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28990. wonkers2 - 1/29/2008 3:16:36 AM I find the ones that glow in the dark comforting on dark nights. 28991. alistairconnor - 1/29/2008 4:08:06 PM ... you mean "yours" glows in the dark?
Must be handy when you get up in the middle of the night... 28992. judithathome - 1/29/2008 5:26:13 PM I find little night lights to be a big help in the dark, too...but they don't need to be shaped like Jesus. 28993. judithathome - 2/9/2008 5:15:08 PM When Regular Hate Is Not Enough 28994. wonkers2 - 2/10/2008 12:20:29 AM I wonder why they picketed Huckabee? The article didn't explain.
You might like it better,Judith, if the switch had a more realistic shape! 28995. judithathome - 2/10/2008 12:30:28 AM Ha!
I seriously think they believe no one else can reach their level of hate and that he just doesn't hate gays as much as they do. 28996. jexster - 2/23/2008 8:15:19 PM "The test of a good religion is whether you can joke about it."
G.K. Chesterton 28997. concerned - 2/25/2008 9:03:53 AM Are you trying to insult Islam? 28998. concerned - 2/25/2008 9:04:37 AM How about a switch wallplate with Muhammad standing next to his child wife Ayesha? 28999. concerned - 2/25/2008 9:05:00 AM That should leave 'em in the aisles in the Middle East. 29000. concerned - 2/25/2008 9:06:40 AM Of course, your slam about religion and humor only applies to Christians. Left Wing Moral Equivalence asserts that all religions are equally valid, except for Christianity, which is less so, and subject to contempt.
Personally, I subscribe more to the idea that those who mock Christianity but not other religions are chickenshit bullies. 29001. winstonsmith - 2/25/2008 9:57:24 AM You know, I try to spread my disdain for religion around to cover various sects, but, having been raised in a fundie Christian church, it is the one I am most familiar with.
Familiarity breeds contempt
29002. concerned - 2/25/2008 10:25:18 AM I have to acknowledge that the wallplate is humorous to me personally, and I am an agnostic, but there are larger societal repercussions of the anti-Christian sentiment that exists in the world that concern me. Christianity is full of flaws and contradictions, but it's definitely not the most retrograde, nor the most proselytizing major religion in the world. 29003. judithathome - 2/25/2008 4:28:17 PM But it IS the one that crosses MY path more...I don't have Bhuddists and Muslims coming to my door asking if I've found their god and asking me to pray with them and be saved.
Despite Jen's disbelief that this is a fact, I do have fundies doing that. 29004. winstonsmith - 2/25/2008 7:06:58 PM BTW, I am also agnostic. Atheism is too dogmatic for me.
Nobody knows if there is a god, or not.
Any given religion is just very unlikely to be true. 29005. anomie - 2/26/2008 12:18:07 AM Concerned, you're being a bit short sighted aren't you? Are you saying other religions have been more retrograde,more proselytizing? Which ones? I don't think Islam or Buddhism can claim nearly as many forced conversions as Christianity. And then there's the whole point of view problem. I'm sure you don't see the Iraq and Afghanistan wars as a Christian invasion, but then you are on the side of the Christians.
29006. concerned - 2/26/2008 6:19:36 AM Islam is universally acknowledged as being more proselytizing than Christianity. Haven't you ever heard of 'conversion by the sword'? For 1400 years, that has always been the means of Islamic expansion, a huge contrast to that of the spread of Christianity.
Virtually all nominally Christian countries have substantial Muslim minorities. The fact that the same cannot be said of Christians in most Muslim majority countries is strong proof of the stronger proselytizing tendencies of Islam.
29007. concerned - 2/26/2008 6:20:30 AM So, you see, anomie, to borrow your own words, you are the one who is being short sighted. 29008. concerned - 2/26/2008 6:22:16 AM As far as other religions being more retrograde than Christianity, Islam is the first major candidate. If you are not aware of any aspect in which Christianity is preferable to many other religions from a strictly secular perspective, you are simply ignorant about religion as a whole. 29009. concerned - 2/26/2008 6:23:27 AM Anomie apparently has drunk the hate Christianity Kool-Ade without bothering to learn anything about comparative religions. His education at this point will be no trivial thing, and not something I feel responsible for.
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