Help - my cousin wants to marry an ATHEIST! What should I do?

[Meek and Humble]

It's so hard having unsaved, False Christians in the family A while ago I told you all about my 13-year-old cousin who is tolerant of homosexuality. Well, now I've received some horrible news from his older sister.

She told me she was engaged, which I thought was wonderful. At 20, she was already way past the time she should have started bearing children. I congratulated, ask to meet the guy, and asked what church he attended.

"Oh," she says. "He doesn't belong to any church. He's an atheist."



Of course, I was furious. I tried to yell and scream some sense and reason into her, but no matter how much I warned her that this act would send her straight to hell, she just didn't seem to want to listen. Not even when I started quoting the Bible! She even had her parents throw me out of the house as she pretended to cry, just because I was calling her fiancee a repugnant, evil dirtbag who deserves no place in society. Suddenly the truth is offensive?

She says she loves him and doesn't care about his beliefs and wants to spend her life with her and a whole bunch of other crap. What can I do?

[Rev. M. Rodimer]

Re: Help - my cousin wants to marry an ATHEIST! What should I do?

Brother Basher, Pat Robertson answered this very question beautifully not long ago.

"There is no fellowship between an atheist and somebody who is a believer in God. . . . You've got to go find somebody else. Really. I mean either he changes and gives his heart to the Lord, or you go down the road with somebody else. But there is no fellowship between Christ and Belial. I mean, he's going to be serving the Devil. You're going to be serving God. Just that simple. And there'll be conflicts and fighting all the time. There is no middle ground. There is no peace in that situation."

So, be sure she realizes that marrying an atheist is exactly the same as marrying the Devil himself!

[Seth Campbell]

Re: Help - my cousin wants to marry an ATHEIST! What should I do?

You may want to point this statistic out to her.

the 2001 American Religious Identification Survey found that those who were in mixed-religion families were three times more likely to be divorced than those who were of the same faith

http://chicagofamilylawyersblog.com/2010/06/interfaith-marriages-more-popular-but-often-end-in-divorce.html

The reference is from a divorce lawyer site, not a Christian one. So she can't claim it's biased. There's also scripture about being unequally yolked with an unbeliever, but if she's willing to risk her eternal soul for "true love" I doubt she'll care about what the Bible has to say.

[tacoman3725]

Re: Help - my cousin wants to marry an ATHEIST! What should I do?

It's so hard having unsaved, False Christians in the family A while ago I told you all about my 13-year-old cousin who is tolerant of homosexuality. Well, now I've received some horrible news from his older sister.

She told me she was engaged, which I thought was wonderful. At 20, she was already way past the time she should have started bearing children. I congratulated, ask to meet the guy, and asked what church he attended.

"Oh," she says. "He doesn't belong to any church. He's an atheist."



Of course, I was furious. I tried to yell and scream some sense and reason into her, but no matter how much I warned her that this act would send her straight to hell, she just didn't seem to want to listen. Not even when I started quoting the Bible! She even had her parents throw me out of the house as she pretended to cry, just because I was calling her fiancee a repugnant, evil dirtbag who deserves no place in society. Suddenly the truth is offensive?

She says she loves him and doesn't care about his beliefs and wants to spend her life with her and a whole bunch of other crap. What can I do?

wow i dont know were to start first of let me tell you that from reading 2 paragraphs i can tell you that i know exactly what kind of person you are,you are very intolerant and you don't except anyones beliefs,wow first off homosexuality is not bad at all it not really a choice or most they cant help it and it hard for them would the purposefully choose something that can cuase soo much pain to them? wow next shes only 20 what fkin age do you think shes suppose to bear children when shes 12??? you crazy fk, also why would she go straight to hell i thought your god was forgiving and that Jesus dide for you sins and all the bull shit huh? and ohh you quoted a 2000 year old outdated book your cool and that means everything you say is correct dosen't it?

