[What is Christian Forums teaching you?]
Not just CF but the religious and political sites on the net have made me understand those opposed to Christian morality and who mock Christian virtues are more militant, more intolerant, more impervious to rational argument and more numerous than I had suspected. Knew the mindset was out there--I grew up with it--but didn't realize opposing the faith consumes so many lives.
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You're right, Voegelin: I am opposed to Christian morality and I mock Christian virtues. I find both to be rather disgusting, actually. But let's not make petty generalizations for which there is no basis.
"Fundiementalist Christian morality and virtues are more militant, more intolerant, more impervious to rational argument and more numerous than I had suspected. I knew the mindset was out there, but didn't realize the faith consumes so many lives."
Not just CF but the religious and political sites on the net have made me understand those promoting Christian morality and who mock American virtues are more militant, more intolerant, more impervious to rational argument and more numerous than I had suspected. Knew the mindset was out there--I grew up with it--but didn't realize promoting the faith consumes so many lives."
I agree. I think that fundamentalist secularism is on the rise. I think it is the backlash of fundamentalist Christians gaining so much power in the political arena and being given so much deferential treatment over the last seven years. When the pendulum swings to far one way it will correct itself.
Onward, Athiest Soldiers!
Onward, Atheist Marines!
....Much better.
More militant? I don't even know *where* to begin saying what's wrong with that... suffice to say that it's people like you who make us look bad; that is, those of us who consider ourselves liberal Christians, who try to accept and follow the "love, respect, and the golden rule" teachings of Jesus without subscribing to all the religious baggage that the right-wing fundies have attached to their flavor of Christianity. Those of us who don't believe that we have to, and indeed shouldn't, push our beliefs on anyone else. And it's this kind of mentality that makes it no surprise to me that I get along far better with atheists and non-christians than with conservative Christians.
I'm a member of CF/Foru.ms and have debated with Voegelin many times.
The "intolerance" and "impervious[ness] to rational argument" of which he speaks is really just the acknowledgment that he has been regularly owned in countless debates with "faith opposers" such as myself (church and state) and many others.
If you can't stand the heat, Voeg, get out of the kitchen!
It doesn't consume my life, probably about half hour a day laughing my tits off reading this site.
That and the times when the fundies attack
Confused?
So were we! You can find all of this, and more, on Fundies Say the Darndest Things!
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