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Here's a hint for you non-religious types...

Aug 25, 2020, 5:54 PM

When you go talk about Football with someone, what's good about it, what you enjoy, what you don't, what makes the game great, what seems to sometimes not work, what players you're enthused about, what teams you hate, etc. The sort of discussion where you're trying to bring out your feelings about and history with the game itself.

When you do this, you don't go talk with someone who never watched the sport, doesn't care about the sport, knows nothing about the rules nor the players nor the Teams nor the divisions nor the History. In other words, you don't go talk to someone who's view of football is the Premier League they've been following all their life.

When you go to have this talk, you talk to another American Football Fan-atic.

So here's my suggestion: if non-religious types want to have a conversation about Religion, then I would highly suggest that you go down to the Local Ministry to find someone who can help you uncover your feelings and ideas and misconceptions. That is where you can truly be helped, and I sincerely hope that you do that at some point in your life.

Coming onto a Board such as this with your pseudo-intellectualism and post-modern logic, and really just looking not for enlightenment but instead an argument to show how smart you are, is really just embarrassing. That's all. You're trying to be smart, when in fact you're an English soccer fan talking the Green Bay Packers. It just doesn't work, and even as people smile at you and humor you, it never will work.

And please, before anyone says that I am being "defensive", I'll just tell you "no". I'm just trying to help clean up your misconception before it happens. Because when you start talking the Liverpool Dungeon Dragons, I just skip right over the nonsense.

Kudos to franc1968® and TheProdigal for having more empathy than I and clearly more patience with impudence.

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the hardest part for me is removing the emotion from the discussion. I tend to agree with Prodigal, you can tell when a person is just trying to stir things up and is not sincere in their "questions." That would be a scoffer. No need to engage that. So, I will ignore it and move on. We cannot do anything about silly or false arguments.

One of the most often misused verse in the Bible is "“Do not judge, or you too will be judged. For in the same way you judge others, you will be judged, and with the measure you use, it will be measured to you." Matthew 7:1-2...especially by nonbelievers. In context, believers are to hold other believers accountable, but it is not our job to judge those not in the faith. That's God's job.

In my opinion, your OP felt a little condescending. I think people can recognize who is sincere and who is fake.

As far as "hating liberals"...that is a struggle. I don't have a lot of warm feelings for Obama. There are few highly partisan posters that get under my skin. But Jesus is clear:

“You have heard that it was said, ‘Love your neighbor and hate your enemy.’ But I tell you, love your enemies and pray for those who persecute you, 45 that you may be children of your Father in heaven. He causes his sun to rise on the evil and the good, and sends rain on the righteous and the unrighteous. If you love those who love you, what reward will you get? Are not even the tax collectors doing that? And if you greet only your own people, what are you doing more than others? Do not even pagans do that? Be perfect, therefore, as your heavenly Father is perfect" (Matthew 5:43-48).

Further, 1 Corinthians 13 tells me that if I have all the wisdom of the universe and do not love, my words are like a "clanging cymbal."

Here's a hint for you non-religious types...

OR...or, alternatively, and hear me out, stay with me on

Re: OR...or, alternatively, and hear me out, stay with me on

Re: Here's a hint for you non-religious types...

I look to your posts on P&R as the model of Christianity

Oh, I will absolutely own up to truly Hating Liberals

Re: Oh, I will absolutely own up to truly Hating Liberals

Ok, I've made my judgement

post-modernist bastardization of dying with the most toys

I've never met someone who tries so hard to sound smart.

Re: Oh, I will absolutely own up to truly Hating Liberals

Do you also hate the people they’re wanting to help?

Wow!***

I wonder if Jesus had anything to say about that stuff.***

Say? He threw those capitalist bastiches out of the temple.***

The nerve of some folks

Re: Here's a hint for you non-religious types...

But you know nothing about Faith because you have none

Re: But you know nothing about Faith because you have none

I absolutely get that and suggest you can believe what you

Re: I absolutely get that and suggest you can believe what you

Speaking as someone who does have the faith of a

Obed, I appreciate the take - let me suggest something...

If you believe this,

In that case, in might be helpful to remember...

Oh, you can only talk about religion if you've

Like FatherG, you get mean when you’re drinking.***

Point, nice read, but you seem to forget that 99% of the P&R

His Mamma made him go to

Alright, put the bottle down.***

That's like UNC-CH having Bart Ehrman as the Dean

There's no bottle here, only smoke.

probably artificial hickory smoke.***

So you don't like the P&R bored?

Here's a hint for those who are new to message boards.

I think you were complimenting me....

my only argument with that would be

I certainly get that...

Nothing is learned, or gained, by insulting

dust off them sandals***

and if you re-read my post, you might come to see that

Re: Nothing is learned, or gained, by insulting

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