'' just because I was calling her fiancee a repugnant, evil dirtbag who deserves no place in society. Suddenly the truth is offensive?''

they kicked you out just becuase of that? huh well i bet that guy as a good ethical man who deserves a place in society way more than you doo being an atheist dosnt make you evil it just means they dont believe in god it donst mean the curse him or scorn him it just mean the done think hes there.

heres what you doo leave herr alone and let here love who she wants you prick,really all that you said makes you sound like such an ass hole i wann think that you kidding but i dont think you are soo wow you need to shape up we dont live in the 5th century anymore.

[Benedict A. Davis]

Re: Help - my cousin wants to marry an ATHEIST! What should I do?

It's so hard having unsaved, False Christians in the family A while ago I told you all about my 13-year-old cousin who is tolerant of homosexuality. Well, now I've received some horrible news from his older sister.

She told me she was engaged, which I thought was wonderful. At 20, she was already way past the time she should have started bearing children. I congratulated, ask to meet the guy, and asked what church he attended.

"Oh," she says. "He doesn't belong to any church. He's an atheist."



Of course, I was furious. I tried to yell and scream some sense and reason into her, but no matter how much I warned her that this act would send her straight to hell, she just didn't seem to want to listen. Not even when I started quoting the Bible! She even had her parents throw me out of the house as she pretended to cry, just because I was calling her fiancee a repugnant, evil dirtbag who deserves no place in society. Suddenly the truth is offensive?

She says she loves him and doesn't care about his beliefs and wants to spend her life with her and a whole bunch of other crap. What can I do?

Brother HB you do as the bible instructs, you turn your back on her and walk away!

Matthew 8:21 And another of his disciples said unto him, Lord, suffer me first to go and bury my father.
Matthew 8:22 But Jesus said unto him, Follow me; and let the dead bury their dead.

Matthew 12:47 Then one said unto him, Behold, thy mother and thy brethren stand without, desiring to speak with thee.
Matthew 12:48 But he answered and said unto him that told him, Who is my mother? and who are my brethren?
Matthew 12:49 And he stretched forth his hand toward his disciples, and said, Behold my mother and my brethren!
Matthew 12:50 For whosoever shall do the will of my Father which is in heaven, the same is my brother, and sister, and mother.
and also
1st Corinthians 5:11 But now I have written unto you not to keep company, if any man that is called a brother be a fornicator, or covetous, or an idolater, or a railer, or a drunkard, or an extortioner; with such an one no not to eat.

1st Corinthians 10:20 But I say, that the things which the Gentiles sacrifice, they sacrifice to devils, and not to God: and I would not that ye should have fellowship with devils.

Walking away from your family is a hard thing to do but it is also a righteous thing to do.

[I am Jxpst]

Re: Help - my cousin wants to marry an ATHEIST! What should I do?

You may want to point this statistic out to her.

http://chicagofamilylawyersblog.com/2010/06/interfaith-marriages-more-popular-but-often-end-in-divorce.html

The reference is from a divorce lawyer site, not a Christian one. So she can't claim it's biased. There's also scripture about being unequally yolked with an unbeliever, but if she's willing to risk her eternal soul for "true love" I doubt she'll care about what the Bible has to say.

That's only because of extremists like most of the people here, who won't tolerate anything not approved by their religion.

[Pastor Ezekiel]

Re: Help - my cousin wants to marry an ATHEIST! What should I do?

That's only because of extremists like most of the people here, who won't tolerate anything not approved by their religion.

Where does the Holy Bible tell us to tolerate queers, atheists, perverts, mudslimes or witches?

[tacoman3725]

Re: Help - my cousin wants to marry an ATHEIST! What should I do?

Where does the Holy Bible tell us to tolerate queers, atheists, perverts, mudslimes or witches?

i doesn't but that but it dose say to be a good person doesn't it in your sig it says that god damns hypocrites almost everyone on this website is a hypocrite ass hole just like you, your probably a fucking redneck i know plenty of athesiits and queers who are of better worth to society than you are. bye.

