RE: Stupid things religious people say
November 7, 2022 at 7:40 am
(This post was last modified: November 7, 2022 at 7:40 am by Fake Messiah.)
Christians being Christians:
Timothy Michael Short is an ex-Christian who attended Liberty University. It is an interesting insight into a brainwashed mind of a person who suddenly realizes he has been lied to, and also someone who thinks he is doing good but is only deluded.
Timothy Michael Short is an ex-Christian who attended Liberty University. It is an interesting insight into a brainwashed mind of a person who suddenly realizes he has been lied to, and also someone who thinks he is doing good but is only deluded.
Quote:Will [from "Will & Grace"] was gay. I didn’t realize that because he wasn’t wearing leather chaps and a bouffant with a dangling earring on one ear. He didn’t have a swastika tattoo. Jack Chick’s idea of the militant gay agenda had become my go-to mental picture of all gay people…just like he would want.
I hated the show because gay people were not supposed to look like Will. Gays weren’t funny or interesting. Just a year or so before, when my grandmother tried to play the video As Good As It Gets, I recall my mom getting up and ejecting the video from our VCR. She just couldn’t stand the fact that Greg Kinnear’s sensitive artistic character was gay.
Sitting in the recreation room while all these lukewarm Christians were watching Will and Grace, I got very upset. I got up and said, “anyone who is a real believer in Christ will agree we change the channel immediately. We are Christians, and we don’t need to watch crap like this.”
I also had another “Jesus cleansing the temple” moment a week later when I chased guys out of my dorm for watching Blow starring Johnny Depp and Penelope Cruz. Two F bombs might be okay but three in the first five minutes meant it was time to take action. Like Christ whipping the moneychangers out of the temple, I chased these Christian guys out of the room. They ordered a pizza and I grabbed a slice (or three) and then took the whole pizza out in the hall and locked the door behind all of them when they went out in the hall to deliberate about where to finish watching the film. I slid the DVD under the door and told them, “This is my TV! We will only watch things that I approve of.”
teachings of the Bible are so muddled and self-contradictory that it was possible for Christians to happily burn heretics alive for five long centuries. It was even possible for the most venerated patriarchs of the Church, like St. Augustine and St. Thomas Aquinas, to conclude that heretics should be tortured (Augustine) or killed outright (Aquinas). Martin Luther and John Calvin advocated the wholesale murder of heretics, apostates, Jews, and witches. - Sam Harris, "Letter To A Christian Nation"