Who's going to win the Religion: Real or fake thread?

[N35t0r]

Who's going to win this thread

Queue the "Who's going to win the 'Who's going to win the Religion: Real or fake thread?' thread?"

[Elok]

*cue

[N35t0r]

No, I actually added it to my 'threads to post' queue.

[Imran Siddiqui]

snark and name-calling.

Snark and name-calling and angry retorts and telling people to STFU, is not Jesus-like.

[Kidlicious]

Snark and name-calling and angry retorts and telling people to STFU, is not Jesus-like.

WRONG! Do you read the Gospels at all?

The only one of those he didn't do is tell someone to STFU.

I told someone to STFU because they seemed high on drugs and was putting false words in His mouth. Excuuuuuuse me!!!!!!

[Kidlicious]

If I wanted to get personal, I would reference your personal life in some way. And this isn't about your beliefs, except insofar as you're a professed Christian and thus your actions reflect on us to some extent. Your manner of expressing them is, shall we say, uncouth. I can't think of any Christian saint who acted the way you do, the way you say the Bible wants us to. Not one. Even St. Stephen only railed at the Pharisees when they had him on trial for his life. The rest were firm in their convictions, but mild in defending them.

Nobody ever defended the faith by saying, "Hey, you! You're a bad person! No, don't ask me why, don't try to defend yourself, just take it from me, you're a bad person! What? Do I know you? What does that have to do with anything? You're immoral! Oh yeah? Well, you're just stupid for thinking that, ha ha ha!" Jesus himself went among prostitutes, tax collectors, all the scum of the ancient world, but we have no record of his condemning them in that fashion. The closest he came was with the Samaritan woman at the well, and there he only stated facts calmly: "Yes, you've had five husbands, and now you're with a sixth man." How he reacted to atheists, we can't say, because there's no record of such things, but of course he had plenty of strong words for the self-righteous religious elite of his day.

Good Night!!!!!!

This is the most hyperbolic post I've seen in some time. Please get a grip!

[Egbert]

Who won?

Sting Chameleon

[Aeson]

Poly won it, I don't know what contest it was a prize for though...

[Elok]

Good Night!!!!!!

This is the most hyperbolic post I've seen in some time. Please get a grip!

It's shaped like an hourglass? That could be an effect of your monitor resolution or something, I guess. It looks like two normally-formatted paragraphs to me.

[Imran Siddiqui]

WRONG! Do you read the Gospels at all?

Show me where Jesus is snarky. And he has harsh words for the Pharisees, but name-calling? Not even close. (Hint: telling people what they are in a calm manner to illustrate a bigger point or make them realize things about themselves is not "name calling")

Heck, there is even a twitter persona called SnarkyJesus:

http://twitter.com/snarkyjesus

Because it is funny to imagine Jesus as being snarky.

[Elok]

Well, it's not exactly name-calling, but in all fairness, he does compare the Pharisees to sepulchres, white on the outside but full of rotting death in the middle. That's sort of like calling them a name. But dang, that'd be a cool put-down. Way better than just spamming the smiley. Kid, if you're going to be rude you need to step up your game.

[SlowwHand]

Show me where Jesus is snarky. And he has harsh words for the Pharisees, but name-calling? Not even close. (Hint: telling people what they are in a calm manner to illustrate a bigger point or make them realize things about themselves is not "name calling")

Heck, there is even a twitter persona called SnarkyJesus:

http://twitter.com/snarkyjesus

Because it is funny to imagine Jesus as being snarky.

He could be snarky.

[DaShi]

I thought I won that thread long ago.

[MikeH]

Well done DaShi!

[Imran Siddiqui]

I'm going to emulate the Bush Administration and declare victory!