The Christianity Thread

[kibbeh]

Originally Posted by Chula Vista

9. God burns two cities to death.
In Genesis 19:24, God kills everyone in Sodom and Gomorrah with fire from the sky. Then God kills Lot’s wife for looking back at her burning home.

hey we learned about this in school its really ****ed up i don't know if its the same in christianity but they taught us this in islamic class in senior year of high school to warn us about homosexuality and that if we do gay **** god will punish us the same way

[The Batlord]

Originally Posted by mordwyr

You mistake my meaning. I have no problem discussing Christianity with people, but when they say something disparaging and then ask me a question in the same breath, I wonder why I should answer. You cannot expect me to have a conversation with someone insulting what I hold dear. I have plenty of atheist friends in real life, but they never say my religion is creepy (to my face), and I never say anything to insult their beliefs, or lack thereof. It's about manners. If you want to have a discussion, then don't insult.

In short, I will acknowledge other opinions. Of course I will. Even if I don't agree. But I'm not going to continue a conversation with a guy who says, [insult] [question about my religion]. Would you engage someone who insults and then immediately asks you a question about the very thing he just insulted? Seems disingenuous to me.

Yeah, probably. I'm used to religious discussions on forums where you're encouraged to look past the language of someone's post and concentrate on what their actual point is. The logic being that stepping on eggshells about someone's opinion A.) interferes with making an argument since you're pulling your punches, B.) discussions can be too polite, and therefore boring, and C.) it helped to distinguish those capable of intelligent, reasoned debate, and those who would inevitably end up being intellectually dishonest, lazy, and vapid.

That's not to say that we were encouraged to be actually abusive (e.g. name calling, threatening, etc), but insulting the person's opinions while backing it up with a reasoned argument was perfectly acceptable. So yeah, feel free to bash my beliefs, so long as you do so while actually putting forth a counterargument with substance.

[RoxyRollah]

You have no chin.^

[The Batlord]

Originally Posted by RoxyRollah

You have no chin.^

You eat beans.

[Key]

Originally Posted by RoxyRollah

You have no chin.^

Originally Posted by The Batlord

You eat beans.

Savage.

[Zhanteimi]

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[Frownland]

Originally Posted by mordwyr

He called my faith creepy. That's not questioning it. That's attacking it.

Oh please, grow up.

[Zhanteimi]

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[Janszoon]

Originally Posted by mordwyr

He called my faith creepy. That's not questioning it. That's attacking it.

He's free to think that. And I'm free to stop talking to him.

Of course you are. Cult members often have difficulty with the idea that others don't hold their practices in as high esteem as they do.

[Frownland]

From Numbers 31

Now therefore, kill every male among the little ones, and kill every woman who has not known man intimately. But all the girls who have not known man intimately, spare for yourselves.

Deuteronomy 23

No whose testicles are crushed or whose penis is cut off shall be admitted to the assembly of the LORD

1 Timothy 2

I do not permit a woman to teach or to have authority over a man, she must be silent.