man has this been entertaining. I enjoy how the majority here are agnostic/atheist and yet as usual the christians come out in force and try to shove their beliefs down everyone's throat.
things havent changed much since the crusades have they friends?
748 was just lashing back at some of the ignorant and insulting posts made before him, sure he but it bluntly (and therefore insultingly) but he was just responding to something that had already started.
interesting how the christians dont even realize how insulting they are being.
i was raised in the absense of religion. i can remember being in the car with my mother one day and having her ask me what i believed. i was terrified to tell her i didnt believe in god. i tip toed around the question as easily as an 8 year old could.
i didnt know until i was in college that my mother was agnostic and my father was an atheist. i can only imagine how scared my father must have been when i started going to church every sunday for awhile (cisiting various churches with my friends or by myself). ive never bought any of it and ive never met an intelligient person who does.
i get told all the time that im "a good christian" just because im such a good person. if these people only knew. ive always tried to hide my beliefs (or lack there of), because in the United States there is no freedom of religion (hell there are 9 states in which it is illegal to hold a public office if you are an atheist).
ive been to quite a few funerals in my short time on this planet and they always make me sick. all these weak minded people using religion as a crutch to get through tough times. it trivializes life. it makes me sick to hear them speak of seeing this person again in the 'afterlife.' i stand there and understand the true loss. a human life, someone i loved, gone forever.
krossfyter, peace man. i dont want to attack you on this touchy topic, but i really want to encourage you to research the history of the Bible. If you do so and learn with an open mind i think you will be quite shocked if you currently feel there is anything factual about the bible. Scholars have long accepted the bible as something other than fact. if you want to treasure the bible, treasure it for the lessons it teaches (please ignore all the bigotry). there are some good stories there.
i know i probably rubbed some people the wrong way with this post, but keep in mind i was trying to be as fair as possible.
I have had to hide my religion (or lack there of) my entire life, and dont expect this to change in my life time, so i hope you can understand why some of us have an aversion to the patronizing/arrogant/ignorant posts of some of the christians here. i do not mean this to sound insulting but when you speak down to others, when you tell them that this is what you "know," and when you make statements about your own religion that are not true, i do not know of another way of saying it but to say that your post (not you) is patronizing/arrogant/ignorant.
i have some trusted friends who i can tell what i believe (and living in berkeley of course makes me feel much more free) and i have found that when i point out when they are being insulting that they act surprised but upon reflection realize what they have done. i hope the christians here can do the same.
i have had far too many experiences in my life regarding situations similiar to evildead's experiences to tell about them here, but i hope all of you who are christian can realize that to the rest of the world you represent a very oppressive regime and that your pride and ignorance reflected in your posts is as insulting to those of us who do not believe as the ignorant and prideful rantings of a Nazi are insulting to a Jew.
so keep in mind all of the people currently being killed in the name of your religion you are so proud of, and appreciate that many of us have had loved ones killed by people in the name of your religion, and that many of us must live in fear our entire lives because we do not believe what you believe.
