[Didymus Much]

Re: I have a lot of questions

I've had a compulsory education in major religious fields given by the school I attended...I know that true Christianity is about accepting everyone and being a good person...

The people teaching you about Christianity, were they True Christians™? Did they back up every claim they made about what the Bible says by directly quoting relevant sections of the Bible, in context, like the True Christians™ here do?

Have you read the Bible? The whole thing?

Then, frankly, where do you get off telling others what Christianity is about?

James 3:9 (note: the speaker in this selection is referring to the tongue, as is clear if one reads the entire chapter) "Therewith bless we God, even the Father; and therewith curse we men, which are made after the similitude of God."

The NIV translation is a bit clearer:

James 3:9 "With the tongue we praise our Lord and Father, and with it we curse men, who have been made in God's likeness."

The Bible (which is the reference for what Christianity is about) says in no uncertain terms that, even if something is made in God's image, if it falls short of God's standard, a True Christian™ can curse it (or them, as the case may be).

...How can Jesus possibly have wanted us to kill and discriminate against every other race?

What are the advantages of discriminating against black people? I have a very intelligent friend who is very ethical and 100% black, yet I see racism all over the place...

Then how do you account for Mr. Remy Lebeau's presence here, or the Rev. Jamar Dodson?

...Jesus and God represent everyone according to the bible, so if everyone who is not "pure" blooded and not belonging to your branch of Christianity was made in God's image, did God screw up?

Either God "screwed up" making those that you hate which is blasphemous to God, or you guys shouldn't discriminate.

What do you say?

I say you enjoy making logic fails as a hobby (btw. don't give up the day job, making logic fails isn't very lucrative).

If you're going to stretch "made in God's image" to mean "God loves everyone and approves of all of our actions" (disproved by quote from James 3 above), then why does the Bible say He's going to send almost all of us to Hell?

[Dr Laurence Niles]

Re: I have a lot of questions

Hi, I stumbled upon your forum today but sadly the first thing I saw was a racist post about Portuguese people. I'm half Portuguese and I don't see the problem with us.

The next thing I saw was a post saying that an online game called TF2 was homosexual, which it is not. You guys are digging too deep into meaning when there isn't anything there. It's just a comical game representing war as it is in real life.

I don't understand how the great majority of posters have been able to condemn anyone who isn't white and of the same religion. One of my best friends is half Jamaican and is Agnostic, and he's not the spawn of the devil just because his skin is coloured darker than yours.

Also what are your views on metal music and if they are what I anticipate, why so extreme?

How can you be so intolerant towards the majority of the world when Jesus would have accepted everyone?

Thanks, and please don't hate, I just want answers because it doesn't make sense to me at all.

Maybe you should stop identifying with your ethnicity?

If you were truly colour blind (like all True Christians(tm)) this would be a non issue.

Don't you see that?

YIC