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Got to wonder if "the right thing to do" is completely tainted when in the back of your mind you're thinking of the "safe" thing to do. Safe as in safe from hellfire and brimstone.

bcombs wrote:Got to wonder if "the right thing to do" is completely tainted when in the back of your mind you're thinking of the "safe" thing to do. Safe as in safe from hellfire and brimstone.

Well Pigsteak, what does it feel like?

mike_a_lafontaine wrote: Even the most giving Christians, don't you have to wonder if they are only playing nice because they want the reward at the end?

I always wondered the same, nor do I consider "church going folk" automatically good.

If anything it seems like "church going folk" should in fact be the ones with some moral/ethical transgressions in their past to work out. Christianity seems especially geared towards making this convenient as possible for people... you don't even have to be a good person according to scripture, you just have to confess your sins and profess Jesus to be god. How easy is that!?! It's like an insurance policy in your back pocket, just in case there do turn out to be a heaven and hell after all. Crazy that people still believe in such bizarre mythology!!

Hebrews speaks to the issue in question. About Christians who repent(change your ways) and then continue to do the same sinful deeds. According to Hebrews they never were Christian. Thats what the Bible says about it.

This is the funny thing about truth. (things that are true no matter what way you look at it) It remains true whether you ackowledge it or not.


The amazing thing about this thread is that there has been no mention of budhism, shinto, hindi and a very light glossing of islam. It seems that its culturally acceptable to bash Christians for being religious and not even mention the rest. I think the bias comes from the pedestrian nature of Christianity and the ingraspable concepts (to some) about what it takes to be a Christian.

btw, is H Jesus' middle name? or what does it stand for mr bcombs?

Clevis Hitch wrote:... Thats what the Bible says about it.

This is the funny thing about truth. (things that are true no matter what way you look at it) It remains true whether you ackowledge it or not.

Oh, ok. So, your source of "truth" is a collection of picked and chosen documents, the earliest of which are at least three generations after Christ's death, have been transcribed by illiterate scribes, translated from Hebrew to Greek to Latin back to Greek then to English?

Oh, and the "H" stands for "haploid."

Give it up Clevis. Any discussion about religion in a room full of banana chugging poop flinging guys that climb rocks and swing on ropes is kinda pointless.

I believe that H is the first initial in the middle name... something like "Jesus H Christ, <insert statement here>!!!!"

When I was young and pushed my mother to lose her religion it would go "You don't give a sh-crap about anything!!!". I was always impressed with how she could put the brakes on like that.

pigsteak wrote:btw, is H Jesus' middle name? or what does it stand for mr bcombs?

It stands for Holy, at least that's what I always thought worked best.