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I need a quick moment to vent my uncharitable thoughts lol
December 16, 2024 at 9:05 am
A friend has 'found God' and gone off the deep end. He sent me a music video as a Christmas present and it was a song with the lyrics 'Relax - God is in control'.
I'm absolutely not going to say anything rude out loud but I can't help finding it ridiculous. I don't begrudge him his religious nonsense; if training as a priest makes him happy I'd rather he do that than drink himself to death. But I privately cannot help finding it utterly ridiculous.
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RE: I need a quick moment to vent my uncharitable thoughts lol
December 16, 2024 at 9:24 am
It's amazing how unthinking christians can be, false entitlement run amok.
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RE: I need a quick moment to vent my uncharitable thoughts lol
December 16, 2024 at 11:20 am
(December 16, 2024 at 9:05 am)syntheticadrenaline Wrote: A friend has 'found God' and gone off the deep end. He sent me a music video as a Christmas present and it was a song with the lyrics 'Relax - God is in control'.
I'm absolutely not going to say anything rude out loud but I can't help finding it ridiculous. I don't begrudge him his religious nonsense; if training as a priest makes him happy I'd rather he do that than drink himself to death. But I privately cannot help finding it utterly ridiculous.
You can indeed say something out loud without being rude. Maybe something along the lines of, ‘I’m happy you found something that works for you, but it’s honestly not for me. If you value our friendship as much as I do, you won’t send me anything else like this.’
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RE: I need a quick moment to vent my uncharitable thoughts lol
December 16, 2024 at 3:11 pm
I might politely remind him that I'm not a God fan haha
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December 16, 2024 at 4:28 pm
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You could send him a copy of: Wicca for Beginners: A Guide to Real Wiccan Beliefs,Magic and Rituals. Available at Amazon.
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RE: I need a quick moment to vent my uncharitable thoughts lol
December 16, 2024 at 7:40 pm
Yeah, you could send your friend some atheist music in return, like this song
teachings of the Bible are so muddled and self-contradictory that it was possible for Christians to happily burn heretics alive for five long centuries. It was even possible for the most venerated patriarchs of the Church, like St. Augustine and St. Thomas Aquinas, to conclude that heretics should be tortured (Augustine) or killed outright (Aquinas). Martin Luther and John Calvin advocated the wholesale murder of heretics, apostates, Jews, and witches. - Sam Harris, "Letter To A Christian Nation"