[Johannes Kirkeholm]

Re: Help - my cousin wants to marry an ATHEIST! What should I do?

i doesn't but that but it dose say to be a good person doesn't it in your sig it says that god damns hypocrites almost everyone on this website is a hypocrite ass hole just like you, your probably a piffleing redneck i know plenty of athesiits and queers who are of better worth to society than you are. bye.

First of all, your spelling skills resemble those of a retarded person with downs syndrome. Other than that, atheists and gays are hated by God and their lives are worth so little that they should be taken away from them:

2 Chronicles 15:13
That whosoever would not seek the LORD God of Israel should be put to death, whether small or great, whether man or woman

Leviticus 20:13
If a man also lie with mankind, as he lieth with a woman, both of them have committed an abomination: they shall surely be put to death; their blood shall be upon them.

[Brother Temperance]

Re: Help - my cousin wants to marry an ATHEIST! What should I do?

Is it even legal for atheists to marry people? When did that happen? This country is going to the dogs. Atheists don't go to Church, so how can they get married?

wow i dont know were to start first of let me tell you that from reading 2 paragraphs i can tell you that i know exactly what kind of person you are

Friend, there's a word for that: PREJUDICE.

you are very intolerant and you don't except anyones beliefs

We are very accepting of people's beliefs, as long as they don't believe anything unacceptable, like atheism.

wow first off homosexuality is not bad at all it not really a choice or most they cant help it and it hard for them would the purposefully choose something that can cuase soo much pain to them?

Please provide Biblical evidence for that wild assertion.

you crazy fk, also why would she go straight to hell i thought your god was forgiving and that Jesus dide for you sins and all the bull shit huh?

Yes, He forgives those who repent. Not those who go on sinning.

and ohh you quoted a 2000 year old outdated book your cool and that means everything you say is correct dosen't it?

Pretty much, yes.

they kicked you out just becuase of that? huh well i bet that guy as a good ethical man who deserves a place in society

You've not been paying attention. He's not an ethical man, he's an atheist.

i doesn't but that but it dose say to be a good person doesn't it in your sig it says that god damns hypocrites almost everyone on this website is a hypocrite ass hole just like you, your probably a piffleing redneck i know plenty of athesiits and queers who are of better worth to society than you are. bye.

Where exactly do we contradict ourselves? Do you know what a hypocrite is?

[Appalled]

Re: Help - my cousin wants to marry an ATHEIST! What should I do?

You guys realize that the Bible you're quoting isn't 2,000 years old, wasn't written by the Apostles, nor ordained by an invisible spirit residing on another plane of existence, right? It was written by the administration of King James of England in 1611, after having been translated, edited and canonized by dozens of sects, apocryphal groups and splinter-cells of Christianity over the course of about thirteen centuries.

You realize that, right... that there's nothing "divine" about that book? That advocating such medieval violence and hatred would disgust the God you so adamantly claim to revere? You realize that if you were to replace the word "God" in your thoughts with the word "Allah", you'd consider yourself a jihadists, a zealot, a barbarian?

Civilized people accept that they're in a society, and that they never asked to be here (no one asked to be born). We're all in this together; we come from nothing, and we return to nothing, and in between is only suffering and hardship. Whether or not you understand what I'm saying, the goodness that Christ advocated was to lift up your neighbor if they are in distress, to give freely of yourself to those in need, to extend love to everyone because in them you can find not only God but a reflection of your very self.

What you people here are doing is vomiting up a black bile of hatred and confusion. "Satan" has beguiled you into hating everyone around you, and closing your souls off to the spirit of those you so rabidly condemn.

You and other zealots like you (jihdists or the KKK, for example) are all blind to the love that Christ offered to you through his teachings. You've wrapped your hearts in darkness, and reside entirely in a Hell of your own creation through your wanton and vehement rejection of the love of God that permeates the universe.

You should all be ashamed of yourselves, repent your wickedness, and go seek those that you have slandered, insulted, injured and defamed and redeem yourselves in their eyes, because that's the only way to redeem yourself to God.

