And that is why you are a super wicked awesome real Christian, and those fundamentalist asshats are not even worthy of the title.
I've read the Bible, too. More than once. I went to Catholic school for 10 years, in a parish that very much encouraged people to read their own Bibles and learn about the history and the scripture in context. I did years of Bible studies. And yes, I LOVE whacking down the whack-jobs with their own book which I understand better than they do. Isn't it fun? :D
As I've said before on my LJ: it's not Christians that I dislike. It's the ultra-conservative, gay-hating, evangelizing, in-your-face, brimstone-spewing fundamentalist whack-jobs that I can't stand. Real Christians (the ones who understand their religion in context and who don't preach in people's faces and scream condemnations) I like. And as I've said many times, I wish more of the good ones would speak up and tell the rude, obnoxious fundies to shut up.
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Date: 2008-12-31 05:16 am (UTC)I've read the Bible, too. More than once. I went to Catholic school for 10 years, in a parish that very much encouraged people to read their own Bibles and learn about the history and the scripture in context. I did years of Bible studies. And yes, I LOVE whacking down the whack-jobs with their own book which I understand better than they do. Isn't it fun? :D
As I've said before on my LJ: it's not Christians that I dislike. It's the ultra-conservative, gay-hating, evangelizing, in-your-face, brimstone-spewing fundamentalist whack-jobs that I can't stand. Real Christians (the ones who understand their religion in context and who don't preach in people's faces and scream condemnations) I like. And as I've said many times, I wish more of the good ones would speak up and tell the rude, obnoxious fundies to shut up.