I just got into it with a piece-o-@#%$ Christian #$%# today.

[RossGr]

Yasha, please accept my apologies.

I find it hard to believe that you could do anything to a bible or cross that would bother me. I personally would use the bible for toilet paper if the need arised. I am NOT a christian.

 

[Russ]

<< I dont think an attack on the order of being asked if I was saved (or being called a sinner) is mild chatter. >>



Attack? You have a very warped definition of what constitutes an &quot;attack&quot;. Are you people really that big of pussies that a sentence or two scares you THAT much?

Russ, NCNE

 

[Freejack2]

Seeing as this is becoming a my 2 cents thread, might as well add my 2 cents.
I feel that to worship god one doesn't need to kneel in a church or say prayers. One just needs to believe in god and give thanks to him for being alive. I also feel that god watches us and bases us, not on if we went to a place of prayer every week, but, what we do with our lives. What we do in this life I believe determines where or/and what we will be in the next life.
Still while this is my belief it's not more perfect than anything else. For example I think the ultimate sin a human can commit in their lives is to deliberately take the life of another person. The problem with this is what do you do when another person wants to take your life and choice comes down to your life or theirs. You have as much a right to live as anyone else and yet this person is trying to take your life.

 

[jaydee]

<< I dont think an attack on the order of being asked if I was saved is mild chatter. >>


I don't think being asked if you were saved should be considered an 'attack'.
I also call BS on you and all your anit-Christian buddies.

 

[Lucky]

&quot;Attack? You have a very warped definition of what constitutes an &quot;attack&quot;. Are you people really that big of pussies that a sentence or two scares you THAT much?&quot;

Hey asshole, I didnt say it scared me. It pisses me off, and yes, I genuinely consider it an attack. WTF is it his business if Im saved? If I have &quot;sinned&quot; Q) ITS NOT!.


&quot;I don't think being asked if you were saved should be considered an 'attack'.
I also call BS on you and all your anit-Christian buddies. &quot;


I dont give a flying fusk whehter YOU think it should be considered an attack. Thats not the point. It bothers me, and thats all that matters. And what are you calling BS on?

 

[Elita1]

However inappropriate that person's behavior was, I think you need some serious help.
Carrying around that kind of rage can't be healthy.
Your post was out of line, too.
Chill out and get over your hatred, young man.

 

[Russ]

<< Hey asshole, I didnt say it scared me. It pisses me off >>



All anger is fear-based, sonny. Again, why are you so afraid of a few simple words? What is it about the mention of God that causes such terror in your heart?

Are you really that much of a wimp?

Russ, NCNE

 

[SilverThief]

Why is it that Christians are hell-bent (excuse the pun) on making sure they shove their religion down everybody's throat?
Believe me, Ive lived with it all my life. My mother is a hardcore christian and she's been completely brainwashed.

I'm not against any religion so long as no one gets hurt, I am however against having that garbage crammed down my cake hole everytime I run into one of them.

eh...I'll shut up now.

 

[Optimus]

Silverthief - nice generalization there. All Christians, huh? Every single one of us, huh?

They should lock em all up, right?

 

[Lucky]

All anger is fear-based, sonny. Again, why are you so afraid of a few simple words? What is it about the mention of God that causes such terror in your heart?

Are you really that much of a wimp?

Russ, NCNE


haha, you're as bad as a common troll. The mention of God does not cause terror. Rather, it is the intrusion of an unwanted and un-asked for institution into my life, that I have no use or interest in. I've gone through four years of fusking ministers on our college green asking us every day if we are saved, telling anyone and everyone they are sinners, and it bugs the hell out of me. Thats it. Its that simple.

Why do people get so angry at telemarketers if all anger is fear-based? Is it because they are afraid the telemarketer will come kick their ass if they say no? Your argument doesnt hold up.

 

[Russ]

<< Why is it that Christians are hell-bent (excuse the pun) on making sure they shove their religion down everybody's throat? >>



Why is it that ignorant sops are &quot;hell-bent&quot; on making sweeping unilateral statements about an entire group of people based on the actions of a few?

Russ, NCNE

 

[Russ]

<< Why do people get so angry at telemarketers if all anger is fear-based? >>



It is because they fear the loss of the time that could be used more productively.



<< Your argument doesnt hold up. >>



Sorry, junior, it's not my argument. It's a standard tenant in psychology.

Face it, you're just a little chickens!t whose afraid of a few harmless words. Or, maybe they're not harmless? Maybe they contain truth, and that is what you are REALLY scared of.

Russ, NCNE

 

[Lucky]

Face it, you're just a little chickens!t whose afraid of a few harmless words. Or, maybe they're not harmless? Maybe they contain truth, and that is what you are REALLY scared of.

Why is that you constantly feel the need to make personal attacks? Usually, personal attacks come from anger. And you have proven, on the basis of passing off your argument as standard thought, that anger comes from fear, so what are you afraid of?

Why do you get so angry that I express that it makes me upset when people make these comments to me?

