The New "Tolerance"

[Flint]

Originally Posted by PizzaMonkey

And it isn't supposed to be "Magic". "Magic" is deemed evil by the Bible.

Originally Posted by wolf

Not so ... of the 16 mentions of magic (or magician), none of them describe magic as evil.

Case in point: "religious" people follow entrenched dogmas that have no relation whatsoever to the message they claim to follow. Magic is evil. Says who? Not Jesus. Not even the book about Jesus. But any "good Christian" will tell you magic is evil. Harry Potter is EVIL!!!

But why? It's got nothing to do with Jesus - so I ask you this: why tack Jesus' name on this poppycock? To legitimize your own bias? Or is it just out of blindly following along with whatever you are told, not questioning the origin of whatever wacky idea you hear in "church" - beause "church" is a place where everything you hear is true, and if you question it, you're burning in hell for all eternity!

I can't respect that. What is the purpose of calling yourself a "Christian" if you use you "Christianity" as a cheap crutch for your own half-baked ideas? That is sickeningly disrespectful to Jesus, wouldn't you think? Using his name to push your personal bullshit ideas? using his name to promote shit he has nothing to do with? How could you live with yourself if you claimed to worship this guy, but then you turn around and shit all over him and everything he stood for? Is it just pure fucking stupidity that this isn't glaringly obvious to anybody who has ever read the things that Jesus actually tried to teach us?

I maintain that calling yourself a "Christian" is a useless gesture that is actually harmful to the teachings of Jesus. Why do it? Why join that "special club"? Because it makes you feel good to belong to a group of "better" people? What exactly is the purpose of identifying yourself as a "Christian"? I really wish somebody would explain that.