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In reply to the discussion: Is it a sin to have more than $400,000 in stocks, money, and not give at least half of it to your [View all]bvf
(6,604 posts)148. Modern christians simply throw away
Last edited Sun Dec 28, 2014, 02:47 AM - Edit history (1)
all the inconvenient shit.
Don't like the idea of eternal damnation? Fuck it. It's gone.
Don't like the idea of wealth as a bar to basking in the beatific vision forever and ever? Look to "biblical scholarship" as a way to justify croaking with a ten-figure bank balance.
Don't like the idea of eating human flesh? Call transubstantiation a rhetorical device of some kind (the Vatican disagrees).
About the only thing they can't throw away is belief in an imaginary friend who presides over all the horseshit. That seems to be changing, but it's a slow process. Casting off delusions forged since childhood isn't easy.
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Is it a sin to have more than $400,000 in stocks, money, and not give at least half of it to your [View all]
randys1
Dec 2014
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Not me, I dont claim to be a christian in one breath and then do or say something terribly
randys1
Dec 2014
#137
Ever? I was in catholic school for 11 years, became a born again christian watching
randys1
Dec 2014
#141
Could have sworn I see you comment on everything religion, arent you a devout christian?
randys1
Dec 2014
#23
Many of us here were raised in various Christain faiths and because we were we can and do
jwirr
Dec 2014
#112
I am not a christian, and why doesnt his direction to give your money away apply to you or
randys1
Dec 2014
#20
But you can, can't you? Jesus gives many examples of actions that will get you into heaven, no?
eomer
Jan 2015
#168
I'm not a christian either, so why should Jesus's directions apply more to me than you?
cbayer
Dec 2014
#22
Like I said, I apologize, you spend so much time defending religion I thought you were religious
randys1
Dec 2014
#36
She is religious. She is an agnostic theist. And a staunch defender of all
Warren Stupidity
Dec 2014
#52
Oh, wait, you totally edited your post (repeatedly) while I was responding to you.
cbayer
Dec 2014
#32
So you arent a christian or muslim or jewish, I apologize it is just that I see you posting
randys1
Dec 2014
#34
No, the apology had nothing to do with disrespect for religion, but you still wont say that you are
randys1
Dec 2014
#42
I will answer any question you want about my personal position regarding religion, so
cbayer
Dec 2014
#45
I started the thread having nothing to do with you, your answer here is an interesting
randys1
Dec 2014
#50
We already work together if we vote for the Democrat no matter who it is given the alternative is
randys1
Dec 2014
#61
The fact that you apologized is now being used to beat you over the head.
Warren Stupidity
Dec 2014
#47
But I am still confused, how can she be a non believer yet so prolific and so argumentative?
randys1
Dec 2014
#56
Good point, and given the fact that american christianity, yes mostly rightwingers, causes so
randys1
Dec 2014
#60
To imply that I hate religion is to assign some nonintellectual basis to my concerns;
randys1
Dec 2014
#63
I would say many who have a few bucks gives to charity, it is a tax write off if nothing else.
Thinkingabout
Dec 2014
#37
Not the point, the question is at what point do you do what Jesus said to do, surely there is
randys1
Dec 2014
#41
Tithing is not a "demand". People are encouraged to tithe, but there is not requirement.
cbayer
Dec 2014
#77
Your comment makes it seem like believers don't really do anything for the poor.
hrmjustin
Dec 2014
#86
I did't ask if you accepted divinity or not. I know that you don't. I don't either.
cbayer
Dec 2014
#102
I don't think Jesus gave away all his money. Was he ever mentioned in any of the 'stories'
Sunlei
Dec 2014
#85
Personally, I find the filthy christian bastards who "give to the poor" disgusting.
LTX
Dec 2014
#129
If you do the math on a personal retirement, $400,000 will not provide a large distribution on a
Thinkingabout
Dec 2014
#130
The figure isnt relevant to my point that a real, true christian would give most of their money
randys1
Dec 2014
#138
No, it is not sin in any religon I've heard of, ceartainly not Christainity.
Agnosticsherbet
Dec 2014
#151