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Okay, how many people have you seen claiming to be part of a non-christianity religion, or nonreligious, or whatever, who seem to think they're still being open-minded when they're attacking the shit out of Christianity?That's not open-mided.
That's just as god-damned bigoted as the people you claim to hate.
Bigotry is wrong, no matter who it's directed at. Yeah, even if they're the predominant religion in the western world.
(And, just to make it clear?
I'm a Satanist. This isn't "STOP PICKING ON MY RELIGION!", this is "stop being blind twats".)
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Well, if they're spreading a view point thats hateful and disrespectful im going to :T this is coming from a satanist pagan as well who is friends with some christians who are actually decent people. But there's so many bad christians its honestly why they probably seem attacked all the time.
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Fun fact; a few of my friends are athiests, and one of them, one of my closest friends, actually seems fascinated with religion and all that. It's really neat. I get to pick my brain for information on my religion(what I know of it) and tell it to him from an insider's viewpoint.
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*sees anti-christian comments under there*
*fuck of,i am a christian who supports gay right,is not a bigot nor inserts God in all talks*
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this should say telling religious people instead of only christians, im not attacking at all i think christianity is a peaceful religion and i have a lot of christian/catholic best friends, the non extremist religious people are very friendly
but personally im a muslim and at my old school people attacked me because apparently in america muslim = terrorist? im from lebanon, a country where christians/catholics, muslims, and jewish people get along fine. we get along with everyone except for terrorists and the israeli government (personally i think israels people are really nice people, i live in an area with a lot of jewish people and they're really nice) Β just because lebanon and israel have a lot of conflict, but otherwise we get along fine.
and people think because im a muslim im automatically a terrorist that has a knife in my pocket and kills innocent animals and innocent humans. id like to say for the record that is completely false. just like how nazis aren't christians, terrorists aren't muslims. i own 2 bunnies and i love them to pieces, you know? i wouldn't dare think of killing ANYTHING except for a bug (even then i wouldn't kill ladybugs or bees, ladybugs are holy to muslims and bees are innocent)Β
im very openminded, im fine with anyone believing in whatever they want. nobody needs to have religion forced down their throat. nobody needs the lack of god shoved down their throat either. we don't know the truth until we die. satan could be god for all we know, god may not even exist and im okay with that. i just wish people could be more openminded as well. gay people aren't the end of the world, the gay people i know are some of the sweetest people possibly on the planet. you know, if someone doesn't believe in what you believe you don't go shoving it down peoples throats like how the nazis tried to convince people that Judaism was wrong because its not. if your not using religion in a harmful way its not wrong. 7 billion people can't all have the same religion. 7 billion people can't all HAVE a religion.Β
i just want to let this out:
muslims aren't better than christians/catholics. christians/catholics aren't better than muslims. jewish people are not better than muslims. muslims are not better than jewish people. jewish people aren't better than christians/catholics. christians/catholics aren't better than jewish people. atheists aren't better than people of ANY religion. people of any religion aren't better than atheists.
your beliefs don't give you power over people. at the end of the day humans are all the same. we ALL have our own view of how the afterlife is. we all have a beating heart. we all have a brain. we all have blood. we all breathe the same air. we all we bought into this world by and egg and a sperm connecting. so why fight about a silly thing like religion? your religion has no power over other people at the end of the day. if you think it does you're an idiot, its just a belief. your belief might be correct to you, but it doesn't mean it will be right to somebody else.
sorry for the rant Β Β
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Agreed! Being open minded actually means you have the belief that people are free to believe in whatever they want to believe in. Although I'm not a super religious person here I do hold some Christian beliefs so it bugs me when people generalize the whole group based on the actions of some morons/radicals. I've met some Atheists/read blogs of a few as an exampleΒ who can be just as closed minded even bigoted with anything to do with any religion.
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Agnostic over here. And damn it, just because I'm not Christian or Catholic or whatever you're trying to force down my throat doesn't mean I'm evil.
In fact...
I would fucking LOVE to learn about your religions. All of them. Because unlike other writers, I would rather portray Christians, Satanists, Catholics, Muslims, Buddhists, Taoists, ect. for what they really are:
PEOPLE WHO HAVE VIEWS.
I want to be accurate and have variety, not be an asshole who says "all the Christians are losers" or whatever. I wanna accurately write people's religions with the proper ceremonies. Now, anyone wanna share information about their religion, because I'm interested in learning.
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Thank you. It annoys me especially when people hate Christians and think that they are "cool" and "independent"...
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Understand that there is a context there.
A lot of us grew up in schools where we had to "pledge allegiance" in recognition of your every morning, were forced to undergo religious indoctrination, and still live under a government where your religion wields a lot of power in opposing gay marriage, fighting birth control, and waging wars against Muslims.
