RE: Paranoia in christians
August 18, 2014 at 5:09 am
(This post was last modified: August 18, 2014 at 5:25 am by Jacob(smooth).)
What Esquilax said. What tends to draw groups together is not what they are for, but what they are against. Probably a sociological evolution from tribal warfare. Nothing unites people like a threat. The communists had their "bourgeois" and their "counter revolutionaries. The nazis had their Jews. The had their protestants (and vice versa. If no actual threat exists, one will be invented. Being decentralised, has come up with a few, Atheism, secularism, the NWO, new ageism and Obama spring to mind.
Ironically, area where Christianity genuinely IS persecuted generally focus less on it!
Oh and yes. Not all Christians are alike.
None of your fuckin' business
He's told you "the point", it gives him a support network. That's enough of a "point" for him. You don't think it's enough? That's fine. Doesn't have to be.
He's not telling us what our religion should be. He went out of his way to make that clear. I think that's a courtesy we might reciprocate.
Ironically, area where Christianity genuinely IS persecuted generally focus less on it!
Oh and yes. Not all Christians are alike.
(August 17, 2014 at 11:29 pm)vorlon13 Wrote: The OP made it clear he is not a "We're RIGHT, you're WRONG" kind of Christian.Being as I am no longer constrained by my tepid religion I would answer thus.
I find it puzzling to aspire to a tepid, lukewarm, no fire in the belly kind of religion, denigrate those who in fact have, and revel in the insipidness of ones own ersatz, homogenized, pasteurized, bowdlerized, cleaned, sanitized and innocuous religious pap.
What IS the point ??
None of your fuckin' business
He's told you "the point", it gives him a support network. That's enough of a "point" for him. You don't think it's enough? That's fine. Doesn't have to be.
He's not telling us what our religion should be. He went out of his way to make that clear. I think that's a courtesy we might reciprocate.
"Peace is a lie, there is only passion.
Through passion, I gain strength.
Through strength, I gain power.
Through power, I gain victory.
Through victory, my chains are broken."
Sith code
Through passion, I gain strength.
Through strength, I gain power.
Through power, I gain victory.
Through victory, my chains are broken."
Sith code
