artist4perry wrote:jaxmanjoe wrote:artist4perry wrote:We don't have Christian Jihad. Most modern Christian religions are peaceful and harmless. As a matter of fact that is why we make good targets. We are not allowed to fight back. So if a cartoonist does a cartoon about Mohamed, Muslim extremist threaten the cartoonist life. But in movies, cartoons, and artwork people insult the image of God and Jesus all the time, and we don't threaten to kill someone. We just have to tolerate it.
There are as many Christian extremists in the world as extremists of any other group. Don't act like there aren't and don't feign ignorance. Just as there are extremist atheists and non-extremist atheists. There are extremists in ANY group.
And to say you don't fight back - ha! How many abortion clinics have been blown up? How many white supremacy groups are there (and don't tell me these are not hard core Christians)? How many atheists do you see accosting people in their homes pushing the word of God on them? How many atheists send soldiers, I mean missionaries, out into the world to recruit more believers?
Extreme is extreme and each of our groups has them. And don't act like you tolerate it. Your last post was just proof that you don't tolerate it. You despise it. Much like your counterparts on the opposite side of the argument. Your extremists are JUST as bad as Muslim extremists. The only difference is we have better laws here and controls here to keep our extremists in line. That's it. Otherwise, bombs would be going off everywhere and atheists would be hunted and killed here because that's what Christians have done historically...
If those people lived by the tenets of Jesus they would not attack anyone. Nuts can attack in the name of anything. There was a guy who killed in the name of his dog, because his dog told him to. Do you get rid of all dogs?
As for my not tolerating it, there is a difference between voicing an opinion, which is my right to have, and my calling people childish names and insulting their intelligence, like many have here. That is far from making me an extremist.Most people of Christian faith are peaceable. Name the droves of people in the U.S. that have marched in Crusades today to make you a Christian.
Seriously, an extremist is an extremist, and only a minority of so called Christians, but I would have to say they were not Christian at all when Jesus teaches to turn the other cheek........to live by the sword is to die by the sword. Sounds like dangerous teachings to me.![]()
I believe it is wrong to kill abortionist, I don't force religion on anyone, I just want to have my rights left in tact.
I did not say there were no nut jobs. I just was pointing out that the majority of Christians are peaceable, and don't want to hurt anyone.
I sort of got some respect for the extremist/fundamentalists or whatever you want to call them - because they're simply following their God as it is written in their holy book. This counts more for the muslims though - they don't interpret the quaran. Those crazy motherfuckers just follow it as it's written. Most Christians today just use the bible as some sort of pick'n mix. The found fathers were deists, but secularists above all else. It wasn't until the last couple of centuries that the US have become increasingly more religious. One nation under God? Added in the 20th century.
Easter and christmas are pagan holidays. Many pagan religions had Gods that appeared to die, then to be resurrected; signifying the change to spring. Christmas is based off a scandinavian pagan celebration called yule. I don't see how suppressing stem cell research, autonomy (regarding abortion) or gay rights is not hurting anyone - it clearly is.
And all this dribble you write about evolution hasn't been proven and just being a theory - I mean, come on. Seriously? Here's a question I'd like all you to answer: Do you believe in vaccines? Why do you think that you need to take new version of the same vaccine every year? Please state your reasoning.