I'm not "open minded" to letting a religion I don't believe in rule my life.Β
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No one's being a blind twat, as you put it in your description. You claim to be an atheist but you don't need to feel sympathy for the other side or defend them just for the sake of being contrarian. The only people who think Christianity is under attack are Christians. Because they consider anyone else saying "happy holidays" is attacking them, and they think teaching evolution in science class is attacking them and not being allowed to mandate prayer to their god in public school is attacking them, and they think not allowing them to spend government dollars that came from tax revenue paid by everyone to put a monument to the 10 commandments on the courthouse lawn is attacking them, and they think that someone putting up a billboard that says "there's no god" or some such thing is attacking them, when for every one of those billboards, they've got 100 up themselves across the nation that tells readers they will and should be tortured forever for not accepting Jebus. If there's one thing Christians have above all else, it's that they can DISH IT OUT, but they can't TAKE IT, and they are completely unaware of this fact, this double standard of theirs, they think things are against them and that they're being oppressed when it's heavily weighted in their favor, because they THINK that things should just naturally be even MORE in their favor. The other day, I was in freechess.org and someone was saying something or other, I don't remember what the original conversation was, but it came to him saying "do you believe in god?" To which I said "no, of course not" (which was already obvious from the prior conversation, I thought), and he said something like "oh, I know where you're going to go when you die". I'm not one to back off from something like that, so I decided to rub it in a bit, I said something like, "yeah, same place you are, oblivion, along with all your friends and all your family and everything you love and cherish" or something over the top. He went on so predictably to get angrier and angrier, insisting that heaven was real and he was going there while I was going to hell and that I was an "asshat" for attacking his beliefs, and I proceeded to rub it in a little deeper that he wasn't getting to me, so I said something like that I felt sorry for him, wasting his whole life on a false promise that will disappear like a puff of smoke, but not really, because I don't feel sorry for all the insects that die brief, meaningless lives either, so why should I feel sorry for him. He soon broke down and demanded I cease with my persecution of him, and why can't I just respect his beliefs and leave him alone. But that's the problem. He started the confrontation by persecuting me. He declared war on me when he told me I was going to be tortured forever for not joining his evil cult. If he wanted to be left alone, he shouldn't have gone on the prowl to attack someone else, and if he can't take retaliation, he'd best grow some thicker skin or stop attacking others. He doesn't get to then insist I'm oppressing him or doing anything unprovoked and then try to fall back on "let's agree to disagree" after declaring war. That's like a mugger pointing a gun at someone and then that someone pulls the gun away and points it at the mugger, and then the mugger is like "why are you picking on ME! What did I ever do to YOU!"
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Oh my gosh, I was just talking to my sister about this last night!Β I've had atheists tell me that I need to stop shoving my beliefs down other people's throats (even though I don't.Β I may talk about my beliefs, but I'm not forcing anyone to agree with me), and then they call me an idiot for believing in Jesus and God.Β Oh, and then they say that Christians will never be worth anything to society and that we should all either go kill ourselves or convert to atheism (and he had the nerve to call me a hypocrite).Β
When people talk about the way that Christians act and how it turns them away from Christianity, I feel the same way about atheism because of these hypocrites.Β I told my sister during the same conversation last night that because of the way atheists have treated me, I'll never become one.Β Really, atheists are guilty of the same things they blame Christians for.Β
(also, please note that I'm not trying to offend atheists when I say any of this.Β Just like there are good Christians and bad Christians, the same is true for atheists Β )
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I'm Christian too, and I never shove my religion down people's throats either. I'm completely fine with people not believing in God, because I respect their opinion, and they can respect mine in return. ^_^
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Well, I may not be a Christian, but I'm interested in learning about it. I hate it when writers put only their religion in a book, or if it's not their religion, then that character who worships it is wrong. I want to accurately portray you guys in my writing. Could you please tell me about it?
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It's been so long since I wrote that comment..I never went to church, my parents just told me straight up I was Christian. I just know that God made Adam and Eve and most Christians don't like homosexuals because "God made Adam and Eve, not Adam and Steve".
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Alright! Thank you for sharing what you do know!
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Also, also, also, Jesus was hung on a cross, I think..
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FINALLY. I am athiest personally, but when I hear other athiests saying how they hate when Christians shove their religion down their throats, then turn around and say "GOD ISNT REAL YOU'RE SO GULLIBLE" I get really angry. Hypocrisy isnt exclusively Christian.
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Gaaahhh...I hate it when (yes. I'm about to start talking about YouTube comments... 
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That's exactly what I see. (I have no life, either)
It gets really annoying when atheists think they're being 'MATURE' by posting negative comments about Christianity.
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Agreed.Β
It's like people hear "Christian" and ASSUME they're evil, bigoted, close-minded people that should go "kill themselves." 
