What's with all these religious piles of holy crap ?
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ttandb — 11 years ago(January 03, 2015 04:53 AM)
I
was
a christian - now, well, I don't know. I suppose I could agree with my husband and call myself an agnostic christian. I believe in God, I follow the parts of the bible in the new testament that speaks of kindness and acceptance and I
never
go to church. The latter is too man led and too little God led - case in point, Vatican is
the
richest church in the world, yet they exalt their followers to donate every penny they have to causes and the church (obviously). Any pope who's ever argued that point, mysteriously dies of 'natural causes' and the new one suddenly 'forgets' about the fact the catholic church is so insanely rich..
Anyway, my daughter was a christian; is now, like her dad, an agnostic. She's a truly wonderful person who cares about others so much. Case in point she could've gone to college and done an IT course in game design and marketing (both of which she is
seriously
gifted at); shedloads of money career - she would've even had a job lined up at the end of the course.
But she turned it down to study animal care at a different college because helping animals is her dream (sadly we can't afford for her to study to be a vet). There's also no guarantee of a job when she qualifies; but she only cares about helping the animals. She would go without to help us, and often has offered birthday or christmas money to help us when things were bad. She's only ever got into fights defending others from bullies or abuse. She's 17 and is the light in my life along with her father.
My husband, her dad, is an agnostic. Both of them believe in 'something', but not necessarily a 'religious' something. My husband is the best kind of guy and loves to look after me (my health is shot). I do my best but, as my health continues to fail, so I falter; but he has NEVER complained. They're neither of them perfect; but they're as close as I will ever see a human get in my lifetime.
My parents, my late mum sadly died some six years ago, were/are devout christians. Again lovely people who would do anything for someone in need. When my mum died; three hundred people came to her funeral - she thought only family would, she didn't think she was important. But she'd helped so many they wanted to pay their respects to her: I cried over that I admit. Again they're weren't perfect people, but I loved them to bits; I still miss my mum more now than the day she died.
I have friends who are - to list here: a druid, a pagan and a wiccan (there IS a difference, trust me on that). Another friend is a sikh and still another is a buddhist. My parents in law were/are atheists (my father in law died three years ago).
The ONLY ones to be hateful to others (and not just me); to try to con them, be cruel to them and treat them badly? My atheist in-laws. They were/are the most vilest people I know. My mother in law often doesn't flush her toilet until she knows it will clog up with her poop so that me or my husband will have to fish around in it to clear it (she's 91 and got more evil as she's got older). That's one of her
nicer
traits too; especially where me and my daughter are concerned.
So what someone believes or doesn't believe doesn't make them evil or good. It is the
PERSON
themselves. What I will add here is the most vile behaviour I ever met as a practicing christian came from atheists when they found that simple fact out.
I usually avoided discussing religion because it's personal to each one of us - whether we believe or not. But some people, usually atheists, feel the need to 'preach' about how anyone believing in religion is a nutjob. Even a (now ex) friend tried to hit me and told me my then baby daughter should be taken from me, that I should be 'sent to a camp where your idiocy can be re-educated and you can be sterilised to save the world from more of your kind' and that if I insisted on sticking to my faith then I should be 'removed from life' as I was, according to him, 'tainting the world' with my 'madness'.
Would a religious follower have been accepted talking to an atheist like that? No, of course not and rightly so; so what gives that atheist the right to talk to me like that? My 'crime', apart from my belief, was that all I kept saying was that it was an each to their own situation. He could, or could not, believe whatever he wanted but, by the same token, so could I so we would better to just beg to differ. That only drove him madderbut why?
Never
anyone
from the agnostic/other religions has
ever
treated me like that - with the except of a muslim man who was
very
nasty to me.
I don't necessarily watch these films, as they just don't have the old memories of watching the old movies like Ben-Hur as a family at Christmas or easter; despite all the new ones special effects. I'm also not the christian I once was - does that mean I'd come here to denounce the new films? To ridicule those who, like my father, still stick to their religious beliefs?
No, because I believe in the idea of
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nammage — 11 years ago(March 09, 2015 02:34 AM)
You're not an agnostic if you believe in a god. Agnosticism is an ideology of ignorance. Meaning: an agnostic-theist doesn't know if a god exists or not but leans in the direction that one probably does. An agnostic a atheist doesn't know if a god exists but leans in the direction that a god most likely doesn't. I'm an Ignostic-atheist, myself. I feel, firstly, that a coherent and general definition of a god/s should be determined before a discussion of its existence can ever take place. There are billions of "gods" because each individualwho may collectively belong to the same religionall worship the deity in their image.
