dilloduck
Diamond Member
MissileMan said:Thats not much of a parallel.
It's a perfect parallel-----I am forced to hear what I don't like. Isn't that your gripe?
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MissileMan said:Thats not much of a parallel.
MissileMan said:If you want to stand on a street corner and quote scripture at the top of your lungs, you are free to do so. I'm not arguing that. This is ok, because I have an option to cross the street so I don't have to hear it. When you start doing it in places where people work, or are trying to get an education, they might not have an option to "cross the street". What you are really hoping is that eventually, the federal government will step in to make us all a captive audience.
Shattered said:So... It's not mandatory.... But you *could* vote to get rid of the music..
You aren't forced to listen to that music...there's no way that they play it through the entire city council meeting. You are free to leave while the music is playing and come back when it stops.dilloduck said:It's a perfect parallel-----I am forced to hear what I don't like. Isn't that your gripe?
dilloduck said:already been voted on---it's there whether I like it or not---this argument that if you don't wanna hear something you should leave is bogus.
Shattered said:If someone comes in to work spouting their religious crap, I don't have the option of leaving. I'm forced to face them, smile, and engage in their conversation. To me, that's exceptionally unfair. If I offend them by telling them I'm simply not interested, we risk losing a customer, which is bad for business...
Shattered said:I think the whole problem is this world is filled with nothing but self-centered people, and nobody gives a rip about how anyone else might feel anymore.. It's all "ME ME ME ME!"
dilloduck said:And you don't think Christians sit and listen to a bunch of crap that THEY don't wanna hear????
Shattered said:So it's simply a battle of the wills? "I'm going to do it because people do it to me"?
Shattered said:So it's simply a battle of the wills? "I'm going to do it because people do it to me"?
dilloduck said:No it's a matter of living in a society where people have different opinions about things. It's called tolerance---we don't live alone here ya know !
rtwngAvngr said:Look, ho. It's a matter of free speech. Your anti christian bias is a personal problem. There is no legal precedent for silencing others because you happen to not like what they say.
Shattered said:I dunno why I even stuck my head back in this discussion.. I made it perfectly clear that I have no problems with how Christians (or anyone else for that matter) choose to celebrate their faith. I only ask that they have the common courtesy to leave their grubby little mitts off my car, and their preachings out of my workplace. I don't think they'd like it if I came to their place of employment and started reciting Marilyn Manson's Antichrist Superstar lyrics.
If they come to my house, I don't have to answer the door. If they call out to me on the street, I can keep walking... (Touch me again, tho, and you're going to get decked).
dilloduck said:I could go on and on about the things that Christians tolerate everyday that are profane, immoral, rude, etc. to a Christian. The gate swings both ways---I tell Christians and Non-christians to leave me alone all the time if I'm not "trapped" into having to be polite and tolerate. You can't tell me you love to have people coming by you house selling shit all the time .
Shattered said:No, I don't love it.. In fact, I rarely answer the door.. Home is one of the places it doesn't bother me, *because* I have an out.. At work, it bothers me. People messing with my car bothers me.. Like I said, I don't go tearing religious stickers off of your car, don't put things *on* my car. Respect my personal property...
rtwngAvngr said:That's crap. You're paranoid. You're free to talk about how morality can be construed from logic alone. Christians are free to talk about jesus. It's a free country. Or it used to be. You're just paranoid.