Those things you all encountered goes against everything Christ was about. It sadens me to see socalled christians doing it.

Its not really that bad and I hav't "encountered" "anything" and Ive never had a bad experience with religion. I merely find it amusing to tell others about this hick place i grew up in Is not so bad, just silly sometimes Its my friends and family

Im just pointing out some of the absurdities not bashing.

Help JSH nice police..it's Mirror..get him!!! Someone has an incling that he is "bashing"!! HURRY!!!


RUN MIRROR RUN!!!!

I understand and it is absurd! Almost laughable except for those in which the right was taken. The ignorance of people sometimes is sadly humoring!

I think the word "Christian" and "Evangelical" mean different things in different parts of this country. Ive noticed that most of the Christians from outside the Bible Belt are much more liberal and rational in their views. I think these differences may be why there is so much conflict.

I was almost murdered once for my faith.

I have endured many assaults.

The Lord has delivered me unscathed, in every case.

He has turned many gangsters and many self destructive and destructive souls from the errors of their ways and done so through me.

He has personally touched them with His Holy Spirit and they turned to His love, and not away.

That is not apparent here.

Here, there are words.

Where sin abounds, grace does more abound.

And though insults may abound, and offenses, nevertheless, Christian soundness prevails.

It is unfortunate that the interaction of our words are filtered and distorted through manipulation.

One can only hope that the errors of false teachings may be discerned and that truth shall continue to prevail.


Welcome to the task at hand of teaching that churchianity and Christianity are two different things.

I realized that long ago

No such things..period. God did not make those things..man did. Man made "religion", God did not.

Religion is man's attempt to put God within thier understanding.

So IF such things exist, it was done by man, NOT God. And you can rely on man's viewpoint as much as a sheep can rely on a starving wolf to protect it while it sleeps.

I have sustain this point for so long. Proselytizing or trying to convert with just words other people who don't want to hear anything about christianity. It's just a biggest waste of time.
I firmly try just to post sharing threads where I share some good experiences in my life as a christian. I don't care if nobody answers. If just one person read one of my thread, and the single person got some hope or a smile in his/her face my mission has been accomplished. Just God knows that.
I have to recognize that even though I firmly try just to share. I always ended up in some debate because there are some people who just don't respect and like to ridicule other people's beliefs.
(Just to clearfy things, I'm also using "they," "them," and "their." not to generalize on nonbelievers, just as a matter of speech)
When that happens even though I technically know is a waste of time, I need to say something. I can't be passive when what I love the most is being bashed.
Who can be passive when he/she sees that his/her parents or children are being attacked?

You missed the point entirely. That is exactly what he meant too.

What he is saying is talk is cheap...people have to SEE God in us. Now don't you feel silly? LOL

Every religion has to prosyletize(in some fashion) Its perfectly normal

I’m not an atheist and never have been.

I think that is a misinterpretation.
Let see if you and me have a conversation, and i tell you the things we do at church, and how good i feel about it.
Am I proselytizing?

Wow I don't know where you live. I have lived in NC and SC and they prayed at government meetings "in jesus name" and people were hired because they were christian, companies flat out advertised that they only hired christians, I had 7 day adventists come by at least weekly... the 7th day adventists didn't bother me.

But being at my place of employment, a secular government agency, and being required to attend meetings that began and ended with prayers to jesus bothered me. Noticing that the holders of the 6 highest positions in the agency all attended church of christ churches that bothered many of us. So we left. I do have a friend who still works there. She is Church of Christ. She feels like her career is a shoo-in. She doesn't think it's right, but admits that she has every reason to believe she will be favored because of her church.

i don't really care to dwell any further... but all this does not mean I "don't like" christians. How stupid. I once had my purse stolen by a hispanic man. a friend asked me if i hated or feared hispanics now? Of course not. just because people have something in common doesn't mean that they are all the same or act the same in any other way.

By the same token the opposite is true. You saying that something doesn't happen just because you personally have never experienced it is ridiculous. If you haven't had cancer I'm happy for you, that doesn't mean that cancer doesn't exist.

I respect your right to discuss your religions. All of them. But when you say something incredibly arrogant and self-centered like "this never happened to me, therefore it doesn't happen" that is obviously ridiculous.

Think. Peace.

Exactly, someone takes their limited experience and tries to shove that onto other people like as if it has any validity.

Thanks DD

((((( Anoasis )))))

Yep...and skateboard pools, rock climb, scuba dive. Got a problem with that dude?

RIGHT ON