Someone personally attacking you or one of your friends/group, or someone saying something offensive about God?
Examples:
Jane Doe is a muckraking filth-monger and an intellectual coward. Also, she cheated on her taxes.
God is a complete bastard. I can't imagine any being more vile. I'd sooner worship a turnip.
Believers of all stripes: which is more offensive?
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_Buffalo
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Believers of all stripes: which is more offensive?
Parley P. Pratt wrote:We must lie to support brother Joseph, it is our duty to do so.
B.R. McConkie, © Intellectual Reserve wrote:There are those who say that revealed religion and organic evolution can be harmonized. This is both false and devilish.
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_Quasimodo
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Re: Believers of all stripes: which is more offensive?
Buffalo wrote:Someone personally attacking you or one of your friends/group, or someone saying something offensive about God?
Examples:
Jane Doe is a muckraking filth-monger and an intellectual coward. Also, she cheated on her taxes.
God is a complete bastard. I can't imagine any being more vile. I'd sooner worship a turnip.
Jane Doe IS a personal friend of mine and all of that is true (she is cute, though).
God is a big boy and can defend himself. Stand back in case there is a lightning bolt.
This, or any other post that I have made or will make in the future, is strictly my own opinion and consequently of little or no value.
"Faith is believing something you know ain't true" Twain.
"Faith is believing something you know ain't true" Twain.
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_Ten Bear
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Re: Believers of all stripes: which is more offensive?
Personal attacks are far worse.
"If False, it is one of the most cunning, wicked, bold, deep-laid impositions ever palmed upon the world, calculated to deceive and ruin millions… " - Orson Pratt on The Book of Mormon
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Re: Believers of all stripes: which is more offensive?
Ten Bear wrote:Personal attacks are far worse.
I would agree, but only because I consider god a fictional character.
Parley P. Pratt wrote:We must lie to support brother Joseph, it is our duty to do so.
B.R. McConkie, © Intellectual Reserve wrote:There are those who say that revealed religion and organic evolution can be harmonized. This is both false and devilish.
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Re: Believers of all stripes: which is more offensive?
Buffalo wrote:Someone personally attacking you or one of your friends/group, or someone saying something offensive about God?
Examples:
Jane Doe is a muckraking filth-monger and an intellectual coward. Also, she cheated on her taxes.
God is a complete bastard. I can't imagine any being more vile. I'd sooner worship a turnip.
They are both an offense against God.
Being a Christian is not the result of an ethical choice or a lofty idea, but the encounter with an event, a person, which gives life a new horizon and a decisive direction -Pope Benedict XVI
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_Morley
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Re: Believers of all stripes: which is more offensive?
madeleine wrote:
They are both an offense against God.
What a great answer! I'm not sure it's my opinion, but it's still a great answer, madeleine.
edited to add: I guess they could both be an offense to Jane, too.
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_Morley
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Re: Believers of all stripes: which is more offensive?
For me, if they're true, either (or both) are okay. Isn't truth the thing that matters?
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_moksha
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Re: Believers of all stripes: which is more offensive?
Try going in a bar in Alabama and try uttering something against God.
Now go to the bar across the street and utter something against Billy Bob.
Which beating hurt more?
Now go to the bar across the street and utter something against Billy Bob.
Which beating hurt more?
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Re: Believers of all stripes: which is more offensive?
I wouldn't use the word "offensive". But if forced to, I wouldn't be offended at either one.
However, I get very uncomfortable when one attacks God. I get defensive when one attacks a friend.
However, I get very uncomfortable when one attacks God. I get defensive when one attacks a friend.