I've been talking to a few people lately and it seems that I'm going to
hell for pretty much anything I do! (yeay me) Is anyone here so devoutly
Christian that they believe having sex before marriage or being
gay/bi/lesbian means you'll go to hell. I read a forum where a girl was
asking advice on whether she should have sex with her boyfriend and 99% of
the replies said something along the lines of 'you'll go to hell' and 'you
aren't Christian if you do'. Don't you think that's a little harsh?
Also the whole 'gays are evil' thing... what's up with that? Again the
people I've talked to have shown no compassion for people of a different
orientation to them, and I'd just like to know why? Other than the crappy
cop-out excuse that 'God said so', why the hell should gays be considered
evil?!?
I just can't get my head round why people would want to think like this,
why they would love a God that condemns people for 'sins' that are really
not harmful at all. How can they accept something that was writte down by
men, *men*! How can something so fallible dictate their whole lives?
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Merry_Widow
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posted on 11/2/2003 at 09:38 AM
I've been raised Lutheran and I attend a Catholic university, so I feel
fairly competent in saying this:
They are all judgmental elitist punk ass bitches. They are going off
things said in the old testament when God was still laying out the
righteous bitch slaps. Just kindly remind them of the new covenant that was
made, that there is only one completely unforgivable sin, and then quote
them a few handy verses. My favorites would be 1 Ch 16:33, Ps 7:11, and the
ever popular Mt 7:1.
If you don't want to have to look them up youself, just say the word and I
'll message them to you.
Trust me, nothing compares to the look of a militiant Christian having
their own words shoved back in their face by a "punk kid."
And usually, these people don't express such views because of religion,
they just use it as an excuse. Most of the noisy fucks out there have
issues of their own that they are too afraid or lazy to deal with, so they
play the justification game. I mean, no where in the bible does it say that
gays are evil. Both that and the premarital is generally viewed as one of
the social no-no's of the time.
Just another example of how fanaticism can screw up a perfectly good
dealie.
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Closetgothbabe
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posted on 11/2/2003 at 10:39 AM
There is nothing but those kind of people where I live, so you can only
imagine the looks me and my sister get. Southern Baptist, Pentecostal
Christians.......wow the heated arguments I get into with these people is
unreal. I mean come on are you gonna marry a man/woman without having sex
first?? Hell no that would be insane, what if you arent sexually compatible
in any way. Then there is the whole not getting a divorce, so your stuck
with someone that does nothing for you sexually. I dont see doing any of
that myself! There is a guy that lives next to me that goes to the
pentecostal church here and he annoys the fuck outta me almost every day
with this same bullshit. He also has a huge crush on me....can you believe
that on little ol evil me!! Now that has to be some kind of sin right there
in itself. He should stick to the church going girls cause my ass isnt
going ever! This is the funny part of the whole thing is he preaches to me
all the time about the no sex before marriage. Then all of a sudden this
lady starts coming to church and says she is also a christian, she is
married and then starts having bible study every night with him. Ok so her
husband isnt there and they dont go to her house and do bible
study.....muhahahaha. Then he tells me they have been sleeping together,
like I didnt already figure that out. You can talk the talk buddy but you
cant walk the walk...hell yeah!! I told him dont ever preach to me about
anything ever again!
Ok I have rambled on about this but man if you only knew half the shit
these people really do you would laugh your ass off at them. They really
are very full of shit most the time. I have yet to see any of them that
dont do going to hell shit! So hey I will see you in hell ok!! LOL
Dolorosa
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posted on 11/2/2003 at 10:52 AM
Wait...there is too a stricture against homosexuality in the bible, it's a
commandment too...Thou shalt not covet thy neighbors ass.
Hahahaha! Alright, now that thats over with.
My dad is a premiere zealot, used to beat the shit out of me while qouting
bible versus and explaining to me all the ways I had disappointed him AND
God.
The best I can figure from my experiances is that a lot of people...who
are ignorant, cowardly, biased and all together violently foolish are
difficult to control, and hard to live with. Somebody got an idea, and made
a religion that draws all these fucknuts together into a single community.
All their little preacher boy has to say is "Jump" and they reply with the
"How high?" It's a cause of a charimsatic leader with near absolute control
over a mass of spiritual retards. I think it's original purpose was to keep
'em out of everyone elses hair. That got kinda' screwed up I guess. Shit,
Christians of any sort never had that great of a rep. Look at all the old
civilizations that hated their guts...and if Sodom and Gomorah were still
around, they would too. It's all about control...or the giving up of it
rather. These people are fucking incapable of thinking for themselves, so
they go and join something that does it for them. After years and years of
assholes flocking to it's banner, you can figure how a fairly well thought
out institution becomes tainted and ridiculous.
