RE: I'm not leaving until I convert someone.
February 28, 2014 at 12:40 pm
(This post was last modified: February 28, 2014 at 1:05 pm by Mister Agenda.)
(February 27, 2014 at 7:15 pm)JesusLover1 Wrote: Why do guys want to end Christanity?
That's a little strong. 'Vainly hope that Christianity, and every other theist belief will end someday because people have become too reasonable and educated to continue believing the guesses of people couldn't know any better because they lived centuries ago', maybe. 'End Christianity' implies we've anything but education and sweet reason in mind as our method. I'd rather Christianity stay around forever than that one Christian (or Muslim, or Hindu, etc.) be de-converted by coercion.
(February 27, 2014 at 7:15 pm)JesusLover1 Wrote: Maybe people used it for evil in the old days, but besides gay marriage (which is basically arguing over a title of two people's union) Christianity doesn't opress anyone. The only religion that cause suffering in the world these days is Islam, they have a verse in their book that says to kill all infedels!!!
If it were true that Christianity doesn't oppress anyone, you might have a point. We rarely bother Buddhists, Jains, and Sikhs in America because they haven't been using the apparatus of government to attempt to legislate their religious beliefs.
At this moment, in the state I live in, legislators are attempting to make it obligatory for teachers to tell students when and where to pray and to read approved prayers to them. Every year, multiple states attempt these kinds of end runs around the law. Dominionist Christians have establishing a theocracy in the USA as their stated goal, and have made alarming progress in infiltrating our government to do so.
If we didn't have to struggle with the would-be theocrats in our own nest who are constantly breaking established law or trying to change it in their favor, maybe we could spare more attention to the current theocrats abroad.
(February 27, 2014 at 7:22 pm)JesusLover1 Wrote: Real talk guys, I believe because my parents are so certain of it and I don't want to burn in hell!!!! In fact the though of it often haunts me.
How certain you are of something does not directly relate to the probability that you are correct. The thought of hell needn't haunt you if you give up believing it. It's not even a requirement to be a Christian.
(February 27, 2014 at 7:34 pm)SteelCurtain Wrote: This thread was freaking PHENOMENAL.
JesusLover1, you are a real gem. I am confirmed in my original thought that you are no poe, just some 13 year old with very little intelligence.
Good try, honestly. But you really should just go. You do not have the tools to do intellectual battle with some of the people here.
I don't think he's a Poe either (need evidence), but I don't think he's unintelligent. We've certainly gotten adults with worse spelling and grammar.
I don't think he'll change his mind about anything major because of being here, but he can't help picking up something. It's good to be exposed to ideas different from your own.
