F*cking moron - Page 2

Brwn_eyes0511 · #16 08-31-2005, 04:58 PM

another note...

I also think that its people like this who give Christians a very bad name...

which is a shame!

GateandGarden · #17 08-31-2005, 05:04 PM

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Originally Posted by David

Don't get upset. Jelloid brains like that aren't even worth bothering about. Let them go their dark ways, unencumbered by anything so mundane as reason or knowledge.

Joni Mitchell might have been describing people like that, when she wrote "The Magdalene Laundries":

They wilt the grass they walk upon
They leech the light out of a room
They'd like to drive us down the drain

Thanks for that, David. Those are very applicable lyrics.

GateandGarden · #18 08-31-2005, 05:07 PM

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Originally Posted by amber

I can't believe someone in LA said that, especially.

Yeah, that makes it even harder to take. It's just as bad when someone says that the tsunami was God being mad at those people but you can see why people say that--they're racist and/or it hasn't happened close enough to their home for them to be able to understand. It doesn't justify it in the least but you can see how when something like that happens on the other side of the world, people are more inclined to say ignorant things because they just can't wrap their minds around it. But this is easy for us here in LA to understand. This meant devastation of some kind to our families or at the very least our friends and/or acquaintances. The fact that someone can be that close to it and know well how real it is and still say that is astonishing.

GateandGarden · #19 08-31-2005, 05:09 PM

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Originally Posted by Brwn_eyes0511

some people are just idiots...if she had family that lived there then she would be singing a different song.

I think so, too. But it's sad how some people are so heartless that the only thing that would really make them feel is if it had affected their family. It shouldn't have to take that much.

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Originally Posted by Brwn_eyes0511

another note...

I also think that its people like this who give Christians a very bad name...

which is a shame!

Yep. There are lots of good Christians on the Ledge (and everywhere) who, obviously, cannot be put in the same category as that woman by any stretch of the imagination!

Brwn_eyes0511 · #20 08-31-2005, 05:14 PM

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Originally Posted by GateandGarden

I think so, too. But it's sad how some people are so heartless that the only thing that would really make them feel is if it had affected their family. It shouldn't have to take that much.

You hit it on the head there...it shouldn't have to take that much...but I'm afraid in the world we live in now...it does!

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Yep. There are lots of good Christians on the Ledge (and everywhere) who, obviously, cannot be put in the same category as that woman by any stretch of the imagination!

I hear ya. I have met SOOO many true and wonderful Christian people in my life...who truely had been touched by the life and message of Jesus...which is to LOVE! I try very hard to live my life by those standards...wish more of these so-called "Christians" would open up their hearts a little more and their "Christian rule book" a little less.

Rickypt · #21 08-31-2005, 05:19 PM

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Originally Posted by GateandGarden

This is what she said

"God was doing house cleaning in New Orleans because you know all those people there are heathens who live the good life too much and He was just cleaning house! It's just like Sodom and Gomorrah; they got what was coming to them."

This is such a ridiculous and hateful statement, but the irony is that the people in New Orleans hurt most by the hurricane are the poor. They lived nothing close to the good life, and probably were the most church-going folk in the city.

LuckyCharms · #22 08-31-2005, 05:43 PM

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Originally Posted by Brwn_eyes0511

I hear ya. I have met SOOO many true and wonderful Christian people in my life...who truely had been touched by the life and message of Jesus...which is to LOVE! I try very hard to live my life by those standards...wish more of these so-called "Christians" would open up their hearts a little more and their "Christian rule book" a little less.

Indeed

I see many people who have no clue of what the big picture is at all. The entire point of Jesus was love, there was a reason the son of god was born into what was considered the "scum of society". Every time someone is quick to judge and point fingers at someone they find "beneath them", all they are doing is crucifying him all over again.

lbelle1214 · #23 08-31-2005, 09:57 PM

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Originally Posted by mikeschmike

Some bitch at my work was talking about that too, saying how the sinners got what was coming to them. The gem of the story is the new girl heard the bitch talking, and whipped around in her chair and said "Since we're talking about sins, let's talk about how you need to tone that bronze hair! That's a SIN!" Apparently she has friends in NOLA, and doesn't appreciate the condemnation from some hick Minnesota Lutheran with a bad dye job.

I about fell out of my chair laughing. Now the new girl is my new favorite.

I don't know her....but I like her, too!

lilymoon · #24 09-01-2005, 08:30 AM

hi - i don't post much (i'm 'posed to be workin') but i had to put my two cents in. i'm an unpractising catholic (catholic school for years, nuns the whole nine yards). but i am a christian person. and i've learned, in my 40 + years, that being a christian isn't going to church everyday/week it's how you act outside of church. this disaster down south has broken my heart.

GateandGarden · #25 09-01-2005, 08:35 AM

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Originally Posted by lilymoon

hi - i don't post much (i'm 'posed to be workin') but i had to put my two cents in. i'm an unpractising catholic (catholic school for years, nuns the whole nine yards). but i am a christian person. and i've learned, in my 40 + years, that being a christian isn't going to church everyday/week it's how you act outside of church. this disaster down south has broken my heart.

Thanks for posting.

lilymoon · #26 09-01-2005, 08:39 AM

my pleasure. i'm appalled at the thoughts of some people thinking (and saying out loud!) that God would be "weeding" out. i wonder if those who spill such vile and venom know what bad karma is? well, i guess they'll find out.

reebokandlace · #27 09-01-2005, 09:23 AM

I thought the Christian God was an all-knowing all-forgiving god? I didn't know he was an angry vindictive punishing God....sheesh...glad I don't follow that religion...any God who would kill innocent people isn't someone I would worship...I would run like hell from a god like that...

The ironic thing is, didn't the early pagans believe that if a natural disaster struck it was a result of "angering the gods?' or if your crop failed or whatever it was because the gods were punishing you?!!

I have always heard that Christians were "just this side" of pagan. I guess that would explain why some believe in this evil punishing godhead as their Lord.

PS-- I am a heathen pagan....hence the avatar.

SuzeQuze · #28 09-01-2005, 09:35 AM

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Originally Posted by lilymoon

my pleasure. i'm appalled at the thoughts of some people thinking (and saying out loud!) that God would be "weeding" out. i wonder if those who spill such vile and venom know what bad karma is? well, i guess they'll find out.

In my fax to these wackos I put in, "may God forgive the blackness in your hearts".

jannieC · #29 09-01-2005, 01:49 PM

My boss made the same statement yesterday and I just kept my mouth shut because I thought if I spoke, I would explode (tomorrow is my last day at work, but still-no need to explode). I was surprised to see all of the posts here with other people saying the same thing, I thought it was just my boss's maniacal thinking.

Sugar · #30 09-01-2005, 03:09 PM

Glad you're moving on to greener pastures.

But you're right. It is startling how pervasive that sentiment is. I've not run into it here.