 

[WombatWoman]

Late last year I posted a protest after a former AnandTech member published an essay in the Off Topic Forum which called Jesus Christ an idiot. Ever since I made that post, the former member and his craphead buddies have harangued me steadily, posting libellous statements on numerous forums and saying they'll be glad to see me die.

I got two nasty PMs accusing me of trying to shove my religion down everybody's throat when I published a simple, reverent poem here on Christmas Eve.

Recently I was accused of acting like a Mod and trying to establish a concentration camp atmosphere when I posted a request for prayers in behalf of a man with a brain tumor, and expressed my hope that unbelievers might refrain from seizing that particular thread for debating the efficacy of prayer.

Apparently any expression of faith is taken by some people as an affront.

 

[Alienwho]

Yeah, next time just tell the whack job to get bent, problem solved.

 

[Lucky]

WW, you dont know me, but I've quite a bit on what has happened to you. I was really surpised to see you posting here after not frequenting AT for the last 3 weeks or so during my move to another city. Im glad you came back. What they did was pure crap-and inexcusable. So please accept my apologies for those atheists and agnositics, as well as those of other religions who are intolerant, who cannot respect those who are religious ,just as they themselves cannot tolerate or do not believe in religion.

Apparently any expression of faith is taken by some people as an affront.

Thats not what im saying. Walking up to a random person and asking if they have saved themselves, or calling them a sinner, whatever-its NOT appropriate in my view. It DOES make my upset. It doesnt make me a pussy, or a chickensh*t-or whatever russ wants to call me. I can tolerate religious groups standing on the corner passing out leaflets...thats one thing, though it does irratate me slightly to inconvienence myself by either going out of my way or to spend time declining literature from (polite) people who are doing what their religion calls for-spreading the word.

Randomly asking someone in the parking lot is not the way to go about it. Calling someone a sinner, saying they will burn &quot;IN THE LAKE OF FIIIIIIIREEEEEEEEE!&quot; IS NOT APPROPRIATE. It didnt go that far in this case, but it happens every day on dozens of college campuses, not to mention other places of gathering.

Its my opinion, im entitled to it. I have made no personal attacks on a generalized group as broad as all christians.

 

[Quaggoth]

PCResources said -
>>I just think that he should be where he belongs, obviously he is not well, a psych ward >>might do him some good..

Holy Cripes on Toast man. A psych ward? Why? are you talking about the guy that asked him if he was saved? I have asked people that. Not in that setting exactly, and not just out of the blue, but a psych ward?


BTW, If anyone would like to brawl with someone JUST because they are Christian, I would be HAPPY to step up. (I feel this is appropriate because of this ---> &quot;piece-o-@#%$ Christian #$%# today&quot

 

[Quaggoth]

oops, double post.

 

[Lucky]

BTW, If anyone would like to brawl with someone JUST because they are Christian


I dont think anyone here is suggesting that....rather, it upsets people because of how this person accosted the OP, not just because he was christian.

 

[Russ]

<< Usually, personal attacks come from anger. >>



Luckster,

Or perhaps it is simply a like-kind response to the attacks initiated by another. You give yourself far more credit then you have earned. For you to make me angry, I would actually have to care about your existence.

Again, why the rage, people? Words are harmless? Aren't they?

Russ, NCNE

 

[Lucky]

if you are trying to imply I started it, then you might as well give up, tho it doesnt matter in the first place.

Are you people really that big of pussies that a sentence or two scares you THAT much?

At the risk of being placed in the same class as the other 5 year in this thread, you started it.

You are unable to intelligently debate what I have just presented in front of you...its like you dont even see what I posted.


Personally, I'd like to say that rage is different that anger.

rage-a violent and uncontrolled anger b : a fit of violent wrath
anger-strong feeling of displeasure and usually of antagonism

The OP has said that his &quot;violent&quot; feelings were in jest, and I dont think anyone is saying that they are unable to control themself and will kill the next christian trying to convert them.

Also, many of your fellow christians have said they agree the person was wrong in what he asked and how he accosted the OP. Perhaps you should examine why it does not upset you.

 

[Russ]

<< Perhaps you should examine why it does not upset you. >>



It does not upset me, because I do not fear words. Why does it upset you?

Russ, NCNE

 

[Moonbeam]

The words remind us of what we already feel. The person who said you were lost needed to say that to cover up the feeling that he is lost, and you react because you feel lost. The words triger fear, fear of becomming consious of what you really feel. So he was a jerk and you are a jerk and I am a jerk. The thing is to detach and see how our buttons get pushed. He can't help what he does as long as he is unconsious of his feelings and neither can you or I. That doesn't make us bad. It just means we are in a kind of sleep, unaware of how we work. but even if you can't always get to the root of some rage reaction, you can say to yourself, NOT that the other guy is an asshole, but that there's something going on in me that makes me react badly to this person. I want to hit him, but I won't cause I know that the problem is really somewhere in my unconscious. I'll work on it and try to forgive him and try not to be hard on myself either for getting my buttons pushed. That will make me more relaxed and less likely to go off next time.

 

[fluxquantum]

how could he tell that you looked like a sinner?

 

[desy]

We are all sinners brother!
Didn't you know?