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Originally Posted by JBKlyde
I dunno I think people get way too offended when the subject of religion comes up. Perhaps you've had a bad experience and you've closed your heart to the subject or perhaps you just don't have the time or maybe your just mad at God. I was talking to my dad this past Easter and he said that all it meant to him was a day off work. When I push the issue he said "If God would just get off his ass and start answering some prayers then he would be more inclined to give religion a chance."
So dose anyone have any thoughts on God, Religion, and Spirituality. For me Jesus is the only thing that keeps me going, I have no reason to live except that I might some how some way full-fill God's purpose for my life which I have no Idea what that purpose is. Right now the only thing that matters to me Is Jesus Christ and doing HIS work. SO if I can be of any help to successfully help someone else make it to heaven I have done my job...
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Perhaps some people get put off or 'offended' because they believe their beliefs are a personal matter, only open for discussion if/when they wish to discuss it. Not all breast cancer survivors want to talk about their mastecomy, not all vasectomy patients want to shout it to the world, not all believers feel Mr. Everyman and Ms. Everywoman needs to know what keeps them hopeful and (in)sane. Believers who believe their relationship with God is between God and them only may or may not want to discuss it with other people, since they have nothing to do with that relationship, even if their faith is in the same thing. If believing in Jesus Christ is all that's keeping you going, then you keep on keepin' on, but don't expect the guy next to you on the bus to want to know/care. If it turns out he does, then bonus but you can't assume.
Or some people believe in the same thing and hold the same faith but have varying ways of expressing it. It's like how some people react to a public toilet seat... person A puts down one of those liners before sitting down as a barrier to whatever yuk is on it, person B may squat over it instead and Person C, whose faith rests in the immune system, sits down regardless. They all believe the toilet seat can be gross but they all deal with it in different ways.