This place is filled with people who do not take God's word literally, and find all ways of excusing this. I choose not to hang around people who cannot see the error in Women Preachers, listening to the Beatles, thinking spanking your children is child abuse, whether evoution is true or not... the list is LONG. And I am very greived in spirit by the lack of zeal in God's supposed followers. Why arnt we taking God's word as literal, a handbook because God loves us so very much, and if we just do it HIS way, we wont have some of the troubles we do. I have met very zealous people on here who believe the Bible and use it for their sole authority, but there are others who clearly ignore its teachings, and I cannot hang around and agree with this. If you want to talk to me out side of here feel free to PM me. Im sorry to leave on such terms, but I am evidently upset about this. May God grant you peace and a give you a hope in Him.
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Oh yes... everyone! lets take the bible literally, I'm serious! lets do what these fundies want! .. the moment they sin .. we can stone them! .. if they really want to take the bible literal .. they wouldnt have a problem coming out and saying "stone me to death, for I have sinned!"
I have yet to see a fundie who actually does follow the bible literally. They certainly don't adhere to the laws of Leviticus.
As much as it breaks my heart to say this, it looks like the people who are closest to actually following the letter of biblical law are the members of the Westboro Baptist Church, and those people are fucking scary.
If a god existed, and it wanted me to have hope in its existence, it would've happened.
Your book cannot be taken literally by anyone with a base knowledge in science because it contains things that defy logic and common sense and what we do know of the world. Your being angry is just one of the telltale signs of being chin deep in that crap. You are angry that not everyone is as deluded as you are, or you are seeing the cracks in the veneer of your religion. Your anger is based on the fear that you have been wasting your time on a belief that you cannot align with reality. If your relationship with your god was so great, why does it make you feel so bad?
"Whether evolution is true or not" is an error, now?
Um, so basically you're saying everyone's wrong. Or everyone's right and evolution is both true and not true. In which case you're supporting quantum mechanics. Which effectively nullifies the need for a creator.
GEORGE HARRISON IS JESUS!
Nah, George Harrison is probably about 25% Jesus.
See, the Beatles were bigger than Jesus, as John Lennon said.
Now, I'm going to err on the side of caution, and say that they weren't much bigger than Jesus. Say, about 110% of Jesus.
However, George and Ringo weren't as big as John and Paul. So, I'll say John and Paul each get about 30% Jesus, and George and Ringo each get about 25%, adding up to the Beatles being 110% Jesus -- bigger, but not much.
QED.
Oh, Jeeezuss! John Lennon said that they were bigger than Jesus about 40 years ago.
Let it go already.
I suppose I should be thankful that you don't regularly hold CD burnings for them anymore. I'd hate for Michael Jackson to get any more of that sweet, sweet Beatles money, especially since no one would be listening to the CDs if they're just going to burn.
Besides, little brain lady on Christ, the Bible was inspired by God, but interpreted and explained by men. They, like humans they are, commit mistakes. That´s why we don´t take it literarilly.
And, LittleladyinChrist, being a woman, should be giving men advice, as the Bible says.
Alicia here is just far too sensitive for her own good, I fear. I suspect this post is from the thread on female pastors. BOY oh boy did she get worked up into a lather over that one.
Maybe she'd be more comfortable on a forum with fewer opposing views.... like, for example, T4C.
"This place is filled with people who do not take God's word literally, and find all ways of excusing this. I choose not to hang around people who cannot see the error in Women Preachers,"
So instead of a man reading from the Bible, you have a woman reading from the Bible. I still can't see what's so bad about that.
"listening to the Beatles"
If you're still hung up about that "we're bigger than Jesus" thing they said, you need to mellow out.
All you need is love.
And I think it's an interesting coincidence that the submitter was named "Ringo."
"thinking spanking your children is child abuse"
I've read excerpts from James Dobson's works covering the subject. What I'm opposed to is not that you're spanking a child, it's for what reason.
"whether evoution is true or not..."
Evidence points that way.
"the list is LONG. And I am very greived in spirit by the lack of zeal in God's supposed followers."
"Why arnt we taking God's word as literal, a handbook because God loves us so very much, and if we just do it HIS way, we wont have some of the troubles we do."
No, instead we'll have different problems.
"I have met very zealous people on here who believe the Bible and use it for their sole authority, but there are others who clearly ignore its teachings, and I cannot hang around and agree with this."
and finish with the ever classic "Un-Biblical = Bad".
Nobody took God's Word literally before Bibles were to be found in every home. Only a few monks and nuns knew the Bible well enough to take it literally before that.
Listening to the Beatles? Which decade did you just arrive from?
Nobody sane is wondering whether evolution is true or not, any more than they wonder whether gravity is true or not.
Have you sold everything you own and given the money to the poor yet? Why not?
Why are you, a woman, not keeping quiet in public, as the Bible tells you to? Why are YOU not taking God's Word literally?
Confused?
So were we! You can find all of this, and more, on Fundies Say the Darndest Things!
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