I am going to put this VERY clearly for those of you who keep insisting "religious" people are x or y or z.
EVERY group has their fundamentalist, yes, even non-religious.
Everything from the NRA, to PETA, to Greanpeace to the ADA (watch out for those dentists man), to Catholicism to Judaism to....yes even Atheism.
ITS WHAT PEOPLE DO.
A certain segment of the population takes whatever is their fancy and runs full steam ahead with it trying to use it to bash others into submission. This is not a problem with Christianity, its is a problem with HUMANITY.
People can be mindless a-holes, they don't need religion to do it, they don't need a group to do it, they use these things however because its an established point of view, and its easy to warp into a method of beating people down until YOU are better than them.
91ttz, you had a bad experience with PEOPLE, your friend...sorry to say, hes a moron, led on by other morons.
If it wasn't christianity it WOULD have been something else. But because it was you now swear EVERYONE who is a christian is like that.
You have become the very representation of the thing you claim to hate, ignorant, intollerant, condemning. You don't care about the facts, you don't care about what christianity REALLY is (evidenced by so very many false statements from you about the religion), all you know is your friend was an ass, an ass who followed another ass who happened to be a christian, and you come out guns blazing ever since.
Saying ANY large group of peole is SOLELY comprised of one type of person is the single biggest red flag you could POSSIBLY wave around.
And singling someone out as being a certain type of person solely because they belong to that group is the basis of a good part of what is wrong with this world.
My suggestion. Back up, calm down, learn about christianity with an OPEN mind and not just going in looking for ammo.
I'm not saying you need to believe, you just need to know what THEY believe before you start bashing them. Otherwise the only position you weaken is your own. You have NOTHING to gain from continued assaults and inaccurate attacks on christianity, you have the respect of your peers and your own dignity to lose though.
Same goes for every other group of people who have their heads screwed on backwards and upside-down.
btw, I've had people tell me that I am a fool, and idiot, a child and that me believing in god is no better than the tooth fairy or santa claus. So don't you DARE sit there and act like its only christians who believe they are better than everyone else. It is the absolute APEX of ignorance and laziness to attribute a specific behaviour to an entire group of people and it is a particularly dangerous one at that.
Except those pushy holier/smarter than thou people for what they are. Misguided, uninformed people who will use ANYTHING as a cruch, religion, lack of religion, you name it, to try to make themselves seem better than those around them.
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