Is conversation with a Christian like banging your head against steel plated door?

Question

No matter how hard you try you never make a dent.......They are a one track mind that will never listen to any reason, and are setting back science in the classroom and in the medical field. Why is bush you shepherd and not Jesus



Bush is my shepherd; I dwell in want.
He maketh logs to be cut down in national forests.
He leadeth trucks into the still wilderness.
He restoreth my fears.
He leadeth me in the paths of international disgrace
for his ego's sake.
Yea, though I walk through the valley of pollution and
war, I will find no exit, for thou art in office.
Thy lies and thy wars they comfort me all the days of my life.
Thou preparest an agenda of deception, in the presence
of thy religion.
Thou anointest my head with foreign oil.
My health insurance runneth out.
Surely megalomania and false patriotism shall follow
me all the days of thy term.
And my jobless child shall dwell in my basement forever

Answer 1

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Answer 2

I hope you have been able to have conversations with Christians without banging your head against a steel plated door. I enjoy conversations with Christians and non however, I have determined that I will not allow anyone to goad me into any type of argument in an effort to 'defend' my position or belief. I just don't think that is necessary. People are free to accept whatever truth is to them. As a teacher, I have learned that there are things I must teach as the state requires and I do what I am supposed to do. It is my job to open the door of education and allow my students to investigate, ask questions, querry themselves and others in order to get to the truth they need to see. I realize that there are fanatics all over the place. I'm just not one of them. My strength and purpose in choice is to love everyone regardless - and respect that love. Very simple. Not painful. No steel doors. No headaches. (smile)

Answer 3

From your discourse I find that you associate my being a Christian with an undying support of Bush and I want to set you straight - I do not care for the man or his politics -he has done more to set this country back in his tenure than Reagan and his Father did in theirs combined - at the rate he is setting us back, my great-grandchildren will still not be able to rise above poverty level and that's if they have highly educated jobs. Now that the politics are cleared between us ...

As a Christian, one who would lay her life down for the beliefs she holds in Jesus Christ and the relationship that is required in order to have those beliefs, I do not appreciate the slanderous usage of the Holy Scriptures. You're not the first to abuse them, but it adds to the fact that you neither respect yourself or others, or you would not make light of God's Word, if for no other reason, regardless of your beliefs about God, there is the off chance he is real and he says that you will be accountable for every word or deed you have ever spoken or committed and he warns very heavily against adding to, taking away, or distorting his word. Your play on Psalm 23 is a sad darkness and does not speak well of how you must see yourself or those around you.

I do not take others beliefs regardless of how I may personally feel about them and use them to slander, for I would not want to be accountable to my God for having thought so little of Him or myself to resort to such.

Answer 4

It really does depend on the Christian you talk to. There are some that are pretty smart and willing to at least concede that there are other possibilities. Then you have some that are stupid and unwilling to waver because to do that means having to think for themselves.

Same with any group of people, really. I like to think myself a smart athiest, but I've run into idiots in our ranks too.

Answer 5

you do realize there are thousands of varieties of christians don't you? The christians who are so pro-bush are usually a part of a small minority considering his low approval rating. Also denomination s are so incredibly varied that you can't really lump christians into one group beyond that they all believe in Jesus. For example the differences between the Anglican Church, the Ethiopian Orthodox Church and the Southern Baptist Church are so numerous that it would be impossible to list them all here.

Answer 6

I think it's the other way around. For us Christians trying to talk to someone like you is like sowing seeds on stony ground. They will never take root, but a lot of the seed falls among the weeds and tares which smother them out, but a lot falls on fertile ground. Where ever they fall, it is out duty as Christians to keep sowing. May God bless you and I pray someday you will see the light.

Answer 7

Why should anyone back down from what they believe in? Its their religon. Why do you care? People like you that sit and try to convince others of all these other possibilites only sound like they are trying to convince themselves. Its like you need someone to agree with your aspects or else you have no ground to stand on. Get your own beliefs and your own testimony and if nobody listens to you, then move on. You shouldn't try to change people.

Answer 8

If you really believe that I feel really sorry for you. Disprove what's in the Bible and I'll listen. Also, not all Christians are like what you mentioned, you are generalizing. I will be praying for you, that you discover God's will for your life and will not turn away.
On a lighter note: I don't like Bush, he makes me think of a chimp in a suit.

Answer 9

you obviously wrote this rant AFTER banging your head (repeatedly, i'm guessing) against a steel plated door...you make absolutely NO sense whatsoever...how do you make such jumps of illogical thought without getting dizzy? are you trying to be witty? got some bad news for you on that score...now, give it another shot...make your anti-Christian points, and your political points, but try not to get them tangled up...isn't that one of the things that irritate you about the 'christian right' in the first place?

Answer 10

Why are you wasting your time worry about other people and what they do or think?

"You must be the change you wish to see in the world." - Gandhi

Work on perfecting yourself before you worry about the rest of the world. Otherwise you are nothing but a hypocrite.

Answer 11

Sometimes, depending on the issue, not if we are discussing our belief in God though. I don't believe and they do, that's all there is to it. I do feel that way about anyone who is close-minded and categorizes people based on race, religion, sexual orientation and political beliefs.