May God have mercy on your blackened souls.

[Alphonse Alban]

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You guys realize that the Bible you're quoting isn't 2,000 years old

No it is not. Parts of it are younger, but basically whole Old testament is much older.

[Zechariah Smyth]

Re: Help - my cousin wants to marry an ATHEIST! What should I do?

*** typical nonsense from someone who hasn't read the Bible cover-to-cover ***

Hello Paul!

I missed the part where you told us your favorite Bible verse, so here are some of mine!

(Matthew 4:4) "But he answered and said, It is written, Man shall not live by bread alone, but by every word that proceedeth out of the mouth of God."

(James 2:10) "For whosoever shall keep the whole law, and yet offend in one point, he is guilty of all."

(Luke 21:17) "And ye shall be hated of all men for my name's sake."

That's all New Testament, friend, so it's <2011 years old, but not by much!

Oh, and please don't presume to call God's Mercy down on ANYONE: you don't even KNOW Him.



Yours in Christ,

Z. Smyth

[Appalled]

Re: Help - my cousin wants to marry an ATHEIST! What should I do?

Hello Paul!

I missed the part where you told us your favorite Bible verse, so here are some of mine!

(Matthew 4:4) "But he answered and said, It is written, Man shall not live by bread alone, but by every word that proceedeth out of the mouth of God."

(James 2:10) "For whosoever shall keep the whole law, and yet offend in one point, he is guilty of all."

(Luke 21:17) "And ye shall be hated of all men for my name's sake."

That's all New Testament, friend, so it's <2011 years old, but not by much!

Oh, and please don't presume to call God's Mercy down on ANYONE: you don't even KNOW Him.



Yours in Christ,

Z. Smyth

"A new commandment I give unto you, That ye love one another; as I have loved you, that ye also love one another.
By this shall all men know that ye are my disciples, if ye have love one to another." John 13:34-35

"It is of the LORD's mercies that we are not consumed, because his compassions fail not." Lamentations 3:22

"You shall not take vengeance or bear a grudge against the sons of your own people, but you shall love your neighbor as yourself: I am the Lord." Leviticus 19:18

"Owe no one anything, except to love each other, for the one who loves another has fulfilled the law. For the commandments, “You shall not commit adultery, You shall not murder, You shall not steal, You shall not covet,” and any other commandment, are summed up in this word: “You shall love your neighbor as yourself.” Love does no wrong to a neighbor; therefore love is the fulfilling of the law." Romans 13:8-10

"“Teacher, which is the great commandment in the Law?” And he said to him, “You shall love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your mind. This is the great and first commandment. And a second is like it: You shall love your neighbor as yourself. On these two commandments depend all the Law and the Prophets.”" Matthew 22:36-40

"There is neither Jew nor Greek, there is neither slave nor free, there is no male and female, for you are all one in Christ Jesus." Galatians 3:28

"Therefore, rid yourselves of all malice and all deceit, hypocrisy, envy, and slander of every kind." 1 Peter 2:1

"If anyone says, “I love God,” and hates his brother, he is a liar; for he who does not love his brother whom he has seen cannot love God whom he has not seen." 1 John 4:20

...but I suppose none of that applies to anyone but you lot.

Shameful, all of you. You know nothing of God but what fuels your own bigotry.

[Bob4God]

Re: Help - my cousin wants to marry an ATHEIST! What should I do?

First you say:

You guys realize that the Bible you're quoting isn't 2,000 years old, wasn't written by the Apostles, nor ordained by an invisible spirit residing on another plane of existence, right? It was written by the administration of King James of England in 1611, after having been translated, edited and canonized by dozens of sects, apocryphal groups and splinter-cells of Christianity over the course of about thirteen centuries.

Then you say:

May God have mercy on your blackened souls.

What could you possibly know about GOD or His nature if the Bible is merely written by uninspired humans?

Are you privy to some source of divine knowledge that the rest of us aren't?

How do you know what you claim to know about GOD is any more valid than what we know?