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02/19/09
what do we mean by that?
eager to see the film!
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Although the whole atheist vs. religious authority is completely unnecessary. Seriously, they could have gone with any other other concept, and yet they choose this one. Sure, it worked in "V for Vendetta", and I didn't mind that, because it wasn't as blatant. But they make it a little more obvious from the statement above. Why?
It just bothers me.
p.s.-- And please don't just dismiss my comment because of the statement I made. I hate it when people get shut down just for defending and stating their beliefs. Although, many of them get shut down just because they're complete morons who like to start argmuents with other people.
But I'm not one of those people; I'm just stating my opinion, that's all. I don't want to start a fight. I try to avoid conflict as much as possible.
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I'm willing to venture that you're not a practicing member of any faith, or if you were, you're not anymore.
In any case, you obviously don't know that churches and faiths are peopled with individuals and not just sheep that attack any opponent to their belief system. Sure, there are thousands of churches just like that all over the world, where anyone who questions the teachings of the institution is shunned by the other members who don't know enough of their own faith's doctrines to form their own opinions, but there are also vast numbers of informed people out there within the various systems of faith that take stands and stick up for themselves; of course they wouldn't be widely known about, since at that point they either leave their group in search of other informed members of their faiths, or they become leaders in their own right of their own groups.
To say "there's not many of them" is uninformed and ignorant; even if you somehow could back that statement up with any sort of statistic, it would still be wrong, because most people aren't as stupid as they let on to be, but fear of going against the crowd does amazing things to a person's psyche.
Your hypothesis is flawed and your statements are inflammatory; if you can't say something without making broad, sweeping generalizations and presuming to speak for other people (which is just pompous) then it's best if you just shut your mouth altogether.
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i was born and raised conservative christian by conservative christians that included the portion of the bible which dictates that christian moral values only apply to other christians. that non-believers should not be expected to live up to or judge for not following the christian faith. that doing so was counter productive to the true meaning of christianity, to be christ like.
while i am not current a believer or practice of any religion i am not without an background in this subject. it is, in fact, my background that so readily leads me to mock so called 'conservative christians' moral/political agendas when it is so obvious to anyone who studied christ that institutionalizing christian moral values was not his way.
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from your first state house seat to your last dyin' day!"