It's kind of sad...every so often I meet someone who really does try an
uphold the tenets of their faith...and they ain't bad. But thats a needle
in a haystack.
I think a whole hell of a lot of them are going to be very surprised when
they die.
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MystryssRavynDarque
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posted on 11/2/2003 at 11:20 AM
I was thinking of not even posting to this due to myself being a Christian,
but I will. I will tell you that I do not condem people for their actions.
It is not my place to judge anyone based on what they do or have done. To
everyone his own way. I also do not condem people for having a different
faith than I do. I do have to say though that I am getting tired of the
people in the church that I go to. Not that all churches are like mine,
but mine has grown to finally piss me off. The youth group is full of
people that have been going there for a few years, and just a few of us
that have been going to that same church since we were children, I am one
of those children. I have never fit. I have always been shunned by the
stuck up snobby bitches, and have only dated one guy that went to my
church, and he turned out to be a complete asshole. My family and I have
been thinking of finding other churches, but I did have a few friends that
I go to school with, none of which were actually Christians(until my friend
Jessica just converted). It was better with them, but we all were becoming
quite bored after a while, and my friends would always get in trouble for
talking during the sermon, and they were only whispering. Well, these
friends have left the church, Jessica will be back soon because she was out
for nite school. I am thinking of switching churches. I have thought
about it too, I don't have to go to church to learn about what God said or
the parables that Jesus used to teach, I can read it for myself, or watch
tv on church and not have to worry about being hurt or shunned by a bunch
of preppy bitches and assholes! I am tired of it! There, that is my rant
here.
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Schizo
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posted on 11/2/2003 at 01:37 PM
I know. I went to an ultra-strict semi-cultish church, and I still get
flak even now that I've escaped. I have to put up with my parents snide
comments on the way I live my life, only partially hidden under a cloak of
compassion. They just can't even conceive of the possibility that what I
am doing is OK. Oddly enough, I also get comments from my Mom that I "know
what is true", almost as if she thinks I still believe all that stuff. I
don't think I'll ever be able to convince her that I've put the Christian
church behind her.
I've retained a few bits and pieces of my old beliefs, but not anything
that can really be labeled "Christian." I just feel that, if something is
true, it can stand up to experimentation. If it's true, it will work. You
shouldn't be afraid to test it out. And I've tested it out, and found that
a lot of the things they tell you, such as sinners being miserable inside,
are just out and out lies. I was far more miserable as a Christian, and
then made to feel more miserable, because of course it must be my fault I
was miserable. I must not have been having enough faith or something.
Bullshit.
Plus, all the times that "miracles" occured as a result of "prayer" have
been duplicated and thensome just by having a little self-confidence.
If God exists, you don't need a book to find him. If certain things are
wrong, you don't need a book to pinpoint them for you. Life itself ought
to show us.
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dents in my car and the blisters on my lips that I'm not the carefullest of
girls." - Dresden Dolls, "Girl Anachronism"
Psychopixi
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posted on 11/2/2003 at 03:58 PM
I know Christains that are fucking *brilliant* people, my nan (the one I
live with) and two of my best friends to name but a few. They believe in
God, and go to church and generally live their lives in a 'good' way... and
they *don't judge other people*!
As for the people I've been talking with recently, they sicken me...
literally, I felt my stomach churn at some of the things they said. For
example one guy was going on about how he thought for himself, and didn't
need anyone to tell him what Christianity was about and what was good/evil
as he had found out for himself. Then he went on to say his views were
based on what he'd read from the bible and how he'd been brought up. How
the fuck is that thinking for yourself?
On that point, how can you figure out for yourself that gays are evil? How
the hell can you say that and expect to be taken seriously? Then there was
the whole 'Satanists are evil' thing. I know two Satanists personally (not
really enough to speak for the whole lot, but anyway...) and they are the
nicest, most intelligent and caring people I could hope to meet. But
apparently, it doesn't matter how you *act*... you're evil just by being a
Satanist. Just like all the fucked up Reverands who go around raping young
boys are good because, hell; they're Christian - the sun shines out of
their arse!
I like to think (maybe wrongly) that I'm a fairly intelligent person, but I
cannot figure out the logic in some of these arguements! The Bible is right
because God dictated it... God is always right because the Bible says so...
the Bible is right because God dictated it... viscious circle really, no?
Also the arguement that the Bible is infallible because it is the word of
God. Come on! MAN wrote the Bible. Men who had their own prejudices and
their own private agendas and this work is supposed to be taken 100%
literally?
