very rude and would not leave my family alone for weeks. My mother finally had to call the cops on them because they were bullying my older sister. I have a problem with organized religion because they're typically the intolerant ones, not me.

Fuck the Normans. I'm keeping my sax-on while they bend over for my sword thrust so my feet are not soiled by the earth they have trod upon or the seed they have spilled between their toes.

But perhaps I hold a grudge too long.

More to the point; to grant credit where due,.....the Norman/Saxon relationship IS the origin of the phrase "Having Sax". (Also the advocation of "sword swallower".)

Don't even get me STARTED on "Priests"; pffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffff,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,tt (spits the blood of hypocrite-invaders and irritated dislodged phlegm into the cold waters of the English channel.)

CROM saves! (er,....if you have the strength,speed, wit, and will,.........to save yourself.)

Couldn't agree more

I love your pie chart. +^'d

Diggin the chart buddy!