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11 Dec 2011, 1:05 am
11 Dec 2011, 8:54 am
A Christian that is too ashamed of his beliefs to confess one of them?
Really?
There's hope for the secular world, after all!
I'm not ashamed of my beliefs, I'm just secure enough in my faith that I don't feel I have to defend my faith and I have better things to do with my time than participate in this latest attempt to bash Christians and Jews (whom believe in the same God, just there is difference as to whether or not you believe Jesus was the son of God).
If a bunch of atheists want to display their bigotry, that's your guys business, just don't complain the next time someone whom is religious on this forum equates atheism to bigotry.
Thank you! Thank you! Panda Bear and Inuyasha! Finally someone puts the atheists in their place! And they say they're more tolerant than Christians are! Doesn't sound all that "tolerant" to me!
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11 Dec 2011, 9:08 am
A Christian that is too ashamed of his beliefs to confess one of them?
Really?
There's hope for the secular world, after all!
I'm not ashamed of my beliefs, I'm just secure enough in my faith that I don't feel I have to defend my faith and I have better things to do with my time than participate in this latest attempt to bash Christians and Jews (whom believe in the same God, just there is difference as to whether or not you believe Jesus was the son of God).
If a bunch of atheists want to display their bigotry, that's your guys business, just don't complain the next time someone whom is religious on this forum equates atheism to bigotry.
Thank you! Thank you! Panda Bear and Inuyasha! Finally someone puts the atheists in their place! And they say they're more tolerant than Christians are! Doesn't sound all that "tolerant" to me!your very post displays the exact same issue as the non tolerant atheists,
as for unyashas post, there are plenty of threads that have only to do with religious bigotry yet there are plenty of us that dont equate all religion with bigotry,
then again i dont care who is a biggot, religious or not, its no excuse.
11 Dec 2011, 9:45 am
Thank you! Thank you! Panda Bear and Inuyasha! Finally someone puts the atheists in their place! And they say they're more tolerant than Christians are! Doesn't sound all that "tolerant" to me!You're welcome, of course. But I don't see where asking Christians to explain why they believe what they believe would be emblematic of "intolerance", or that "Christians" putting "the atheists in their place" would signal tolerance.
11 Dec 2011, 9:49 am
A Christian that is too ashamed of his beliefs to confess one of them?
Really?
There's hope for the secular world, after all!
I'm not ashamed of my beliefs, I'm just secure enough in my faith that I don't feel I have to defend my faith and I have better things to do with my time than participate in this latest attempt to bash Christians and Jews (whom believe in the same God, just there is difference as to whether or not you believe Jesus was the son of God).
If a bunch of atheists want to display their bigotry, that's your guys business, just don't complain the next time someone whom is religious on this forum equates atheism to bigotry.
Thank you! Thank you! Panda Bear and Inuyasha! Finally someone puts the atheists in their place! And they say they're more tolerant than Christians are! Doesn't sound all that "tolerant" to me!Yeah!! You showed them! No reason to defend beliefs despite parroting them all over the place! Anyone who questions them are INTOLERANT BIGOTS, mmmkay
11 Dec 2011, 11:53 am
I am a Christian because I witnessed a miracle.
My parents left the faith before I was born and raised me as an agnostic.
They taught me there was no way of knowing if God existed or not.
They said "be good and maybe you will get to heaven if it turns out to be real".
My mom was diagnosed with a terminal cancer when I was 18 years old.
The next few months were filled with intense fear and pain.
The doctors tried everything to stop the spread of cancer with no success, and eventually gave up on treatment.
I spent the whole summer watching my mom get eaten from the inside out.
One day, I walked in to the hospital room and noticed something had changed.
My mom told me she had been praying with the hospital chaplain, and later Jesus Christ appeared at her bedside.
In that instant all her pain and fear left her.
I thought my mom had gone crazy, but the next day she went in for another test to check how far the cancer had spread.
The cancer was all GONE!
My mom however, lived just long enough to pray for me and tell me to start going to church.
Then, she went quietly to heaven.
I later found out she had written a letter to her sister saying she had seen the Holy Spirit in the form of a white dove sitting outside the hospital window.
He took off and flew high into the sky, and she knew God was telling her it was time to go Home.
She was to tired to sign the letter, but in place of a signature there was a single tear stain.
It was a few more months before I was saved.
I started going to church and reading everything I could find about the logical proofs of Christianity and the historical accuracy of the bible.
Eventually, I decided to give my life to Jesus and I finally felt that was where I belonged.
Anyway, that is my story of how I became a Christian.
It is not always easy and has not solved all my problems, but following Jesus is defiantly worth it 
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11 Dec 2011, 2:56 pm
As a "cradle Lutheran," I must say: well said.
-Bill, otherwise known as Kraichgauer
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11 Dec 2011, 7:10 pm
If you want to label me as Christian, it's only because I was baptized. I'm agonist and was brought up that way by my parents. Religion was never a big deal with us and it shouldn't be with the rest of the planet but it is and that's why it's a mess that will never be fixed. 
I am so sick of hearing how wrong it is to have a religion and that I shouldn't celebrate religious holidays like Christmas because we have never really dug deep into its religious meaning like the rest of the world, it's just a holiday where we eat a nice meal, gather around our tree, give each other nice gifts, and just feel good and happy that we are able to. 
