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Tom Yossarian Joad (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Dec-15-04 01:04 AM Original message |
Question: Why do I see Christianity as a religion of hate today? |
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HEyHEY (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Dec-15-04 01:05 AM Response to Original message |
1. I see all religions as religions of hate |
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BattyDem (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Dec-15-04 01:07 AM Response to Original message |
2. It's disturbing, isn't it? |
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chookie (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Dec-15-04 01:42 AM Response to Reply #2 |
16. "Did everyone go nuts at once??" |
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RPM (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Dec-15-04 08:02 AM Response to Reply #2 |
37. not all at once. |
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Just Me (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Dec-15-04 01:09 AM Response to Original message |
3. Christ, that vision, is being "manipulated" and "used" for human purposes. |
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anitar1 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Dec-15-04 01:12 AM Response to Reply #3 |
4. Christiananity |
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Tom Yossarian Joad (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Dec-15-04 01:15 AM Response to Reply #3 |
7. The Inquisition, Salem, Crusades.... |
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BrklynLiberal (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Dec-15-04 01:30 AM Response to Reply #7 |
13. That is exactly what George Carlin says.... n/t |
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noahmijo (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Dec-15-04 01:13 AM Response to Original message |
5. I refuse to call myself a Christian nowadays |
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bliss_eternal (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Dec-15-04 01:55 AM Response to Reply #5 |
22. Me too, noahmijo |
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gumby (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Dec-15-04 01:15 AM Response to Original message |
6. Kinda makes one understand Nazi Germany, |
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Tom Yossarian Joad (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Dec-15-04 01:18 AM Response to Reply #6 |
8. Oh, I think people have learned from the past.... the people that are |
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chookie (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Dec-15-04 01:51 AM Response to Reply #8 |
20. Indeed |
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bhikkhu (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Dec-15-04 01:19 AM Response to Original message |
9. When did Christians decide... "kill 'em all..."? |
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Tom Yossarian Joad (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Dec-15-04 01:27 AM Response to Reply #9 |
11. You're right, but I'll bet dollars to donuts that someone will come up |
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Selteri (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Dec-15-04 02:47 AM Response to Reply #11 |
29. Want Earlier, try within 100 years there was one of the 'leaders' |
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BrklynLiberal (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Dec-15-04 01:28 AM Response to Reply #9 |
12. Weren't Jesus' gentle teachings "corrupted"by Paul much earlier than that? |
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bhikkhu (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Dec-15-04 01:42 AM Response to Reply #12 |
17. Corrupted in a different way... |
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Tom Yossarian Joad (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Dec-15-04 01:51 AM Response to Reply #17 |
21. Another tact is the positioning of the books of the NT in comparison to |
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BrklynLiberal (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Dec-15-04 01:26 AM Response to Original message |
10. Like many wonderful ideas, Jesus' philosophy of love was hijacked by |
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TahitiNut (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Dec-15-04 01:38 AM Response to Original message |
14. I think of them as "Old Testament Christians" |
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DieboldMustDie (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Dec-15-04 01:39 AM Response to Original message |
15. "Religion is to God what the clock is to time." |
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Tom Yossarian Joad (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Dec-15-04 01:46 AM Response to Reply #15 |
19. Ouch! How wonderfully Zen! |
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Lexingtonian (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Dec-15-04 01:44 AM Response to Original message |
18. It's a country of Settler Christianity |
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Tom Yossarian Joad (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Dec-15-04 01:56 AM Response to Reply #18 |
24. Thank you. You are quoting my hero in these matters. |
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alittlelark (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Dec-15-04 01:55 AM Response to Original message |
23. Because 70 or so % do not believe in Jesus (or his teachings) |
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Tom Yossarian Joad (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Dec-15-04 02:00 AM Response to Reply #23 |
25. Or.... We have an MTV generation of Xtians? |
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alittlelark (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Dec-15-04 02:04 AM Response to Reply #25 |
26. Hey, those preacher guys are on TV - they must be cool! |
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leftofthedial (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Dec-15-04 02:04 AM Response to Original message |
27. it's a cyclical inevitability for religions |
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UdoKier (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Dec-15-04 02:21 AM Response to Original message |
28. For the same reason so many see Islam as a religion of hate. |
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VOX (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Dec-15-04 02:58 AM Response to Original message |
30. Because a message of love, forgiveness and renewal has been twisted... |
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MsConduct (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Dec-15-04 03:33 AM Response to Original message |
31. Of course, TRUE Christianity is not a religion of hate.... |
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ThoughtCriminal (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Dec-15-04 04:04 AM Response to Original message |
32. My visit to the In-Law's fundamentalist church |
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Bridget Burke (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Dec-15-04 06:14 AM Response to Original message |
33. Christianity has been hijacked.... |
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KayLaw (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Dec-15-04 06:30 AM Response to Original message |
34. Hitler and the Nazi's did the same |
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quaker bill (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Dec-15-04 07:31 AM Response to Original message |
35. Because you have a prejudicial and uninformed view? |
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bloom (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Dec-15-04 07:50 AM Response to Original message |
36. "When did Christians decide that it was time to take over the world... " |
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gingergreen (125 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Dec-15-04 08:13 AM Response to Reply #36 |
39. agree |
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seabeyond (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Dec-15-04 08:09 AM Response to Original message |
38. i saw the frenzy being whipped up with passion last spring |
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RUDUing2 (968 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Dec-15-04 08:54 AM Response to Original message |
40. Are you really meaning ALL Christians...or were you simply too lazy to |
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indepat (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Dec-15-04 08:54 AM Response to Original message |
41. Because Jerry et al have turned Christianity into a religion of hate |
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Moderator (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Dec-15-04 08:59 AM Response to Original message |
42. Locking |
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