Well, since monstro is, IIRC, a woman, you’re not quite right…
However, it does seem to me to be two posters who are violently in general agreement…
Press on.
And I find myself in general agreement, despite actually being a Christian.
If your church is about community, well, we all know you can have those online. We’re talking in one right now. And you can even get more personal with video calls, so you get body language. The only thing you can’t do is touch, but we can’d do that anyways due to social distancing.
And if your church is about spirituality, why is your spirituality so limited? Why do you think a supernatural being is confined to the four walls of a buliding? I know that the Christian God is omnipresent. I know that the same tools that allow us to be together virtually allow us to pray together, worship together, etc. I know that you can get your sermon or Bible reading online.
So, yeah, I can’t really respect those saying that somehow they need to be able to meet together for their religion. I argue they are just using religion as an excuse for their own wants–at best.
No, not even if you try to quote scripture at me. I know those scriptures, too. No one is saying we permanently forsake assembling together, and two or three can be gathered together virtually–online, on the phone, etc. If not, then every person who gets too sick to go to church has been sinning.
Not worth pitting.
Lots of other shit that’s worth a pitting than this.
Got yer back, monstro (no offense to RTF, who is also a good poster, IMO).
A congregational message board sounds like an excellent idea. I wonder if any churches have tried it.
Sorry, back to your Baffling Battle.
I feel like these kinds of discussions could use an acknowledgment that social distancing is really hard for a lot of us. It’s a necessary evil at this time, of course, and anger toward people endangering others is sometimes appropriate, or at least understandable. But quite honestly, the available substitutes for in-person communication kind of feel like the emotional equivalent of drinking water to try to fool your stomach into thinking you’re not hungry. Maybe some people are perfectly content with the current state of affairs; more power to them. But can we be a little less flippant, a little less dismissive of those who are mourning the loss of something that was meaningful to them?
This is a pitting? Fuck’s sake.
Lol Pitting Monstro?
What’s the OP gonna do for an encore? Pit **Beck[/]?
In case anyone is confused, RTFirefly frequently misunderstands or fails to understand things so he can be all indignant and righteous. Guess he derives some pleasure from it. That’s what’s happening here.
Pedantry isn’t just some borough in the middle of England, you know.
I made no mention of pedantry. Try again. . <— that’s you RTF. That’s how you talk.
I get it. What you’re saying is that they open their eggs from the small end, while you open your eggs from the large end. You’ve certainly set me straight. I can see why you think there’s significant differences between you and them, I just don’t know why you think anyone else would.