Merry_Widow: If you'd like to e-mail me those quotes I'd be very grateful!
My email is [email protected]. It'd be good to see what they have to
say about those!!
CGB: LMAO at that guy you mentioned! "Do as I say, not as I do" is a
fitting quote I believe!
Dolorosa: I'm sorry about you and your father, that must have been a tough
childhood.
*hugs you* As for the "assholes flocking to it's banner" you couldn't be
more right. There are the few people who follow the religion and actually
think about it, and about what they're doing and those guys are like the
diamonds in the rough. As for the rest of them, the 'blind obedience' ones,
I think you're right about the shock that's in store for them when they
die! How can someone who practises hatred and prejudice on a daily basis
possible expect to be rewarded for it after they die?
MRD: Thank you. Thank you for having the sense not to judge people. *hugs
you*
Schizo: I've read your previous posts on Christianity and I think you've
always been sensible in your views and actions. "it must be my fault I was
miserable"; yet another thing I don't understand about why people would
want to pledge blind obedience to God, when it just ends up making them
unhappy. Surely religion should help you, allow you to feel better about
yourself, not make you suffer because you're disappointing some deity you
can't even be sure exists!
This was a very long post! I'm gonna go sleep off my angst/rage now!
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Merry_Widow
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posted on 11/2/2003 at 05:13 PM
They are coming at you, sweet stuff...
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Psychopixi
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posted on 12/2/2003 at 12:16 PM
Thank you, I've used one of them already! Oh so handy!
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Devin
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posted on 12/2/2003 at 01:29 PM
Proof that god is always right:
God tells Adam: "Don't eat the apple or you will surely die"
Adam eats apple
Adam proceeds to live another 800 years.
Adam finally dies.
hmmmm.....
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Psychopixi
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posted on 12/2/2003 at 02:13 PM
Well, he did die didn't he? <jk>
Serisouly though, don't even get me started on that part of the Bible!! I
mean, God says 'on the day you eat of that tree you will surely die' (or
something like that) Then snakey-baby pops up and says 'no way! You eat
that fruit and you'll become like Gods, knowing both good and evil'.
Okay... one of them has to be wrong.
Woman eats the fruit and gives some to man to eat and he decides to eat it.
They very ungraciously don't pop their clogs. Yahweh comes down to visit
them and finds them hiding - they realised they were naked and so felt
ashamed. (Why then hell would becoming like Gods make you embarassed about
being nakey?) He killed some animals (this nice benevolent, loving God) and
gave them the skins to wear, then says 'the man has become like one of us,
with his knowledge of good and evil, he must not be allowed to stretch his
hand out next and pick from the tree of life and eat some and live
forever.' So, err, Yahweh pretty much admits that the snake (Devil) told
the truth and that he lied.
Basically in this story, who comes off as the good guy, the benefactor to
humanity? God? I think not! The snake/devil? Hells yeah!!!
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Merry_Widow
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posted on 12/2/2003 at 04:19 PM
Actually, whe you look at it, both told part of the truth. When you put
them together, you get the whole schpeal. They did become like God, or the
Gods, whichever you prefer, in that they then became knowledgable of good
and evil. But they also did gain mortality. And the desire not to run
around nekkid. And painful menstrual periods. And hard labors...
Is it me, or did the penis get off kind of easy? Damn patriarchal
standards. Don't even get me going on "the sins of Eve."
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Schizo
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posted on 13/2/2003 at 03:51 AM
Actually, the desire to not run around nekkid is acquired in early
childhood. My daughter would absolutely love to run (or rather, roll)
around nekkid. It makes tickles easier, and toes are more fun when they
aren't encased in shoes and socks. If it weren't the middle of a New
England winter, I'd let her do it (except the diaper, of course. That
would be a disaster waiting to happen!) But after wearing clothes for a
few years, and getting yelled at when they decide to go stripping, and not
seeing anyone else nekkid, kids learn shame.
And don't get me started on the curse of painful labor! Ooooh my stretched
out tummy skin! How cruel could God get? All the guys have to do is work
hard to live. Hey, I have to do that too! No fair!
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Psychopixi
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posted on 13/2/2003 at 04:18 AM
Heh heh, original sin is a bastard. And someone once said that you can
pretty much excuse yourself from it by claiming to be one of the other
people - Yahweh was only one of a pantheon of Gods and the rest... the ones
that Cain married into shouldn't have original sin and hence can run round
nakey all they want!
I have absolutely no intentions of having children. I'm way too
irresponsible for that. Though I guess it's a good thing I think like this
*now* because I'm only 17, maybe when I'm about 25-30 I'll start getting
broody. *prays to whatever deity is listening* Please not stretch marks!?
