First of all, yes. Absolutely. We doth detest Christianity so. Like we doth detest all other religions. It doesn’t matter that the message was Christian, Hindu, Muslim or Taoist. We hate it equally. When it sits on the wall of a public building.
And you’re right, we want it scrubbed, we truly do, but not from public view. From public buildings.
We’ve told you many times already, we don’t give a shit if you put it on a billboard** right outside the school**. As long as its on private ground and there is no possible confusion, as long as no one can possibly think “this is a government endorsed message”, then your god bothering is… well, it’s still pretty annoying, I’ll be honest. But you still have every right to push it.
There. Not here. Because here is not the same as there. Get it ? Got it ? Good.
EDIT: PS: you still have not elucidated to me why this little girl “had the right to ignore” the banner, but your congregation doesn’t exercise its “right to ignore” gay people in its midst. I’d really like a heads up on that front.
She should have known better than to assert that she has rights, too. She belongs to a minority group and minority groups have fewer rights. It’s right there in the Constitution.
The Bill of Rights, like the rest of the Constitution is open to varying interpretations. The Supreme Court has used the First Amendment to prohibit most restrictions on corporate financing of campaigns. I certainly do think that is unfortunate.
The Tenth Amendment says, “The powers not delegated to the United States by the Constitution, nor prohibited by it to the States, are reserved to the States respectively, or to the people.”
This could be used to overturn most of the economic, environmental, and civil rights legislation passed during the twentieth century. If you do not think that is possible, think of what the Supreme Court will look like if Mitt Romney is elected and reelected with Republican majorities in the Senate to confirm anyone Romney nominates to the Supreme Court.
Let’s try to keep this discussion in the third person. There is already enough hostility floating around on the topic without pointing fingers directly at specific posters.
It was documented as a “tea pot” in a previous Millennium, by dead people…if you do not see it for what it is, or feel the warming in your heart it is only because you are not looking close enough.
Earl Russell, OM, FRS said so…and he is dead with lots of letters behind his name.
But I would be open to any evidence you have that prove it is instead a coffee cone.
You’re entirely right, tomndebb. My apologies to all including GEEPERS.
This is just a very sore subject with me. So called Christians who have no problem threatening violence and death upon people who they feel threaten their perceived cultural dominance while at the same time railing about those evil mooslims who are… wait for it… threatening violence and death upon people who they feel threaten their culture.
I don’t need to; it’s the job of someone claiming something exists to provide evidence for it, not mine to prove a negative. And given that the claims made about God wildly contradict physical laws and in most cases are logically contradictory, God has been disproven as much as anything can be. Believers just demand a special-for-religion, impossible standard of proof, because otherwise they’d be admitting they follow a delusion.
:rolleyes: Silent is the last things Christians are. Like the flu virus compels people to cough in order to spread it, Christians feel compelled to cough up their religion on everyone who passes in order to spread* their* disease.
You keep making the same arguments and objections over and over, no matter how it’s explained that your position doesn’t hold any water. An entire thread was devoted to honestly explaining to you how atheists don’t threaten you, Christianity, or the country, and you just unthinkingly waved it away with the same tired dogma. Even when Christians disagree with you, you blindly refute them. That kind of intellectual intransigence, in light of the guaranteed religious freedom that you enjoy, is really hard to fathom.
OMG!!! That’s awful. They prohibited kids from seeing it. I thought they just had to remove it. I thought that maybe they could give it to someone to take home or hang it in a church or business, but those bastards actually prohibited them from seeing it. What’s the penalty for viewing it? Is it civil or criminal? Please post a link so that we can contribute to the defense of anyone who is arrested for displaying or viewing the banner.
. I didn’t say or imply anything like that. I’m not the one making foolish generalizations about a group of people. That would be you. Sounds a bit judgemental when you do it btw. I’m actually quite familiar with Christianity and the NT.
Great, but he’s not the only one making hateful remarks in the name of Jesus is he? I’ll ad another. Bryan Fischer of the American Family Association, who is claiming it’s only right to discriminate agasint homosexual behaviour because it’s dangerous to society like drunk drivers, or wife beaters , or murderers.
I remember Jimmy Swaggart making a joke about killing a gay man and his congregation clapping.
I know lots of great people who are Christians. I’m related to some of them. I know there are many Christians out there doing good work helping others. I also know there are many hateful jerks who are Christians. Christians are just people, some good , some bad, and lots in between. Same with athiests and agnostics. Just people, some good , some bad. The point being that your remarks about Christianity being so moral and atheists offering no hope , or having no moral compass is ruined by a little thing called reality.
Consider reading further on, to the Fourteenth Amendment. You know, the one that says states are not free to abridge the rights of U.S. citizens, and must give them the equal protection of the law?
And you’re sure there weren’t any atheists helping anyone during Katrina how? Oh yeah, because your unreasoning prejudice told you so.
Christianity hasn’t been trashed in this thread, but the silly generalizations you constantly make sure have been.
