"I'm Christian, unless you're gay."

[jemagirl (imported)]

You sound like a real tolerant loving person Ieunuch.

One need not tolerate intolerance.

And to speak truth to intolerance is a good thing even when the truth is harsh.

[punkypink (imported)]

One need not tolerate intolerance.

And to speak truth to intolerance is a good thing even when the truth is harsh.

I agree with this sentiment. One cannot blindly tolerate everything. It's just being lazy and stupid.

[Riverwind (imported)]

Those words still haunt me. This was a Christian minister. This was a person preaching about love and acceptance and missionary work. However, there was a hole in his love, and I came to see it a hole in faith itself. There can only ever be one way. Anything outside that prescription is unworthy. Is less than human.

The problem with this kind of dogma is simple, who's dogma is the right one?

Any God that would punish me for loving, is no god I'd want to spend an eternity with anyhow.

True words for sure. You can be in my heaven if I can be in yours.

River

[Cainanite (imported)]

You can be in my heaven if I can be in yours.

River

Sounds like a deal to me.

[BossTamsin (imported)]

You sound like a real tolerant loving person Ieunuch.

And I'd say you know little to nothing about me.

[Cainanite (imported)]

No one said everyone in every religion believes these things.

No one said churches teach hate and separatism. What was said, is that it is wrong when people interpret religion as a justification for hate.

I'm going to stop this discussion right here. Religious discussions can get very ugly when they go wrong, and I see this thread as about to jump that shark.

No Holy Wars on the EA.

This thread is closed.

[Cainanite (imported)]

Per request I am re-opening this thread.

Tread lightly, and respect each other's beliefs, or I will delete posts.

[MacTheWolf (imported)]

Cainanite

In my 65 year old opinion, we shouldn't allow any religious threads on the Boards. Ok, I've put in my two cents now. I'll shut up now

[Sweetpickle (imported)]

I had not realized that this was an intelligent discussion. With intellectual arguements like;

A lot of those negative and terrible thoughts permeated me as well. So much suffering, hatred and violence was dished out with the justification of religion it was

simply accepted as the "Christian" thing to do.

It's about a petty little tinpot dictator who's so egotistical and insecure about his own existence that he's going to put someone through an eternity of the worst torments imaginable merely because that person failed to acknowledge how great he is. Meanwhile, you could be the worst human being who ever lived, preying upon the weak

and innocent, and if you kowtow before him, you're good.

PS. I agree with MacWolf

[zeroau (imported)]

I also agree with both Sweetpickle and MacWolf