What would Jesus REALLY do?

[Kirin]

http://www.cnn.com/2007/US/04/04/mar...sus/index.html

I found this article refreshing; being a person of religious faith, I too have found it troubling that many of those who profess to follow Christianity seem concerned with nothing more than the issues of homosexuality/abortion, which, in my opinion, are personal issues that have no business being caught up in government politics. What's even worse is that this ideology is even seeping into our schools-- once, my sister came home from school and told us that during her American Government class, her teacher actually responded that the difference between Republicans and Democrats is that "Republicans are Christians; Democrats believe in abortion."

I totally agree with the author of this article; people are so caught up in raving about abortion and anti-homosexuality, that they're forgetting about the myriad of other, valid social problems that plague our country.

An African-American pastor I know in the Midwest was asked by a group of mostly white clergy to march in an anti-abortion rally. He was fine with that, but then asked the clergy if they would work with him to fight crack houses in predominantly black neighborhoods.

"That's really your problem," he was told.

They saw abortion as a moral imperative, but not a community ravaged by crack.

It seems to me that many of the people who rant about abortion only care about people up until they're born; whatever happens to you after that is insignificant. If these people truly cared for the welfare of children, the same groups of people you'd see at an anti-abortion protest would be the same people rallying together for improvement of the foster care, education, government programs.

Your thoughts?

[Magus]

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ABORT RELIGION

[The_Real_Crunk]

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Religion these days does more harm than good. :/

[Ryner]

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It steals men's souls and makes them it's slave!

[Vanilla Iced Tea]

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Religion these days does more harm than good. :/

Yeah, really! Religious people are the worst. They're always going out and feeding the homeless and fixing orphanages and stuff. Who do they think they are?

[Crimson Knight]

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Yeah, really! Religious people are the worst. They're always going out and feeding the homeless and fixing orphanages and stuff. Who do they think they are?

I know! Them and their intolerance towards others, their criminal manipulation and their complete disregard for mankind!

IT BURNS ME.

[Jamos]

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Everyone in this topic is completely out of their minds!

[Alex]

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No More Christians. Metafilter Discussion; Contains some mac parodies that aren't that bad.


Even as an athiest, I can respect 'Christ-Followers' (with all that **** about love and peace) over the shallow* and hypocritical* mainstream 'Christian' following.


*generalizing.


I'm pretty sure there are more people *****ing about abortion and harrassing gay people than there are feeding homeless and being kind.

[Vanilla Iced Tea]

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I'm pretty sure there are more people *****ing about abortion and harrassing gay people than there are feeding homeless and being kind.

You might be right, but I don't actually consider them to be Christians. You wouldn't call someone a police officer who puts on a uniform and goes running around shooting people.

Those people are intolerant to begin with, claiming Christianity as their motivation. However, if they ever really looked in their Bible, they'd see that Jesus said, "He who is without sin among you, let him be the first to throw a stone" (John 8:7).

Edit: Or if you don't know that story, he means don't judge others, heh.

[Alex]

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Yeah. That's what my post was about.

[H2SO4]

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Religion these days does more harm than good. :/

I disagree, billions of people are religious, and perhaps millions of those consider religion to be the best thing that ever happened to them. I'll agree that the church has done some pretty horrible things in it's life, but religion isn't the cause, it's the people who twist it to justify their own actions.

As for abolishing religion, I doubt it'll ever happen. People will never be ready to throw away religion. It's not something people will just "evolve" out of in the next 20 years.

[IRC]

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Yeah! Religious people are intolerant of others. I won't stand for that.

LET'S GET EM!!!

The thing that gets me is that you guys are always complaining about evangelists trying to save your souls or wanting to preach to you. But you don't see me complaining about you atheists throwing your science in my face all the time. OOooh, what happens if you travel back in time and kill your grandfather? Wawa wee waa, we can stop light from going fast now.

Makes me sick.

[Nixon]

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I was forced to go to sunday school and chuch (and later youth group, choir, etc) for about 14 years or so. This was every Sunday, unless I was sick. I came to realize that roughly 90% of the congregation were total hypocrites.

Our discussions on religion in sunday school and youth group meetings were usually dull or irrelevant. Most people were only concerned with what everyone else was wearing or were too busy sharing malicious gossip to give a damn.

As I got older, I came to disagree with their take on homosexuality, since one of my friends was gay and I didn't ever have any problems with that.

Our church didn't do much for the surrounding areas. We did some limited "outreach" work, such as visiting nursing homes and working at the food banks, but it wasn't very often.

I know some nice people that are also christians, so I won't say they don't exist. :P Some pastors and congregations really do work with and for their own communities. It's a hell of a lot more productive than marching around and yelling about the abortion/homosexuality issue.

[IRC]

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So they're hypocrites because they act like everyone else, but because everyone else doesn't believe in God they're off the hook for not doing good deeds?

[Shard]

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Yeah! Religious people are intolerant of others. I won't stand for that.

LET'S GET EM!!!

That's the prevailing attitude in and around San Francisco. There's a lot of talk of being progressive and generally more accepting than (insert polite term for backwater hicks), but in the end it's not that they're more tolerant. It's just that they tolerate different types of behavior than the people they look down their noses at.