Comments on: Allah Damns Newt

By: jjv

jjv — Tue, 22 May 2007 19:42:31 +0000

Well, I’m not a Protestant but it seems to me that every Christian is supposed to be for converting every person to Christianity. It was called the “Great Commission” by Christ. “Go ye and convert all nations.” I think the KJ Bible puts it.

Also, orthodox christianity believes that you have a better life, here on earth, if you adopt Christianity as well, not in what happens to you perhaps but in how the World is perceived. I certainly think that was the JP II/Mother Theresa view of it.

What I can’t stand are those pushy agnostics who keep trying to prevent me from making up my mind.

By: corwin

corwin — Mon, 21 May 2007 23:06:16 +0000

Yeah,put it to rest.I’ve some friends who are evangelical and they take a lot of shit from those of us who are”American secular nice guys.”But they are not pushy,and if they’re smug-well so are most men with a really big penis

By: Doc Rampage

Doc Rampage — Mon, 21 May 2007 12:43:53 +0000

You can put your fears to rest about evangelicals deciding to use coercive techniques. Evangelicals believes that accepting Christ must be an act of free will, prompted only by the spirit of God. If you do it for gain or to avoid pain then it doesn’t take. The work of the missionary is just to plant the seed.

Some other Christian faiths are different, of course, but if they try to coerce you, the evangelicals will be there to help defend your freedom of conscience.

By the way, this image of God hiding in the shadows and forcing you to guess which door leads to heaven and which door leads to hell is not what evangelicals believe. We believe that God gives the faith that you need to accept Him and that your choice to accept or reject God is ultimately a moral choice, not an intellectual choice, even if there is a veneer of intellectual reasoning over it.

By: nk

nk — Mon, 21 May 2007 04:33:43 +0000

“If God punishes heresy as severely as most evangelical Christians believe he does, then the kindest, most caring thing we as a society could do for those heretics would be to impose lesser punishments of our own, making punishment swift and certain, while those lost souls are still capable of repenting and avoiding the much harsher punishment that awaits them on the other side.”

No way. Too many people in Heaven would drive up the prices of clouds, create a harp shortage and require reservations three weeks in advance at the Milk ‘n Honey Club and Discotheque.