My first serious biyfriend's parents hated me.. why was that you say? Was it the way I looked? Did they think I was a bad person? Was I not the best for their son? .... Actually I just wasn't a nice Christian girl. ... After me he dated a 34 year old.... he was ... 20... they loved her... she was a Christian. Also the creepiest woman I have ever met.

If a Christian is being a dick, he/she isn't a Christian.

http://m.huffpost.com/us/entry/2402644 The most persecuted religion in the world, wonder what it's is? Oh wow.

The sad thing is most "religious" people who are cruel and judgmental to others don't know much about their religion at all, they just use it as a vessel to justify hatred. And unfortunately those people make themselves much mor well known and vocal than those who are respectful of other people, so they give their religion a bad name.

Why just Christians? Other people discriminate, regardless of religion, race, belief, culture, national origin, etc.. The problem is humans.

For what it's worth, it isn't that [i]Christians[/i] are dicks or anything, but that people are dicks and sometimes those [i]people[/i] are trying to uphold something important to them, based on Christian ideologies. Ever hear "hate the playa, not the game"? It's sort of reversed from those, say gay, and those of faiths which traditionally frown upon such practice. So it's unfortunate discrimination exists, truly, but it's also unfortunate that people expect to be excused from perpetration because of "No True Scotsman." Erre'one's an individual, and it's hard to remember that when people choose to identify with something. [spoiler]Your apology means nothing. You've never done anything hurtful to me. You do not represent anything but yourself. If you do choose to represent something, you can't be excused from the karma that comes with it. You've gotta take responsibility and own it, yeah? So stop apologizing for the sake of other individuals because it opens you up to manipulation and abuse, which you did nothing to deserve but invite it in yourself. Don't worry so much. Those with irrational hate have nothing to do with you, if you so choose it. So choose that, or accept it and let it be it. And do you![/spoiler]

They're not Christian if they do that.

This entire thread is an atheist joke.

Nothing bad can possibly come from those who truly follow Christ's teachings. This is not sarcasm, it is the truth. Anytime members of the church have committed evil, it is because they made a choice to go against Christ. I feel it is wise to remember the beatitudes of Jesus Christ, but also the woes of the Pharisees, for they both very much have worth today: [spoiler]Hypocrisy: They taught about God but did not love God - they did not enter the kingdom of heaven themselves, nor did they let others enter. (Matt 23:13-14) Hypocrisy: They preached God but converted people to dead religion, thus making those converts twice as much sons of hell as they themselves were. (Matt 23:15) Hypocrisy: They taught that an oath sworn by the temple or altar was not binding, but that if sworn by the gold ornamentation of the temple, or by a sacrificial gift on the altar, it was binding. The gold and gifts, however, were not sacred in themselves as the temple and altar were, but derived a measure of lesser sacredness by being connected to the temple or altar. The teachers and Pharisees worshipped at the temple and offered sacrifices at the altar because they knew that the temple and altar were sacred. How then could they deny oath-binding value to what was truly sacred and accord it to objects of trivial and derived sacredness? (Mat 23:16-22) Hypocrisy: They taught the law but did not practise some of the most important parts of the law - justice, mercy, faithfulness to God. They obeyed the minutiae of the law such as titheing spices but not the real meat of the law. (Matt 23:23-24) Hypocrisy: They presented an appearance of being 'clean' (self-restrained, not involved in carnal matters), yet they were dirty inside: they seethed with hidden worldly desires, carnality. They were full of greed and self-indulgence. (Matt 23:25-26) Hypocrisy - They exhibited themselves as righteous on account of being scrupulous keepers of the law, but were in fact not righteous: their mask of righteousness hid a secret inner world of ungodly thoughts and feelings. They were full of wickedness. They were like whitewashed tombs, beautiful on the outside, but full of dead men's bones. (Matt 23:27-28) Hypocrisy: They professed a high regard for the dead prophets of old, and claimed that they would never have persecuted and murdered prophets, when in fact they were cut from the same cloth as the persecutors and murderers: they too had murderous blood in their veins. (Matt 23:29-36[/spoiler]

Nîgga please. Some Christians got no spine smh. If some gay dude walked into my obviously Christian bakery and asked me to make him a explicitly gay wedding cake I'd pop him in the face.

Where are the ninjas when you need them.

Big deal, really. Christians have suffered more at the hands of Muslims during the conquests of the Ottoman Empire and subsequently the Bolshevik yoke of the Soviet Union than a few minorities have in the Western world. As a Christian, I feel no shame nor remorse for what some people have suffered under Christendom. Until the Islamic world laments of Mehmed the Great, the Asians of Genghis Khan, the progressives of Stalin and Mao Zedong, I see no reason to feel guilt nor lament for what some of my people have done throughout history.

[quote] [i]EDIT 1: When I say "discrimination" I'm not referring to people who are upholding something they believe in, [u]but people who have been bad to others for what they do or don't believe in.[/u] [/i][/quote] You realize the people perpetrating honestly, whole heartedly [b]believe in[/b] what they're doing, right? I've never been shamed by someone who doesn't care. My loved ones have never been attacked by people who don't care. It's because we all care about things that it gets difficult. You're trying to remove yourself from the situation again and that isn't right. There's no difference between the two sorts of people you describe - just some of those people are less inclined towards action than others. How strongly they feel about different things varies. These are complicated, real people we're talking about. [url=http://www.wsj.com/articles/defiant-kentucky-clerk-to-appear-in-court-over-refusal-to-issue-same-sex-marriage-licenses-1441295805]This sort of thing has even been in the news recently, which nobody is surprised comes from the USA.[/url]

Why if you're a Christian that has been judged by another Christian? [spoiler]Happens to me all the time ;-;[/spoiler]

I actually have a friend that's gay and a Christian :p Cool guy.

You sir, are my favorite Christian now.

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