Friends of God: A Road Trip

[C.F. Kane]

Never lived in the Bible Belt. Is this like a daily occurence for everyone living there?

 

[bored]

I live basically right above the Bible Belt. The Bible Navel if you will. I grew up in Topeka, KS, where Fred Phelps lives, so I've seen plenty of that good ol' extremist insanity first-hand. There's a documentary called "Fall From Grace" that a KU student recently came out with all about him. If you look closely, I'm actually on screen for a few seconds (I only found this out after seeing it).

 

[Alex Summers]

I'm watching Jesus Camp right now.

I nominate Jesus Camp as the scariest horror movie of 2006. In all honesty, that movie made me sick.

 

[ShadowBoxing]

Never lived in the Bible Belt. Is this like a daily occurence for everyone living there?

Down here so far I have been called "depraved and evil" for:
- Having sex before marriage.
- Doing X one time.
- Drinking on some Fridays.
- Having one beer with dinner (that was among my favorites. One Christian at the table asked me "are you okay to drive" with great concern).
- Expressing the desire for sex.
- Having a friend who is gay.
- Having movies with nudity in them.
- *********ing and or watching porn.
- Watching and enjoying Office Space.
- Drinking at age 22.

Things I haven't been called a hertic for and or are incredibly ironic.
- A Fundamentalist Christian roomate was willing to sit through the entirety of Terminator 1 with the exception of the nude scene (think about that)...although he did kinda watch the nude scene too.
- A FC went three months in a relationship without kissing the girl before wanting to get married. They broke it off...yet he claimed I only enter in relationships for sex (think about that).
- Black jokes were not offensive to an FC I knew. (I will say this is not usually the case).

 

[ShadowBoxing]

Here is a recent conversation I had with a random student I recognized from my days on the Rugby team (with my thoughts included)

SB: Hey, man what's up.

John: Oh hey...just loving life.

SB: Yeah I like it too...(jokingly) one day I'll move on to something else, but this works for right now.

*laughter*

John: (Inquisitive) What will you move onto.

SB: Uhhh...whatever comes next I guess
*SB Thoughts: what is this, twenty questions?"

John: And what comes next?

*SB Thoughts: Greeeeaaaaatttttt"
SB: I don't know, I haven't died yet (said with a tone reserved for the last word)

John: Well you know there is this Book on it I like

*SB Thoughts: Yep, walked right into this one*

John: It's called the Bible.

*SB: Oh give me a f***ing break, you don't have any better idea than I do what comes next*
SB: Yeah well...I always liked that one by Deepak Chopra...but whatever comes next I'm sure it won't be expected...

*I walk away*.

 

[Kritish]

Down here so far I have been called "depraved and evil" for:
- Having sex before marriage.
- Doing X one time.
- Drinking on some Fridays.
- Having one beer with dinner (that was among my favorites. One Christian at the table asked me "are you okay to drive" with great concern).
- Expressing the desire for sex.
- Having a friend who is gay.
- Having movies with nudity in them.
- *********ing and or watching porn.
- Watching and enjoying Office Space.
- Drinking at age 22.

I've done all of those things except for Office Space, never seen it.
I have two lesbian neighbors, I'm going to hell for talking to them.

 

[C.F. Kane]

Down here so far I have been called "depraved and evil" for:
- Having sex before marriage.
- Doing X one time.
- Drinking on some Fridays.
- Having one beer with dinner (that was among my favorites. One Christian at the table asked me "are you okay to drive" with great concern).
- Expressing the desire for sex.
- Having a friend who is gay.
- Having movies with nudity in them.
- *********ing and or watching porn.
- Watching and enjoying Office Space.
- Drinking at age 22.

Things I haven't been called a hertic for and or are incredibly ironic.
- A Fundamentalist Christian roomate was willing to sit through the entirety of Terminator 1 with the exception of the nude scene (think about that)...although he did kinda watch the nude scene too.
- A FC went three months in a relationship without kissing the girl before wanting to get married. They broke it off...yet he claimed I only enter in relationships for sex (think about that).
- Black jokes were not offensive to an FC I knew. (I will say this is not usually the case).

God hates Office Space?

 

[ShadowBoxing]

God hates Office Space?

They (the folks watching it with me) did not like the sexual content and implied sex scene. We had to have a big talk about it afterwards and two of the guys were real concerned with what their father's would think.

 

[Phoney Bone]

I was in a car with some bible thumpers today...I went to a church and had to listen to why homosexuals were "depraved and sinners in the eyes of God, and couldn't accept Jesus". I tried to defend otherwise to my friends in the car. They said you cannot selectively read the Bible, so I asked them why they were anti-semetic or impoverished (both things the Bible requires) and of course they claimed it did not say those things. They also posted on my wall (on Facebook) that Jesus loves me even if you don't understand it. It makes me sad to see such intolerance.

I HATE how picky and choosy Christans are with what they want to believe in the Bible. My friend says he's a hard-core Christian, and is often slamming it in my face, but he also has pre-marital sex. When I call him on how that's against the Word, he ignores me.

 

[ShadowBoxing]

I HATE how picky and choosy Christans are with what they want to believe in the Bible. My friend says he's a hard-core Christian, and is often slamming it in my face, but he also has pre-marital sex. When I call him on how that's against the Word, he ignores me.

Yes, however for the most part those "laws" against pre-marital sex, homosexuality and drinking exist in the abolished Old Testament (which was replaced by the NT in Xianity). I do seem to remember Jesus preaching to some degree about abstinence.

 

[jaguarr]

The wages of sin is death!!!!!

jag

 

[Motown Marvel]

these fundamentalists need to go back and pay attention to the sermon on the mount int he book of matthew.

 

[Kritish]

Osama Bin Laden vs Fred Phelps...