(October 22, 2015 at 4:52 pm)lkingpinl Wrote:(October 22, 2015 at 4:25 pm)drfuzzy Wrote: lkingpinl - - that's wonderful. My family and I will be doing something very similar. We need more folks to follow your example. You know, it just struck me - - the theists that I respect in real life . . . I respect them because they behave like that. They don't preach. They don't judge. They just ARE Christians who spend their time reaching out and helping others. (I'm blue today. Not because I'm sad. Because I want our baseball team to win their playoff game tomorrow!)
Thanks Fuzzy, but I feel it's the only way to be. That's why I've said it many times, my favorite quote is "preach the gospel at all times and when necessary use words." Far too many Christians are judgmental and have superiority complexes. We are all the same, and I feel we have an obligation to help those where and whenever we can and be humble. My kids learned far more about being thankful by being subjected to depravity and doing something to address it. We do the same at Christmas. Kids get a small thing, but we spend a lot of time volunteering and doing toys for tots stuff. It's far more rewarding.
The god who allows children to be raped out of respect for the free will choice of the rapist, but punishes gay men for engaging in mutually consensual sex couldn't possibly be responsible for an intelligently designed universe.
I may defend your right to free speech, but i won't help you pass out flyers.
Those who can make you believe absurdities, can make you commit atrocities.
--Voltaire
Nietzsche isn't dead. How do I know he lives? He lives in my mind.
I may defend your right to free speech, but i won't help you pass out flyers.
Those who can make you believe absurdities, can make you commit atrocities.
--Voltaire
Nietzsche isn't dead. How do I know he lives? He lives in my mind.
