ProgRocker53 wrote:That said, you also have to understand where at least a few of these "Bible thumpers" are coming from too.
I understand EXACTLY where they are coming from, which is why I detest them! They believe that EVERYONE should believe what they believe and pray to their god! I don't believe in that any more than I believe every country should live the way we live in the United States! Honestly, religion isn't the issue for me and never has been. It's religious fanaticism that disturbs me and always will. I grew up in a city where 95% of people were devout Catholics but NEVER once had anyone attempt to force religion down my throat.
ProgRocker53 wrote:These kind of people have a lot of love for their fellow man, even and especially strangers and their own enemies, because they want everyone to come to know the happiness and security they have.
You've made my point. They believe that unless people pray to the same god that they must not have "a lot of love for their fellow man" and simply must not have the "security" that they have (whatever the hell that means)! To intimate that people who go to church are any more charitable or exhibit more "love for their fellow man" is RIDICULOUS!
ProgRocker53 wrote: They may pester you and bother you, but that's not their intention and they don't see it as such.
Just because they don't "see it as such" doesn't make their harrassing behavior any more palatable or acceptable! Most of these people hide behind the bible and have this holier than thou' attitude. For example, I've now received two ridiculous PM's from Mr Jesus himself, stimpy, asking me if I was "homosexual"! That's typical of these god-loving, Jesus freaks! They get up on their soap box and cry out that nobody should ever say anything derogatory about their religion, but would probably lynch some gay guy. For the record, fuckhead (stimpy), I happen to be heterosexual and happily married...thank for asking, you fucking amoeba! As I've said before, you'll NEVER find more religious people anywhere than you'll find in ANY state prison! They may be murderers, rapists, and pedophiles, but they're "Good Christians", so it's all okay
John from Boston