Lucifer

[Faith No More]

Then you are missing the central point of Christianity. Everyone deserves the condemnation because universally humanity has been corrupted and individually we have fallen short of holiness. GC merely points out, as I do now, that Christ of has extended His Grace and offers eternal life to anyone who will accept it.

I can understand that many on AF see Christianity as just a culture of do's and don'ts to keep people from living life the way they want to. And in a sense that's true. From our perspective, we are inviting spiritual alcoholics to our AA meetings and they are telling us to fuck off so they can keep drinking from a bottle of lies.

Oh, I'm not missing anything.  I've read enough Christian's posts on this board to know precisely that they believe everyone deserves it.  What I'm trying to tell you is that, despite you both feeling that everyone deserves it, telling people they're destined for and deserving of eternal punishment if they don't accept what you're saying is no more courteous than telling someone to fuck off, especially when you do it in the manner that GC did.  I mean, you'd think that if GC really believed we were doomed for eternity, he wouldn't be so callous as to say "if you find that nonsense...well the lasting result of that is on you."  He's clearly only putting on a show and doesn't really give a damn about what happens to anyone else as long as he believes that he has scored his place in heaven.  Thus, your assessment that he was being "gracious" is complete and utter bullshit.  I'd much rather have someone be sincere with me and tell me to fuck off than to have them feigning compassion while simultaneously demonstrating that don't actually give two shits about what happens to me.  And quite frankly, I find it sickening that you Christians will pat each other on the back over this kind of behavior simply because you're not dropping any f-bombs.

As for seeing Christianity as a "culture of do's and don'ts to keep people from living the life they want to," nothing could be further from the truth.  All I see is delusional people holding a bottle of snake oil trying to convince me that I'm sick and only they have the cure.  You can fuck right off with that shit.