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Registered: March 08, 2005
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Registered: November 05, 2004
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Bible-thumpers--and I'll put this in a way they'd understand--need to go to Hell. Then they'd know how bad it is to go around telling people that.
The more you know, the less you don't know.
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Registered: December 11, 2003
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quote: It's not Christians like you that I despise.
I second that. And everything that jazzey said.
"Regardless, I have always, and will always, succeed."
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Registered: June 03, 2004
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quote: Originally posted by Korith:
The biggest challenge I face as a Christian teacher, is from Christians themselves.
Everyday, EVERYDAY... I drive past these men in suits and ties. And poster boards with what is most defiantly abused scripture on it. Then a man with a bullhorn angrily marching up and down the sidewalk letting all who have to stop at that red light know, they will be going to hell.
Meanwhile... the people in their cars roll down their windows and yell for him to shut up and his people to leave... and there I am... everyday I take my time to get to know those I witness too, I research for hours the words I choose to teach on, I visit homes, I hand write several letters, I give money, and I offer all my time that people might be able to look at me and say about me, "He is a Christian."
And this man and his followers beat me to the chase when another angry person speeds away from that red light saying... "Those were Christians"
Hardly makes it seem worth it sometimes, that all I can spend day, weeks, months, years can be flaked away by a man and however long the light takes to change.
Wow, Korith. That was very well said. It's not Christians like you that I despise. It's the freak show on the corner that you're talking about. Someone that comes up to me, thumping their bible and telling me that I'm wrong and I'm going to burn in a firey torment... that is what makes me see red. You know that people will remember the bad before they remember the good, and that is what I think of when I think of Christianity.
1-We are all born originals - why is it so many of us die copies? 2- Life is tough... it's tougher if you're stupid.
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Registered: August 09, 2003
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The biggest challenge I face as a Christian teacher, is from Christians themselves. Everyday, EVERYDAY... I drive past these men in suits and ties. And poster boards with what is most defiantly abused scripture on it. Then a man with a bullhorn angrily marching up and down the sidewalk letting all who have to stop at that red light know, they will be going to hell. Meanwhile... the people in their cars roll down their windows and yell for him to shut up and his people to leave... and there I am... everyday I take my time to get to know those I witness too, I research for hours the words I choose to teach on, I visit homes, I hand write several letters, I give money, and I offer all my time that people might be able to look at me and say about me, "He is a Christian." And this man and his followers beat me to the chase when another angry person speeds away from that red light saying... "Those were Christians" Hardly makes it seem worth it sometimes, that all I can spend day, weeks, months, years can be flaked away by a man and however long the light takes to change.
"I am a Christian, in the only sense in which he wished anyone to be: sincerely attached to his doctrines in preference to all others, ascribing to himself every human excellence, and believing he never claimed any other." -Thomas Jefferson
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