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Originally posted by rival
Originally posted by Six6Six
This was the funniest thing I have seen in ages.....
Those who complain, tough, its their right and freedom of religion to believe what they want to!!!
They are doing it their own CHURCH not on the street.
Thank you, FINALLY someone gets it!!
I recently converted to Islam, and am trying to exercise my freedom to believe what I want to
but my entire family is against me.
My wife says she WILL NOT wear her veil.
She is resisting my attempts to have our youngest daughter circumcised.
She HATES my beard.
My eldest daughter has disgraced the family by going out in public scantily clad and riding in cars
with boys, and I cannot even get my eldest sons to take her out into the street so that she can be
stoned...MUCH LESS get them to even pick up a pebble.
And now my wife is threatening me with police action for beating her when I have FOLLOWED ALL
THE GUIDELINES (as my religion dictates) for proper spousal discipline.
It is getting to the point that I can't take it anymore. WHERE IS MY RELIGIOUS FREEDOM that
everybody keeps talking about. All I want to do is serve my God, but I am being repressed at every turn.
On a side note my eldest son is gay. He came out of the closet yesterday. So last night I tried to
begin a conversation with him, easing into the proper religious procedures and it was all going
well until I started talking about how to correctly tie the noose when he BLEW UP at me....
And all of this just because I want to practice MY faith, exercise MY "freedom of religion" and be a
good, honest, hard-working, God-fearing man.
So I totally understand how the poster I responded to feels...
As a last note, and a ray of hope for me---my youngest son is four and I have taught him all the
prayers and tenets of our religion and he seems to be coming around. He can chant ALOT of
Q'uran from memory.....and tomorrow maybe me and him can get my eldest daughter to come
outside with us......
....I had a load of large stones delivered by truck yesterday and he is a pretty good shot...
edit on 31-5-2012 by rival because: (no reason given)
Originally posted by detachedindividual
Originally posted by PurpleChiten
I do hope that none of this came as negative or judgemental in any way, just trying to describe my thought processes.
I would just like to take this opportunity to congratulate you on your level-headed and truly Christian attitudes. After reading several of your posts in this thread, you are what all the other bigoted "pretend Christians" should aspire to be.
You state that you have disowned the label "Christian" and in a way I commend you taking that stance. I can't begin to comprehend how uncomfortable it must be for you having to read all the crap other so-called Christians write in representation of your religious beliefs. It's like the Taliban claiming Islam for themselves and tainting all Muslims in the process.
Well done to you, you have my best wishes and my appreciation for being a truly moral person, unlike the many right-wing crazies we have here dragging your religious beliefs into embarrassment.
reply to post by buster2010
sooner or later this little gay basher will meet up with the wrong homosexual and get his teeth knocked down his throat.
Originally posted by NewAgeMan
I know, I'm back posting on a thread I accused others of wasting away a day of their lives on, but I just wanted to make darn sure that the membere here at ATS and the many readers understand, clearly, that this isn't really Christianity, but something that I call Churchianity instead and the worst part of it.
Originally posted by mugger
Originally posted by PurpleChiten
Originally posted by Stormdancer777
OH and BTW I hear the pastor is hiding and he and members of his congregation are getting death threats,
GOOD! They are experiencing the terrorism they were spreading. Kharma can be a good thing.
A child sings a song about gays not going to heaven and get death threats over it? Who is intolerant of who?
Originally posted by spiritualzombie
Originally posted by Yurimaster
Back in the days gays was a bad thing and not legal, now gays ok, then what's next? Bestiality maybe one day be accepted and people will be used to people falling in love and marrying their own pets. I wonder where this world is going...
