Religious people everywhere

[Thumpalumpacus]

What might fail to come across on the page is brought spectacularly to life by Caviezel's spellbinding performance.

So an acting performance communicates more than God's perfect word?

[karadan]

I recommend that everyone here watches Mel Gibson's "The Passion of The Christ" starring Jim Caviezel.  I am fairly confident that it will have you falling to your knees and begging God's forgiveness.

All that film confirmed to me was Mel Gibson's obsession with gore porn and the outrageous double standards and hypocrisy of christianity by forcing children to see a film which should only be viewed by 18+ year olds. It gave people justification to mentally scar a generation of children just because it had jesus in it. That really pissed me off. Show an accidental boob on TV and half the country soil themselves with rage. Force minors to watch two hours of grizzly torture and no one bats a fucking eyelid.

I'm sure there were grounds for lawsuits against schools, parents and cinemas for letting children see that travesty of a film. Wholesale human rights' abuses right there.

 :upset:  

[Ned]

Here is a parable that explains what will happen on the Day of Judgement.  It takes only a few moments to read.
And then you can **** your pants.
http://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=matthew%2025:31-25:46&version=ESV

[notself]

Here is a parable that explains what will happen on the Day of Judgement.  It takes only a few moments to read.
And then you can **** your pants.
http://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=matthew%2025:31-25:46&version=ESV

According to this parable, one need only be a compassionate and generous person to get into "heaven". There are as many compassionate and generous  atheists in my town as there are compassionate and generous Christians.  I see no reason for anyone to **** their pants, unless it's you.  You appear a certain smug disdain for the members of this board, hardly a compassionate attitude.

[Ned]

This sermon is also recommended reading. http://www.soundofgrace.com/piper90/04-08-90.htm

[karadan]

Here is a parable that explains what will happen on the Day of Judgement.  It takes only a few moments to read.
And then you can **** your pants.
http://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=matthew%2025:31-25:46&version=ESV

According to this parable, one need only be a compassionate and generous person to get into "heaven". There are as many compassionate and generous  atheists in my town as there are compassionate and generous Christians.  I see no reason for anyone to **** their pants, unless it's you.  You appear a certain smug disdain for the members of this board, hardly a compassionate attitude.

There's also a measure of thinly veiled contempt as well.

[The Magic Pudding]

I recommend that everyone here watches Mel Gibson's "The Passion of The Christ" starring Jim Caviezel.  I am fairly confident that it will have you falling to your knees and begging God's forgiveness.

I recommend that everyone here watches Monty Python's "Life of Brian" starring Graham Chapman.  I am fairly confident that it will have you falling to your knees laughing at this silly God business.

[Ned]

I recommend that everyone here watches Mel Gibson's "The Passion of The Christ" starring Jim Caviezel.  I am fairly confident that it will have you falling to your knees and begging God's forgiveness.

I recommend that everyone here watches Monty Python's "Life of Brian" starring Graham Chapman.  I am fairly confident that it will have you falling to your knees laughing at this silly God business.

I think "Life of Brian" is a great film.

[The Magic Pudding]

I think "Life of Brian" is a great film.

Oh good.
There's hope for you yet.
But just remember,

Always look on the bright side of life...
    (I mean - what have you got to lose?)
    (You know, you come from nothing - you're going back to nothing.
    What have you lost? Nothing!)
    Always look on the right side of life...

[Davin]

This sermon is also recommended reading. http://www.soundofgrace.com/piper90/04-08-90.htm

Wow, I wouldn't recommend that for reading at all. Unless you find baseless assertions and taking things way out of context entertaining.

[Ned]

This sermon is also recommended reading. http://www.soundofgrace.com/piper90/04-08-90.htm

Wow, I wouldn't recommend that for reading at all. Unless you find baseless assertions and taking things way out of context entertaining.

Are you not terrified by the possibility of the Christ you have denied coming on the clouds in great power and glory?

[Thumpalumpacus]

This sermon is also recommended reading. http://www.soundofgrace.com/piper90/04-08-90.htm

Wow, I wouldn't recommend that for reading at all. Unless you find baseless assertions and taking things way out of context entertaining.

Are you not terrified by the possibility of the Christ you have denied coming on the clouds in great power and glory?

Why is it, at the end of the day, preachments always end with threats, either veiled (as is the case here) or explicit?  Perhaps you "**** your pants" at the thought; me, I believe that:

1) Any Creator who might have created me understands my skepticism better than I do myself;
2) said Creator will see that I have done the best I could to live a good life and do no harm;
3) said Creator is otherwise beyond any mortal ken, so that your preachments are simply babbling in the dark about the monster in the closet;
4) finally, I believe that there is no such Creator, but people like you have an interest in perpetuating belief in him for your own emotional, psychological, and/or financial reasons.

So no, I'm not terrified.

[Ned]

[youtube:1ifncu32]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bAXPUN2z2CE[/youtube:1ifncu32]

[Tank]

This sermon is also recommended reading. http://www.soundofgrace.com/piper90/04-08-90.htm

Wow, I wouldn't recommend that for reading at all. Unless you find baseless assertions and taking things way out of context entertaining.

Are you not terrified by the possibility of the Christ you have denied coming on the clouds in great power and glory?

Me personally, not one jot, zilch, nadda, couldn't give a toss and could not care less, it just doesn't figure on my radar as being even remotely possible, I'd consider it more likely that I would win the lottery every week for a year without even entering. I think that's plain enough, it just won't happen, ever.

[pinkocommie]

This sermon is also recommended reading. http://www.soundofgrace.com/piper90/04-08-90.htm

Wow, I wouldn't recommend that for reading at all. Unless you find baseless assertions and taking things way out of context entertaining.

Are you not terrified by the possibility of the Christ you have denied coming on the clouds in great power and glory?

Are you not terrified by the possibility of the boogeyman you have denied coming on the clouds in great power and glory?

Are you not terrified by the possibility of the monster under the bed you have denied coming out from under the bed in great power and glory?

Are you not terrified by the possibility of Odin who you have denied coming on the Sleipnir in great power and glory?

In other words, no.  I am not afraid of things I don't believe exist.  Even scary things like a flying vengeful zombie hippie!