Subduction Zone
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Speaking of a God that can care for himself I always wonder about apologists. So many of them simply seem to be "Liars for Jesus". When someone has to lie for his or her God I wonder why they even worship that God.
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Speaking of a God that can care for himself I always wonder about apologists. So many of them simply seem to be "Liars for Jesus". When someone has to lie for his or her God I wonder why they even worship that God.
Ellen Brown
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That, my friend, is inexcusably arrogant. This is not an involuntary enlistment here. If you think that God is not capable of handling his own business, we are not in the same Universe.
Let me lay it out for you line by line. People come here voluntarily. If you look at the Forums List, it seems they allow almost anyone and most astonishingly ME. If you continue in your present vein, it is doubtful that you will make the grade here. My advice to you is to get on your knees and apologize to God, because I think you are flirting with judgement.
Ellen Brown
Well-Known Member
Your emotional state seems very fluid. Would you care to say why you are so upset?
Here's something I have noticed about RF.
A fairly large number of Christians join, but don't stay long. It's pretty obvious to me why. They are accustomed to being a part of an overwhelmingly dominant majority, who rarely have to support their beliefs. A level intellectual playing field, where their feelings and tacit assumptions get challenged, is beyond their ability to cope.
So they just leave. That's why there is such a small percentage of Christians here, compared to the English speaking world.
Tom
lukethethird
unknown member
So what you are saying is that if God could defend himself, let's say for arguments sake from being called gay, that we would still have a need for RF?
lukethethird
unknown member
Some might get tired of defending their God, others might leave after reading post after post by atheists describing what atheist means, those threads can go on forever and ever.
God doesn't need defending.
But people who think they know God better than the rest of us have God images that need defending. That's not God, that's them. And their opinions are oftentimes nearly impossible to defend without appealing to some human authority.
There's lots more on this forum than that. Heck, that would hardly ever happen if religionists could understand the word "no". They commonly seem so convinced that everyone says Yes to some God or another that they insist that No is a form of Yes. Like "Atheism is a religion".
Tom
I am pretty sure that these forums do not have a mission of protecting deities.
Would such a mission even make sense?
Spiderman
Veteran Member
I asked you if you were done trolling because you kept saying Gays are going to hell! I don't appreciate that kind of hatred.
Ellen Brown
Well-Known Member
That is how it should be. I am unapologetic about what I believe and don't feel defensive about it at all. I feel like having people from many beliefs is great.
Ellen Brown
Well-Known Member
I've been thrown out of so many Christian Forums, I have to laugh about it now. Pretty sure that they would have thrown Jesus himself out also. I go by the KJV Bible as far as Christianity is concerned. In 45 years the study of the Quran, Zoroastrians, Jews was also there.
I have been a member of more Christian forums than I can remember.
Lots! Maybe 20, where I actually posted over 50 times.
I have never been banned from a single one. In fact, I have gotten more infractions here on RF than all of them put together 5-6 times over. I have gotten a good deal more mod action from the non-theist forums* than the Christian and Muslim forums, and all of them put together don't add up to the modding that I have gotten here on RF.
I'm just that way. I know what you can do and I know what not to do. Mostly.
Tom
* On seriously non-theist forums I go by Hevvin Machine, and I tend to get pointy about different issues.
Ellen Brown
Well-Known Member
I have been a member of more Christian forums than I can remember.
Lots! Maybe 20, where I actually posted over 50 times.
I have never been banned from a single one. In fact, I have gotten more infractions here on RF than all of them put together 5-6 times over. I have gotten a good deal more mod action from the non-theist forums* than the Christian and Muslim forums, and all of them put together don't add up to the modding that I have gotten here on RF.
I'm just that way. I know what you can do and I know what not to do. Mostly.
Tom
* On seriously non-theist forums I go by Hevvin Machine, and I tend to get pointy about different issues.
I am one of those "diversity" folk, and completely celibate. If I took the advice of some of those Forums, I'd suicide. About what I had happen to me, the Bible says that when we are contrite and repentant, our sin is forgiven. Trying very hard not to give you both barrels here.
Lots of these pseudo Christians don't believe and don't understand how I got here.
Your entry comes off as prideful and sanctimonious. Me, I'm going to go sit on the porch and have a beer.
I'm not the one calling him gay
and I'm right not wrong. I can write bible verse that says it.
Lots of posts come off that way to you, in my experience.
I have my opinions about why that is.
Beat you to it.
Tom
Subduction Zone
Veteran Member
A Bible verse does not prove that you are correct.