Why You Should Consider Becoming A Christian

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Chuchulainn
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21 Nov 2007, 8:23 pm

I understand that a lot of you were raised as Christian, and were kind and honest but were returned with hatred. So was I. At times I wanted to leave my faith and become a druid, to "show them" and invoke their anger, to drink and have sex and live a sinful life. But I found that the true Christians--those that were kind and showed faith in God--treated me with the same kindness I showed others. You must understand that humans are flawed, that some people are inevitably going to be jerks. Some jerks will claim to be Christians, but aren't. These people serve as Satan's tools to turn you against the faith. I believe Aspies have a special connection to God. Don't let the actions of apostates deter you.



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21 Nov 2007, 8:29 pm

Ephesians 6:4 KJV
(4) And, ye fathers, provoke not your children to wrath: but bring them up in the nurture and admonition of the Lord.

1 Corinthians 13:4-7 BBE
(4) Love is never tired of waiting; love is kind; love has no envy; love has no high opinion of itself, love has no pride;
(5) Love's ways are ever fair, it takes no thought for itself; it is not quickly made angry, it takes no account of evil;
(6) It takes no pleasure in wrongdoing, but has joy in what is true;
(7) Love has the power of undergoing all things, having faith in all things, hoping all things.



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21 Nov 2007, 9:51 pm

What are your intentions? I don't understand something. You made a thread called "you failed"

You wrote in my thread about risperdal saving you from depression.

Now you are telling people to convert to christianity and saying that aspies are close to God?

You confuse me.


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21 Nov 2007, 10:02 pm

Chuchulainn wrote:
Some jerks will claim to be Christians, but aren't. These people serve as Satan's tools to turn you against the faith.

You mean conservative christians? :P


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21 Nov 2007, 10:08 pm

Kitsy wrote:
What are your intentions? I don't understand something. You made a thread called "you failed"

You wrote in my thread about risperdal saving you from depression.

Now you are telling people to convert to christianity and saying that aspies are close to God?

You confuse me.


I confuse myself.



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21 Nov 2007, 10:14 pm

Chuchulainn wrote:
I confuse myself.

You know that doesn't sound very persuading.


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21 Nov 2007, 10:37 pm

greenblue wrote "Chuchulainn wrote:
Some jerks will claim to be Christians, but aren't. These people serve as Satan's tools to turn you against the faith.
You mean conservative christians?"

Why does everything have to be conservative or liberal. There are good and bad people on both sides. Jerks are everywhere dispite political or religious affiliation or any other factor.



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21 Nov 2007, 11:30 pm

I was born christian and left as I just didn't beleive it
its all built on fear and stuff
the whole bible God is threatening to kill me :?
yet he loves me...right I am not an idiot and smell bull s**t a mile away



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22 Nov 2007, 8:46 am

Kilroy wrote:
I was born christian and left as I just didn't beleive it
its all built on fear and stuff
the whole bible God is threatening to kill me :?
yet he loves me...right I am not an idiot and smell bull sh** a mile away


God, if he exists, has serious issues.


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22 Nov 2007, 10:41 am

If you are an aspie, then I am a 34 year old virgin. You used to drink and have many sexual encounters and now you are a Christian.

Religion and numerous sexual encounters are not aspie traits.

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22 Nov 2007, 12:36 pm

Some aspies and auties are religious. I also know a high functioning aspie who is sexually active. Asperger's traits have nothing to do with religion or sexuality though many do not show interest in one or either of these traits. There is a lot of fear in the Bible and alot of love. In many places the fear would be best translated as awe but culture didn't do that.



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22 Nov 2007, 12:40 pm

Probably right but he has two of those traits.

Plus being a journalist requires a bit of social written skills. I can write well. but I always end up offending. I am sure this dude has no trouble like this at all.



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22 Nov 2007, 12:42 pm

So does an aspie friend of mine. Socially he is much higher functioning but I don't thing religion or sex is exactly a social thing for him.



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22 Nov 2007, 2:23 pm

Religion and numerous sexual encounters are not aspie traits.

perhaps not, but we can perseverate on anything!


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22 Nov 2007, 2:31 pm

militarybrat wrote:
greenblue wrote "Chuchulainn wrote:
Some jerks will claim to be Christians, but aren't. These people serve as Satan's tools to turn you against the faith.
You mean conservative christians?"

Why does everything have to be conservative or liberal. There are good and bad people on both sides. Jerks are everywhere dispite political or religious affiliation or any other factor.


The old one-dimensional categories of 'right' and 'left', established for the seating arrangement of the French National Assembly of 1789, are overly simplistic for today's complex political landscape. For example, who are the 'conservatives' in today's Russia? Are they the unreconstructed Stalinists, or the reformers who have adopted the right-wing views of conservatives like Margaret Thatcher ? On the standard left-right scale, how do you distinguish leftists like Stalin and Gandhi? It's not sufficient to say that Stalin was simply more left than Gandhi. There are fundamental political differences between them that the old categories on their own can't explain. Similarly, we generally describe social reactionaries as 'right-wingers', yet that leaves left-wing reactionaries like Robert Mugabe and Pol Pot off the hook . . .

so, I agree that the old 'Liberal vs Conservative' argument is outmoded and out dated. Besides the opposite of Liberal is AUTHORITARIANISM, not 'Conservative'.



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22 Nov 2007, 2:48 pm

sinsboldly wrote:
the old 'Liberal vs Conservative' argument is outmoded and out dated. Besides the opposite of Liberal is AUTHORITARIANISM, not 'Conservative'.

You forgot to include the link to http://www.politicalcompass.org/, which you gave in your thread on that subject.

There can be correlation between right/left and libertarian/authoritarian, but they depend on the country. In the US, people with authoritarian tendencies tend to be right wing, but in Russia they tend to vote communist. I don't know how strong the correlations are.