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28927. arkymalarky - 8/12/2007 1:57:42 AM Hey Gene!
(thought that sounded better than "Hi Gene"!--Get it?) 28928. Gene Smith - 8/12/2007 3:12:18 AM Hello there Arkymalarky.
I was a member of the Mote long, long ago. Forgot all about it til I started reading on Salon of our glory days postings in the archieves there and just happened to see the Mote name. Decided to check it out.
Salon went great until they went to paid registeration, then just about everybody left that I used to post with. Your name tells me perhaps you're from Arkansas???? I live in Arkansas. Nice to meet you Arkymalarky.....this is my second post since joining. Maybe when I get time, I'll find something really interesting on here. LoL. 28929. arkymalarky - 8/12/2007 3:23:38 AM I live in Arkansas.
Really? How neat! We're fairly slow, but steady, and we have good archives and links on the Home page, and super nice folks, if I say so myself. I hope you stick around! 28930. judithathome - 8/18/2007 2:52:32 PM Is There Such A Thing As "Christophobia?" 28931. Jenerator - 8/18/2007 6:09:37 PM I remember when Islamist and Islamism were debated to. They'r enow part of the vernacular. Personally, I think Christophobia and Chistianophobia are fine, but I'd rather use other words. 28932. judithathome - 8/18/2007 7:52:49 PM So you think atheists fear Jesus, then? 28933. Jenerator - 8/19/2007 7:32:33 PM I'm sure it's more about hatred rather than fear, right? 28934. judithathome - 8/19/2007 8:00:18 PM I don't think so...not in my case or that of others I know who are non-believers. Unlike Christians, we don't have to hate what we don't believe in...we just don't believe in it.
I know you get off on thinking we all hate Jesus but we don't. We don't even hate Christians...we just wish you'd try a little of that "patience and understanding" you keep pushing. 28935. Jenerator - 8/20/2007 4:01:38 AM Hey - everyone who doesn't agree with homosexuality is labeled a "homophobe" - maybe "patience and understanding" could work both ways... 28936. SnowOwl - 8/20/2007 7:20:48 PM How can anyone hate something they don't believe in? I'd have to believe in God to hate him.
I don't hate Christians in general. I have plenty of Christian friends. I don't hate Muslims or Jews in general either.
There's a difference in not believing a supernatural being exists, and disagreeing with a particular sexual orientation. 28937. judithathome - 8/20/2007 7:30:27 PM Besides, WE are not the ones who fear Christ...I'd say Christians fear Christ/God more than those who don't even believe in them. They fear the consequences of NOT living in fear of what an all-knowing God/Christ can do to them if they don't believe and obey the tenets of that belief. 28938. Jenerator - 8/21/2007 12:26:05 AM What is it with all of you? Do you have some sort of magic charm bracelet? Does it go off whenever I address one of you - letting you know it's time for at least one more of you to chime in and pile on?
I am seriously starting to think this is the case with you and the rest of the hens. 28939. Jenerator - 8/21/2007 12:34:59 AM I do believe that there are plenty of atheists who hate Christ - and you can interpret that to mean that they hate the Christian notion of Christ or the myth of Christ or whatever. There are a lot of them, just take an open-eyed look back into Demonizing Religion or most forums back on WX. Those people can be labeled Christophobes.
There are plenty of atheists who are ambivalent to the notion of Christ but resent if not loathe Christianity and its adherents. Christianophobe, or whatever terms fits for them. I don't care.
Blazes, plenty of people (including me) do not agree with homosexuality but do not fear or hate homosexuals. Try to understand that, please. 28940. judithathome - 8/21/2007 12:43:53 AM I am seriously starting to think this is the case with you and the rest of the hens.
What the hell is with YOU? Blazes comes her whenever she wants...the fact of the matter is, WC is acting hinky today and maybe, just maybe, she decided to check out the Mote just as YOU decided the other day to check it out. Can't someone express their opinion without you accusing then of "piling on" simply because it doesn't mesh with what YOU believe?
I don't consider us "hens" anymore than I consider you to be the arbiter of taste in everything. So knock it off with name calling.
28941. judithathome - 8/21/2007 12:45:32 AM See? I got so worked up over your pettiness that I started making hasty mistakes just as you sometimes do...should I blame you for it or claim you made me do it? Ha!! 28942. judithathome - 8/21/2007 12:49:56 AM I see you've bought that lovely little label of Christophobe hook, line and sinker and are justifying its use just like they hoped you would...just as they got all of you in the majority to whine and carp that you all were being persecuted and just like they got you to accuse all non-believers of trying to kill Christmas.
And you wonder where the idea of "sheep" and "flocks" came from....
And by "they" I mean the nutcases who think up all this garbage and pass it on to the "flocks". 28943. SnowOwl - 8/21/2007 2:25:39 AM I wonder how making a perfectly polite comment on a message board can be construed as "piling on".
You seem a bit paranoid, Jen. I'm here because I have some rare free time, and on those occasions I like to keep in touch with what's happening at The Mote. My job, husband, house and garden keep me a bit busier than your job, husband, house and kids, it seems, as you appear to have much more free time for posting than I do.
Some of the people who post at DR certainly hate at least some of the Christians they've had contact with. In some cases they have good reason to hate them.
I don't know any atheist who hates Christ. It's a bit difficult to hate something you don't believe in. It would be a bit like hating the Tooth Fairy. Most of us like or dislike people because of their actions, not because of who or what they believe in. Believe me, a lot of the Christians I know would dislike you intensely if they read the stuff you post. That would hardly make them Christianophobes. It would mean they didn't like you.
Blazes, plenty of people (including me) do not agree with homosexuality.
What on earth does this mean? That's about as silly as saying you don't agree with heterosexuality.
28944. Jenerator - 8/21/2007 2:32:45 AM Blahblahblahblahblah 28945. jexster - 8/21/2007 6:54:56 PM Boy's got my vote!!
GOP gubenatorial hopeful Bobby "Macaca" Jindal attacks protestants as heretics! 28946. judithathome - 8/23/2007 3:16:00 PM Local church refused to allow a gay man's funeral to be held and now are carping about being "persecuted" because people wrote letters critical of the church...never fails.
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