Comments on: One privilege Christians don’t always realize they have

By: Sophia

Sophia — Thu, 12 Jan 2012 21:58:08 +0000

I have to say that while I agree with this mostly in the way it pertains to religious beliefs in general, it’s also largely dependent on circumstance, and location.
Where I live/the environments I’m in Christians are criticized, and it’s rare someone holds back out of some sort of “respect”.

By: andy

andy — Mon, 02 Jan 2012 16:11:21 +0000

new to this i have had a run in with there hi and mighty beleafs.there are many we are few been to a church once lol.i wrote about my releguse up bringing on another thing on her about this stuff.i have been thrashed most my life by family pokes taken at me from a church becouse i stunk like piss on and on it go’s.lost the only blood i ever loved my kids so what book do i read brings them back or god or church?in hind sight alot of us are here becouse of all this b.s relegin shit bible country been at war killing eachother for 1000s of years.they dont like most of us unless you w/hold who and what we are.i wouldent beleave god would have endorsed any book that didnt us all the scrolls in it who picket what was wrote and what was left out?w/o all info know one will REALY know.a church that uses the money to help the members only for things like rebuilding a members burnt down house or repairs on the church its self cool.anymore than that they are huge corerations of ripp offs selling fauls hope and get tax right offs.when went to my 1st and last church they didnt want me there becouse i was neglected as a kid a stinky little fucker i was so what i made it through not doing to bad now they want my money.i would rather see people like us put together a church hook up a few times a year trade storys make some friends use the money to stop abusers bail people out of jams or jail or hell and give them something we never got

By: zellyblue

zellyblue — Sat, 22 Aug 2009 16:36:03 +0000

How do I love this blog? Let me count the ways.

They have no right to call themselves Christians if they have no Chirst-like attributes. I had a vision from me old bud Jesus and he asked me to tell everyone to just stop. Stop it. You have gotten it all wrong. You have used his name to kill. Stop killing!

He hates what’s been done in his name. Jesus hates religion and he wants you all to quit it right now this second! And lay off the gay people too he said, and stop torturing, killing and eating animals.

You people are making him depressed. If you were the Prince of Peace today, how would you feel?

By: Jennifer Kesler

Jennifer Kesler — Wed, 01 Jul 2009 16:40:17 +0000

True Christians – and I have known quite a few who really think and behave as Jesus advised, which is loving and wonderful – don’t support anything that hurts others. They don’t get on board with a lot of the “moral majority” political stuff, for example. And if I tell them I simply can’t discuss this stuff with them, they don’t bring it up.

Then there is a second layer – people who are mostly loving and wonderful, but they just can’t stop talking religion. They’ll honor my request not to speak of it to me for a month or a few months, then suddenly they’re telling me how the End Times are coming and Satan and God and blah blah. And it’s not like I don’t make it clear to them that the End Times crap is my LEAST favorite religious topic ever, because as a Christian I was taught to scorn it as fundamentalist claptrap, so as an atheist I certainly didn’t warm up to it any.

It feels exactly the same as someone talking about my breasts after I’ve asked them not to make comments about my body. It’s violating. It’s harassment.

In my experience, there are what I would call relaxed Christians and anxious Christians. Relaxed Christians are those who joined the faith to find a better way to live, and that’s their focus (rather than their neighbor). Anxious Christians seem to me to have something to prove, and they tend to go about it the way humans usually do when they need reassurance: trying to convince others to agree with them.

Of course, this dichotomy applies to pretty much everything. Even sex – some people have sex to make themselves happy, and others have it to impress someone else or fit some mold they think they’re expected to fit. It’s just human behavior.

By: Jacqueline Homan

Jacqueline Homan — Wed, 01 Jul 2009 12:29:11 +0000

You’re absolutely right. I can respect someone for having a different opinion or belief. But what I do not, and will not, respect is when that other opinion is used to cause harm to ALL others, including those who are not Christians. A classic case is made here:

http://www.atheistnexus.org/forum/topics/the-true-face-of-the-prolife?page=1&commentId=2182797%3AComment%3A398153&x=1#2182797Comment398153