Keep your Religion to Yourself!Enough's Enough! I was raised a Roman Catholic until I was old enough to make my own decisions and not blindly follow someone else. How many Northerners out there like the Yankees or Giants or Jets because my dady or granddaddy did? What has irked me lately is the proliferation of offensive religious bumper stickers floating around on mommy vans lately. Those ubiquitous "I believe" stickers are fine. I believe too. Just not the bible. So what? Then there's "Got Jesus?' No, but if you, fine. I believe that's called kidnapping, though. Whatever. Your life. My problem is these self-righteous, self-important, holier-than-thou people with their "marriage=man+woman" stickers. Who are you? Who are you to say that same sex marraige is wrong because your book of 2,500 year old fables makes references to it being wrong? I am friends with quite a few gay people, just as nice and just as annoying as you and I. Who are you to say they can't have the same happiness that you claim to enjoy. You people sit in your oversized vehicles and kiddie carters and expound on your religion from a safe place, yet I wonder if confronted face to face how you'd react? I know how you'd react. I've seen a lot of you and I know you'd have no response, you'd turn and walk away. From what I remember, Jesus teaches love and compassion for your fellow man, not hate and shunning. By placing these stickers where all can see, that is the message you are promoting. Do you think an alternative lifestyle is the reason your kids are so messed up, trashing police cars and doing home invasions in JCP? Ummm, no. I think video games like Grand Theft Auto and Halo 3 that you buy your kids for the celebration of Christ's birthday is most likely the reason. So much for peace and kindness. How would you feel if I expressed my feelings on a bumper sticker? How 'bout this: "I hate lazy soccer moms and kids" Would THAT set anyone off? I think so. Why? BECAUSE IT'S OFFENSIVE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Do us all a favor, keep your snotty opinions off your cars. Post them here. That way if anyone sees them, it's because they came here looking for it. Remember this: you have the right to state your hateful views and opinions, but that doesn't make it right. Believe what you want to believe, but don't push it on me or anyone else who really doesn't care. Maybe some day you'll meet some one who pushes back, but harder. A lot harder. Religion is a choice, but it's not the law. As for all those people who will be telling me I'm going to Hell, I don't care. I don't care if I offended anyone. I also don't care about all the self-righteous responses I will get. The only defense you can make is by quoting the bible. Sorry, but without confirmation from a back up source, that is inadmissable in a court of law. Case Closed. Let me leave you with this thought, all you bible thumpers. Read 1 Corinthians 6:9-10. Actually look up the words used. You will find the meanings will apply to you ALL, I would bet. If not, join a convent and leave the rest of us alone. Submitted by Claude91098 on Tue, 11/27/2007 - 10:05pm.
jjones,
I am not religious either. I am......"spiritual", for lack of a better term. I ignore the stickers and when I can't it's usually because the "fish family" and the [--fill in the blank--] family van just cut me off in traffic and flipped me off to boot! Then I just get a laugh out of their hipocracy!
I did not get the impression that your "judging" anyone's beliefs. Your just expressing your own, personal opinion about the signs and stickers. The responses you got should have been expected. Treat them like the stickers: ignore them. Submitted by jjones474 on Wed, 11/28/2007 - 5:55pm.
Hello, bible thumper. I guessed I'd raise ire out of someone, and I did. If you'd have learned how to read in Bible study, you'd have learned it's spelled "Holy" not "holly" as in the bush. You'd also not have missed the point that I wrote I was RAISED catholic, meaning before I grew a mind of my own and saw scientific facts PROVE things, not a 2,500 year old manifesto that people blindly believe. I do not consider myself catholic, just raised in my younger years that way. You are right, the bumper stickers are not for me, they are to insult my friends. Well, you go back to your biblical world, where kids are raised "in faith". Where priests rape young boys, denounce views differing from their cult book, and women, (you) hold no power or office. That may differ in aspects between sects, but it's all the same. Let me ask you, had I been a Muslim, and said Allah and the Koran are the true word of God, are you going to sit there and tell me I'm evil and why society has been ruined because of me? No, because you'd be scared of what a crazy Muslim might do. That's another point, Put your money where your mouth is. Go to war in the Middle East. Defend your Christian God against the heathens. That's what the war is about, at least to them. But you won't. No one will around here. They are too white bread and pacifist except for their dopey bumper stickers. You believe in Jesus, huh? What if I told you I was Jesus? Would you believe me or condemn me, as you have already done? People would probably end up killing Jesus if he did return as it is written he would. Everyone expects him to look like John Fogarty from Creedence Clearwater Revival. He most likely looked like the Muslim people killing us in the Middle East because of your views.<---(scientific fact) Think about it. How do you know I'm not Jesus and testing you? Sleep tight. Submitted by jags08 on Thu, 11/29/2007 - 6:08pm.
