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Why do people insist on lumping the Virgin Mary in with God/Jesus/Holy Ghost? Even Catholics don't worship her as a deity, they just think she's helpful to pray for help to.
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I've never understood this either although Catholics DO worship her as a deity in many circles. There is actually a nice little organization called "Sociedad Mariana" (The Society of Marians) where we live and both of my parents are a part of it. It's basically a conclave of people who believe that the Virgin Mary (the Mexican version) was the mother of Christ and as her mother was just as important a figure in the Holy Family as Jesus and God. I try to rationalize it myself, but I never really get anywhere.
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My lord Jesus will always be oppressed on-line.
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Trust me honey, he was "oppressed" enough when he got nailed to a 2x4, I think we can let some shit slide considering you probably don't fully grasp the meaning of the word "oppressed".
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Let's face facts Christianity gives us so much freedom most people tend to hate on it yet they love freedom. Face it that if he never came that we'd be a supremely oppressed society, women would be supremely oppressed almost slave like, women benefited a lot from the coming of Christ.
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So like... Jesus was the first dude to be tortured for standing up what he believed in? Was he the last? I HAVE LIVED LIES MY ENTIRE LIFE.
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If people don't find Jesus or want him at least you can root for him because we are taught compassion and patience...
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Finally... Something smart out of your thick skull. We CAN root for him because a genuinely good character on paper.
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...and compared to Muhammad and his followers they are going to oppress the world.. they are going to give people the ultimatum one day it's either follow or die. They're already taking Europe over, yet we still squabble about Jesus being a fake and all the Christian affairs that plague us we just don't have the unity. That's why the crusades were a failure.
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... and there you go... Pretty much turning every point you mentioned before this statement into a complete spectacle. "HEY GUYS. JESUS WAS COOL. HE TAUGHT COMPASSION AND FORGIVENESS. BUT
FUCK THEM SAND NIGGERS! THEY GON' KILL EVERY MOTHERFUCKER ON THIS PLANET WHILE YOU GUYS DON'T SEE THE WAY OF JESUS. CAN WE NOT ARGUE NOW?"
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I pray for this world.
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I pray that you fix your neurological disorder.
You know, I don't really see myself as the religious type (read: I fucking hate organized religion) but I agree with a lot of the teachings that Christianity (or pretty much any major religion) tries to impose as a form of self-improvement. Respect for self and others, respect of life, brotherhood, tolerance, honor thy family; these are all things that ANY rational human being, regardless of faith structure or religious denomination, can at least agree to as being fundamentally good things. Having said that, I think that is precisely why Jesus is quoted as the de-facto standard for all of these teachings. The man is universally (at least in writing) recognized as having stood firmly for all of these things.
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personally don't find any use for Christianity but I know PLENTY of people who are better people because of it. Because they see in Jesus a role model of how they should model their lives to be better people themselves. I can certainly see the value of that; even if I'm no bible-thumper myself.
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It is now time to close this thread and ban all of its posters.
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Hmm... Tempting... I have a couple in mind already. Because IMMA GONNA OPPRESS ME SOME CHRISHUNS.
Jam it back in, in the dark.
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