Even here on these boards there are many wonderful intelligent Christains who are not threatened by science, or by who sleeps with whom. This question is for you.
Are you tired of how the fundies makes us all look? The world sees 'The Creation Museum' and we are preceived as a nation of morons. I resent that a lot.
I believe that most of this country is made up of free thinking people who do not care if you love God or Zeus.
We very much believe the separation of church and state.
We have got to make a difference this coming election. If we stand idle by we could get Pat Robertson in the White House.
Do you think that if we campaign to get the fundies out our governent we could make a difference.
2007-11-23 17:42:11 · 16 answers · asked by Anonymous in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
Pat Robertson was SARCASM. Obviously over the head of some of the bible readers here.
2007-11-23 17:52:42 · update #1
I do worry about out government.
I recently saqw a moron funde get re-elected as governor of Texas. He won with 33% of the vote. Why?
Because any one of the other four would have been preferable but they took votes away from each other.
2007-11-23 17:55:31 · update #2
Rational Christians may be a majority, but they are a silent majority.
Personally I don't think it is rational to have faith in something that has no empirical, mathematical, or strongly logical foundation. Sorry if this offends believers, but that is my position. I do respect their right to be as irrational or illogical as they desire as long as they (believers) don't try and legislate my way of life or thinking into criminality.
2007-11-24 00:27:05 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Well there are several parts to your question:
1) Yes I do grow weary of ignorant legalists that make up their own unscriptural rules about what it means to be a good Christian.
2) I agree that many in this country believe in the right of all to believe and/or practice how and what they wish. I am one of them.
3) "Separation of Church and State" is an urban legend and not in the constitution. This false belief sprang from the personal writings of Thomas Jefferson and not any ratified document. The Bill of rights actually says the converse that religion must remain free from state interference
http://www.law.cornell.edu/constitution/constitution.billofrights.html
4) The further we can get Pat Robertson from the public eye the better. He is a very sick person.
5) I do not believe that much difference can be made in our government as we are not given very good choices to pick from.
2007-11-24 01:57:23 · answer #2 · answered by δοῦλος Χριστοῦ Ἰησοῦ 5 · 1⤊ 1⤋
God is in control and this is a Christian nation. You may resent the fundies as you call them, but you enjoy your freedom because of the early fundies who gave birth to this nation. Its may look at the nations that don't have Christian foundations what of rights they give their human beings. Do you want to live there? Free thinking people as you called them have really talk to some of them. Some believe in children marrying adults (pedophiles). Some believe in enslavement again( KKK). Some believe only men are one to be in charge of governments (some men in general). Some believe only in Nationalism so if you are aliens you have no rights that right here in this nation. Only because of moral Christian understanding that most of these rights came about and working out solution that haves compassion toward our citizen and non-citizen alike. So you need to reevaluate our Christian history that not taught in schools how liberated and liberating Christians really are. Look at other nations who have do not allow God in their governments how are they functioning poorly. We have our problems yes but we have the best functioning government. Having fundies may be why you still exercise your freedoms.
2007-11-24 02:14:20 · answer #3 · answered by treatsinlife 2 · 1⤊ 1⤋
I've stated many times the fundamentalists have done more damage to believers than atheists could ever have done. They've given all of us a black eye. They are the least common denominator of believers , but yet command the most attention with their non-sensical doctrine and incredible statements. The fundies will go extinct just like the dinosaurs they say didn't exist.
2007-11-24 01:49:02 · answer #4 · answered by monte54que 7 · 2⤊ 1⤋
You worry too much.
25 "Therefore I tell you, do not worry about your life, what you will eat or drink; or about your body, what you will wear. Is not life more important than food, and the body more important than clothes? 26 Look at the birds of the air; they do not sow or reap or store away in barns, and yet your heavenly Father feeds them. Are you not much more valuable than they?
27 Who of you by worrying can add a single hour to his life?
28 "And why do you worry about clothes? See how the lilies of the field grow. They do not labor or spin. 29 Yet I tell you that not even Solomon in all his splendor was dressed like one of these. 30 If that is how God clothes the grass of the field, which is here today and tomorrow is thrown into the fire, will he not much more clothe you, O you of little faith? 31 So do not worry, saying, 'What shall we eat?' or 'What shall we drink?' or 'What shall we wear?' 32 For the pagans run after all these things, and your heavenly Father knows that you need them. 33 But seek first his kingdom and his righteousness, and all these things will be given to you as well. 34 Therefore do not worry about tomorrow, for tomorrow will worry about itself. Each day has enough trouble of its own."
( Matthew 6 )
2007-11-24 01:52:11 · answer #5 · answered by Christian Sinner 7 · 3⤊ 1⤋
Does Pat Robertson want to be in the White House? Anyway we (The United States of America) strongly believe in separation of church and state, and I hate it it's a lie. Where in our great constitution does it say that? Where in our great amendments say that? It comes from a letter, just a letter from Thomas Jefferson that comforts a Baptist pastor that America will not have a state church like England.
2007-11-24 01:48:50 · answer #6 · answered by Kenan 2 · 0⤊ 2⤋
A world without God ruling it is a world set on destroying itself. Those attacking God do not know one thing about Him.
To get what you are wanting is to only help speed up the destruction that is coming upon the earth.
2007-11-24 01:57:39 · answer #7 · answered by goldyyloxx 5 · 0⤊ 1⤋
They may be free thinking, but they're not open minded...
They wouldn't make fun of us for our beliefs if they were open minded...and for those who do make fun of us because of the Creation Museum are sad, sad people.
.....Pat Robertson is running for presidency? Wow...
No...whether we have a fundie, an atheist, Muslim, or even a moderate Christian....an atheist's view of us will not change unless they want it to.
2007-11-24 01:47:23 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 2⤋
Anyone who is even remotely familiar with the Christian religion will understand that the "fundies" don't even represent the majority of Evangelicals, who don't even represent the majority of Protestants, who don't even represent the majority of living Christians, who don't even represent the majority of Christians.
Anyone whose logic is so out of whack that they can confuse a tiny, unrelated faction with a completely separate religion deserves to think that all Christians are fundies.
2007-11-24 02:03:33 · answer #9 · answered by NONAME 7 · 0⤊ 2⤋
I agree. I try to take my own inventory and not worry what everyone else is doing. We all have to find truth in our own way and through our own experience. Of course I love to point out stupidity and be condescending about it as well.
2007-11-24 01:56:21 · answer #10 · answered by plastik punk -Bottom Contributor 6 · 1⤊ 0⤋