What hatred fills your heart and thoughts. The reason most Christians put something like that on their cars is because as a Christian you are supposed to spread the Word and do what you can to expand God's Kingdom, as we are in the Church Age of time right now. God is giving everyone a chance to come to Him and he wants to give us a long as he can to do that. I will pray for you and hope that you can find peace in your heart and understand why the Bible is the Word of God and it is all 100% true. All Christians are not perfect, nor will they ever be because Christians are sinful men and women just like everyone else. The difference is that we repent of our sins and are grateful for God's grace and gift of Jesus, that He would love us/man enough to send His only son for our benefit. So that when we are judged on the final day, He will look at us and see Jesus' perfect life and not our sinful life. I have hope for you that at some point in your life you will be able to accept that you are just a man of God's creation who is born into sin, however your life will be washed clean through accepting that Jesus died on the cross for your sins and mine. Hell is a real and physical place and is the one place where you are denied of God's presence and tortured for enternity. Maybe that is what you want and you just don't care because you don't think that something like that could really happen or be true. I'm sure you think this sounds crazy. Christianity is offensive because it goes against everything the world teaches and is about at this point in history. I will pray for you that when you go before your Creator that Jesus will read your name in the Book of Life and you will be granted enternity in Heaven. Submitted by jjones474 on Fri, 11/30/2007 - 7:18am.
I'm going to hope you were drinking heavily when you wrote that, because if not, you are really a scary person! Point one. I am NOT a christian!!!!!!!!!!! Just because you believe in your little fairy tales does not make it true. I will live my life as I see fit, not according to what you or your little cult of fanatics think. If your religion makes you a better person, all the more power to you, but it's not for me. Point two, I was not born into sin, I made my own, thank you! I guess my greatest sin is responding to garbage like this. Oh, well. According to you, no ones perfect. Pray for me. Submitted by jjones474 on Fri, 11/30/2007 - 7:23am.
Nice response. You obviously put a lot more time and thought into your post than I did. When I get an idea or thought, I run with it. The gist of it all was in the title of my post, to keep your religion to yourself. As you can see from the other wacky response, I am going to hell now, and I am apparently a very evil person. Who knew? I like pushing peoples' buttons. Too many people around here and in general are afraid to speak out for fear of offending someone. Last time I checked, we still had freedom of speech. That will soon pass at this rate. Seems to me the only ones "speaking" out are the bible thumpers. Well, I just don't like their message, so had to say something. Oh oh, gotta run. My foots on fire, I feel the heat already. HA! Submitted by Claude91098 on Fri, 11/30/2007 - 11:07am.
"""The reason most Christians put something like that on their cars is because as a Christian you are supposed to spread the Word and do what you can to expand God's Kingdom."""
I guess we should count our blessings jjones! The radical Muslums use suicide bombers and beheadings to "expand God's Kingdom". What's a few bumper stickers and fish outlines on a yuppie's kidmobile compared to THAT??!! The Hell of it is: Free speech is a two way street! Submitted by jjones474 on Fri, 11/30/2007 - 3:39pm.
I LIKE pushing peoples' buttons. Someday I'll reach that plateau where I live and let live, but right now, there are too many idiots out there. Myself NOT excluded. At least I admit it. Good point about the radical Muslims. I would guess it would make for an interesting time in 'ole JCP if some rads moved in. Can't wait. Submitted by lioness on Tue, 08/05/2008 - 10:36pm.
