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The Angry Hiker SAR Blacklistee
Joined: 13 Jun 2008 Posts: 2890 | TRs | Pics Location: Kentwila |
mike wrote: | Rather it's mostly christians who are in your face with their religion. |
And yet, Christians getting "in your face" with their religion is rarely accompanied by the stench of burning human flesh and body parts falling from the skies.
Christians getting in your face
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boot up Old Not Bold Hiker
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Fri Mar 01, 2013 1:23 pm
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The Angry Hiker wrote: | And yet, Christians getting "in your face" with their religion is rarely accompanied by the stench of burning human flesh and body parts falling from the skies. |
All in the Good Christian Spirit:
The Crusades
Spanish Inquistion
Witch Burning
hmmm...
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SaneNoMore Member
Joined: 27 Feb 2013 Posts: 17 | TRs | Pics Location: Ellensburg, Washington |
Yup lets blame all Christians for the acts of the Catholic Church and a small group of Puritans... Thats fair.
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Bedivere Why Do Witches Burn?
Joined: 25 Jul 2008 Posts: 7464 | TRs | Pics Location: The Hermitage |
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Why Do Witches Burn?
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Fri Mar 01, 2013 3:15 pm
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SaneNoMore wrote: | Yup lets blame all Christians for the acts of the Catholic Church and a small group of Puritans... Thats fair. |
Perpetrated hundreds of years ago, no less. Surely the descendants, whoever they may be, are just as guilty as their ancestors.
I don't know of too many religions that don't promote themselves. They believe they have something to offer and they want people to know about it. No big deal as long as it's nothing more than advertising.
There are extremists in every corner of human civilization. The Taliban and the Westboro Baptists. I submit they're simply two sides of the same idealistic coin.
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The Angry Hiker SAR Blacklistee
Joined: 13 Jun 2008 Posts: 2890 | TRs | Pics Location: Kentwila |
boot up wrote: | The Angry Hiker wrote: | And yet, Christians getting "in your face" with their religion is rarely accompanied by the stench of burning human flesh and body parts falling from the skies. |
All in the Good Christian Spirit:
The Crusades
Spanish Inquistion
Witch Burning
hmmm... |
Yup, they were burning witches at the Union Gospel Mission last night.
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SergioNapelo Member
Joined: 05 Mar 2011 Posts: 666 | TRs | Pics Location: Edmonds, WA |
boot up wrote: | All in the Good Christian Spirit:
The Crusades
Spanish Inquistion
Witch Burning
hmmm... |
"Historically, hospitals were often founded and funded by Christians..." well, at least people who follow "christian" teachings should "love your enemy..." ..or neighbor, ... or help poor, feed the hungry...
And Crusades were more political than anything to stop Muslim (arabs) invasion of Europe...
But, then, why remember all the good was done in the name of Christ when you can use christianity as... well...
P.S. I do not think there should be funny looking statues on the tops of the hills claiming to be Jesus. (and Jesus was not white )
"I will lift up my eyes to the mountains. From where shall my help come. My help comes from the LORD, who made heaven and earth!" - David, King of Israel 1,000 BC
"I will lift up my eyes to the mountains. From where shall my help come. My help comes from the LORD, who made heaven and earth!" - David, King of Israel 1,000 BC
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AR 724
Joined: 22 Aug 2007 Posts: 1514 | TRs | Pics Location: Saratoga Passage |
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Sat Mar 02, 2013 4:25 pm
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That one always gets me...the Anglo-Saxon Jesus.
I'm thinking Jesus would have stuck out quite a bit as a native to the Jerusalem area.
...wait...are we just going to hang here or go hiking?
...wait...are we just going to hang here or go hiking?
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RayD the griz ate my pass
Joined: 20 Aug 2005 Posts: 1763 | TRs | Pics Location: Vacaville |
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the griz ate my pass
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Sat Mar 02, 2013 5:50 pm
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don't believe everything you think
don't believe everything you think
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mike Member
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contour5 Member
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Sat Mar 02, 2013 7:23 pm
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Where I grew up- catholic church- Jesus always had a little flap- to cover up his private/naughty/junk bits. So a flap is really nothing new...
