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Reply to "Go to church, or get locked up"

Originally Posted by DarkAngel:
Originally Posted by O No!:
Originally Posted by DarkAngel:
Originally Posted by O No!:

Jennifer says: "The difference is that I or DA or anyone else would be attacked, most likely physically, for speaking up, but you wouldn't."

 

 Not much of a drama queen, are you?

 

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I think she is just being a realist. Do you remember the things said and threatened to atheist for protesting putting a cross at the WTC memorial? That is the reality that atheist live in.

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I still think you are over-dramatising. There are "things" like that said every day on blogs across America. Political, religious, even sports related. People SAY a lot of things that they would never DO in real life. I think if someone went into a church service and started yelling and disrupting the service, the most likely thing is that they would be arrested or taken in for psychiatric observation.

 

 

 

I have been personally threatened in real life by a couple of Christians. I was not in their church disrupting their service either. I was having a conversation with them and others at a party of a mutual friends. Luckily there were other people there and they made them leave.

 

The only person who mentioned disrupting church services was Bill. I said I would be asking questions and voicing my opinion. Apparently that is considered a big no no in church. I did not know that, but that does explain a lot.

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DA, I guess you aren't familiar at all with church services. As Bill said, the time and place for questions is in Bible study or Sunday School, or after the service is over.  One would no more stand up and ask a question DURING the service than they would during the school play. There is a program that is followed, and although the scripture readings, the sermon, and the hymns change every week, the order of things remains the same. The ritual and the reverance are so peaceful and beautiful to Christians. Jumping up and asking questions THEN would definitely be disrupting the service.

 

I don't know what to say about your experience at the party except to say that I MYSELF, have never even seen a Christian raise their VOICE when debating an atheist in real life. As a matter of fact, back when I was an atheist, I would get into heated debates with the Christians I knew. But the only one "heated" was myself. The Christians would just smile and say they "knew better", and their smugness about their beliefs made me angry. I realize NOW that it was not SMUGNESS, but inner security they exhibited.

 


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