RE: NC Church Caught Practicing Christianity - Neighbors Complain
November 6, 2015 at 5:27 pm
(This post was last modified: November 6, 2015 at 5:31 pm by TheRocketSurgeon.)
(November 6, 2015 at 4:38 pm)ChadWooters Wrote: So let me get this straight. A Christian church does homeless services. Some unidentified residents complain (other than one Jeffery Collins who doesn't show up in Zabasearch). Therefore Christians are bad. Yeah, that's logical. Not.
I'm not sure where you got the "therefore Christians are bad" part. Re-read the title of this thread, "Caught practicing Christianity".
It's a compliment, dude.
We admire the parts of the church body that do this kind of thing; we also recognize that often, even among members of the same church that's doing that sort of activity (let alone between members of rival churches), you have people nay-saying when it comes to real Christlike behaviors... they want the "weekend warrior" version, but when it comes to their own lives, well, "crime and loitering", baby!
And while all towns have some atheists in them, I highly doubt we just chanced upon two of the half-dozen that may be in that area. TSQ did a much better job of summarizing what's going on. In the south, which is highly Southern Baptist, you have the highest ratio of religiosity to income, and as she pointed out, they're all but programmed to detest anyone "beneath them" on the scale. That's not a religion thing, of course, it's a human thing... but in that part of NC, you can almost bet that almost everyone you meet is Christian of that evangelical sort, and those of us who've lived there know the contemptuous attitude of the barely-not-eating-dirt-poor lower middle class that's as part and parcel as religion, in that kind of area.
Drippy's bullshit about pointing out the number of Democrats in the area, notwithstanding... ironically, he proves my point, by suggesting that only superconservative assholes can be Christians, simultaneously failing to describe the actual South while highlighting exactly the type of attitude that makes us confident that THESE assholes, in the story, are Christians. Just not from that church. Wouldn't want to be caught with "the wrong crowd" and hamper your social mobility, y'see.
A Christian told me: if you were saved you cant lose your salvation. you're sealed with the Holy Ghost
I replied: Can I refuse? Because I find the entire concept of vicarious blood sacrifice atonement to be morally abhorrent, the concept of holding flawed creatures permanently accountable for social misbehaviors and thought crimes to be morally abhorrent, and the concept of calling something "free" when it comes with the strings of subjugation and obedience perhaps the most morally abhorrent of all... and that's without even going into the history of justifying genocide, slavery, rape, misogyny, religious intolerance, and suppression of free speech which has been attributed by your own scriptures to your deity. I want a refund. I would burn happily rather than serve the monster you profess to love.
I replied: Can I refuse? Because I find the entire concept of vicarious blood sacrifice atonement to be morally abhorrent, the concept of holding flawed creatures permanently accountable for social misbehaviors and thought crimes to be morally abhorrent, and the concept of calling something "free" when it comes with the strings of subjugation and obedience perhaps the most morally abhorrent of all... and that's without even going into the history of justifying genocide, slavery, rape, misogyny, religious intolerance, and suppression of free speech which has been attributed by your own scriptures to your deity. I want a refund. I would burn happily rather than serve the monster you profess to love.
