(October 2, 2014 at 12:33 pm)Drich Wrote:(October 2, 2014 at 9:41 am)FreeTony Wrote: Reading some of the comments of the American Christians on here, it really makes me sad for those of you that have to put up with it all.
In the UK Christianity is synonomous with kindness/love etc. It may be stupid, but at least the Christians here tend to be nice, and fairly tolerant people (certianly the ones I've met). The impression I get on here is that to them Christianity is just an excuse for many to act like stone age barbarians. Hatred and persecution of anyone who isn't like them, backed up with by a religion that tells them they are morally superior for doing so.
All the superstitious shit I find very annoying, but I can live with. Destroying the lives of others is another thing entirely. Removing rights of anyone who isn't a Christian male, impeding education and preventing science make peoples lives better. Then there is all the hypocrisy that goes with it. Rules about sex outside marriage, porn etc are ignored. We all are sinners means that anything can be excued. Actually this applies to Islam too where, for example, you can get married for a few hours to a prostitute (God is obviously too stupid to see through this).
I think there is also the extreme free market philosophy of the US, which actually ties in to religion and deeply affects it (and perhaps exacerbates it too). If you think that your brach of Christianity is the same as that elsewhere, and that background culture doesn't influence it then you are ignoring the obvious.
Any thoughts?
(disclaimer: Of course, this doesn't apply to all American Christians, and also applies to other countries and/or religions)
so you are intollerant of whom youve deemed intollerant?
You are still allowed here, aren't you?
