[A_perfect_lady]

I’ve been a Freeper for 10 years, and I love Free Republic. But there are two contingencies on here I cannot stand: the teacher-bashers, and the smug Christians who pop up on threads informing us all of who is going to Hell.

[strider44]

Go say it on the mountain. Cheers.

[James C. Bennett]

Brilliantly said.

[buck61]

and the smug Christians who pop up on threads informing us all of who is going to Hell.

Many of the “smug Christians” are only repeating what God has said, and this is their belief. You of course, don’t have to agree, which is your privilege, as stated.

It’s not today that should concern us, it’s “that day” (Martin Luther).

[netmilsmom]

>>I’ve been a Freeper for 10 years, and I love Free Republic.<<

It was a rhetorical question. I can cursor over your name and see how long you’ve been here.

>>But there are two contingencies on here I cannot stand: the teacher-bashers, and the smug Christians who pop up on threads informing us all of who is going to Hell.<<

Maybe it would be a good idea to stay off these threads today. If you’re upset by people’s beliefs in God and the afterlife, you’ll blow a clot with these threads. It’s YOUR choice to be upset. Like militant gays who get in Christian’s faces, you are choosing to be offended and lashing out. Be calm and be happy.

[Guenevere]

I've been here 12+ years and I love Free Republic too!

Christians opinions of Heaven and Hell are not based on happenstance or hearsay.....

..but on the Holy Bible, the Word of God.

You may choose, as Christopher Hitchens, not to believe Jesus is the only way to Salvation, but long time freeper, the truth is ....HE IS.

Chritians should only reflect sorrow when a defiant one has entered eternity separated from Christ forever.....

[dfwgator]

As a believer, I still support anyone, atheist or not, who understands that Islamo-Fascism is the greatest threat to humankind.

[SamAdams76]

I’ve been a Freeper for 10 years, and I love Free Republic. But there are two contingencies on here I cannot stand: the teacher-bashers, and the smug Christians who pop up on threads informing us all of who is going to Hell.

I don't see a lot of teacher-bashing around here but I have to agree with you on the latter group. They are annoying as all get out. It's almost like they take glee in condemning others. I cannot imagine God being too pleased with these self-righteous folk who presume to do his job for him. Hopefully in heaven, he will have a special space set aside for them so that the rest of us don't have to spend eternity listening to them clucking their tongues and lecturing us on our shortcomings. I believe in letting God sort them out. I will just worry about myself.

[driftless2]

"smug Christians"

I back you 100%. Too many very smug Christians on this forum. And I consider myself a Christian.

[Ditter]

Teacher bashing?????? I have been here 13 years and I don’t recall any teacher bashing. All manner of religion bashing but “Teach” I think you are a little overly sensitive on the other.

[Jeff Chandler]

I cannot stand: the teacher-bashers,

I've known many teachers over the years, and a few of them are actually intelligent.

[Lazamataz]

I’ve been a Freeper for 10 years

Noob. When you get MY kind of time.... THEN you will MATTER..... ;)

[ZX12R]

I’ve been a Freeper for 10 years, and I love Free Republic. But there are two contingencies on here I cannot stand: the teacher-bashers, and the smug Christians who pop up on threads informing us all of who is going to Hell.

You just have to learn to ignore the pompous religious kook FRingies.

[Future Snake Eater]

You don’t believe in God, so you don’t believe in Hell. What do you care?

[Matchett-PI]

".. there are two contingencies on here I cannot stand: the teacher-bashers, and the smug Christians who pop up on threads informing us all of who is going to Hell."

"Ironically, one of the reasons men of potentially gifted intellect reject religion is that they mistakenly believe there is no place for the intellect in religion, a misapprehension that is most certainly reinforced by popular caricatures of religion that are engendered by none other than religious doofuses themselves. ...."

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"..So it is not so much that certain strands of thought are wrong because they are modern or postmodern. Rather, they're just wrong, period. On the other hand, many postmodern ideas are obviously correct. For example, I have no idea why materialists still exist, since modern physics utterly obliterated their anachronistic worldview a century ago. No serious thinker can be a materialist, which is why a Christopher Hitchens is obviously a brilliant man in terms of raw candle power, but extraordinarily naive in his background assumptions of how the physical (let alone spiritual) world works. He is not postmodern at all, but operating out of a defunct, 19th century Victorian picture of the world."

[reg45]

What's wrong with “teacher bashing”? I'm old enough to remember some really good ones, so I know how good they can be and how mediocre they have become.

[grey_whiskers]

But there are two contingencies on here I cannot stand: the teacher-bashers, and the smug Christians who pop up on threads informing us all of who is going to Hell.

You must be a *lot* of fun on the naughty teacher threads ;-)

Cheers!