How does this happen? Chick-fil-A branded as anti-gay?

[Ben Kenobi]

Mr Fun told you that if you are going to shoot someone for insulting them you aren't a christian and this is your response. Do you think you're fooling anyone?

If your assertion is that you have to be a pacifist to be a Christian - that's just plain wrong.

[rah]

If your assertion is that you have to have a brain to be a Christian - that's just plain wrong.

Fixed it for you.

[Ben Kenobi]

I get embarrassed for Ben being a vocal Christian more than any other Christian on this site.

Both you and rah are embarrassed by anyone who preaches Romans 1. You're embarrassed by Jesus Christ and his Gospel.

[Ben Kenobi]

Fixed it for you.

At least Kidicious has a better understanding of Christianity and what it entails.

[Ben Kenobi]

I'm going to shoot the next person who looks at me funny when I'm grocery shopping.

Looking at someone funny = going to their church with signs and calling everybody pedophiles. Really, Mr. Fun?

[rah]

Both you and rah are embarrassed by anyone who preaches Romans 1. You're embarrassed by Jesus Christ and his Gospel.

Nope, just embarrassed by you. Your hatred doesn't have anything to do with Jesus Christ despite how much you try to rationalize it.

[rah]

At least Kidicious has a better understanding of Christianity and what it entails.

Obviously better than you since you seem to have zero understanding.

I don't claim to since I gave up on most of it due to holier than thou jag offs like you.

[Hauldren Collider]

Why don't churches have to pay tax btw?

At least they aren't government-funded like in the UK.

[kentonio]

At least they aren't government-funded like in the UK.

I had no idea if that was true or not, so I checked..

Funding the Church of England

It takes just over £1000 million a year to run the Church of England, financing its 13,000 parishes and 43 cathedrals.

Where do the funds come from?

Around three-quarters (£750 million) comes from worshippers in the parishes. Over the past five years, parishes have increased their giving by around £100 million to meet increased ministry and pension costs.

Across the Church, regular, tax-efficient giving rose by nearly 50% in the five years between 1999 and 2004.

Today:

over £200 million is given tax-efficiently each year through Gift Aid and a further £60 million is recovered from the Inland Revenue in tax;

£200 million is given in cash and donations by congregations and visitors;

£250 million is raised through legacies, special events, the letting of church halls, bookstalls, fundraising and parish magazines etc.

Around 15 per cent (over £160 million) comes from the Church Commissioners who manage assets of £4.4 billion (at the end of 2008) on behalf of the Church

http://www.churchofengland.org/about...s/funding.aspx

Not quite sure where the government funding part is supposed to be.

[Hauldren Collider]

I had heard that tax money went to funding CoE. If it's not true, then nevermind. But it appears to be tax exempt, just like churches over here.

[Imran Siddiqui]

Both you and rah are embarrassed by anyone who preaches Romans 1. You're embarrassed by Jesus Christ and his Gospel.

Well first of all, the Letter to the Romans isn't the Gospel of our Lord and Savior. Furthermore, the part of Romans which you are referring to (1:18-32) doesn't even mention Jesus.

[Ben Kenobi]

Your hatred doesn't have anything to do with Jesus Christ despite how much you try to rationalize it.

And, like I said, you are embarrassed by Jesus.

I don't claim to since I gave up on most of it due to holier than thou jag offs like you.

Yawn. How boring. You don't even accept personal responsibility for your actions.

Well first of all, the Letter to the Romans isn't the Gospel of our Lord and Savior. Furthermore, the part of Romans which you are referring to (1:18-32) doesn't even mention Jesus.

"He made them male and female", is.

If you're going to be Christians, why be ashamed of Christ and what he teaches? There's no point. Be atheists, be whatever. If you're apologizing for him, then you're not doing him much good, are you?

[The Mad Monk]

I had no idea if that was true or not, so I checked..



http://www.churchofengland.org/about...s/funding.aspx

Not quite sure where the government funding part is supposed to be.

What is meant by, "and a further £60 million is recovered from the Inland Revenue in tax"?

[Bugs ****ing Bunny]

Both you and rah are embarrassed by anyone who preaches Romans 1. You're embarrassed by Jesus Christ and his Gospel.

I strongly suspect Jesus would be far more embarrassed of Saul of Tarsus. And you.

[Imran Siddiqui]

If you're going to be Christians, why be ashamed of Christ and what he teaches?

You mean like "Love your neighbor as yourself"?