(February 13, 2015 at 6:14 pm)rexbeccarox Wrote:(February 13, 2015 at 6:00 pm)Godschild Wrote: After being on this forum you should have thought about the responses to Christians here and thought, fair enough and let well enough alone, don't you think. It wasn't the fault of the priest an atheist found the way to a Christian service that has especially deep meaning to us. Do you really think he expected one to show up, obviously not. When you travel into the enemy camp you should expect such things to happen, Christians here do.
GC
Interesting you comment on my actions (spending time with my family on Christmas- which is also deep and meaningful to me, as well as my Christian family) rather than the actions of a pastor demeaning atheists during Christmas mass. You don't think he had anything better to preach about on Christmas? Even my grandfather (hardcore Christian) was pissed because he felt the pastor had ruined the Christmas service with his negativity.
Gawds, you're intellectually dishonest.
No I'm not, you're the one who made the big deal out of what the priest said. If you wanted the focus to be on the family time you would have left the priest and his statement out of it.
Now to address what he said, it was not the best of times to be focusing on the evil of atheism, (I suspect it was atheism he was referring to and not anyone personally). Like I said in a post above I know evil atheist and I've met many here I believe I would be friends with if they lived around here, I have a brother that's an atheist and some friends also. I'm quite familiar with this kind of relationship.
My pastor has said things from the pulpit that I've completely disagreed with about unbelievers, enough so it made me terribly angry and I told him about it too, I did so in private because I had more respect for him than he did for those he spoke of.
GC
God loves those who believe and those who do not and the same goes for me, you have no choice in this matter. That puts the matter of total free will to rest.
