RN: Wow, you have to love "tit for tat" politics! This is awesome, and would be even better if Arizona follows through and throws the switch. Maybe the LA city council should learn to either negotiate or just mind their own business. (Sorry Rebecca, I hope your lights dont go off!) Link to Fox News Story
RB: I'd be perfectly happy if the lights went out. People should stand for what is right whether your lights go out or not!
CV: I saw that on the news and laughed my ass off.
CW: Hahahahahhahahhahhaha....
Every single one of these people is an evangelical Christian I knew from high school. The last one there is the one I defriended from the crazy "we'll all have to get RFID implants" rumor from the beginning of the quarter. I am quite close to getting rid of the rest of them all from my FB account.
I would like to know when Christianity became all about hate and smug self-righteousness. I would like to know when Jesus said it was okay for people to be acting like this. I have been looking in the Bible--I've read the New Testament at least four times--and I really don't remember seeing anything about that in there. Quite the opposite, in fact. I know a lot of Christians who aren't like this, people who don't stand in such obvious judgment of everyone else, and those are, at this point, the only ones left who give me any hope for the religion whatsoever.
The ones like the above are the worst sort of witnesses possible. I have my own philosophical issues with Christianity (let's just say Kierkegaard's arguments fail hugely for me), but it's people like the above that make me see the religion as not merely not for me, but poisonous in general. I only hold back from writing off the whole thing in my head because of people that I know who really live the words of Christ.
These people? Totally aren't. Is there anything in Jesus' actual words that justifies this behavior? Really?
(Am I holding Christians to a higher standard than myself? Maybe I am. I'm just holding them to the standards they are, from their own religious texts, supposed to be upholding. Is that wrong?)
Dawn-no, it is not ok for Christians to be acting like that. And no, there is no justifying this behavior. In a sense, we should be held to a higher standard because we should know better. Unfortunately-we are human too. I think people forget that sometimes. I make mistakes, I judge people, I gossip, but in the end, I still know that my mistakes are forgiven. The standards Christians are supposed to uphold are hard! Imperfect people trying to be perfect won't happen all the time. I am glad you know true Christians who do live out their faith. Just know that the Christians who aren't doing the greatest job witnessing do not stand for the rest of us who do try.
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