It seems a church decided to do a little play about jackbooted thugs rounding up all the Christians… but they didn’t tell the Christians that it was just a play. Now they’re being sued for $2 million, because a young woman was a) terrorized and b) brutalized in the process.
Being manhandled, blindfolded, handcuffed, and driven to an undisclosed location by individuals wearing gas masks is a “positive activity”?
I think if I was living in that parish I wouldn’t advertise my birthday, just in case the congregation decided to do something “positive” to help me celebrate. You know, like castrating me or something.
No…the counselors would seperate the youths into groups with one counselor as the leader of each group. The rest of the counselors would disperse to various parts of the camp and would act as either a Roman (who would send you to jail) or a Secret Christian (who would give you directions to the secret worship site somewhere on property…usually in the woods).
What I utterly fail to understand is why Jesus wasted His time talking about love, forgiveness, and the need for reconciliation with God when He really ought to have been weaving elaborately paranoid persecution fantasies.
The idiots in GD at the moment and now this–yep, Christianity sure has the answers to life’s most urgent questions.
YOU’RE BUYING HALLELUYAHS? A DOZEN LASHES WITH CAT-O-NINE TAILS, YOU PERVERT!!!
:ROLLEYES:
Poly, you’re the Xan I most respect( my parents are a very close second ), and I am glad you have found comfort and hope in the Xan religion, but to me the whole things sems so gol-danged out of wack and illlogical that if I were seeking God, I wouldn’t look there.
I am Christian and I shudder at people like this. Some of us do believe in the love and forgiveness shtick above all else. I have a hard time believing that God wants us to hate anyone.
I know there are nice Christians, but right now I have had a bellyful of assholes like Reactor and His4Ever telling me how sinful and horrible I am merely because I am different. I am growing fatigued at constantly having to defend myself.
I find that the Christians’ behavior in the linked article is unintentionally telling about their lack of faith.
“One chance to deny Christ or you will be killed”–how is that any kind of threat to one who beleives in eternal life? C’mon, if you believe that you have received salvation through the Atonement and Resurrection, why would you fear being killed? It’s just a momentary sting before you enter Paradise, so what’s the big deal.
In the Left Behind series, the authors have scenes where the Christians are in a dither about taking the Mark of the Beast or being guillotined. Hey, if I believed in that crap, I’d go smiling to the guillotine, testifying about the mercy of Jesus all the way.
That the Christians in the new story see death as such a terrible thing only shows me that they don’t believe their own propaganda.