Pagan Mom Challenges Bible Giveaway at Public School

[BornReady]

I don't hide that I'm Christian, but I can tell you what kept me from Christianity to begin with were the foaming idiots finding a stump to stand on to tell me how I was going to hell.

When I was in college there was a local preacher who would come to the campus and entertain some of the students between classes. He stood in a corner of a quad area outside and preached. I was a Christian and listened to him for a little while. I wasn't entertained at all. I could tell most of the students were amused by him even though he didn't realize it. I talked to some of my non-Christian dorm mates afterward. They thought he was a joke. I was trying to dispel the negative image they had of Christianity. This clown set me back quite a bit.

 

[brieze]

It's all in how, Doc. I don't hide that I'm Christian, but I can tell you what kept me from Christianity to begin with were the foaming idiots finding a stump to stand on to tell me how I was going to hell. Used to be a fun game baiting those types, but damn, it's just too easy to do. Funny thing, I was better versed in the Bible even then. Who the hell would want to accept the teachings of Jesus with those freaks as the front spokesmen, I ask you? Plant the seed by being an up-front example.

Reminds me of my last birthday. Some freako started praying over me for "strength I've never known before" in the middle of walmart. Because I was using a wheelchair. How motherfucking offensive first off. And second, how can anyone think that helps their cause? No one wants to be those people.

 

[Tangerine]

it is an important document that all educated people should read

Important by what and who's standards?

Why should all educated people read it?

 

[The Doc]

It's all in how, Doc. I don't hide that I'm Christian, but I can tell you what kept me from Christianity to begin with were the foaming idiots finding a stump to stand on to tell me how I was going to hell. Used to be a fun game baiting those types, but damn, it's just too easy to do. Funny thing, I was better versed in the Bible even then. Who the hell would want to accept the teachings of Jesus with those freaks as the front spokesmen, I ask you? Plant the seed by being an up-front example.

And again, let 'em have whatever books they want in the library that kids can choose to read. As for passing out bibles, or any other religious book or tract, not on school property. There's plenty of other places to do that. This country was founded on separation of church and state, otherwise we'd all have been forced to go to and support the Church of England.

I agree. When i was selling rocks on the corner i didnt care about the people telling me i was going to hell, i ;istenedto the guys who said God still loved me Yes i was a former drug dealer and gang member.

 

[Leananshee]

When I was in college there was a local preacher who would come to the campus and entertain some of the students between classes. He stood in a corner of a quad area outside and preached. I was a Christian and listened to him for a little while. I wasn't entertained at all. I could tell most of the students were amused by him even though he didn't realize it. I talked to some of my non-Christian dorm mates afterward. They thought he was a joke. I was trying to dispel the negative image they had of Christianity. This clown set me back quite a bit.

We had similar ones, we called 'em Pit Preachers at Carolina. One day I got down in the Pit and preached the Brady Bunch theme in that preaching style and drew just as big a crowd, even some applause. But as Brieze will attest, it's not just those kind of preachers who have that mindset. Back in high school one girl stood up on a desk telling me how I was going to hell and I just rolled my eyes up, Undertaker style, and told her in the most ungodly voice I could muster she was right and I was going to take her with me. Hey, at least she got off her stump. All because I stated in a history class I probably was closest to the Unitarians in theology. But my experience with them is yet another story.

 

[brieze]

We had similar ones, we called 'em Pit Preachers at Carolina. One day I got down in the Pit and preached the Brady Bunch theme in that preaching style and drew just as big a crowd, even some applause. But as Brieze will attest, it's not just those kind of preachers who have that mindset. Back in high school one girl stood up on a desk telling me how I was going to hell and I just rolled my eyes up, Undertaker style, and told her in the most ungodly voice I could muster she was right and I was going to take her with me. Hey, at least she got off her stump. All because I stated in a history class I probably was closest to the Unitarians in theology. But my experience with them is yet another story.

I did that in highschool too lol. I worked at a hotel in a town high in religious tourism. Whenever a youthgroup would make me their preaching exercise I would tell them I worshiped Satan with a big ol' smile and skip off. They didn't know what to do lol. Back to their leader's room for more instructions I guess.

 

[BornReady]

All because I stated in a history class I probably was closest to the Unitarians in theology.

lol I'm going to hell too then. I go to a Unitarian Universalist church. You know what they say, heaven for the weather and hell for the company.

 

[Leananshee]

LOL! Oh, yeah. The other one was that the only time you hear Jesus at a Unitarian church is when the preacher stubs his toe on the pulpit. There's also the one that says Universalists believe God's too good to damn anyone and Unitarians believe themselves too good to be damned. I think I like the old Universalist churches in the South a bit better. They're a bit more friendly to folks like me - an old redneck with some uppity ideas.

 

[Peter Parka]

I agree with the woman, clear double standards. Some people are taking this too far though. The bible is just a book, nothing more nothing less. Its so muddled that there are thousands of interpretations on it so its hard to say its pushing a religion because which one is it pushing? If I taught kids what the bible was about, I'd show them throught it, very easily that god is an evil bastard. That wouldn't be pushing religion at all.