"my heart goes out to all that have no faith..."

[ShotgunSteven]

Originally posted by: stev0

Originally posted by: ShotgunSteve

Originally posted by: stev0

Originally posted by: Argo
I don't understand people who care what others think and try to change their belives.

me neither... i also don't understand wtf she was thinking when she said that in a room full of young students. i just sat there with a sh!t eating grin on my face :evil:

You eat sh!t often enough that you have a special grin for the occasion?

stfu nef.

😛

Eat sh!t and die. Don't forget to grin while doing it. 🙂

 

[bozack]

Having gone to one of the most liberal colleges out there (Umass Amherst) I cannot stress enough how much I truly loathed the experience, nothing worse than seeing a bunch of nuevo rich yuppies trying to put off a "hippie" birkenstock wearing look and put forth the most liberal stances on any given subject, it was good for a laugh though.

Funny seeing many of the hippie wannabes now and where they ended up....either they went conservative and did well, or they are pumping gas....

 

[stev0]

Originally posted by: ShotgunSteve

Originally posted by: stev0

Originally posted by: ShotgunSteve

Originally posted by: stev0

Originally posted by: Argo
I don't understand people who care what others think and try to change their belives.

me neither... i also don't understand wtf she was thinking when she said that in a room full of young students. i just sat there with a sh!t eating grin on my face :evil:

You eat sh!t often enough that you have a special grin for the occasion?

stfu nef.

😛

Eat sh!t and die. Don't forget to grin while doing it. 🙂

😀

 

[StageLeft]

Originally posted by: bozack
Having gone to one of the most liberal colleges out there (Umass Amherst) I cannot stress enough how much I truly loathed the experience, nothing worse than seeing a bunch of nuevo rich yuppies trying to put off a "hippie" birkenstock wearing look and put forth the most liberal stances on any given subject, it was good for a laugh though.

Funny seeing many of the hippie wannabes now and where they ended up....either they went conservative and did well, or they are pumping gas....

...or work in a coffee shop with their liberal arts degree, too poor to rub two coins together.

 

[Rainsford]

I feel bad for those of you that DO have faith.

Now before you religious people jump all over me, think about how that comment makes you feel, or how it would make you feel if we were in a class and I said that. Would it piss you off? Good. Think about that next time you decide to open you big yapper and "spread the word". A lot of us don't care what you personally believe. Believe whatever you want, but please KEEP IT TO YOURSELF!

 

[conjur]

Originally posted by: Rainsford
I feel bad for those of you that DO have faith.

Now before you religious people jump all over me, think about how that comment makes you feel, or how it would make you feel if we were in a class and I said that. Would it piss you off? Good. Think about that next time you decide to open you big yapper and "spread the word". A lot of us don't care what you personally believe. Believe whatever you want, but please KEEP IT TO YOURSELF!

:beer:

 

[stev0]

Originally posted by: conjur

Originally posted by: Rainsford
I feel bad for those of you that DO have faith.

Now before you religious people jump all over me, think about how that comment makes you feel, or how it would make you feel if we were in a class and I said that. Would it piss you off? Good. Think about that next time you decide to open you big yapper and "spread the word". A lot of us don't care what you personally believe. Believe whatever you want, but please KEEP IT TO YOURSELF!

:beer:

 

[Nitemare]

I'll be glad when they start paying attention to grammar...

Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof

does not equal

Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment from religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof

This coming from an agnostic... The Federal Government has no constitutional say in religious matters at the state level and are making laws.

 

[Descartes]

Originally posted by: stev0

Originally posted by: conjur

Originally posted by: Rainsford
I feel bad for those of you that DO have faith.

Now before you religious people jump all over me, think about how that comment makes you feel, or how it would make you feel if we were in a class and I said that. Would it piss you off? Good. Think about that next time you decide to open you big yapper and "spread the word". A lot of us don't care what you personally believe. Believe whatever you want, but please KEEP IT TO YOURSELF!

:beer:

:beer:

 

[luv2chill]

Originally posted by: Rainsford
I feel bad for those of you that DO have faith.

Now before you religious people jump all over me, think about how that comment makes you feel, or how it would make you feel if we were in a class and I said that. Would it piss you off? Good. Think about that next time you decide to open you big yapper and "spread the word". A lot of us don't care what you personally believe. Believe whatever you want, but please KEEP IT TO YOURSELF!

Here Here. What Zemnervolt sees as compassionate (presumably because he is a fellow "believer") can just as easily be interpreted as condescending. I've known a lot of Christians (myself included early in life) who use their faith as an ego boost, to make them feel significant and/or superior to the masses.

