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10-07-2011, 11:36 AM
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Originally Posted by DrPhil
Pot meet kettle. You are being as absolutely shameful and dismissive of others as you claim they are.
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When you know people who have to pray over what value meal to order at McDonald's, it gets old. I'm not making this up. I respect their right to believe what they believe, but I do not have to be a part of it. I'm all for blessing a meal, but I do believe that God gave us brains for a reason. YMMV.
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10-07-2011, 11:41 AM
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Originally Posted by amIblue?
When you know people who have to pray over what value meal to order at McDonald's, it gets old. I'm not making this up. I respect their right to believe what they believe, but I do not have to be a part of it. I'm all for blessing a meal, but I do believe that God gave us brains for a reason. YMMV.
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Not really.
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10-07-2011, 11:48 AM
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Not really.
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In your opinion.
I wouldn't speak for you; I would request that you not do so for me.
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10-07-2011, 11:58 AM
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Originally Posted by amIblue?
In your opinion.
I wouldn't speak for you; I would request that you not do so for me.
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I will speak for you. You just ridiculed something. If you respect something, do not ridicule it.
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10-07-2011, 11:49 AM
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Originally Posted by amIblue?
When you know people who have to pray over what value meal to order at McDonald's, it gets old. I'm not making this up. I respect their right to believe what they believe, but I do not have to be a part of it. I'm all for blessing a meal, but I do believe that God gave us brains for a reason. YMMV.
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Your anecdote is somewhat irrelevant the the discussion as statistically*, 90% of professed Christians don't live any differently than "the rest of the world". The extremists are the rare exception, not the rule. Probably even most the 10% in the study I read aren't this extreme.
*Study I am referring to measured things like divorce rates, pre-marital sex, porn, cheating, crimes, etc. among self-identified Christians vs. Non-Christian.
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10-07-2011, 03:31 PM
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Originally Posted by AlphaFrog
Your anecdote is somewhat irrelevant the the discussion as statistically*, 90% of professed Christians don't live any differently than "the rest of the world". The extremists are the rare exception, not the rule. Probably even most the 10% in the study I read aren't this extreme.
*Study I am referring to measured things like divorce rates, pre-marital sex, porn, cheating, crimes, etc. among self-identified Christians vs. Non-Christian.
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I wasn't talking about mainstream Christianity. I am a mainstream Christian. My family attends church multiple times a week. My husband is an elder in the church, so I feel qualified to comment on Christianity.
My anecdote was based on direct experience with that subset, which is a minority of Christians, who wish to exclude everyone who isn't exactly like them and secular things. These are the type of people who were excluding DeltaBetaBaby.
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10-07-2011, 03:37 PM
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These are the type of people who were excluding DeltaBetaBaby.
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More accurately: Exclude nonChristians within the context of teaching at the institution.
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10-07-2011, 05:15 PM
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More accurately: Exclude nonChristians within the context of teaching at the institution.
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Which includes DeltaBetaBaby, yes? The school's position to only hire Christians doesn't only exclude DeltaBetaBaby, but her exclusion remains the result. I was responding to that part of the story.
Have a great weekend, DrPhil. I'm sure I'll see you around GC.
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10-07-2011, 05:54 PM
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Which includes DeltaBetaBaby, yes? The school's position to only hire Christians doesn't only exclude DeltaBetaBaby, but her exclusion remains the result. I was responding to that part of the story.
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To teach and based on what DeltaBetaBaby has told us regarding her not being hired because she is Jewish (I assume she was told that).
We do not know whether all employees at that institution are evangelical Christians (or people who claim to be evangelical Christians). That provides a different context to the presumed exclusion based on religion.
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Have a great weekend, DrPhil. I'm sure I'll see you around GC.
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Uhhh...okayyyy...these posts will probably be here whenever you get back.....
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