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The War on Easter

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Coreece


For the most part, I think that perhaps you may be conveniently lumping us together with the Jehovah's witnesses and Mormons...

...but even then, people don't seem to take it so personally when it's a salesman - why is that?



They're all salesman. ;)
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Coreece

******Sharing our experience with others is a major tenet of our faith...

Conveniently labeling an obnoxious and intrusive practice a "major tenet of one's faith" does not make it any less obnoxious or intrusive. That's just self-enabling of bad behavior.I suppose as one matures in the faith and has time to hone their skills more tactful approaches can be implemented.

Did you know that most spam e-mail (the 80% figure comes up a lot) is propagated by hijacking the resources of the unsuspecting and dimwitted.

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> Here's a suggestion for Christians: keep your religious views to yourself. Stop proselytizing. Stop trying to encode your beliefs in state and federal law.

I agree, but why just single out Christians? All religions should be included. For instance the muslim movement to place sharia law above all other law should be squashed flat as well.

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> Here's a suggestion for Christians: keep your religious views to yourself. Stop proselytizing. Stop trying to encode your beliefs in state and federal law.

I agree, but why just single out Christians? All religions should be included. For instance the muslim movement to place sharia law above all other law should be squashed flat as well.



I do not seem to remember in my 60+ years of life... EVER being subjected to a knock on the door to my home by muslim or buddist or confucian or hindu or any other religion.. trying to get me to join up today.


As for muslims trying to bring Sharia Law to your doorstep... when did that happen to you?

On the other hand I have seen far too many instances of the American Taliban and their fervor for controlling everyones private lives and bedrooms around them to believe as they do or suffer the consequences.

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***keep your ....... views to yourself. Stop proselytizing. Stop trying to encode your beliefs in state and federal law. Stop telling folks who have different views that they will burn in Hell for eternity. Stop behaving holier-than-thou. Stop insisting that your beliefs are printed on the money we use. Stop trying to force your symbols into public buildings and spaces.

Then others will likely leave YOU alone and not think you are busybodying morons.



Sounds pretty Libertarian to me. Let's expand it to a lot of other groups, too, and I'm with you.

I can't say that I've noticed many other religions trying to get their dogma encoded as law in the USA, or having a motto in support on every coin in my pocket, or trying to get their displays on courthouse doors or outside public buildlings, or even whining that there is a war declared against them.

As soon as I see "In Allah We Trust" or "In Vishnu We Trust" on a US coin I'll agree with you 100%.
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> Here's a suggestion for Christians: keep your religious views to yourself. Stop proselytizing. Stop trying to encode your beliefs in state and federal law.

I agree, but why just single out Christians? All religions should be included. For instance the muslim movement to place sharia law above all other law should be squashed flat as well.



Read the thread title. Which non-Christian religions think there's a "War on Easter" targeted against them? Answer that and you'll answer your own question too.
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i am still waiting on you coreece to answer amazon's question about the hand, i hadn't noticed that before.

and i idolize amazon on this site. i respect most of the others as well...
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i am still waiting on you coreece to answer amazon's question about the hand, i hadn't noticed that before.



...and apparently you didn't notice my answer to her either.

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******keep your ....... views to yourself. Stop proselytizing. Stop trying to encode your beliefs in state and federal law. Stop telling folks who have different views that they will burn in Hell for eternity. Stop behaving holier-than-thou. Stop insisting that your beliefs are printed on the money we use. Stop trying to force your symbols into public buildings and spaces.

Then others will likely leave YOU alone and not think you are busybodying morons.



Sounds pretty Libertarian to me. Let's expand it to a lot of other groups, too, and I'm with you.

I can't say that I've noticed many other religions trying to get their dogma encoded as law in the USA, or having a motto in support on every coin in my pocket, or trying to get their displays on courthouse doors or outside public buildlings, or even whining that there is a war declared against them.

As soon as I see "In Allah We Trust" or "In Vishnu We Trust" on a US coin I'll agree with you 100%.

...and then he says "I said 'groups' not just 'religions'"... ...and then you pick one or two of the actions from the list above that only applies to religious groups, ignore the rest, and assert the presense of those actions means those are the ONLY groups he could possibly have been talking about and he is therefore wrong and/or misguided by your evaluation... ...then he and everyone else rolls our eyes at you...

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*********keep your ....... views to yourself. Stop proselytizing. Stop trying to encode your beliefs in state and federal law. Stop telling folks who have different views that they will burn in Hell for eternity. Stop behaving holier-than-thou. Stop insisting that your beliefs are printed on the money we use. Stop trying to force your symbols into public buildings and spaces.