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LenaAFoster — 10 years ago(December 23, 2015 06:53 PM)
You sound like a true Christian to me. like the early Christians. Jesus never told us to go to church he told us we were the church. and Revelation is clear that there are no Temples in heaven as God and the Lamb are the Temple religion is created by man. Jesus told us to open ourselves up to the Holy Spirit not to engage in ritual the entire New Testament is a rejection of ritual. sacrifice. going through the motions and the last thing Jesus did before going home was tear down the curtain in the Temple..
Not sure your depth of knowledge but the Pharisees and church leaders believed that only they could have access to God in the Holy of Holies.a room in the temple. hard to get to.I read you had to climb a wall to get there and only the special priest could do it to be close to God FOR the people like once a yearetc. there was a CURTAIN in the Holy of Holies and symbolically this separated the common man from God but not the allegedly special church leadersPharisees
By tearing down the curtain not from the bottom but from the top it signified DIVINE communication from God that no longer was God going to tolerate allegedly special men separating his "church" (church being souls of men and women) from him while they claimed divine license from God..
What I find so ironic is that Jesus tore down one curtain and destroyed the Jewish temple and then the Roman Catholics replaced it with the exact same thing. is the argument that God didn't like the Jewish Pharisees so he wanted new kids on the block to act just like the Pharisees but only with new clothing and cathedrals instead of temples?
I hardly think so
Someone called me agnostic the other day because I no longer believe in "Catholicism"I was pretty upset. agnostic means to doubt there is a God or to be skeptical. as opposed to atheism.. I am the polar opposite of that I love God I love Jesus. I just don't think the Catholic Church is great as an institution. its an out of control beast plenty of wonderful priests multitudes of wonderful Catholics. but, just because I think it is not awesome does not make me agnostic.
I am a true faithful believer in God and Jesus as my savior. I just don't believe in the Catholic church. but the Catholic church, despite its arrogant claims to divinity is not God nor does it have a monopoly on God nor does any other man made religion in my view. and why do I need a middle man (pastor, priest) who is supposedly more special to God than me or saintetc to give me absolution for my sins didn't the tearing down of the curtain mean I, like the Pharisees now have a right to directly pray to God without the middleman??? And even Revelation is clear here too the angel tells John not to worship him or give him praise as the angel, like John, is a servant of God as well so I have to give confession to a priest and not God directly why again???
Nor do I believe I have to align myself with the protestants as some sort of protest against Catholicism as some people define the difference like there is only Catholic and everything else??? hardly. lol
Again..to me faith in God and Jesus is not defined by an opinion of or relationship with or without the Catholic Church or other man made church. that religion just developed power over the years. that's all my relationship is with God and Jesus and the Holy Spirit.I dont define myself by some man made group or denomination nor do I feel I have no right to be part of Jesus' church because I don't attend some mortals human made church
Again so you don't attend a building so what.that doesn't mean you aren't Christian maybe you're not only you know your heart as does God but it drives me bananas when good people(and real Christians instead of mere churchgoers) get turned off to Jesus and or God because of the moronic actions of human dingalings grouping together in buildings and merely claiming whatever they do is okay because its in the name of God
Galena
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straw_hat_boy_luffy — 11 years ago(January 10, 2015 05:44 AM)
Or if you didn't want to see these things, you just wouldn't see them or talk about them? Why are so many atheists so darn whiny lately that they are completely incapable of just watching something else? Not evolved that far yet?
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jsmjpc — 11 years ago(February 22, 2015 08:30 PM)
no one is forcing you to watch these "religious piles of holy crap", so i'm guessing you aren't wasting your time or money, so why do you care? as for the talent, no one if forcing the actors/directors etc. to participate in these movies either. why do you care so much anyway? I don't necessarily believe in the bible, but if people want to spend their lives believing in it and if it's what helps make them happy, it's nothing to do with me and more power to themI don't really get why so many atheist get so bent out of shape over itseems like they feel threatened or something
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will-694 — 11 years ago(March 28, 2015 06:52 PM)
Gee, that's a toughy, maybe because the vast majority of Americans profess to be Christians and movies that appeal to them generate big box office numbers.
The closer they adhere to the biblical narrative, the better they do.
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lewisfindley-05520 — 10 years ago(May 18, 2015 12:57 PM)
My name is Lewis Findley. I am a holocaust denier from Savanah Georgia.
And also a Troll for Christ
ChristiAns taking over the movie theaters and the network and cable tv?
Get used to it heretics, Catholics atheists Mormons ,and your Nazi kind.
You have enjoyed a 70 year run. Since Hitler harikiki
Take it to the battle field.
C y'all on CNN news, FOX. DON'T MATTER THE NETWROK.