It bothers me...anyone else?

[IttyBittyKitty]

Originally posted by Twisterdog

Thanks, but I'm sure the majority of people on this board would not agree with you.

I don't know about that! You are one of those people who don't resort to personal attacks to get their points across! That's a well respected trait on any forum!

[G.P.girl]

Originally posted by Twisterdog


Thanks, but I'm sure the majority of people on this board would not agree with you.

not to go off topic but i would

[DogLover9501]

Originally posted by Logan
I am so glad that my daughter and my stepchildren are very aware of what we believe, and why we believe it. I think it will help them with their lifelong decisions. At least I hope it will.

Maybe this is why Im not sure what I believe or if I believe at all, I was never even talked to about any of that with my parents, only the religion at school. All I knew was I had to go to church, only on...like Easter and Christmas, but I was never told what we believe, or why or any of that and so maybe that's why I don't think I believe at all?

[DJFyrewolf36]

I've read this entire listing and this is what Ive got to say about it:

Religious zelotry will do nothing except push people away

That's it. Religion was meant to be a comfort to people in times of need, not a catalyst of events that bring on times of need. Religion has killed more people and started more wars than any other factor in the human experience. Does anyone see a problem with this?
Maybe people aught to stop using religion as an excuse to do evil things.

[ILoveReptiles]

Originally posted by DJFyrewolf36
I've read this entire listing and this is what Ive got to say about it:

Religious zelotry will do nothing except push people away

That's it. Religion was meant to be a comfort to people in times of need, not a catalyst of events that bring on times of need. Religion has killed more people and started more wars than any other factor in the human experience. Does anyone see a problem with this?
Maybe people aught to stop using religion as an excuse to do evil things.

It's human nature to bend and twist things to achieve one's own ends. This kind of abuse of what religion really should stand for will continue until the end of humanity as we know it.

Of that I am convinced. And there is very little that can be done about it. That's just the way things are. For every good person, there's orders of magnitude more bad apples.

[sirrahved]

My comment wasn't meant as an offense, and it was a question. Not saying it was true, just a guess. It has been interpreted the wrong way.

[DJFyrewolf36]

I didn't take offense to anything posted BTW. Just stating my opinion. I agree with ILoveReptiles, until we eliminate human nature from the mix, religion will always be twisted to achive some ill aim. Sad but true....I wish it werent so.

[carole]

I wish to share this with you all as an example, my daughter was home sick from school and we were watching Ricki Lake, it was about gay teens, how they were being treated badly by others and their parents etc etc, to cut a long story short, a mother and daughter came on who were very religious, and told all the gays they would go to hell, they kept quoting the bible etc, IMO, this was a fine example of exactly what Ittybittykitty was saying, these two people infact did nothing at all for their religion, my daughter was disgusted, and more or less said if thats how religious people are she wanted nothing to do with them, of course most of us know that TRUE christians donot behave in this manner, and are not religious biggots.,(and yes I did explain this to her) but I agree completely showing you are a christian by being kind and caring and loving is the way to promote your religious beliefs, and I am certain more people would be impressed with that, than what we saw on Ricki.