parakeet wrote:
From a Pennsylvanian perspective in the U.S., American Christians don't look Christian at all but some weird ............ fill in the rest. I'm a first-generation American born to immigrant parents. This gives me a perspective I wouldn't otherwise have. In comparison to other cultures, Americans have some customs and beliefs that are very strange indeed. I attribute this to our relative isolation, geographically. We're very insulated against other ideas, cultures, and beliefs. That's why 9/11/01 was such a wakeup call for Americans. We really had no idea that so much of the world hated us that much.
Footnote: Angry Muslims are a lot scarier than angry Christians.
I don't attribute it so much to America's isolation as the 'keep the wagon's in a circle' mentality of your fore-fathers related though they are. As for Angry Muslims being scarier than Angry Christians, I think that very much depends on where you and your family are standing when the 1,000lb bombs drop or Mulah's call for Jihad.
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Hi scully, it's good to see you. x
great video link, thanks.
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elsewhere wrote:
Think about it for a second:
If it were true that there is a god who will burn you in hell for all eternity, then it would be INSANE for someone to NOT go around giving all sorts of stern warnings and mocking everyone who did not believe it!
Imagine if you knew a bunch of people who thought it would be perfectly safe to walk in front of a speeding train. You'd say they were NUTS too! These religious people, from their perspective, are just doing the same thing
I'm amazed there are not MORE religious people going around executing people who talk against the church. When you get down to it, if the church was right about hell and eternal damnation, it would be illegal to talk against the church.
Fortunately cooler heads have prevailed... for the most part.
I understand the point you're making. It's one the WBTS uses to blackmail people into doing their distasteful bidding. But why would it be insane? What would be wrong with just getting on with your life and accepting one's fate at the hands of such an unstoppable psychopathic God? Why would any sentient being feel morally obligated to spend this life runing about like some headless chook shouting the house down and abusing people over problems ahead in another place and time? It just sounds like very fuzzy reasoning to me. I think there's a big difference between warning someone of a real and present danger and one based on fairy tales. Call me callous but I'm well and truely over any percieved need to save the world or anyone in it. I know self esteem is important but the vanity of men never ceases to amaze me.
unclebruce