That's how I feel about religion... if we start letting people having freedom of religion, what's next? People are going to start worshiping human feces and rubbing it on their faces? And then what? We have to teach kids that it's okay to worship feces? What if Satanism becomes the mainstream, does that mean my kid is going to have to pray to Satan in school? I mean there really is no line... Once you allow any sort of freedom of religion, it's a slippery slope to feces worship and satanism.edit on 31-5-2012 by spiritualzombie because: (no reason given)
Originally posted by blueorder
Originally posted by LightsideAssassin
Well, let it be said again, no one should be lumping all Christians together..but I have to say that, again and again, I see some Christians doing the most hateful things, and this is just one more particularly nasty example. I would hope that, at some point, good Christians would get together and combat this kind of thing. Really disgusting video. And the cheering..*shiver
relax, it is about belief in an afterlife- if it is any consolation, they would say I (a heterosexual) will not enter heaven.
As others have said, this is not important, not in any real shape or form
Originally posted by petrus4
Because I truthfully view the gay movement, in its' own way, as being just as authoritarian as Christians are in theirs.
Originally posted by grey580
I'm aghast that people would actually think it's ok to brainwash a 4 year old into hating gay people.
And then they all cheer the kid singing the song.
If the kid were saying Jews or Blacks weren't getting into heaven they would be called anti semites or al sharpton would be protesting.
But since it's gay people getting discriminated against no one says anything.
I'm getting sick of people gay bashing.
Originally posted by ANOK
Originally posted by petrus4
Because I truthfully view the gay movement, in its' own way, as being just as authoritarian as Christians are in theirs.
But there is a reason for that.
See the OP.
Which came first? If Gays are "authoritarian", as you put it, it's just a reaction to bigotry like in the video.
Any social group after years of bigotry will become militant. They can't not be Gay, a Christian is one by choice, and they choose to hate. Gays didn't suddenly decide to hate Christians just because they're Christians.
(for simplicity I am talking in generalizations, obviously not all Christians hate gays, and vice versa. Those that do I wouldn't consider a Christian anyway, whatever they choose to call themselves)
edit on 5/31/2012 by ANOK because: (no reason given)
Originally posted by PunkNerd5
reply to post by PurpleChiten
Those are not atoms, they are molecules. Atoms are assumed to be the smallest unit of matter, so only if we have a microscope more powerful than the Hubble telescope, it would be almost impossible to see it. (If we could, seeing as though it is a concept to 'fill in the blanks' of obtaining some knowledge/system of the natural world).
Originally posted by PunkNerd5
Gays are against Christian doctrine as much as human-animal intercourse and marriage. Stop bashing on Christians because you dont accept our views, I dont see you bashing on Muslims because they wear those shawls on their heads, why not accept one's view. I agree that this is bad on another level than 'bashing gays'. For instance, church goers dont need to cheer about anyone at all not making it to Heaven, if they were really Christians, they would be trying to help the gays enter Heaven instead of cheering their eternal demise. I have come to the conclusion that atheists and extreme Christian critics are only out for 2 things; to (try to) deny and confute the Christian God for the SOLE purpose of hating Christians for some profound and/or personal reason and/or just not believing. Its funny how people only bash on Christian morals and values and not lets say Muslim or Hindu religions. I know why, its because they solely HATE Christians for some reason. You must agree non believers, that the only religious target you are targeting are Christians and not even trying to criticize other religions. Stop saying Christians are 'brainwashed', the only bad thing about Christianity is the hypocrites (like these) that dont follow the Christian doctrine correctly; who by chance have been chosen to represent Christianity in it's entirety. People are judged by their mistakes and wrong doings than their facts and good doing.
Jesus, that poor man who preached non violence, love, and abundance in knowledge and wisdom through faith is being completely ignored throughout all of this. Find a fault in Jesus' teaching and not of the hypocrites we know are wrong.edit on 30-5-2012 by PunkNerd5 because: (no reason given)edit on 30-5-2012 by PunkNerd5 because: (no reason given)edit on 30-5-2012 by PunkNerd5 because: typo XD
Originally posted by Renegade2283
So your argument is ,well yea a lot of horrible things have been done in the name of Christianity, but horrible things have happened in the name of other religions as well. That's like Charles Manson saying "why don't you bash on Hitler and leave me alone." It doesn't work like that. So you say "stop bashing on Christians because you don't except our views."
Originally posted by autowrench
Christians of ATS, gonna just sit there and let this BS happen? You say your God is a loving god, and all I see here is hate.