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[alway]

New season of Red vs Blue.

[Aklyon]

New season of Red vs Blue.

Its still going?

[Rose]

Back when I used a bicycle, it would be a common practice for me to grab onto a motorcyclist's shoulder. Never had issues.

[armeggedonCounselor]

edit:had a thought... have most of you had negative experiences when dealing with Christians?  I think the answer is yet but I still want to know :/  I wonder why this group is so different and nice than the other groups I hear about.

I haven't had any bad experiences with Christians. Most Christians - hell, most people - when they're on their own, are nice and accepting, or at least not all hellfire and damnation. It's only when you get a group of like minded people going that they get all douchey. Personally, I'm not homosexual, though I'm not certain I can claim full heterosexuality either, because I have kissed a guy before. And licked chocolate off his face.... Um.... MOVING ON!

My point, before that last sentence got weird, was that I am Atheist, but some of my closest friends are Christian, and one of the people I respect the most is a Catholic priest. So it basically just depends on the area you live in, I suppose, and the maturity of the person you're talking to.

[kaijyuu]

have most of you had negative experiences when dealing with Christians?

During my teenage years, there were two old people who I highly respected. One was an agnostic history teacher, the other was a retired Mormon badass (he was a big shot in the South American branches of the Mormon church and had a ton of stories to tell. I call him a badass due to a knife fight anecdote he shared once, and just all around being an awesome old guy). Both were wise in their own way; the history teacher taught me to think, the Mormon taught me I should care about things. Both emphasized not being judgmental. Both I still respect to this day, regardless of their religious affiliations.


Judge people based on who they are, not what groups they belong to.

[Vorthon]

But what about Scientologists?

[penguinofhonor]

edit:had a thought... have most of you had negative experiences when dealing with Christians?  I think the answer is yet but I still want to know :/  I wonder why this group is so different and nice than the other groups I hear about.

Bad and good experiences, on drastically different ends of the spectrum. On one end, there's the religion teacher in my high school that continuously spouted off the same drivel with little regard to critical thought. In one class he claimed that humans are the only creature that has sex face-to-face (blatantly wrong), and in another he was talking about this picture (warning: surgery pic) that apparently shows a fetus reaching out and grabbing a surgeon that's working on it in gratitude or something, but is actually fake (the picture is real, but the fetus was anesthestitized and therefore incapable of conscious action).

Then there's the Franciscan monk that taught a theology class I took a couple semesters ago at college. This guy was all about critical thinking, acceptance of other religions, and recognizing the places that the catholic church needed to improve. He never criticized other religions because he thought it was their duty to improve their religion like he was trying to improve his. Every year he speaks at a talk our LGBT club has about religion and LGBT rights. I regard him as pretty much the wisest man I've ever met.

[Flying Dice]

But what about Scientologists?

Silly, Scientologists aren't people. They're resurrected aliens in human bodies.






/KIDDING

[kaijyuu]

But what about Scientologists?

Not all of them are Tom Cruise

[Vorthon]

Yeah, but if I remember correctly, Scientology is the result of a bet between Hubbard and Heinlein to see who could start a religion. That really says a lot.

[Kadzar]

Yeah, but if I remember correctly, Scientology is the result of a bet between Hubbard and Heinlein to see who could start a religion. That really says a lot.

If that was true, and Heinlein had won, what would that be like? Instead of crazy celebrities we'd have real-life space marines?

[Furtuka]

No, we would have had hippy martians

[miauw62]

Christianity is not bad, its the pope and such that are just screwing up very hard.

[Flying Dice]

Yeah, but if I remember correctly, Scientology is the result of a bet between Hubbard and Heinlein to see who could start a religion. That really says a lot.

If that was true, and Heinlein had won, what would that be like? Instead of crazy celebrities we'd have real-life space marines?

Nope. As Furtuka said, it'd be free-love hippy martians. Heinlein's attempt was Stranger in a Strange Land.

[kaijyuu]

Man that would've been so much better. Hell, I might've joined.