So now I am really frustrated bacause I couldn’t find a negative word to mean ‘spread’ Because in this context it needs a negative word.
I can’t really express how it pisses me off, there is something just not right about trying to convince other people to believe your own beliefs.
It is this news item that has pissed me off. What they are doing is shit stirring.
I wouldn’t have a problem with religeon (as I do) if religeous people would live and let live, If they would adopt a policy of letting all but themselves believe whatever the fuck they want to believe. I have absolutely no problem whatsoever if John Doe believes in God, or Jebus or Abba, Believe the world is flat for all I care. But It enrages me when…
A) religeon is preached children, taking advantage of their impressionability.
B) it is preached to a group of people who already have strongly held beliefs that differ from yours.
Fucking goat!
I believe in the almighty ABBA. I do not force the Dancing Queen on others. It is my personal choice and I do not feel the need to change others, views on religeon.
The link works fine for me. It’s a BBC news magazine article about the “Jesus Film”, an evangelical re-telling of the life of Jesus produced by Campus Crusade for Christ and evidentally translated into umpteen languages.
Well, logically, then, you may not care if people believe the world is flat, but you do have a problem with people who believe in Matthew 28:19-20. Also, if your point (A) is taken seriously, then all these other beliefs you say you don’t have any problem with will likely disappear within a generation or two.
Jesus did say “you will be my witnesses in Jerusalem, and in all Judea and Samaria, and to the ends of the earth.” (Acts 1:8) But, this film distribution project seems to me to be in poor taste.
If I thought you were going to spend eternity in some horrible place, I’d try to convert you too. I’d be especially inclined to start with children, as they would be more likely to accept the presentation of new religious beliefs and perhaps less inhibited in sharing the good news with other people than adults would be. (Yes, in the past I have given money and time to help convert people to Christianity, shared the plan of salvation with others, and helped with trying to distribute the Jesus film.)
To me, it all depends on the relative importance of sharing one’s religion – if the positives (possibility that a few people won’t go to hell) outweigh the negatives (others get angry), I’m sharing my religion, and you – well, you can just ignore me.
I never can spell it. Religion?
I Just don’t like people preaching
If they did it in a “try it, we think you’ll like it, but we’ll leave you alone if you don’t” I wouldn’t mind.
It’s “This is how it IS. You are a sinner because you don’t believe what we believe. Bring Jesus into your life and prey and obey and you will be saved” that pisses me off. it’s insulting. A worldwide project to spread christianity to countries with other dominant religeons seems insulting to me.
It is because I believe so very strongly that my religious beliefs (i.e. none) will have no effect whatsoever on what will actually happen to me when I die (That I will not spend eternity in some horrible place) that I dislike the preaching.
Yes, but what if you thought that the only way to save children from hell was to sexually molest them?
It’s simply amazing to me. If you went into bars and harassed people about how smoking causes cancer, people would think you were a noxious nuisance. But if you believe some sick fairytale about how the invisible man in the sky will torture you for eternity just because you didn’t fellate him exactly the way he wanted you to, because he was mumbling when he issued his directions and you didn’t quite hear him right, well then… I guess we just have to respect the beliefs of those who don’t respect the beliefs of others. You see, the cancer thing is insignificant compared to religion, because cancer is real.
Hey, these folks hit my town! They gave a VHS copy of the movie to pretty much everybody. Mine’s still in the shrink-wrap. I meant to watch it, but never got around to it. I liked the book, though…
Same here, but if I were convinced that you were going to fry for eternity, I’d sure as hell try everything I could to get you to believe in my religion. Being that I don’t believe that, people trying to convert me tends to drive me up a wall. Then again, I was on the proselytizing side not very long ago – I believed there was something bad that would happen if one didn’t believe, I tried to learn how best to get people to convert, and sometimes I was quite pushy.
It seems insulting to me that others “absolutely know” that God will send the unsaved straight to hell, but sometimes others are equally insulted that we’re so arrogant as to totally dismiss the God that they dearly love!
Good grief, Lobsang. Your last posting in this thread displays an incredible lack of understanding of what Christianity as a whole is. You have merely preached your interpretation of (beliefs about) one aspect of one branch of the whole and have decided to preach about how bad it is. Now, why should you be allowed to preach that but others now allowed to preach their beliefs?