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RabbitFromtheWoods - how about a convent of nuns keeping the town awake
all night by hammering boards on there windows to keep Satan out, is that equally as scary? Yep, we are in agreement...the bible is responsible for producing some scary people.
posted by
gomedome
on November 5, 2005 at 10:41 PM
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>:-} yah, the fan club members are bad enough, but the ones who just
came out of the sanitariums are the epitomy of scary. I read some others comments about the islamic fundamentalists - agreed they certainly are very very 'scary' . I must say, though, unless you've ever had the 'privelidge' of being around some good old fashiond King James Bible Independent Militant Fundamental Baptists, you just haven't experienced scary!
posted by
wiserabbit
on November 5, 2005 at 10:16 PM
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D'accordo
Sometimes I wish there were more people like you. I may be religious (I prefer the term "spiritual"), but I am totally antitheocratic. I quit voting Republican when the religious right took over.
Those Bible thumpers who worry about the theocratic Islamic Republic of Iran have, in my view, learned nothing. It would prolly be okay if it was the "Christian Republic of Iran".
posted by
TXSwimmer
on November 5, 2005 at 8:47 AM
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TXSwimmer --there is no doubt that radical Islam is a much scarier reality
than radical proponents of Christianity. Currently in our history this is true by a longshot but it hasn't always been so, nor is it guaranteed to remain this way. Where it is not very likely that small groups of our extremist fundie friends will begin using the same desperate tactics as the Islamic extremists, there is the very real possibility of our bible thumpers dragging us deeper into conflict with their Koran thumpers. As North American citizens, we only have the ability to influence our own. We are capable of doing what most in the Moslem world cannot, in that we can make our voices heard against those who we feel are too extreme.
posted by
gomedome
on November 5, 2005 at 8:27 AM
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RabbitFromtheWoods --- nothing more annoying than a festering nest of
newly released God Fan Club members.
posted by
gomedome
on November 5, 2005 at 8:18 AM
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Maine-iacPreacher -- it is not likely that you once were as I am now
Because....if you were, you wouldn't be who you are now...... but mostly because I have long since dismissed Christianity for what it truly is, while you are still mired in it. Read Romans from the bible? I'd rather jab knitting needles into my eyes. Consider that I have had my fill of the gibberish found in the bible and could really not care less how you think some ancient document describes me.
posted by
gomedome
on November 5, 2005 at 8:16 AM
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Which is Scarier?
I am not a fan of "Bible Thumpers". And it's true, adherents to Christianity are on the decline. The rise in adherents of fundamentalist Islam is scarier to me.
Religious zealotry has caused more harm than good over the millenia of human existence. It just didn't start with Christians.
posted by
TXSwimmer
on November 5, 2005 at 6:14 AM
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>:-{ they haven't 'gone' anywhere... unfortunately...
i think at least one of them may have gotten a job where I work... that is... after they were released from the sanitariums...
posted by
wiserabbit
on November 4, 2005 at 8:01 PM
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Bible-thumper or ???
You remind me of me when I was like you. Do you know that the Bible describes people like you and me as I once was? I'd rather be called a Bible thumper than what the Bible called me and you. Would you please read Romans 1:22.
posted by
Maine-iacPreacher
on November 4, 2005 at 7:55 PM
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JanesOpinion - now I'm curious, where have all the bible thumpers gone?
posted by
gomedome
on November 4, 2005 at 7:17 PM
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Gome, I can actually give you some answers (and/or perspective) to your question as to where all the "bible thumpers" have gone. But do you really care?
No.
posted by
JanesOpinion
on November 4, 2005 at 5:51 PM
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jollyjeff -- I know dozens of people such as you describe
if not totally dropping it as they grow older, certainly moderating their fervor.
posted by
gomedome
on November 4, 2005 at 11:41 AM
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I think a lot of young people embrace Christianity
and later reject it as they get older and have more life experience
posted by
jollyjeff
on November 4, 2005 at 11:38 AM
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