Then others will likely leave YOU alone and not think you are busybodying morons.



Sounds pretty Libertarian to me. Let's expand it to a lot of other groups, too, and I'm with you.

I can't say that I've noticed many other religions trying to get their dogma encoded as law in the USA, or having a motto in support on every coin in my pocket, or trying to get their displays on courthouse doors or outside public buildlings, or even whining that there is a war declared against them.

As soon as I see "In Allah We Trust" or "In Vishnu We Trust" on a US coin I'll agree with you 100%.

...and then he says "I said 'groups' not just 'religions'"... ...and then you pick one or two of the actions from the list above that only applies to religious groups, ignore the rest, and assert the presense of those actions means those are the ONLY groups he could possibly have been talking about and he is therefore wrong and/or misguided by your evaluation... ...then he and everyone else rolls our eyes at you...

Get real.

THIS thread is about religion.

But since you wish to drift the thread...

When USPA or the PGA or the WNBA or the Ancient Order of Hibernians tries to force its dogma into law and put its logo on the currency I shall object to that too. Satisfied?
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Sharing our experience with others is a major tenet of our faith...



Religion is like a penis: If you have one, great. I don't care, I don't want to see it, I don't want to hear about it, and I sure as hell don't need you to try and shove it down my throat.

Damn, its a good thing that religion isn't like boobies.:|
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Religion is like a penis: If you have one, great. I don't care, I don't want to see it, I don't want to hear about it, and I sure as hell don't need you to try and shove it down my throat.



We all proselytize, evangelize, cajole to sway the majority opinion so that it becomes law of the land. Having something crammed down your throat is just hearing something you don't agree with. Which is a common experience in this society. I have learned a lot from the evangelistic atheists on here about spreading one's faith.

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OMG how can they do this to us... I feel so PERSECUTED.


Google did something reprehensible and anti-Christian yesterday. It was so terrible–so horrid–that we can’t idly stand by without speaking up. Just take a look at this evil, anti-Jesus crap they pulled–and on Easter Sunday no less! On holidays, Google sometimes does a special “doodle” that represents the occasion. Christians are outraged–OUTRAGED–at this year’s offensive “doodle.”

See? Right there! PROOF that Google is an awful, anti-God organization hell-bent on destroying Christianity as we know it.

…You don’t see it, do you?


http://aattp.org/google-celebrated-easter-by-persecuting-christians-with-offensive-doodle-screenshots/

Opposing viewpoint.. OMG... http://www.dmldaily.com/google-ignores-easter-again/[url]

Hugo Chavez????? really... come one guys... FACT checking is sooooooo overrated.:S:S

Psst correct answer is......... Cesar Chavez...

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champu

Did you know that most spam e-mail (the 80% figure comes up a lot) is propagated by hijacking the resources of the unsuspecting and dimwitted.



Speaking of hijacking...

I just checked my spam folder and it mainly consists of offers for my choice of 3 Russian brides (Katrina, Angelina and Svetlana), male enhancement, predatory loans, and interestingly enough, Obama care...
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grue

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Sharing our experience with others is a major tenet of our faith...



Religion is like a penis: If you have one, great. I don't care, I don't want to see it, I don't want to hear about it, and I sure as hell don't need you to try and shove it down my throat.

Then by that logic I suppose Atheism is like a vagina...

If you haven't noticed, the religious threads here are primary started by Atheists. If they could just keep their legs closed, then perhaps I wouldn't feel the need to poke around.:P
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Coreece

If you haven't noticed, the religious threads here are primary started by Atheists.



Interesting observation. I wonder how you arrived at that. To my knowledge the web site doesn't have religious affiliations connected to user profiles and even if it did a lot of folks don't fill out every check box.

So . . . where's your data?

Or is it possible there isn't any and it's just your feeling due to confirmation bias as a result of a persecution complex or something?
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quade

***Oh, gimme a break, lol...
That's like saying Cato isn't right wing!:P



Well, then you should be able to easily prove it with data.

Scroll through the latest religious posts and knock yourself out...go back as far as you want.
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...The data is here for anybody who cares. Like you said, it's easy...much easier to just scroll through yourself, then having me copy/paste every post...

If you don't believe me, I don't really care...I care to "prove" it just about as much as grue feels it necessary to prove that religion is a penis...
Your secrets are the true reflection of who you really are...

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