Quote Originally Posted by 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.
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.