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Sound and fury, signifying nothing.
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"The Son of Man has come eating and drinking, and you say, 'Look! He's a glutton and a drunk, a friend of tax collectors and sinners!'"
Luke 7:34
awesome.
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The great thing about this is that I went to public school later, and you know what? There was waay more drugs and illicit sex going on at the Christian school than there was at the public school. Crazy rich kids!!
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Prayer and self-hate, of course.
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(I do hope you know that I'm kidding.)
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Hi peach!
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This is what happens when Christians don't behave like Jesus.
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And I am not even a Christian anymore.
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Also, note to Mr England (who I don't like using my country's name!) - believe me, they are all having lustful thoughts. It's thanks to those darned things we call hormones. Stop fighting the inevitable.
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And this is me on a good day.
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I'm really glad you're able to jump all over this one example and take it to mean that GOD is a RAPIST??!!
What in the fuck.
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Also, your statement doesn't prove in any way that "god is a rapist", so I don't really know where you were going with that.
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Religion (especially in the US) is often used to defend stupidity, intolerance, and general bad ideas. Some people will treat religion like a sacred cow (heh) and tell us we're not allowed to question the bad ideas that are defended by religion because that would be "intolerant". I'll respect religion when it gets out of my government.
Religion certainly doesn't tolerate me, so why would I tolerate religion? I don't propose getting rid of it, but I do propose telling religious people to STFU and get back in their church if they want to stupid talk.
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You have a right to believe in whatever you want, but I think a little respect can't hurt.
Oh, and I don't know much about all religions but the Bahia faith seems pretty non-sexist. Any religion that has Earth, Wind and Fire providing the music can't be all bad.
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Should religion permeate the government? No, it shouldn't. Should religion be used to justify misogony and war? No. But some people use it for that. But if there was no religion they would find other ways to justify it. The problem here isn't religion, its ignortant, hateful, self-important people who like to judge. And yes, you can find a lot of religious people like that-- but I think that's largely because more of America is religious than non religious. Because I certainly also know ignorant, hateful self-important atheists too, who use biology to justify their internal sense of superiority and misogyny.
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No, I don't believe that "God is a rapist." I don't really believe that God is anything. Her statement was hyperbolic and probably meant to be offensive. I was attempting to bring the conversation back to a more rational plane.
I did not say that ALL Christians, or ALL religious people were like anything. What I said was that it's built in to Christianity, at least, that good Christians "save" others or subject them to an eternity of torment at the hands of pure evil. The Bible, as far as I've found, does not tell its readers what to do if the unsaved refuse their "help." The results of this range from wars to witch burnings to being snubbed by former friends for coming out. There are a lot of Christians out there who thing differently. The nuns at my old college had domestic partner benefits, and were happy to count as friends anyone who was a good person, regardless of their faith or lifestyle. The church I grew up in, on the other hand, made us preach to strangers and taught us that the outside world was unclean, and we must associate with it as little as possible. I've seen both sides of the coin, and am frustrated by the continuing insistence by the 700 Club people, etc., that THEY are the victims and, in turn, use that status as victim to inflict psychological pain on a whole different group of people, just because they don't subscribe to that idea.
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You know, I'm a Christian, but you'd be hard-pressed to find me calling someone who doesn't subscribe to my beliefs "evil". I guess it's because I don't think my favorite sandal-wearing hippie would approve.
But we're all the same, so wtf do I know??
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You come in here and make a huge, sweeping, offensive statement and then don't even back it up. A lot of religions do beget terrible things, and they do shit on women, but there are ones that do a lot of good things, too. It's the same thing as saying, "Man, I met this guy named Jack one time, and he was a total dick, so all guys named Jack must be total assholes." Doesn't make much sense.
Not to mention, "God is a rapist and a pimp" just seems like one of those statements people make to be inflammatory, and not because they actually have anything thoughtful or supportable to say. Try again.
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