I for one am sick of hearing the preaching at the work place . I am at work on Sunday and don't want to hear it from the other workers , 2 ladies and i would get in to arguments because i would tell them i didn't want to hear it or they would just keep on until i really got mad and told them they were misquoting the bible and would be able quote the passage word for word and prove that either they were misquoting taking it out of context or just using the parts they liked !! I finally had to get the boss to tell them if that if that is what want to hear or do take Sundays off, and go to church !! or they would be terminated, that it was a violation of my rights!! I am also sick of family and friend that once they hear that you don't agree with their point of view they want to save your soul and tell me I need to find Jesus. that I'm going to Hell ,well it looks like i will have a lot of company !! I know the Bible very well thank you ,my mother was a Sunday school teacher and I married a ministers son(which after getting away from his parents brain washing has discover that he agrees with me ,we meet 2 years after he came to his enlightenment on the subject. lioness Submitted by jjones474 on Thu, 08/07/2008 - 3:23pm.
I guess you'd have to believe in heaven to think you're going to hell! Moot point, it's time for people to start taking accountability for themselves, stop blaming "evil" and "the devil" for all the ills of the world. People are just effd up in the head! If someone hurts you in some way, it's not because he has evil in his heart, it's because he's an ass! Conversely, doers of good deeds do not have god in their hearts, it's their own personal goodness. I love to see grown people who have accomplished great things belittling themselves by "Thanking god for everything!" C'mon! If you had come in second place, would you still be thanking god? Hey, if religion makes you feel good and satisfys something that's missing in your life, great. Just don't share with me. I know I am going to get all kinds of religious kooks tell me I'm going to hell, I need to find god, I must be lonely, yadda, yadda, yadda. I believe there is "A God" that created all this stuff around us, the universe, existance, but the is NO PROOF of any saviour, jesus figure, divine prophet, nothing. Not in any written record other than each religions own bible, torah, koran, etc. We make up stories to explain things we cannot understand. Why were the ancient Romans "wrong" about their gods? Where's the proof? Now they are considered "pagan." How about the ORIGINAL Americans, the natives who were here before the white man. They worshipped TANGIBLE THINGS at least! The sun, the monn, the Earth, air, fire, water, and so on. Hey, I'll believe someone telling me god is fire as I'm getting my ass burnt before I believe there is a big ol' man looking at me up in the sky! O.K. kookies, I'm ready! Preach away! |
Who's online
There are currently 0 users and 24 guests online.
Recent comments |
AND WHO ARE "YOU" TO ATTACK SO FEROCIOUSLY OTHER PEOPLE'S BELIEVES? I STRONGLY RECOMMEND THAT YOU LOOK SOMEWHERE ELSE WHEN YOU ENCOUNTER THOSE STICKERS AND TO TAKE A HOLLY WATER SHOWER. PEOPLE LIKE YOU ARE THE ONES THAT ARE RUINING OUR SOCIETY WITH YOUR POISON AND BITTERNESS. AND IF YOU ARE A CATHOLIC THEN I AM LITTLE RED RIDING HOOD. YOU NEED TO CALM DOWN AND NOT TAKE SO PERSONAL THOSE STICKERS BECAUSE THEY ARE OBVIOUSLY NOT MADE FOR YOU. I AM NOT A RELIGIOUS PERSON EITHER BUT YOU KNOW WHAT? I DO BELIEVE IN GOD AND THE BIBLE. I DO BELIEVE AND WOMEN AND MEN MARRIAGE AND IN RAISING KIDS IN FAITH. PRISONS AND JAILS ARE FULL OF PEOPLE THAT NEVER BELIEVE IN NOTHING BUT THEMSELVES. I ENCOURAGED THOSE STICKER AND I THANK THE PEOPLE THAT REMIND US EVERY DAY THAT SOMEONE GAVE THIS LIFE TRANSLATED IN NATURE AND THIS WONDER CALLED HUMAN BEINGS... INCLUDING YOU SIR.