Post by Black Wing Angel on Sept 19, 2006 15:59:20 GMT -5
spovz said:
dogwoodlover said:
www.godhatesfags.com/main/index.htmlthis is a more extreme example of why i don't tell people that i'm a christian. when asked, i'll generally respond that i believe in the divinity of Christ or something along those lines, but people like that (see above) who are just plainly filled with hatred and self-righteousness give christians everywhere a bad name. i believe the only commandments that have been given to me to follow, is to love my neighbor as myself (obviously cant be done when youre calling people "fags" and saying theyre all condemned to hell) and to love God with all you've got. you can read throughout the whole Bible, and you'll find that the religious, "law-aibiding" people had no favor in the eyes of God (the pharisees and saudacees are some good examples), and the ONLY men who pleased God were men of faith. Noah was a drunk, David an adulterer, Moses a murderer; yet these men pleased God, simply because they had faith. i believe faith to be the main factor in one's walk with God, and i believe that God is a personal God, one who knows a man's heart and does not just simply dole out blessings and punishments like a big computer program. anyway, that was my rant.
Why not instead of not calling yourself christian because of the extremists, call yourself a christian and be an example?
well..probably because christians have such a bad rep. that if you tell someone "i'm a christian" it automatically paints it in their mind that you're the same, and they don't care if you're trying to be "an example", you're still "one of them" and that's all they care to know...
