OK...now first of all

[SuperChuck]

I've heard a lot worse from postal workers!

[Hugh Jorgan]

Were you smokling an El Diablo at the time?

[mithril]

his tact was very off. i'm a christian but i don't talk about it with people unless i know them really well. course i hope i don't offend anyone here either but he sounds like a JW.

[Kayakinboy]

There's a guy that sits on the corner of one of the busy streets in town, and he has pretty much turned into his church. He's got a cross up with a "crown of thorwns" signs saying jesus loves you, yada yada yada. Anyways, my girlfriend looked at me and said, "What a nut!". As we drove by I rolled down my window and yelled Amen, he returned, God bless you son!

IMHO, that man is doing something alot of church-goers couldn't and wouldn't do. That man is showing his faith in ways I could never do. I'm too worried about looking like a loon. I mean, what if that is just an angel, watching out right there. How many people drive by him and feel bad they missed church last Sunday. He's doing the best with what he's got, and he's spreading the word doing it. We need more people like him.

[SuperChuck]

At least he was polite.

My experience with most crazy Christians is telling me why I and those around me are evil.

Shit, I could go for someone telling me God loves me! I'm used to hearing why God hates me! :)

[Diesel Grinch]

I'm a Christian and believe Jesus is my savior.

Born again Christian's just means that you have come back to Jesus. Some are more out spoken then most and while above from Marc about God loving him is true. It sounds like Marc might not be interested in the message at this time and that's fine. People come to the Lord at different times in their life.

As to Christian saying that your Evil SuperChuck is something they shouldn't be doing. As a Christian I'm not suppose to judge others that's the Lord's job. I'm suppose to live my life right and follow the word of God and like everyone else I don't always do such a good job at it. I try to correct my mistakes and do a better job next time. You just have to believe and try to do your best and everything else will fall into place.

[SuperChuck]

As to Christian saying that your Evil SuperChuck is something they shouldn't be doing.

Well, they probably have some precident. I did sell my soul to the devil for sexual favors in college (you think I'm kidding?).

But that being said...
I think Christianity is one of the most beautiful religions out there. It basically boils down to the basic principle of Bill-and-Tedism: "Be Excellent to Each Other"...

Oddly, the thing that really drove me away from it is the focus on Jesus as a diety. I think Jesus was a great guy and I've always lived by his teachings, but I don't think he was a god, I think he was just a great reformer (his story is actually remarkably close to the story of Gautama, the first Buddha). Of course, most Christians don't take so well to being told their saviour is just a faith healer... :)

[Neuromancer]

I'm a Christian and believe Jesus is my savior.

Born again Christian's just means that you have come back to Jesus. Some are more out spoken then most and while above from Marc about God loving him is true. It sounds like Marc might not be interested in the message at this time and that's fine. People come to the Lord at different times in their life.

As to Christian saying that your Evil SuperChuck is something they shouldn't be doing. As a Christian I'm not suppose to judge others that's the Lord's job. I'm suppose to live my life right and follow the word of God and like everyone else I don't always do such a good job at it. I try to correct my mistakes and do a better job next time. You just have to believe and try to do your best and everything else will fall into place.

I'm not against born again Christians, however, many of them have a bad habit of telling you that if you don't believe the way they believe, you are going to hell...the problem is that they try to ram what they belive down someone else's throat whether you want to hear them or not...if they'd just practice what they believe, quietly, and not try to force it on so many others, then they'd probably get a lot less bad press than they do now...furthermore, what do you say about a born again Christian invited to a Passover dinner at the home of friends of friends, a Jewish home, then after dinner goes into his proselytizing routine, by handing out pamphlets and audio tapes clandestinly, to the children of his Jewish hosts, trying to convert them...does anyone wonder why all these missionary religions, like the Mormons, and the JW's, get bad press? I mean why can't they just practice what they believe in and leave everyone else to believe as they want to do...

[Corona Gigante]

his tact was very off. i'm a christian but i don't talk about it with people unless i know them really well. course i hope i don't offend anyone here either but he sounds like a JW.

Somehow I got the impression that ol' MMAB lives round my neck of the woods and if that is the case, I'll bet you dollars to Davidoffs his new buddy is a Baptist. Lots of them in Texas. Fine, friendly people most of them but they sure like to "witness."

I didn't realize, before I moved first to America, and then to the South, that the word "Christian" covers a lot of territory. My experience has been that Christians tend to believe a lot of the same things, but those beliefs can be expressed in very different ways.

I have met many, many intelligent, open-minded, tolerant people who identify themselves as Christians. In fact, I would say that some of my best friends are Christians... But in every barrel, there's bound to be a few bad apples. I'm looking at you, Pat Robertson. And then, of course, there are these lovely people. How a religion which puts such emphasis on love and forgiveness could attract people so filled with hate is mystifying.

[cigar no baka]

I'm reminded of my first experience with Mormons. I was 17, taking a leak at work minding my own business, and here comes this guy who occupies the urinal next to mine. Then he asks me if he could witness to me about the Mormon church. While my dick is still in my hand. I tucked it an and ran, washed my hands in the sink in the janitors closet.

Then after I moved to Japan, I got hit up 2-3 times by Mormons who were out proselytizing, knocked on my door, and then when they got over the shock of seeing a fellow gaijin in rural Japan would start in on me. I told them to get their weirdo asses of my porch.