How many days of your adult life have had proselytizers knocking at your door? In all my adult life, I've had about four missionaries from the LDS church and four from Jehovah Witnesses. I've had more people show up wanting to sell me windows or solar panels.
Good call--considering you are one of my prime candidates for the title. Obviously, we see life very differently.
Too many. But what mostly concerns me is religious people trying to codify their beliefs into law, and trying to inject their magical beliefs where they do not belong in education.
Then why do you make it seem that what happened before has had the greatest impact on you and that you have never gotten over it, despite anything that may have happened in the rest of your life? By the way, most people feel that after they free themselves from childhood boundaries (whatever those boundaries may have been) feel their lives have been wonderful. Not many of us would choose to return to our childhood, not even a good childhood.
You should listen to students still in school. Most would agree there is really no need to spend time solving differential equations or balance chemical equations as these are not something they plan to use in their adult lives. Calling beliefs "magical" identifies an ignorance of religious philosophy--or any philosophy at all for that matter.
Astonishing delusion not mentioned in the forums rules as far as I can see. On the other hand if you want this to remain a mutual admiration society why put so much effort into misguided evangelism?
No. One of us thinks that the other believes she is going to be punished for bad thoughts. You missed by miles. Anyone who thinks he can read the thoughts of another over the internet has much bigger problems than if he were to believe in invisible men populating the sky.
Well kids are morons and are not equipped to make all their own decisions regarding their education and their futures. Furthermore, school is not just about learning how to differentiate an equation, but also about learning how to learn, how to think rationally, how to manage your time, and to give you the tools to pursue opportunities that may arise, virtually none of which do those idiot kids know are coming. So what you just said there is dumb and wrong, and that attitude is part of why this country is full of dumb people with poor rational skills.
Most of my faith say they vote Democrat. Sorry the Democrat vote is making your life such a misery. I recommend reading more of the Bronze Age culture. A lot of wisdom there, perhaps because they were never in the rush we are in today.
This is just plain silly. Although the Australian Commission into Institutional Child Sex Abuse exposed decades of pedophile assualts not all of them involved the same sex. Many priests/ministers/teachers etc were proven guilty of attacking both male and female members of their congregations. But hey, what do you expect from anyone raised from an early age to worship a God who tortures his own son who stangley is invariably pictured almost naked on the cross? Suffer little children to come unto me? Yeah, right.
That went right over your head. Moving on...
No it didn't. Your tired old canard is older than dirt.
Which religion is this? It is distorted to the point that it is unrecognizable.
No it doesn't. In fact, the opposite. It indicates an understanding of logic and empiricism, and the ability to differentiate between specious, magical beliefs and evidence based determinations. Your magical beliefs cloud your mind...you really, really think they are "special", and that is the sole source of your objection to the word "magical".
May I suggest you have a closer look at the core of your twisted theology?
You should have paid better attention in religion class. Sin is an action. We watch our thoughts so that they do not lead to sinful actions. Confession is actual sins, ending with the assurance they are forgiven.