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Ironboots
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posted on 13/2/2003 at 07:33 AM
That's always confused me. If Adam and Eve were the first, and all human
life decended from them, then how come, in just a few pages of the bible,
they've already invented civilization and herding, had a thousand babies
('cause they speak of cities and other families) and developed all the
other necessities for life outside a heavenly garden.
Despite the pain of childbirthing, Eve must have had a LOT of kids...
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callei
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posted on 13/2/2003 at 08:55 AM
what happened to the babies Eve had in Eden?
Do animals KNOW that they are gurting and KNOW that pain is "bad"? is that
how/why Eve suddenly developed pain from labor?
where they suddenly embarassed because they had been molested by God?
Hiding themselves and thier bodies from thier molester makes sense, if you
think about how people act in real life.....
MystryssRavynDarque
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posted on 13/2/2003 at 01:59 PM
I had it explained to me this way:
Adam and Eve were not the only two people on Earth, just one couple that
the bible focuses on. Why? This I do not know. That is just how it was
explained to me when I asked how Cain had kids and who he went and married.
I used to laugh and say he imbread with his mom, or perhaps a sister that
was unmentioned.
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the
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Schizo
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posted on 13/2/2003 at 02:39 PM
Sisters generally were unmentioned, if you've noticed!
Of course, if you're going to live 900 odd years, you could probably pop
out quite a few kids in that time. Can you imagine that baggy, stretched
out tummy poor Eve would have had after about 200 years of constant
pregnancies?
And marrying siblings at that point wouldn't have been such a big deal
then. The reason it's nasty now, is because of all the disease and
disorder-causing genetic defects that can come out of the woodwork with
inbreeding. Back then, you can assume that their genetic material was
pretty pristine, being freshly made and all that.
At least, that's how it was explained to me. I mean, think about it. Adam
and Eve have some 200 kids. That's figuring a 800 year life-span, with a
quarter of it fertile, rather like 20 years of a potential 80. That's not
even figuring in the fact that they were supposed to have been created as
adults, which gives them an extra 200 or so breeding years. But we won't
even count that now. Makes it too complicated. And of course, that's with
no birth control.
Let's also say that children mature at normal rates. There's no
documentation, but just for sake of argument. I mean, otherwise you'd have
babyhood lasting 100 years, which is just ridiculous. Can you imagine the
diapers? So, after the first brother-sister set matures (give them 20
years, but they'd be fucking before that), you get the grand-child factor.
In those 200 breeding years, 10 generations would be produced.
Then, you still have Adam and Eve living for 600 more years, enjoying their
golden years. That brings you to a whopping 40 generations of little
descendents, all living and breathing and enjoying their 200 years of
contraceptive-free breeding time.
I would say that would populate quite a few cities.
This has been brought to you by Schizo, who has experienced a few too many
Bible-soaked years, being trained in the art of complicated explanations
for every obscure detail of the Holy Scriptures.
Oh, and that "in the day you eat thereof, you shall surely die" is brushed
away (apparently to some) by the verse somewhere or other that says "a day
to God is as a thousand years, and a thousand years is as a day", or
something like that. Since Adam's life stopped short of 1,000 years, that
means that, according to God's unique system of reckoning time, he died
that day.
My teachers had truly wonderful excuse-making abilities.
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dents in my car and the blisters on my lips that I'm not the carefullest
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Psychopixi
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posted on 13/2/2003 at 03:13 PM
Oooh, good excuse! I like that one - 'to God a day = 1000 years, and 1000
years = a day'. Very... inventive of them!! Still, I figure the only thing
the snake did wrong was contradict God.
I feel sooo sorry for Eve. I mean, popping out a new kid once a year has to
take it's toll!
Anyone ever seen 'Dogma' here? 'They took a real good idea and based a
belief system on it' - the thirteenth apostle.
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Sticupus
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posted on 13/2/2003 at 06:20 PM
I am an evil fucker, and that has nothing to do with my liking guys. Also,
I am a virgin who has never touched cigarettes, or drank alcohol or taken
drugs. Therefore I am pretty pure; purer than most if not all of the
x-tians i know. So they can rub their holy faces in it. Besides I have
intellectually battles these people for years, and all I can say is fuck
em'. They tire me out- and for such a group of people bent on morality and
kindness, they do a fair share of dishing out pain, insults, shame,
cruelity, confusion, and hate. These are people that cal "reading the
Bibble" Listening to their pastor. They don't know what they are talking
about, and from what I can tell, they are just scared little children
regardless of their age. Remember, Knowledge always clips the wings of
religion. Ask Siddartha.