I'm not leaving until I convert someone.

[Kayenneh]

Um.. Kayenneh please keep typing in green... rrrrrrrrrrrr

Hehhe, even though I's love to splash some more green all over the forums, I really do reserve it only for official mod business

[Mister Agenda]

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.

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.

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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.

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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.

[truthBtold]

Um.. Kayenneh please keep typing in green... rrrrrrrrrrrr

Hehhe, even though I's love to splash some more green all over the forums, I really do reserve it only for official mod business

Then I will be bad and break rules... and u can correct me in green... simple!!

[Kayenneh]

Then I will be bad and break rules... and u can correct me in green... simple!!

I highly suggest that you wouldn't do that. The last member, who tried the patience of the mods, was banned for two weeks.

[Jackalope]

Then I will be bad and break rules... and u can correct me in green... simple!!

I highly suggest that you wouldn't do that. The last member, who tried the patience of the mods, was banned for two weeks.

...and others have been banned for life. Just sayin'.

[TaraJo]

Why do guys want to end Christanity?

I don't want to end it. I don't care if people are Christian. I have a few pretty good friends who are Christian. As long as you can be intelligent about it nd you aren't a jerk about your religion, I don't care what you believe. So far, you haven't been too much of a jerk, but you've failed on the 'intelligent' part.

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!!!

The Bible is literally filled with verses that tell us to kill non-believers. And when we've killed up enough of them, we have to start in on killing the believers who don't believe the right way. And then we have to start killing people who made some simple error. Your Bible depicts a pretty damn bloodthirsty god, y'know. I mean, he literally demands animals be killed in his name on a regular basis.

Not to mention, when western civilization as more literalistic about the Bible, we were a lot more bloodthirsty ourselves. I mean, look at the Spanish Inquisition, the Crusades, the Salem witch trials. Human beings were reduced to property in the US because slavery is acceptable in the Bible. Saying how great the Bible is shows me that you really haven't read it.

[LastPoet]

...and others have been banned for life. Just sayin'.

Perhaps we should do more 12 year bans, gives them some time to mature

[Marsellus Wallace]

...and others have been banned for life. Just sayin'.

Perhaps we should do more 12 year bans, gives them some time to mature

or a 100 years , gives them some time to die

[Mr. Moncrieff]

...and others have been banned for life. Just sayin'.

Perhaps we should do more 12 year bans, gives them some time to mature

You're optimistic...

[eyemixer]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IlBLOJnrui0
I'll let the video do the talking.

Poe? Unless Richard Bachman really exists