Another religious topic......

[Hantlers]

I'm noticing a trend. You have to explain what you mean an awful lot. Too much firewater perhaps?

I just died.

 

[Revolution 9]

I don't understand why you are getting so defensive about this but I completely agree with you about being a good person and that being all that matters. That is all that matters with this existence. Racism in our American history is a very disappointing, I have no idea how that could ever be seen as a good idea or anywhere near a moral decision. Have you never been curious to what other people think? How do you think we form views? We talk among each other and share opinions. This is a very valid question.

This is one of many reasons I left the church. Honest questions that had no real answers, and angered people when you asked them. In my view truth should be examined, analyzed, debated, and discussed.
Because the truth has nothing to hide. Something true stands clean even when the lights are shinning bright. I knew this wasn't the church for me when so many things ended with
you just have to have faith. Well, that's all good and well but faith didn't do it for me all the time. Faith was an excuse not to question, learn, and grow.

I see this as a cop out at a time when the country would no longer accept black people being seperated. If this was the truth it would NOT have changed, and especially not magically
in 1978 when it was socially right. It would have been right when it was unpopular both ways. Either early on that blacks were accepted, or it would not have changed when social pressure in society
was beginning to look down on it.

 

[7StraightIsGreat]

During my brief stand-up comic career, the was a fellow comic at Wiseguys who attended BYU. He did a great joke about the recycling bins at the Y having two different receptacles for colored and non-colored plastics. I would try to recount the entire joke but I'm sure I'd just butcher it.

 

[TroutBum]

I'm pointing out that every religion believe's in some crazy funny stuff. I'm trying to unite.

I guess I didn't think I had to explain that to a West Valley politician..............

I'd make a terrible politician; I admit when I'm wrong and don't make excuses. (hint, hint)

I just died.

Shame. I just laughed.

 

[KillaCam]

It is not religion that it is the problem it is people. People have killed each other for simply rooting for a different sports team. Look what happened at the Raiders game this year and what happens in European football every single year. World War 1 and 2 are the largest wars ever and had nothing to do with religion. People are the problem. It is religion that try's to fix this problem but once again is having the trouble because of people.

Wow!!! This guys ^^^ got it all together, man.

 

[Nate505]

No they ain't. They shape the attitudes of blacks across this country to look at themselves as victims.

The poor will look for any venue to share the belief that they are victims, be it religion, media, or commiserating with themselves. When you don't have much, and a country has a history of racial discrimination, it doesn't take much to shape that. Hell, Christians whine about how they're oppressed and they're a majority.

 

[LogGrad98]

The poor will look for any venue to share the belief that they are victims, be it religion, media, or commiserating with themselves. When you don't have much, and a country has a history of racial discrimination, it doesn't take much to shape that. Hell, Christians whine about how they're oppressed and they're a majority.

Worldwide Christians are nowhere near the majority.

 

[babe]

Worldwide Christians are nowhere near the majority.

what's that got to do with it. Neither are the rich.

And the rich are the master whiners.

 

[Nate505]

Worldwide Christians are nowhere near the majority.

I thought I wouldn't have had to make the declarative that this it the majority reference was to the United States, especially considering the previous subject matter that was being discussed and the implication was blindingly obvious, but I guess not.

And world wide Christianity is the largest religious group, though if you combine every other religious group and atheist/agnostic against them yes, they aren't the majority.

 

[One Brow]

No they ain't. They shape the attitudes of blacks across this country to look at themselves as victims.

You say this based on your personal experience in balck churches?

Strictly rhetorical. Your claim mde it clear you have not attended black churches to any significant degree.

Don't bother posting Youtube quote-mines. I've seen them, and seen the reality.

 

[One Brow]

Worldwide Christians are nowhere near the majority.

Christians are the plurality, and the fastest growing.

In the USA they are the majority; they whine, yeall, and threaten when they don't get to post that fact on government buildings.

 

[LogGrad98]

I thought I wouldn't have had to make the declarative that this it the majority reference was to the United States, especially considering the previous subject matter that was being discussed and the implication was blindingly obvious, but I guess not.

And world wide Christianity is the largest religious group, though if you combine every other religious group and atheist/agnostic against them yes, they aren't the majority.

Look we can't wait for one brow all the time. Someone had to pick at the nits, ok? And some of us don't have time to read EVERY post and respond line by line, syllable by syllable, we leave that to babe and one brow and franklin and such.


edit: I spoke too soon, brow did start picking the nits, using the same phrasing to discount a concept that he used to support the same concept in another thread. True mastery!