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Dadu2004 · 07-13-2008, 03:27 PM

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Originally Posted by budnkota

I can agree with the key chain and the crosses on your desk. but am guessing you don't spend a lot of time looking down at the shirt you are wearing, so how is that reminding you of your faith vs an advertisement of it?
6 mo after 9/11, I did an interview about the proper way to display a flag, and something the man said has stuck with me. He was talking about how it's become common for athletes to wrap flags around themselves (not a good thing) and how inappropriate bumper stickers, flag jackets and tshirts were to the flag code. I'd have to go back and reread the story to remember all the details, but you are supposed to destroy (generally burn) a flag that has touched the ground, because that is a move of surrender and it is better to burn that flag that to surrender the ideas for which it stands.
So if this kind of respect should be given to a flag, shouldn't your religious icons, whatever they may be, held to an even higher level of respect and honoring?

No, I don't necessarily look down at my shirt, but I know it's there. And I'm pretty sure I'm not going to burn it after it hits the floor on my dirty laundry pile. As far as respecting religious icons... I don't worship icons. I worship God. There's a difference.

Kaytee · 07-13-2008, 07:05 PM

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Originally Posted by sarushjr

No, I don't necessarily look down at my shirt, but I know it's there. And I'm pretty sure I'm not going to burn it after it hits the floor on my dirty laundry pile. As far as respecting religious icons... I don't worship icons. I worship God. There's a difference.

AMEN

Mindy · 07-14-2008, 05:43 AM

LOL, I can totally understand that.

It's the people with bumper stickers displaying "Be Wise, Circumsize" or "God is wise, don't circumsize" that really make me wonder

Nothing like privacy for your baby boy huh? LOL

Kaytee · 07-14-2008, 08:18 AM

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Originally Posted by Mindy

LOL, I can totally understand that.

It's the people with bumper stickers displaying "Be Wise, Circumsize" or "God is wise, don't circumsize" that really make me wonder

Nothing like privacy for your baby boy huh? LOL

I have never seen those, and though I don't really agree with circ that much, I don't think I would ever ever ever put anything like that anywhere!

Dadu2004 · 07-14-2008, 08:32 AM

I'm not a big fan of trying to prove your point of view by mixing in God. Things like "God hates gays" or "God is wise, don't circumsize" or "God doesn't eat meat" are all ridiculous. Some people like to exploit God for their own campaign, which is dangerous territory.

HandInCup · 08-31-2008, 02:24 PM

I come from a long line of intollerant people as far as religion goes. Personally, I feel that if the child chooses that form of faith, allow them to explore it in it's entirty. And one thing I will not stand for is anyone talking down on anyone else's religion.

My dad is a Roman Catholic, and my mom is a Baptist. Dad was always warm and welcoming when I was curious about his religion, and mom was completely offended by that. She told me I was going to be a Baptist and that was that, because I was her child, she was picking my religion. She told me I had no say in anything because she knew what god wanted. And that turned me off from her religion entirely.

I have been to many churches, Catholic and Protestant, and have decided that that is not the religion for me. I have become and will stay Agnostic until I find god. When I have kids, I will educate them on religion when they are old enough to understand what I'm saying. (=
And if they choose to be Christian, I will back them 100%. If they choose to be anything else, I will still back them 100%.

I have had many friends of different religions, the majority being Christian. One thing that really annoyed me was one of them would always criticize everyone on their religious points of view. He even told me my dad was wrong for being Catholic because all catholics don't believe in Jesus and are child molesters. This, I'm sure anyone can understand, is the wrong way to talk about someone's religion. He also gave us a two hour lecture on why we are going to hell when we die, and how he doesn't want to accend into heaven with us begging him for help and crying about why we didn't listen to him in the first place.

These are the kinds of people that annoy me when it comes to any religion, please, please, please don't think it's only Christianity that I'm talking about, because I have absolutly no problem with it at all. It is a beautiful religion. (I'm saying that because people tell me I come off anti-Christian, which is in no way the case).

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