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The Angry Hiker SAR Blacklistee
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Alpendave Member
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My last post probably wasn't in compliance with forum rules so I deleted it. At any rate, speaking as a Christian and from a Christian perspective, I would say that creation is much more enjoyable and reflective of God's goodness when it is not marred by gaudy religious relics. If people aren't going to discern God's still, small voice (1 Kings 19:11-12) in nature as it is, they aren't going to here it when religionists deface nature with an in-your-face icon on land that belongs equally to both believer and "infidel." While not nearly as loud and obnoxious, respect for others has a way of being heard and understood much more clearly.
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Tvashtar Tvashtalker
Joined: 22 Aug 2005 Posts: 1225 | TRs | Pics Location: The 11th Dimension |
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Mon Mar 11, 2013 1:43 pm
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"I don't care if it rains or freezes..."
Regarding the worship of idols, it seems that things went wrong when man began scaling them down. In the old days, you didn't pay homage to a scaled down medallion of the sun or a pile of dirt that kind of looked like your local volcano - you went for the real thing - something which could kill you, change the weather, give life, and do all that cool God stuff. Then we started praying to them, like they were little microphones to heaven, then they needed their own sound studios, which had to be really, really big.
Pray to the sun or a mountain and nobody's gonna call you crazy - but a dashboard Jesus? Hmmm.
Once we started making statues n stuff, we started fighting about them when somebody's dog peed on them or they wound up in funny hats early Saturday morning.
I will admit to having a thing for Baby Jesus's in the Manger - how can you not take that holy little tyke home with you? My collection got too big, however, then I had to face the real problem - how to you properly and anonymously dispose of a Baby Jesus, particularly when your neighbor might recognize it?
"We are, all of us, in the gutter, but some of us are looking at the stars." - Oscar Wilde
"We are, all of us, in the gutter, but some of us are looking at the stars." - Oscar Wilde
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Tvashtar Tvashtalker
Joined: 22 Aug 2005 Posts: 1225 | TRs | Pics Location: The 11th Dimension |
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Mon Mar 11, 2013 1:49 pm
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It's safe to say that modern Christians have continued their historical legacy of damning science and human rights with characteristic vigor - from anti-gay and anti-women legislation to monetarily supporting the killing of gays in Africa.
Any philosophy where a) you're chosen, b) everyone else is damned and c) science is bunk - is a dead end in this increasingly crowded world - just from a basic survival standpoint, of nothing else.
Fortunately, religion and its colorful cast of invisible, psychotic characters is in rapid decline in America - we're finally catching up with the rest of the modern world after all.
"We are, all of us, in the gutter, but some of us are looking at the stars." - Oscar Wilde
"We are, all of us, in the gutter, but some of us are looking at the stars." - Oscar Wilde
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Tvashtar Tvashtalker
Joined: 22 Aug 2005 Posts: 1225 | TRs | Pics Location: The 11th Dimension |
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Mon Mar 11, 2013 3:23 pm
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The Angry Hiker wrote: | mike wrote: | Rather it's mostly christians who are in your face with their religion. |
And yet, Christians getting "in your face" with their religion is rarely accompanied by the stench of burning human flesh and body parts falling from the skies.
Christians getting in your face |
A person executed in Uganda for being gay, something today's Christians actively support with their donations, seems just as dead to me, although I guess you can't really call them 'heroes'. Ditto for gay teen suicides - often caused by familial rejection due to Christian beliefs, leading to homelessness, leading to....
When I think of today's fundamentalist religions, two defining words come to mind:
Ignorance and cruelty, with the former producing the latter.
"We are, all of us, in the gutter, but some of us are looking at the stars." - Oscar Wilde
"We are, all of us, in the gutter, but some of us are looking at the stars." - Oscar Wilde
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