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In your opinion
#1
In your opinion
Of all the sad groups like thief's, scammers, murderers, warmongers, addicts peaceful Christians aren't as toxic as some people here wish them to portray.
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#2
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I mean... most Christians are completely normal, good people. Because most people are normal, good people. I doubt most people here would portray a soccer mom who believes in God who leads a normal life as 'toxic', for example. It's the whole condemning-people-for-not-believing-claims-of-absolute-truth-and-morality-you-got-your-religion-in-my-government sort of thing that brings out the ire.
In every country and every age, the priest had been hostile to Liberty.
- Thomas Jefferson
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#3
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Setting the bar awfully low there, aren't you OP.  

It's their religion that's toxic, in any case.  The people are usually half assed cultural christians anyway.  Kind of makes it worse.

(don't even get me started on how toxic soccer moms are FF, christian or otherwise. Wink )
I am the Infantry. I am my country’s strength in war, her deterrent in peace. I am the heart of the fight… wherever, whenever. I carry America’s faith and honor against her enemies. I am the Queen of Battle. I am what my country expects me to be, the best trained Soldier in the world. In the race for victory, I am swift, determined, and courageous, armed with a fierce will to win. Never will I fail my country’s trust. Always I fight on…through the foe, to the objective, to triumph overall. If necessary, I will fight to my death. By my steadfast courage, I have won more than 200 years of freedom. I yield not to weakness, to hunger, to cowardice, to fatigue, to superior odds, For I am mentally tough, physically strong, and morally straight. I forsake not, my country, my mission, my comrades, my sacred duty. I am relentless. I am always there, now and forever. I AM THE INFANTRY! FOLLOW ME!
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#4
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Christians and scammers are not mutually exclusive. Even peaceful christians.
Poe's Law: "Without a winking smiley or other blatant display of humor, it is impossible to create a parody of Fundamentalism that SOMEONE won't mistake for the real thing."

10 Christ-like figures that predate Jesus. Link shortened to Chris ate Jesus for some reason...
http://listverse.com/2009/04/13/10-chris...ate-jesus/

Good video to watch, if you want to know how common the Jesus story really is.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=88GTUXvp-50

A list of biblical contradictions from the infallible word of Yahweh.
http://infidels.org/library/modern/jim_m...tions.html

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#5
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(July 7, 2017 at 12:25 pm)FatAndFaithless Wrote: I mean... most Christians are completely normal, good people.  Because most people are normal, good people.  I doubt most people here would portray a soccer mom who believes in God who leads a normal life as 'toxic', for example.  It's the whole condemning-people-for-not-believing-claims-of-absolute-truth-and-morality-you-got-your-religion-in-my-government sort of thing that brings out the ire.

Yea, I feel ya. Believers "devalue and poop" on their personal life to earn more "heavens points" and when in such desperation the call for "mind rape" of others in the name of the good offered in the holy book is a must. But recently I watched a jail documentary where grown men raped each other and I was like "That's a real hell men in their prime ended up".
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#6
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As long as they don't try to push their faith on others by law or other means, I'm fine with any believer of any faith.

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#7
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Exactly, their decency is directly related to their lack of religiosity.   Wink
I am the Infantry. I am my country’s strength in war, her deterrent in peace. I am the heart of the fight… wherever, whenever. I carry America’s faith and honor against her enemies. I am the Queen of Battle. I am what my country expects me to be, the best trained Soldier in the world. In the race for victory, I am swift, determined, and courageous, armed with a fierce will to win. Never will I fail my country’s trust. Always I fight on…through the foe, to the objective, to triumph overall. If necessary, I will fight to my death. By my steadfast courage, I have won more than 200 years of freedom. I yield not to weakness, to hunger, to cowardice, to fatigue, to superior odds, For I am mentally tough, physically strong, and morally straight. I forsake not, my country, my mission, my comrades, my sacred duty. I am relentless. I am always there, now and forever. I AM THE INFANTRY! FOLLOW ME!
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#8
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Indeed. I don't mind the faithful ... it's the religious I have a problem with.

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#9
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(July 7, 2017 at 12:23 pm)purplepurpose Wrote: Of all the sad groups like thief's, scammers, murderers, warmongers, addicts peaceful Christians aren't as toxic as some people here wish them to portray.

The difference is; we have systems in place to deal with the likes of scammers, murderers, warmongers etc. The church over the centuries has corrupted the minds of billions, and they answer to no one.
It's amazing 'science' always seems to 'find' whatever it is funded for, and never the oppsite. Drich.
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#10
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Bingo.  Being a scammer or a thief is illegal.  Being a scammy thieving christian...is not. I guess faith covers a multitude of sins after all...not the least of which, being so bottom of the barrel that managing not to steal from someone - or hit someone on the head with a brick..is somehow seen as an accomplishment, rather than a normal friday.
I am the Infantry. I am my country’s strength in war, her deterrent in peace. I am the heart of the fight… wherever, whenever. I carry America’s faith and honor against her enemies. I am the Queen of Battle. I am what my country expects me to be, the best trained Soldier in the world. In the race for victory, I am swift, determined, and courageous, armed with a fierce will to win. Never will I fail my country’s trust. Always I fight on…through the foe, to the objective, to triumph overall. If necessary, I will fight to my death. By my steadfast courage, I have won more than 200 years of freedom. I yield not to weakness, to hunger, to cowardice, to fatigue, to superior odds, For I am mentally tough, physically strong, and morally straight. I forsake not, my country, my mission, my comrades, my sacred duty. I am relentless. I am always there, now and forever. I AM THE INFANTRY! FOLLOW ME!
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