Will Xtian ironies never cease? Found in the discussion:
Lead Baron 350
..Odd. I worked at our local ( and very popular ) theme park here in California , and once a year our park hosted Christian Night, where many churches rented the park for the evening. We always had extra security those nights due to the fact that the theft rate was ALWAYS the highest on that night alone. So this story comes as no surprise.
Bruce-308647 The more educated you are, the less you care about the unborn? How do you explain the same "educated" people dedicating their lives to saving baby whales and seal pups, but getting red faced anytime anyone dare to mention that unborne humans might deserve more protection? Why is this idea of life being sacred so hard for the left to understand? Why is the idea that unborn humans should be allowed to live so repulsive?
Also, this one may shed light on the 1st quoted above:
Digital Vagrant Many of the students who attend private religious schools do not go because they are devout. They go because they got kicked out of public school, got in trouble, or because their parents were concerned about their behavior/influences and decided a private school would be a better environment for them. Most of the people I know who went to private schools will tell you that probably half of their classmates were there because they were anything but nuns in training. A good percentage of private school students are sent to religious institutions as a last resort to curb their bad behavior. Sometimes it works, sometimes it doesn't.
This doesn't mean that religious kids don't also make bad choices. But is important to keep in mind that all students in religious schools are not necessarily religious or from church-going families.
Ooh, here's some humdingers aimed squarely at religion:
Dawkins-880819 I love the excusethat Christians use to distance themselves from other Christians--"They're not real Christians." I once attended a baptist church with a friend and the preacher went on a tirade on how the other baptist church down the road wasn't a real christian church and how the congregation should pray that the people in the church down the road would come to their church to learn about the real Jesus. In my experience, every denomination thinks that they are right and everyone else is wrong, and every church in that denomination knows the truth better than the others and every person in that church knows better than anybody else. That is one of the main reasons I decided to give up religion. I'm not singling out Christianity, all religions I know of do this.
Adept Havelock Very amusing, the "Christians" in this thread judging who among their religious fellow travelers who is a "real Christian" or not.
Sad they forgot that part of their book that reads "Judge not, lest ye be Judged". Doesn't bother me, as it's not my belief. However, their hypocrisy is damned funny.
"I like your Christ, I do not like your Christians. Your Christians are so unlike your Christ." -Mahatma Ghandi
XNihil0Zer0 Why do Christians believe that their god is any different from random chance? They believe their god is limitless, yet fail to realize, that limits give definition. That without limits is undefined. Your god is as arbitrary as the chance you decry.
Will Xtian ironies never cease? Found in the discussion:
ReplyDeleteLead Baron 350
..Odd. I worked at our local ( and very popular ) theme park here in California , and once a year our park hosted Christian Night, where many churches rented the park for the evening. We always had extra security those nights due to the fact that the theft rate was ALWAYS the highest on that night alone. So this story comes as no surprise.
Also found in discussion:
ReplyDeleteBruce-308647
The more educated you are, the less you care about the unborn? How do you explain the same "educated" people dedicating their lives to saving baby whales and seal pups, but getting red faced anytime anyone dare to mention that unborne humans might deserve more protection? Why is this idea of life being sacred so hard for the left to understand? Why is the idea that unborn humans should be allowed to live so repulsive?
Also, this one may shed light on the 1st quoted above:
Digital Vagrant
Many of the students who attend private religious schools do not go because they are devout. They go because they got kicked out of public school, got in trouble, or because their parents were concerned about their behavior/influences and decided a private school would be a better environment for them. Most of the people I know who went to private schools will tell you that probably half of their classmates were there because they were anything but nuns in training. A good percentage of private school students are sent to religious institutions as a last resort to curb their bad behavior. Sometimes it works, sometimes it doesn't.
This doesn't mean that religious kids don't also make bad choices. But is important to keep in mind that all students in religious schools are not necessarily religious or from church-going families.
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ReplyDeleteOoh, here's some humdingers aimed squarely at religion:
ReplyDeleteDawkins-880819
I love the excusethat Christians use to distance themselves from other Christians--"They're not real Christians." I once attended a baptist church with a friend and the preacher went on a tirade on how the other baptist church down the road wasn't a real christian church and how the congregation should pray that the people in the church down the road would come to their church to learn about the real Jesus. In my experience, every denomination thinks that they are right and everyone else is wrong, and every church in that denomination knows the truth better than the others and every person in that church knows better than anybody else. That is one of the main reasons I decided to give up religion. I'm not singling out Christianity, all religions I know of do this.
Adept Havelock
Very amusing, the "Christians" in this thread judging who among their religious fellow travelers who is a "real Christian" or not.
Sad they forgot that part of their book that reads "Judge not, lest ye be Judged". Doesn't bother me, as it's not my belief. However, their hypocrisy is damned funny.
"I like your Christ, I do not like your Christians. Your Christians are so unlike your Christ." -Mahatma Ghandi
XNihil0Zer0
Why do Christians believe that their god is any different from random chance? They believe their god is limitless, yet fail to realize, that limits give definition. That without limits is undefined. Your god is as arbitrary as the chance you decry.