I'm not saying all Christians do this, but this lady's comment could easily lead to that conclusion. What's the point of publicly pitying people who don't wish to be pitied? What positive result could possibly come from a comment like "I feel sorry for you people who don't believe as I do"? Any other person in the classroom could have said the exact same thing about their particular religion or belief system, but they didn't because they don't feel the need to pity someone into "joining their side". Whether she meant any ill will or not, she should not have opened her mouth and let a comment like that come out in a secular setting. She can feel free to proclaim how sorry she feels for nonbelievers in Bible Study.

l2c

 

[ClueLis]

Originally posted by: luv2chill

Originally posted by: Rainsford
I feel bad for those of you that DO have faith.

Now before you religious people jump all over me, think about how that comment makes you feel, or how it would make you feel if we were in a class and I said that. Would it piss you off? Good. Think about that next time you decide to open you big yapper and "spread the word". A lot of us don't care what you personally believe. Believe whatever you want, but please KEEP IT TO YOURSELF!

Here Here. What Zemnervolt sees as compassionate (presumably because he is a fellow "believer") can just as easily be interpreted as condescending. I've known a lot of Christians (myself included early in life) who use their faith as an ego boost, to make them feel significant and/or superior to the masses.

I'm not saying all Christians do this, but this lady's comment could easily lead to that conclusion. What's the point of publicly pitying people who don't wish to be pitied? What positive result could possibly come from a comment like "I feel sorry for you people who don't believe as I do"? Any other person in the classroom could have said the exact same thing about their particular religion or belief system, but they didn't because they don't feel the need to pity someone into "joining their side". Whether she meant any ill will or not, she should not have opened her mouth and let a comment like that come out in a secular setting. She can feel free to proclaim how sorry she feels for nonbelievers in Bible Study.

l2c

I think a lot of people on both sides of the argument have this strong sense of "I don't understand how the other person could possibly believe that," but it's very rare that any amount of arguing ever changes that. There are certainly many people that decide to become religious/atheist part way through life, but it usually isn't by being berated into it.

 

[Gyrene]

Originally posted by: Rainsford
I feel bad for those of you that DO have faith.

Now before you religious people jump all over me, think about how that comment makes you feel, or how it would make you feel if we were in a class and I said that. Would it piss you off? Good. Think about that next time you decide to open you big yapper and "spread the word". A lot of us don't care what you personally believe. Believe whatever you want, but please KEEP IT TO YOURSELF!

YOU FSCKTARD!! :| :| You have no idea what you're talking about. It's different when you put us down, because we're the chosen ones! Our feelings mean so much more than your do. So take you "nonbeliefs" and shove them up your ass. You're going to hell, and I can't wait for you to burn! :|


😉

 

[TitanDiddly]

Man, what's that psycological problem thing called, where you get joy from the pain of others? I think people like Hitler and Stalin had it.

 

[Gyrene]

Originally posted by: PhasmatisNox
Man, what's that psycological problem thing called, where you get joy from the pain of others? I think people like Hitler and Stalin had it.

Sadism?

 

[luv2chill]

Originally posted by: PhasmatisNox
Man, what's that psycological problem thing called, where you get joy from the pain of others? I think people like Hitler and Stalin had it.

Ah, Schadenfreude

Great word! :beer:

l2c

 

[stev0]

Originally posted by: PhasmatisNox
Man, what's that psycological problem thing called, where you get joy from the pain of others? I think people like Hitler and Stalin had it.

that would be more along the lines of watching someone get their leg amputated and giggling at the same time. she probably wasen't feeling all that much pain aside from her bible thumping ego being shattered before her 🙂

amusement from watching others get flamed is more like it. get your sh!t straight.

 

[matt426malm]

Oh yeah remides me of a fun discussion in my class about how people in the bible can live to be hundreds of years old. I go to a Lutheran college the professor had what he called his "theory" had to do with being farther back in history ie more pure, and something with time so you are able to live to be 900 years. About half the class was actually taking him seriously. I did't say anything but needless to say it was "interesting." Ah reli-gen-ed classes.

 

[Ketteringo]

Originally posted by: Rainsford
I feel bad for those of you that DO have faith.

Now before you religious people jump all over me, think about how that comment makes you feel, or how it would make you feel if we were in a class and I said that. Would it piss you off? Good. Think about that next time you decide to open you big yapper and "spread the word". A lot of us don't care what you personally believe. Believe whatever you want, but please KEEP IT TO YOURSELF!

:beer::beer::beer:
:beer::beer::beer:

Thats a six pack 🙂

 

[dxkj]

Originally posted by: luv2chill

Originally posted by: PhasmatisNox
Man, what's that psycological problem thing called, where you get joy from the pain of others? I think people like Hitler and Stalin had it.

Ah, Schadenfreude

Great word! :beer:

l2c

Shameful Joy? Isn't that the word Lisa uses in the episode where Flanders Opens the Leftorium and it fails, until Homer helps out?

 

[whitesoxaddict]

I would like to take this space to thank myself for attending a state school, where drinking is the only widespread religion, and to point out my favorite story from the bible in my signature😉