why are peopel offended by ronald mcjesus christianity and mcdonalds have too much in common for your taste?

Question

christianity: conveinent, offers a small variety of the same thing, unhealthy spiritually, cheap, addicting to those who are a part of it

mcdonalds: conveinent, offers a small variety of the same thing, unhealthy physically, cheap, addicting to those who are a part of it

both christianity and mcdonalds are heavily commercialized.

Answer 1

mcdonalds pays taxes....

Answer 2

Convenient????Really? What's so convenient about running to church on a Wednesday night when American Idol Results are on tv? Small variety of the same thing? It only offers one thing...Salvation! Unhealthy spiritually? Wrong answer AGAIN!! Christianity improves your spirit. Don't let Satan and his angels fool you by appealing to your flesh. Christianity helps your spirit by empowering you through the word of God. Cheap? How is giving 10% or more to the church every week cheap? Addicting? No not addicting. Spiritually satisfying! Listen, we Christians wouldn't be satisfied if Christianity didn't give us a purpose for living, a real hope of seeing each other again in Heaven, and a lighter more loving spirit on Earth.

All McDonalds does is make you fat!

Becoming a Christian will save your soul while McDonalds will kill your body and then send your soul to hell if you aren't a Christian first. This is the difference!

Answer 3

Dude,

I am not Christian but your comment is completely wrong. You are just fed up with moron extremists who are unintelligent. I don't blame you.

Well you obviously have not read anything. I am not Christian but you can't discredit all the wisdom of Judaism and Christianity that has been produced over 2000 years.

Rene Descartes - Christian
Shakespeare -Christian
Martin Luther - Christian
Einstein - Jewish

So why not read something and increas your knowledge instead of taking lazy pot shots at something you obviously know nothing about.

And tell me that Thomas Merton is a Mc Christian after you read what he wrote:
Thomas Merton
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Thomas Merton (January 31, 1915 – December 10, 1968) was an American Trappist monk and author, born in Prades in the Pyrénées-Orientales département of France. Merton wrote more than 50 books, 2000 poems, and scores of essays, reviews, book introductions, and lectures.

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1 Background
2 Selected bibliography
3 References
4 See also
5 External links



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Background
Merton was educated in the United States, Bermuda and France before attending Oakham School in England. His father, Owen Merton, was an artist from New Zealand and his mother, an artist and a Quaker, was from the United States. His mother died when he was six and his father when he was sixteen. After a disastrous first year at Cambridge University, during which time he allegedly fathered an illegitimate child, Merton moved back to the United States to live with his grandparents. He proceeded to take his bachelor's and master's degrees at Columbia, where he made the acquaintance of a group of artists and writers who would remain his friends for life.

Merton converted to Catholicism in his early twenties during the period he was writing his master's thesis on William Blake. His desire to enter the Franciscans being thwarted, he taught at St. Bonaventure's College, in Olean, New York and, following a retreat at the Trappist (Cistercian Order of the Strict Observance, O.C.S.O.) Abbey of Gethsemani near Bardstown, Kentucky during Easter 1941, he came to a crisis with call up looming and was finally accepted as a postulant to the choir (with the intention of becoming a priest) at Gethsemani on December 13th, 1941 (the Feast of Saint Lucy).

During his long years at Gethsemani (where he was encouraged to write) Merton changed from the passionately inward-looking young monk of his most famous book, the autobiography The Seven Storey Mountain, to a contemplative writer and poet who became well known for his dialogue with other faiths and his stand on non-violence during the race riots and Vietnam War of the 1960s, and finally achieved the solitude he had long desired in a hermitage in 1965. During these years he had many battles with his abbot about not being allowed out of the monastery, balanced by his international reputation and voluminous correspondence with many well-known figures of the day.

A new abbot allowed him the freedom to undertake a tour of Asia at the end of 1968, during which he memorably met the Dalai Lama in India. He also made a visit to Polonnaruwa (in what was then Ceylon), where he had a religious experience while viewing enormous statues of the Buddha. There is speculation that Merton wished to remain in Asia as a hermit. However, he died in Bangkok on 10th December 1968, having touched a badly-grounded electric fan while stepping out of his bath. His body was flown back to Gethsemani where he is buried. Since his death, his influence has continued to grow and he is considered by many to be an important twentieth century Catholic mystic.

Merton put a ban on publishing much of his work until 25 years after his death. After that time his diaries were published.

In recognition of his close association with Bellarmine University, the official repository for Merton's archives is the Thomas Merton Center on the Bellarmine campus in Louisville, Kentucky. The Thomas Merton Award, a peace prize, has been awarded since 1972 by the Thomas Merton Center for Peace and Social Justice in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, USA.

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Selected bibliography
A Man in the Divided Sea, 1946 | (All Libraries)
The Seven Storey Mountain, 1948 (ISBN 0156010860) | (All Libraries)
The Merton Annual, Fons Vitae Press | (All Libraries)
Merton and Hesychasm-The Prayer of the Heart, Fons Vitae Press | (All Libraries)
Merton and Sufism: The Untold Story, Fons Vitae Press | (All Libraries)
Merton and Judaism - Holiness in Words, Fons Vitae Press | (All Libraries)
Waters of Siloe, 1949 (ISBN 0156949547) | (All Libraries)
Seeds of Contemplation, 1949 (ISBN 0313207569) | (All Libraries)
The Ascent to Truth, 1951 (ISBN 0860120244) | (All Libraries)
Bread in the Wilderness, 1953 | (All Libraries)
The Last of the Fathers, 1954 | (All Libraries)
The Living Bread, 1956 | (All Libraries)
No Man is an Island, 1955 | (All Libraries)
The Silent Life, 1957 | (All Libraries)
Thoughts in Solitude, 1958 | (All Libraries)
The Secular Journal of Thomas Merton, 1959 | (All Libraries)
Disputed Questions, 1960 | (All Libraries)
The Behavior of Titans, 1961 | (All Libraries)
The New Man, 1961 (ISBN 0374514445) | (All Libraries)
New Seeds of Contemplation, 1962 (ISBN 081120099X) | (All Libraries)
Emblems of a Season of Fury, 1963 | (All Libraries)
Life and Holiness, 1963 | (All Libraries)
Seeds of Destruction, 1965 | (All Libraries)
Conjectures of a Guilty Bystander, 1966 (ISBN 0385010184) | (All Libraries)
Raids on the Unspeakable, 1966 | (All Libraries)
Mystics and Zen Masters, 1967 | (All Libraries)
Cables to the Ace, 1968 | (All Libraries)
Faith and Violence, 1968 | (All Libraries)
My Argument with the Gestapo, 1969 | (All Libraries)
The Climate of Monastic Prayer, 1969 | (All Libraries)
The Way of Chuang Tzu, 1969 | (All Libraries)
Contemplation in a World of Action, 1971 | (All Libraries)
The Asian Journal of Thomas Merton, 1973 | (All Libraries)
Alaskan Journal of Thomas Merton, 1988 | (All Libraries)
The Intimate Merton: His Life from His Journals, 1999 | (All Libraries)
Peace in the Post-Christian Era, 2004 | (All Libraries)

Answer 4

I still like the idea of the McBrothel.

Answer 5

i ask the question, does the bible really say, then i cut and paste directly from the bible, and christians say "YOUR TAKING THAT OUT OF CONTEXT WHAT HE REALLY MEANT IS"

when all i did was cut and paste a quote

Answer 6

christians dont like competition thats why.

Answer 7

boring

Answer 8

JESUS loves you anyway Mr. angry.....
~GOD BLESS YOU AND LEAD YOU INTO HIS ENDLESS LOVE~