Christianity is not a Religion, So Please don't call me Religious.
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Okay, this pisses me off.
It's a religion , asshole. I don't care what your spin doctors or redefinition wizards tell you, Christianity is a motherfucking religion . You know why? You belong to a community that meets in specific places. You follow a set of beliefs shared by billions (or at least the few hundred of your parish). You pray to the same god as these people. You get tax rightoffs from the IRS for certain activities.
You're a religion. You want a "personal relationship" with your god? Start worshipping Banjo the Clown, God of Puppets. He doesn't have enough followers to qualify as a religion yet, see.
Oh, really? Well, let's consult the dictionary, shall we?
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religion [ri-lij-uhn]
noun
1. a set of beliefs concerning the cause, nature, and purpose of the universe, esp. when considered as the creation of a superhuman agency or agencies, usually involving devotional and ritual observances, and often containing a moral code governing the conduct of human affairs.
2. a specific fundamental set of beliefs and practices generally agreed upon by a number of persons or sects: the Christian religion; the Buddhist religion.
3. the body of persons adhering to a particular set of beliefs and practices: a world council of religions.
4. the life or state of a monk, nun, etc.: to enter religion.
5. the practice of religious beliefs; ritual observance of faith.
6. something one believes in and follows devotedly; a point or matter of ethics or conscience: to make a religion of fighting prejudice.
7. religions, Archaic. religious rites.
8. Archaic. strict faithfulness; devotion: a religion to one's vow.
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Near as I can tell, Christianity fits several of those. It's even mentioned explicitly in one. Go figure.
What´s then?, and why do you invoke the first amendment to demand priviledges and funds if, I insist, It´s not a religion?
I've met one of these before - as far as I can tell, they are intelligent enough to realise that blind faith, ie religion, isn't terribly clever or rational, and thus want to dissociate themselves from it but, at the same time, they don't actually want to stop having that blind faith either.
Please don't call me Religious."
What should we call you instead, stupid?
"Christianity is not a Religion, So Please don't call me Religious."
Surely you're joking?
Yeah, yeah, I know, you're not joking -- and don't call you Shirley, either.
~David D.G.
Is there a Fundy Bible Rewriting Project?
James 1:26-27: If any man among you seem to be religious, and bridleth not his tongue, but deceiveth his own heart, this man's religion [is] vain. Pure religion and undefiled before God and the Father is this, To visit the fatherless and widows in their affliction, [and] to keep himself unspotted from the world.
how convenient, they call things that arent a religion a religion, and things that are a religion not a religion, Lying for Jesus award please.
"Christianity is not a Religion, So Please don't call me Religious."
'Surely you can't be serious?!'
'I am serious. And don't call me Shirley.'
-"Airplane"
'"Religion"? What is it?'
'It's an organisation with tax-exempt status , but that's not important right now.'
X3 (Why is that film so damn quotable?! )
Confused?
So were we! You can find all of this, and more, on Fundies Say the Darndest Things!
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