Sad But True
In a world full of Christians like these, who needs religious freedom?
Just for the record, I would love to hear what it is I practice that is "evil." Just by, uh, existing.
And I'll be damned if prayer makes it back into any school system my children are a part of.
But hey, who needs rational conversations? This is religion we're talking about! Let all the inmates go, officer. You found the real reason for crime right here.
Photo credit to the ever-wonderful Brittney.
Some of us, We're hardly ever here
The rest of us, we're born to disappear
6 Comments:
That right there? Scares the crap out of me.
Evan, You are right, that is sad. I found your site from Gary Lamb's. You've got some interesting thoughts. But back to the article, it is religious fanatics like that who give some of the rest of us a bad name. We don't have to agree to treat each other with dignity and respect. That written article contained neither.
Tom
Apparently Alice has never heard of the phrase, "Let us prey."
Religion, is in many ways, a shelter in the mind.
More violence and anger have been perpetrated in the "name" of religion than any wars fought upon gold, territory, power, or even... women.
People use religion to justify their own ends, hiding their true reasoning behind a sanctimonious curtain in order to justify it to others.
How naive to assume that only "good" people carry the badge of religion.
I'd be offended if I actually cared. Such views are always extremist in nature and never reflect the purity of the practice in religion.
"In a world full of Christians like these, who needs religious freedom?"
Evan, please don't take this to be the opinion that even a small minority of Christians hold.
That pile of horse shit is not even remotely justifiable within the context of the Bible. In fact, it is the opposite of what Christ taught. I don't know of any Christian that would agree to this, and if they did I would be tempted to slap them upside the big fat melon.
Most Christians will admit that politicized religion (and even Atheism circa WW2) has been the progenitor of some of the most heinous crimes in human history. Christianity's goal is not to take over the world and destroy the dissenters, but instead to encourage people to follow God by their own volition. And THAT **points** has nothing to do with the latter.
Moreover, this smacks of Islamic radicalism, and other forms of religious oppression. What is ironic is that Alice forgets that the very intolerance she proposes is one of the main catalysts for the founding of this country in the first place. This is supposed to be a PLURALISTIC society where people are free to go about their lives as they see fit. That is why right next to where ?In God we trust? is written on our coins it says ?E Pluribus Unum? (from plurality, unity). What she is proposing would be one of the worst cases of oppression in modern human history.
Out of all the (many) Christian churches I?ve attended in my Navy brat life I?ve never heard this kind of thing preached or even talked about. So, please do not judge Christianity by that example. This person clearly has issues. In fact, never judge a philosophy by its abuse. I no more judge Atheism and Nihilism by what Hitler and Stalin did than I judge Islam by 9/11 or Christianity by this kind of garbage.
Is that printed on an OakRidge, TN paper? That's so funny. Then again, there's a lot of funny stuff going on these days. Belated happy B-day to your angel.
Could someone please tell me which school in this country won't let a kid pray. I've yet to find one.
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