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Boy its hard being friends with religious people
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MartyMcFly3
Lifer
Dont get me wrong, Im an asshole myself. 😉
Dumac
Diamond Member
Was he converned about your bong because he thought it was sinful, or was he just generally concerned for you as a person?
As far as being friends with religious people, it's kind of hard not to when most of the population believes in some sort of deity.
It doesn't bother me at all unless they are too forward about it. If they are, then I kindly tell them that I'm not interested. And if they don't listen, then we are no longer friends.
BlahBlahYouToo
Lifer
because racism is not PC but other forms of prejudice is ok.
Wednesday night prayer meeting, Wednesday night Bible study, etc.
We just call it Wednesday night service, we have prayer requests and a prayer time. Fewer specials (singers), maybe one, and a shorter song service, and then a sermon on whatever God laid on the pastors heart. Could be a Bible study type sermon or a rip into you type sermon. It's just church on Wednesday, I don't think it makes us crazy.
Dumac
Diamond Member
It really depends on where you are.
Religious attacks usually only fly uninhibited on the internet.
If you tried to group religious people together in a negative way where I used to live, you would get your ass whooped or receive the scorn of the whole community. Of course, that's the South.
Religious attacks usually only fly uninhibited on the internet.
If you tried to group religious people together in a negative way where I used to live, you would get your ass whooped or receive the scorn of the whole community. Of course, that's the South.
Actually, there is a verse in the Bible which says that those who call themselves followers of Jesus but do not follow His example (don't repent, don't try to do what they are suppsoed to, etc.) - it says with these people, do not even drink.
Someone who claims to be a Christian but is still willingly living contrary to what is taught - this is not a good thing. Why claim to be something you aren't?
Here you go:
But realize this, that in the last days difficult times will come. For men will be lovers of self, lovers of money, boastful, arrogant, revilers, disobedient to parents, ungrateful, unholy, unloving, irreconcilable, malicious gossips, without self-control, brutal, haters of good, treacherous, reckless, conceited, lovers of pleasure rather than lovers of God, holding to a form of godliness, although they have denied its power; Avoid such men as these. (2 Timothy 3:1-5)
But now I am writing you that you must not associate with anyone who calls himself a brother but is sexually immoral or greedy, an idolater or a slanderer, a drunkard or a swindler. With such a man do not even eat. (1 Corinthians 5:11)
Nor should you - but say I were to call myself a Christian but would continue to pickup prostitutes or something. Imagine someone you know seeing you do that, knowing you call yourself a Christian - not exactly the example you want to give to others.
But yes there is the whole hate the sin, love the sinner thing as well. But I can see where the guy is coming from, though in this case probably a bit misguided.
Hooray for taking things out of context. Jesus didn't say that, meaning it literally, it was part of a parable.
The whole thing is basically about faith, and the last part (which you quoted without the entire preceding story it is a part of) is basically saying that those who do not accept Christ will not enter heaven.
Please, the millitant athiest anti-religion has zealots as fervent as any religion. And I classify atheism as a religion. A group of people with beliefs in common, in this case, believing there is no God.
I am a religeous individual, but I dont push it on friends, enemies, coworkers, the mailman, ect. If someone asks, I'll tell them. If they want to engage in inteligent debate, Ill be more than happy to listen to their side as long as they give me the same courtesy. Thats why I usually stay away from the religion threads here, as it turns into all those who think being atheist and putting the religeous down is the cool thing to do.
Atomic Playboy
Lifer
Grouping religious people together makes it easier for the rest of us to know which ones to kill when judgment day arrives. After all, armageddon is the religious people's fault for coming up with the damn idea to begin with.
zinfamous
No Lifer
when I was in Youth Group through High School, my peers were drunks/stoners. sometimes both. I actually didn't indulge in anything until college, but we all got along great.
It's funny, several of us are still the best of friends, and I think some 98% of my current friends come from that same group. None of us are religious. We were pretty much there for the girls. (Those who came up after us were into the whole "God thing." Bleh 😛)
Some of the best years of my life 😉
...of course, we occasionally interacted with other Youth groups that were quite different. Needless to say, we never quite got along with such groups.
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