People believe whatever helps them make it through the night. Christian, Muslim, Buddhist, Shinto, Sikhism, atheistic humanism, whatever, it’s a private choice.
The only specific problem I have with many American Christians now is their insistence that Trump was chosen by God to lead them into a brighter future, and their desire to bear witness to their small-fingered quasi-Messiah with every other breath they take. Liar, dishonest, violent, adulterous, greedy, it all spells Christlike to them.
Check out this billboard that’s gone up around North Carolina. In short, it says that the Second Commandment supersedes the 2nd Amendment.
http://www.newsobserver.com/living/religion/article208471664.html
Dumpster’s fan base is not because he claims to be Christian, but because he claims to be Republican. :dubious:
… and the billboard sparks outrage. Irony.
Uh huh. This is a Christian country founded on Christian principles and the ten commandments, following Gawd’s law and a literal reading of the King James Bible (yeah, in English (I mean Amurrican) after many editorial changes and various inaccurate translations) … EXCEPT when it doesn’t fucking suit us.
Got it! 
If there’s one thing we’ve learned as a society over the last few years, it’s that there’s no more effective way to change things for the better than to get up and loudly start ranting about how your opponents are fucking morons because of their beliefs.
I don’t think the current crop are morons. That I might forgive.
I think these bastards know exactly what they are doing.
So let us know when the Right gets that clue.
Telling the left to stop insulting the right while the right just keep spewing hate, ignorance and openly encouraging violence against the left is kinda one sided and stupid, isn’t it?
That’s turning the other cheek.
( And we still have two more after that )
I prefer, from the Book of Stone Cold …
Austin 3:16
What I’m refusing to accept is the claim that the left is as bad as the right and should turn that cheek and be silent in the face of lies, slander and the incitement of violence.
Then you wonder why Republicans think you’re a bunch of pussies. :rolleyes:
No, that doesn’t mean that we do the same, lying, slandering, inciting violence.
If they can’t take the name calling, then Republicans are a bunch of pansy-assed snowflake pussies who can’t take what they dish out. Boo freakin’ hoo.
Yes, fire away with all you have and then some.
I was just pointing out that it’s not the “Christians” but rather the Liberals and Atheists who are doing as Jesus told to do.
Yes, not just that, but desiring to feed the poor (welfare, food stamps), heal the sick (Obamacare) and treat everyone as equal.
How dare we do what Jesus commands them to do, when they don’t want to do it?
You expect them to come to that conclusion on their own? How are they going to do that? They’re fucking morons.
Does that work both ways?
No.
Really?
Do atheists love the Lord their God with all their heart and with all their soul and with all their mind?
Do atheists pray “our Father, who art in Heaven, hallowed be thy name,” etc., etc.?
Do atheists baptize people in the name of the Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Spirit?
Do atheists believe that it’s a sin to get remarried after divorce?
Do atheists do and observe whatever the scribes and Pharisees tell them? Do they do and teach others to do the commandments of the Old Testament Law, in the hopes of being called great in the kingdom of heaven?
Those atheists, so selective in their application of Jesus’ teachings. What a bunch of hypocrites!
I’m not 100% certain what SaneBill’s point was, but I’m pretty sure you missed it. (My working theory is that he thinks that Jesus’s true message was to be good people, and that secular humanistic atheists are better at that than many christians. Personally I think that Jesus’s message was that everybody was going to be dead by 60bce, which very few modern atheists agree with, but whatevs.)
Also, and the real point of this post, is that I think it’s hilarious that some of the things you called out atheists for, many christians don’t believe either! So on the subject of selectivity and hypocrites…
I had always thought that the Lord’s Prayer was a wonderful example of people missing the point of the lesson.
“Don’t just repeat prayers loudly like the Pharisees do. If you’re going to pray, try something quiet and sincere, like this:”
Which lead to that particular prayer being run through quickly and repeatedly enough to add the term “patter” to the language.
Did Jesus tell us to love our neighbors?
Secularists may or may not follow the greatest of Jesus’s commands, but only the religious use religion as an excuse when they don’t.
Why are you not angry at “Christians” who cheat or steal? How are they excluded from your anger?
I hope he hurries up. We could use a good cleansing. The remnants of humanity will bond together as we re-build society. Sounds good, right about now. How many key combinations do you reckon we need to hit?
I agree. I think the argument was that a core tenet of Christianity is care for others, and being a decent person (Do unto others, judge not, and all that good stuff), and it often seems that members of many religions (not just Christians) fall into rigid thinking about the rules, rather than the spirit of the teachings.
What’s the current bet on whether Ravid returns?
Didn’t you mean “by 60CE?”
(or A.D. if one is so inclined?)