We're not ALL bad, but the ones that ARE bad don't help our case out much. One person from a specific group can easily ruin it for everyone else, thus the group in mention is stereotyped and then everyone assumes anyone from that group is evil.Β
Sadly that's how it works. One person from any group acts up, then their actions are put into stereotyping, then that example becomes a label for the group. Kinda like how some people think goth people are super-depressed and emo
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I wouldn't say I'm open-minded, but I at least try not to hate for the wrong reasons.
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I'm a Christian, and I try to avoid religious arguments and gay rights arguments all the time. People wouldn't be so bitchy towards each other if it weren't for the lack of discretion these days...
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I'm interested in learning about other people's religions, I want to accurately portray Christianity in my writing despite being Agnostic. I hate it when writers believe only their religion is right and everyone else in their books that aren't of the same religion dies or gets shown how wrong they are. I'm sick of it, and I want to make sure you guys get shown as you really are. Please, I'd like to learn some directly from you guys as the faithful to your religion rather than from textbooks.
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No, it doesn't mean telling anyone to shut up.
Christianity means telling the mind to shut up.
Being open minded means letting the mind have its day.
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My grandmother is Christian and is pulled into religious arguments a lot. It's not usually a serious argument since they (the one she usually argues with) both believe in a higher entity in some way, but she's not one of those crazy nut job Christians, she believes in equal rights.
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it's insanity when people assume ALL christians are closed minded bigots. unfortunately, other christians feeding the stereotype doesn't help :c
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Thank. You. So. Much.
If I had a dollar for every person who started ranting about how hateful I am simply because I mentioned that I'm a christian, I'd have a lot of dollars. I don't hate anyone. My measure for a persons likeability is how they treat me, not their worldview, race, orientation, political affiliation, and so on.
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I'm sorry that people were jerks to you about being Christian. They're seriously stuck up for that. I'm an Agnostic myself, but I'm really interested in learning about your religions. I want to know what you guys feel about your religion that makes you follow it so avidly. It's... inspiring, really. And I want to accurately portray your religion. Just because I don't follow it doesn't mean I don't respect or admire you guys for your faithfulness.
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Oh, I need to work on this. I know that not all Christians are bigoted and discriminatory. One of my best friends is a Methodist and she's one of the most peaceful and loving people that I know. But, I have been known to feel negatively about Christianity in some ways. I mainly have issues with the pushy Christians, but I even find it annoying when people pimp their faith in their signatures or profiles here on DA. I don't have a "Proud to be Jewish" quote in my signature, now do I? It's just a little too upfront for my liking.
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I don't give a shit ( excuse me for the language) about what people worship/believe in, not even when they want to worship The Holy Chicken God. I really don't care, I just want people to not harm/judge/force their opinion on others or use their powers to supress women/gays/children. Luckily, a lot of christians agree with for instance homosexuality, or at least have no problems with it. But I gotta admit I still get a bit annoyed when a christian says that being homo/bisexual is evil. Not that I care about what they think, but because I am afraid that their gay children might suffer from their parents thinking about them that way.
Ah well, sorry for the rant
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lol, I made a group about Satanism some time ago, and one of the first comments I got on it was something along the lines of, "You're just as retarded as any other theist for denying God and worshiping Satan." Person didn't realize what a LaVeyan Satanist was, I guess.
I'm sure there's relevance to your (awesome) stamp somewhere, I'm just too hungry to find it right now.
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It comes with the name. I find it blows some minds when I say that "I don't worship the devil. If I did, I wouldn't be a Satanist".
(... They get really confused really fast.)
And that's aaaawwright.
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lol, that's happened to me a few times, it's funny. Though mi madre can't quite seem to grasp the concept, but ah well
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It's gotten to that point, hasn't it? All of the sudden, being a christian means your the redneck bigot who will lynch you if they get the chance. There is such thing as a non-radical christian, don'tchaknow. Crazy, eh? Anyway, thanks for making the stamp. Instant fave.
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This reminds me of a comment someone made.
They said religion was stupid and that God didn't exist, so he worshiped Satan instead. It was....confusing. Personally, I don't care what someone worships so long as they're not jerks about it. :>
Anyway, glad you made this stamp. I wish more people had this mind-set.
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Honestly, if you're gonna go about yelling about "GOD DOESN'T EXIST SO I WORSHIP SATAN", you're just as ridiculous as the people you claim to hate. It's just inverted Christianity, not subverted Christianity...
But, thanks!
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I know! Which is why I was so confused about it!
And you're welcome. :>
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Hear, hear! 'Open-minded' is not synonymous to 'anything but Christian'.
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THANK YOU SO FUCKIN MUCH!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
HAIL SATAN!
HAIL THYSELF!
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Er... your signature seems to be lying. Or you are.
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i replied to this when i was a satanist i am now a christo-pagan
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Okay, I see.
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yup are you a satanist though?
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Er, no. But I am curious though. I have only heard the Christian perspective on that religion.
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