Posted on 03/17/2008 7:44:22 AM PDT by Terriergal
To be fair maybe she got a call from Shirley Phelps-Roper or her Daddy.
My son is 14.
My oldest daughter is 12.
No, and I neither do I advocate stoning my disobedient children, or those who commit adultery, etc.
I miss the ol' HP crowd! Amid the mudslinging that's sure to appear on this thread, it could be a happly little reunion.
“Would you care to provide Scripture references to support your contention that Christianity has a dark, coercive, dangerous side?”
How about the entire story of David as he and his Hebrew army sweep through Canaan attacking, burning and sacking every city, killing every man, woman, child and beast therein, and does so because God told him to.
Aren’t all people the children of God? Why would he command David to savagely murder tens of thousands of his own children and ten burn their cities? Because they claimed it was “the land promised to the Jews” so it needed to be “cleansed” first?
I’ve never understood how Christians can believe their God is the same God of Israel. The Christain God is a God and father to all men and women, the Hebrew God is a God for the hebrews only.
You ain't tryin' to bring reason to this thread, are yuh???
Thanks.
Didn’t those threads go into the 500’s or so?
BTW, I’m with Jen on this one.
Sure there are the occasional nutbags like Fred Phelps and his little girl Shirley, but are they actually representative of Christian Fundamentalism? Because frankly, the title "Evangelical" has been coopted/commandeered by the religious left like Jim Wallis, Tony Campolo, Brian McLaren, Rob Bell and others, and the left has coopted the title "Fundamentalist" to illustrate people like Westboro Westbroodofvipers Baptist... so who are the ones in between there? We get lumped in with Shirley Phelps Roper and her hateful bunch simply because we avoid fads for cryin out loud!
Another point she's made is that people who criticize her works haven't read it. There are ways to know objectionable subject matter without having to pour over it. (The examples of those types of material are obvious.)
The keyword there being IF.
And also you might consider proving where they came from. Islamic nutcases issue them from their leadership. The closest Christianity can come is Westboro Baptist not-a-church.
interesting points...
Yeah, nothing like a “Harry Potter is eeeevil” thread to brighten up a Mpnday.
I did stay mostly out of the Dumbledore-is-gay broohah because my arguments were based on my experience as a writer (unpublished) and sounded a little weird to people who weren’t into writing.
Then are you refusing to follow the scriptural dictates against witchcraft?
I too am a Christian, I haven’t read the books, but I have many Christian friends who have read them. There is extremism in all religions, and to be quite honest, I have had some friends that are pretty wacky when it comes to their Christianity. A good example would be the Phelps family, I don’t believe they are true Christians (judging by their actions), and they certainly don’t live as Christ commanded us to, but unfortunately many people consider them Christians. They would be the type of radical Christians that would call in death threats (IMHO).
I agree you should be able to read whatever you want. And NOT read whatever you want, without being labeled a fundamentalist like an Islamic fundamentalist.
But...we also did not do the Santa thing, nor the Easter Bunny, in our house. Didn’t bother the kids not to make believe those things.
There is a difference betwee reading fantasy and reading fantasy that is put forth by many as having a Christian message when it doesn’t. I wouldn’t even say LOTR is a Christian allegory, nor Lion the Witch and the Wardrobe, although it seems closer.
The whole D is G thing was like “Whatever”.....
I wonder if people are now going to call Jefferson a “godless RINO sellout.” Probably.
Sheesh.
Lessee... Jefferson didn't listen to Rush; you never saw him with a elephant teeshirt; and his copy of the Koran was used to swear in the first Muslim elected to Congress.
Oh, and he loved France. And his personal life was somewhat scandalous. He drank a lot. His personal finances were often really messed up. And he wasn't strictly Christian. (pops)
Sounds like he was a lot worse than a RINO to me.
/s
Please forgive us, Mr. Jefferson. We are truly not worthy.
I agree. Warning people that they believe there are dangerous teachings in the books or dangerous messages is not the same as having a book burning and confiscating harry potter books from church members or the general public.
That’s like saying the kid who gets the math problem right because he works out the problem correctly is the same as the kid who does incorrect math
Two kids are asked to find the square of 63.
One enters the numbers into his calculator, presses the buttons to produce the answer.
The other multiplies 66 by 60 in her head, adds 9
They both come up with the same answer.
Which one solved the problem in the "correct" way?
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