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[keiliss]

taken from tuxedo_elf

Too many so-called Christians forget that the Bible warns 'Judge not lest you, yourself be judged" and that Jesus practiced tolerance and compassion.

True Story: A religion teacher assigned her class an essay on what makes a good Christian. One student wrote about praying nightly, say no to abortion, banning gay marriage, and donating money. The other student wrote about talking to God and allowing people to enjoy their lives, and supporting gay marriage. The day the teacher was to hand the papers back, she called up the second student and told him she would pray for him when he went to hell. The student asked why would he be going to hell, and why he got an F on his paper. The teacher told him that Catholicism is against gay marriage. The student looked at her for a minute, then said aloud, "I'm gay." The teacher kicked him out of class as if he had said fuck or worshiped Satan. A girl in the back of class who had a boyfriend and was obviously straight got up and left too.

If you would leave the classroom, repost this. It doesn't matter if you're straight, bi, or gay. It doesn't matter if you're Catholic or not. Everyone is a human being and deserves happiness.

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[lilyfrost.livejournal.com]

This really pisses me off. You know what else pisses me off about Christians? The way they act about church in general... Jesus went around in dirty, cheap robes and sandals, but nowadays they all dress up fancy for it. Jesus hung around with prostitutes, lepers and drug addicts - the people who really need help - modern Christians surround themselves with other Christians, like them, who have a 9-5 job, a spouse, 2.5 kids and a dog.

I was stopped by a street-corner evangelist yesterday who said, at first, she was doing a survey so I agreed to help. She asked me which condition of the world I would most like to eliminate (disease, old age, war, starvation, poverty, etc...) and I said poverty (money, while it can't buy love, can buy food, education, and medicine). And then she took out her bible, with underlined parts, and started reading out of it, telline me how God promises all of these things to be taken away, and I was like 'aw man...'. I had thought she was going to tell me about a benefit concert or a charity. I was polite, he could tell she was loosing me after a couple passages, so then she pulled out her pamphlets and was like 'No thanks. Bye.'

Old age is a condition? I thought that it was a fairly good thing.. retirement, wisdom, grandkids...

And ugh! No, we shouldn't wait for God to come and fix these things. If there is one, he isn't going to because these are things that he has given us the ability to fix for ourselves. I kind of wished I'd thought of how to word that right away, because I would have told her.