ferralcatlady:

I would like one of you to prove at anytime where I have "sucked people into my way of thinking. Look at it this way, you come in and say what you want....and I come in and say what I want. I leave it up to the good people of JSH to take the information and do as they see fit. I have never once told anyone to believe me or die......

Sweetpea I have never once told you to go to hell or forced any of my beliefs down your throat....You have accused me of stealing, accused me of shoving my beliefs down peoples throat and much more....Again I say to you tribo.....please be careful when casting that first stone.....and before you shove that spliter in my eye, you should take the log out of yours.

When I said aplogies were not needed.....I meant what I said....and said what I meant....and you can turn around and throw that in my face......wow

TRIBO:

absolutely none of that was intended, said, or discussed by you and me - i did not even look to see who was replying to what - " I MADE A MISTAKE - I was WRONG, the response was to them who had posted before you came along!!! IM SORRY!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! hahahaha dont get bent out of shape over something that until now you had no part in

Feral,

Look..."Gigglesnort Hotel" was a great show, but why do you have to bring it up in every post?

I am so sorry also......I just saw my question quoted and then the rant....so sorry also tribo

we will have many battles you and i - but this is nor was one of them.

answer me this oh child of the monotheistic god

explain to me if you will -

why - when there is a christian coffee house or cafe' with all of those who are of the same mind, do you choose to post at all on the religious forum, is your god telling you to do this?? do you feel "led" to do so? this is a general question not just for you. I do not go to the christian cafe and post there? Do you have a right to post here? of course, but it does no good, just as it would do no "good" for me to bring my view's to there - these discussion we are having between us - especially this thread here - would have never happened if the "christian's" had been fellowshipping together praising and worsipping and sharing their combined faith - don't you agree? or do you get tired of each other's company? isn't that why you became christian's? to praise and glorify and sing praises to him like you will do for all eternity? wow - what a concept?? eternity - praising someone - maybe it is because your bored.

feral, now i think i understand - you poted right here at the end and i was not thinking of you with my response after that i was talking only about what had been in the thread so far you stepped in out of nowhere - my apologies on that - the statement that folowed was maent only for those who had been participating all along - not you - you know i amy argue or discuss or debate with you and you know i can "find" my temper also - but you also know i have privately apologized to you for my remarks on the baby in hand pic you used - were are settled - am not sugestting at all that you are cupable of my remarks here of what has been going on with others - i am not that way!! all of my remarks have been to those who take my thread and make it their own agenda to shine god's christian light unto the world in what i consider a most true and historical way of showing contemt for what they consider to be a bigoted, demon who should descend back to hell from which i came - so that their useless faith can shine bright amongst them selves - read all and you may understand my frustration with the so called loving defender's of god's truth havev written and why i respons so back to them - noy you - we will alway's agree to disagree whether in love or anger - but NO - you have never accused me of anything nor played the fool as has happened here -

we will have many battles you and i - but this is nor was one of them.

answer me this oh child of god

explain if you can

why - when there is a christian coffee house with all of those who are of the same mind, do you coosoe to post at all on the religious forum??

we will have many battles you and i - but this is nor was one of them.

Why would you think you could not post in the coffeehouse......It is for everyone to go to as all other forums. I would be honored. The only thing I require in the coffeehouse is love, and to just enjoy the good people...but of course you can go there.

I have a personal relationship with My Lord & Savior....and love him with all that I am. And yes the coffeehouse is my refuge when I need to be filled or just need a break from other threads....

I didn't 'fall away' because god didn't do things on my terms or because 'things got hard'. I stopped because I saw the inconsistencies in the Bible. I found that I couldn't believe it.
I also found a complete lack of understanding and even ridicule for other's beliefs. Something which went against the grain with me. I simply felt more 'comfortable', more myself with my previous / current beliefs.

Where are the single ladies at? Well, I am not looking for a relationship, so married ones will do too.

There is really a lot more to it than that though. The bible of course as anything else made by man has imperfections of one kind or another. As much as it is meant to convey the concept of a higher power it was still made by men.

What turns more and more people from christianity as an organized religion is churches, congregations, and christians in general that absolutely refuse to follow their own faith or even understand it.

In a decade of occasionally talking with Christians there is only one man I worked with that I confirmed to think of as a true christian. he might complain but was reasonable and did so without judging. He read his bible and understood what it meant. He examined religious practices and rejected those followed by christian churches that were decidedly non-christian. As a non Christian I enjoyed a number of chats we had discreetly about theological theories and from everything he said he seemed to truly have a real grasp on his own religion and try to impliment it in life. He invited me as someone who knew the bible better than most of our christian co-workers to attend his church rather than to convert me, but because he thought some of his congregation might enjoy some of my thoughts on the bible and it's passages. Because he as a true Christian sought self improvement and spiritual enlightenment.

I am a non Christian that rejects the christian church and congregations as an organized mob religion. I do however, resepect every last true Christian I know. They are known by their behavior, their interest in understanding what they believe in, in understanding the true teachings of Christ outside of the warped usage of the bible or the way the church has sacraliged itself in the name of violence, seperatism, and spiritual slavery.

A true christian is strong enough in their belief, and has studied CHRIST enough to understand that he spoke against violence, seperatism, and slavery. A true christian is able to accept other people without trying to bend them to profess their own beliefs or be banished or killed.

I left Christianity because they had left the teachings of Christ over a millinia ago.

All of this is my personal observation, and personal belief based on what I have experienced from Christians both as a Christian watching the treatment of outsiders from within, and from being on the outside watching what christian "gang mentalities" have a tendency to do. It is far from being an exclusively Christian sin it encompasses many groups around the world it's just that pride as a sin is something one or two religions have never been able to let go of.

If you are a fake or bad Christian I hope your life improves, and if you are a good Christian you know exactly what I am talking about it probably hurts you as much as it did me long ago.

Raised Catholic, Adult Baptist, Now a free spirit