• Public Christianity wimps

    From JOHNJWILSON@1:123/140 to ROSS SAUER on Fri Mar 5 20:39:12 2010

    I've never seen a bunch with such a weak religion, as you phony
    Christians.

    Two questions arise from this: Have you seen a bunch with a strong
    religion, and phony Christians indicates there are Christians who are not phony. There are, I think some 20,000 different varieties of Christian
    these days...in the U.S. alone...as in business and vpolitics, there are
    cheats and frauds and phony liars - hard (impossible) for me to sort 'em out...which is why I built my own church.

    Your faith is so worthless

    Faith's value is individually assess.

    , you have to have it mandated by
    government

    Mandated, or shared...


    (whatever government, city, state or federal) decree.

    What?

    Tell me why this pisses you off. Why do you care?


    No one is bothering you if you observe your religion.
    It's when you shove it in everyone else's face that we object.

    The pledge is to the country, not God.

    Then why is the "under God" in there?
    Because in 1954, under pressure from religious groups, the government mandated this to show "Them Godless commies."

    Yep. It wasn't Marxism, that was too complicated, it was always "Godless" Communism. Atheists were (are) suspect:'they have no moral compass'

    Oh, and constantly trot out the "Wah wah wah, we're being
    persecuted if we RS> can't force our faith on everyone" crapola.

    Sometimes a desire to share can become 'pushy'. but I've never heard
    anything close to that.


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