Re: I Wish People Wouldn't Flaunt Their Religion
Originally posted by rodbolt:<br /> 12 footer<br /> what "religion" do you keeprefering to that I am flaunting? I keep reading my posts and continue to be dense cause I have not professed a "faith" or "belief" in any religion nor have a stated I had "no" religion. I still think it very funny that over the past 200 years most in battlke on both sides prayed to the same god to assist in killing each other.
<br />Rodbolt, I stopped short of "labling" you. But Johnson Liner saw it, so perhaps it was just under your radar. Your religion is atheism. No big deal here, provided we can co-exist in this country. The main thing I would like you to take away from
JTexas' thread here, is that tollerance is a two-way street.<br />I have a profound story about what happened to me in the recent past that changed my direction so radically, but it would be wordy and a risk of boredom instead of insight may be the end result.<br />But it keeps getting harder for Christians to keep "turning the other cheek" ,when the very symbols of our faith are being masked if not destroyed daily.<br />
from rodbolt:<br /> I rarely condem anything. I cant blame a "religon" for the actions of a few until that religion has tenants that profess its ok to kill others as "subhuman" or "not worthy".<br /> almost all relious groups have a rather radical fringe. just the way it is. but it does not condem the entire religon to death.
<br /><br />Religions are populated by people exactly like you, me, and a cross-section of other personalities. I will not speak of atheism,satanism, Jehova's Whitnesses ,or any other but that faith that is in my own heart. Naturally, simular religion-centered values begat churches (congregations of somewhat like-minded people).<br />
from rodbolt:<br /> your just not making a lot of sense here, maybe its me. I am rather dense.
<br /><br />How about this? <br />"But as for me and my house, we will serve the Lord", as Joshua said in the Bible....It's also a knitted scroll on the door of the guest bedroom in my home.<br />I wasn't allways like this. I used to hold the belief that God was a spaceman....but I called myself a Christian.<br />It's all in the perspective, I guess.<br />
origin; rodbolt<br /> growing up in a small town in southern alabama I always wonered at the "christian" leadership in my church at the time. how they would tell tales of killing cats,dogs, squirrels and rabbits, not for food but for just cause or cause they were eating the veggies in the garden. most hunters I see any more are killers not hunters. most could not follow there own tracks. I see them all the time back here with ATV's spotting scopes range finders and all the other high tech gear, the only thing they dont have is the need for feed, I have a cousin that wont eat a deer but shoots 4 or 5 a year. he says its in the thrill of the hunt. he also is a devout follower. some kind of deacon. I dont have much to do with him. I am not bashing hunting nor fishing. I just dont believe in killing for sport. kinda like the texas "game" ranches where the guy can go kill a lion in a pasture thats fenced in. I used to hunt for freezer meat myself. grew up rather poor and it supplemented the ole diet. even the bible references killing of animals for food. but as yet I have not seen any bible passages that promote killing of gods enimies. maybe you can enligten me on the correct passage?
I can't speak much to the sport of hunting, but I do fish. In our Bible, it clearly says we are above all other life on this planet. Some people value herb gardens more than they do rabits or cutworms I guess.
<br />I have a problem with cats marking my front porch as thier territory. I'm about one more mark-job away from finding some sort of poison bait here. They are a pest. I kill other pests.<br />The jury is still out on my decission there.<br />But I don't like killing other animals.But the bible says I can. The bible also says animals don't have souls, and do not go to heaven...I have a basic problem with that, but it's God's call.<br /> Don't laugh here, but I'll admit to hitting a rabbit about a year ago, on a deserted street early in the morning before daybreak. It was a very young juevenile rabbit, that must've just set-out on his own. I stopped to see how badly I had injured it. It seemed to have a broken back or leg,as it tried to "roll" away from me as opposed to hopping. I went back to the truck to get a box. I was bound and detirmine to pay the price for my inattention, and get a professional verdict from a vet. As I walked back to the injured critter, it rolled trying to escape,---right into a catch basin. This basin was about 7 feet deep with about 3 feets of standing water in it. By the time I got the cover off, I saw nothing. No movement. I replaced the cover, and cried a little.It wasn't the fact that I killed the little guy that bothered me so badly, but the unimaginable suffering it went thru----just before it drowned. I guess you had to be there.<br />I'm getting windy, and appologise. But I also have tasted rabbit. It aint to bad, although it's not my favorite.<br />Again,rodbolt, there are all kinds out there. Me, them, you , we are all sinners.
