Originally posted by willofthewisp
Well, I do owe you an apology. Based on the posts written by you that I have read, I assumed you were an atheist. That was wrong, and I'm sorry for that. If you stated what your beliefs are very early on in the thread, I'm afraid I missed them. Excuse me.I like that you held onto my comment about being satisfied. Since I mentioned it in a completely different forum on this website, I don't think a lot of people here really get it, and I take no offense to it. Glad you remember me for something so positive.
I never said I am physically persecuted for being a Christian. What I said is that Christians are demeaned and ridiculed much more than atheists are, and what's more, the rest of the world welcomes it. Any other religion has the protection of political correctness. Schools and workplaces take great measures to make sure Muslim, Jewish, Buddhist and other non-Christian individuals are not offended by anything, but no such measures are made for Christian individuals. If that's not how it is in places other than the United States, clue me in, because while I've never lived in a foreign country I have traveled to many of them and have found that Christians are even more dismissed in the rest of the world.
I think you're being a little too sensitive to actually wish me dead...I find your rants that these giant, powerful Christians just pick on everyone else a little hard to swallow. I grew up in a secular school system, so I know many people with all kinds of belief systems and nobody ever picked on anyone. I have Jewish, Muslim, Hindu, and atheist friends and I'm pretty sure none of them would ever say that I or any other Christian they know can't stand them just because of what they believe. It's how a person represents themselves that makes me like or dislike them and I think you're doing a pretty poor job of representing yourself and whatever your belief system is by wishing me to fall on my proverbial sword.
Someone defended my dumb comment and explained it....so you're the only one that's called it dumb so far. But once again, that's just you deciding to resort to name calling and death wishes. 🙄
Originally posted by willofthewisp
What?Between when I posted it and now, Devil King is the only one that really argued with me on the divinity issue, so that's not wrong.
You really consider anything that's said on a forum a blow to someone else? Devil King has his opinions and I have mine. There is no right and wrong here unless people resort to attacking the person rather than the post. Devil King seems to like resorting to keep referring to something I said in the general discussion post and wishing me to fall on a sword and die. That's wrong.
You don't owe me an apology, you owe the world the courtesy of not living in your two-sided, blak and white glass house. Of course you assumed I was an atheist, because, as I said, I don't buy into the divinity of Jesus, so I'm not a Christian, which means I must be an atheist. Creation vs Evolution, black and white, Christian vs atheist(et al).
Oh, I did hold on to the satisfied comment, because it serves as one of the 4 dumb things that I've read and constitute the foolishness of your perspective. 1 you're boyfriend satisfies you, which was out of context and irrelevant to the topic, even if had been accusing you of being a lesbian. Which I was not. 2 To discuss Jesus, you have to at least accept the premise of his divinity. 3 Christians are the only religious group in this country that are persecuted.
I never argued Jesus' divinity in this thread, as it is not a topic.
I don't recall saying you were physically beaten for being a christian. I mean, come on, it's not like you're a ***! Right? I said the idea that you (read: christians) are so put upon by having the beliefs you do, is utter garbage! The only group that persecutes christians in this country, that I can see, are other christian sects. No one is saying that you can't practice your religion, only that you keep it to yourself. You guys, however think the operative word there is "religion", while it's really "yourself". This is why people get vocal about it! It's because you want to bash your personal beliefs over someone elses head to make you feel more secure about your beliefs. Most likely because deep down, you know it's a choice, not some whispered voice you heard on a spring day as you were walking through a feild or looking at a new born baby. And if everyone doesn't instantly agree with your beliefs, you tell them they're persecuting you. People call Obama a muslim because what? He's from the middle east? Or is that an insult? Hillarly is called a rabid socialist because what? Socialists are equated with atheists, and atheists are scum and killl babies, like Stalin and Hitler? Or is that an insult? I've never heard anyone go "HEY, so-and-so is an upstanding christian! I bet he eats babies and raises your taxes!" Doesn't happen. I've heard people call others "f@ggot!" and read stories of them being killed for it. I've heard "Hey niggar! Let's string 'em up". Never heard "Hey, I bet that guy's a christian! Let's castrate him and hang him by his toes! Doesn't happen.
I also find it amazing that in one post you know what a proverbial sword is, yet in another want to tell me I hope you die. Ugh-ugh-um; in my best Gav voice *um...persecution complex, much?...* I encourage you to do it because I know a law making your christianity illegal will NEVER happen in this nation that so belittles and demeans you.
Why join the military of a nation that so looks down on you? Please. Martyr complex?