@Schristian@xanga - Okay, thanks for promising me that because now I can live peaceably in our marriage knowing that you will always do what is best for our family. I'm the luckiest girl alive!!!!

Oh, and let's get a pet pig. But if any of us (except the men of course) touch its skin, promise me to kill us in the most brutal, humilating, and honorable way possible. I don't think the bible has a suggestion, just says "put to death". I guess it's up to interpretation.

Just gaymarry our whoredaughter off though because if she isn't a virgin on her wedding night, they'll have to stone her to death as well.

@Schristian@xanga - I can dig necrophilia, as long as we can have bestiality once in a while to break the monotony.

Absolutely perfect! *gushes*

@captain_jaq@xanga - Don't ever cut your hair or eat shellfish either.  Oh, and remember that when you have your period, you have to sit in a tent for seven days.  Because heaven forbid that if you sit anywhere a man might sit on the same spot and thus become unclean!

After you're done with your monthlies, you must sacrifice a dove.  Better stock up on doves!

Levitical laws make me giggle.

@captain_jaq@xanga - Gawd I love you. I think we should have a public stoning of a woman who had premarital sex to celebrate.

@bittersunday@xanga - It's all good.One should always know how to play "Devil's Advocate". You just pop the DVD in and hit "Start".

Seriously though, that's the biggest flaw in the religion. Constriction and submission is so passé.

Faith itself is a departure from reason. At the point that unquestioning compliance and acceptance is accepted as a virtue, there will always be something in Christianity to mock and ridicule.

If Christianity is good and real, it shouldn't need leaps of logic and leaps of reasoning in its foundations.

"...so it makes me angry when people tell me I only believe in Christ because I grew up in a Christian household..."

Most Christians adopted Christainity through familial upbringings. But you make a good point: It is 'o too easy to muddle and to generalize.

This is a dangerous trap to fall into, especially at the level of one-on-one discussions.

Have people ever accused you of being brainwashed or ignorant for your beliefs, whatever they are? How do you handle the criticism?

Yes, Christians. I respond by making fun of them, of course. =P

I have been told that I am a blind follower simply because I stated that I am patriotic, and that I love my country. Eventually I just dropped the argument, even though I wanted to continue defending what I believe in so strongly.

I've realized that no matter where you go, someone will call you an idiot for believing what you do, and as hard as it is, we must turn the other cheek (whoa! I'm using gospel in an argument! Sorry, but it's new to me ;P) and drop it. It's hard, because we want to defend our beliefs, but it's a lot harder to change someone's mind than it is to quit wasting the time and energy that it takes to do so.

Well i've been accused of having no morals because i don't have a "god" to watch after me.  I guess sometimes we have to stay firm in what we believe in, no matter how many people tell you you're going to burn in hell for not repenting.

It doesn't bother me any more.

The bible says it is not me that they reject, but Christ.

It happened to Jesus, so of course it will happen to me.

x

@KechiNeko244@xanga - You, like the average person (religious or not), are perceiving spacetime incorrectly. In fact, the way we perceive spacetime is an illusion. Spacetime doesn't exist at all as we see it. For one, it breaks down at the Planck level, so can't properly explain the universe in its entirety anyway. So, to begin with, imagine time doesn't exist as you perceive it (because it doesn't). No past, present, or future. Where is your 'beginning of the universe' now?

The universe didn't come from nothing, the universe always existed. It is possible for it to do this without a first cause paradox (god), or an infinite regression paradox. Paradoxes are impossible, you see. The dimensions of space and time are merely human-made abstract concepts to try and understand what we are experiencing, and do fine in measuring most things we can observe, but not all of them, as I explained before.

View the zero-volume singularity before the big bang as an edge of existence, not a start of existence. It is the edge of possibility. Nothing exists beyond the edge, since its impossible.

@la_faerie_joyeuse@xanga - I've had a similar experience.  Wonderful, amazing, intelligent people, but their reasoning and logic turns into jibberish, and if you try and debate with them about it, they don't have enough to prove themselves or disprove other possibilities.

I must say though whoever writes on this site is intelligent, I will give them that, but in truth, relating FAR TOO MUCH to "Christianity" and "Acts of God".

And the "athiests have no morals" was downright offensive AND ignorant.  I hope everyone realizes that.

@MsquaredGF@xanga - This is a good point :)

true. Christians are not  delusional or misguided ... at least those that are comprise a tiny minority.  Muslims, Jews, Hindi (I use this term to encompass the faiths of India), and any other faith that seeks to comprehend the greater world, our relationship to it, and our relationship to each other, are not delusional either ... for the greater part.  The extremists and the fringe-fanatics of ANY faith or philosophy are the Brainwashed and Delusional.
"Thou shalt love the Lord thy God with all thy heart, with all thy soul, and with all thy mind.  This is the first and greatest commendment, and the second is like unto it: thou shalt love thy neighbor as thyself.  On these two commandments hang all the law and the prophets".

The subject can not be properly discussed with a religious person because they are incapable of impartiality. Faith makes logic in this sense, literally impossible.