How can we encourage the bigots to die faster?

[metta]

This thread is not to be taken seriously. I'm glad the first posters saw that right away. Yes, the thread is dark humor....but that it just what it is out of a feeling of frustration.

It is also not a thread about killing people. For example, most Americans eat too much food that is high in fat, sugar and artifical hormones and chemicals even though they know that it will decrease their lifespan. It is a choice that they personally make becuase abundance in food is more important to them than quantity of life.

 

[RationalLunacy]

Tell the religious bigots that Leviticus says that anyone wearing cloth made of more than one material is an abomination and should be stoned to death. We all know that "Christians" wear Sunday shirts and skirts made of 50% cotton and 50% polyester.

They should all be stoned to death for their sin. They are an abomination.

 

[G-Lexington]

And some Christians say that homosexuals are trying to undermine their religion! Where the hell do they get these ideas?

Lex

 

[JasunStrikesBack]

And some Christians say that homosexuals are trying to undermine their religion! Where the hell do they get these ideas?

Lex

I am.

Catholicism is a religion that encourages child molesting and rape. I mean, why should I not try to undermine that?

 

[G-Lexington]

Then why do we get angry when Christians complain that homosexuals are attempting to undermine their religion?

Lex

 

[JasunStrikesBack]

Then why do we get angry when Christians complain that homosexuals are attempting to undermine their religion?

Lex

because they're on to us.

 

[G-Lexington]

As long as that's clear.

Lex

 

[frankfrank]

I always find myself thinking about The Rapture, where all the true believers and followers of God...no matter what they're doing at that moment...are "Raptured" and their physical beings disappear and they end up in "Heaven."

And how, after this event, all of those people who publicly make it known that they believe they will be Raptured, are left to wander around alone, collectively yelling "Bummer!! Bummer!! Bummer!!"

(This would include people like Anne Coulter, Rush Limbaugh, Senator James Inhofe, Glenn Beck, Rick Santorum, George W. Bush, a lot of Mormons, Don Wildmon, etc. And if Islam or Judaism has any equivalent to the Rapture in their teachings, I can think of a bunch more names to add...)

 

[G-Lexington]

I just assume all the Christians will be raptured, whether they're good ones or not. And at that point, I can have their stuff. I mean, they're not using it.

Lex

 

[hotatlboi]

OKAY I'M SORRY IF NEGLECTED TO MENTION THE 7 SEVEN CHURCHES.
Oh wait, that has to do with the rapture also. [/sarcasm]

You seriously have to be shitting me.

Revelation is the only book in the Biblical Canon that is completely composed of apocalyptic literature. That = rapture.

Looks like you don't know anything about the Bible......

No sir, I know a lot about the Bible, and I'm an athiest btw just so that's clear. I was simply pointing out that what you stated was incorrect.

The rapture as it is understood in modern society is not mentioned anywhere in Revelation.

The rapture is the concept that God will return to earth and take back all Christians with him to Heaven before the final judgment. That does not equal "apocalyptic literature" The second term is far more general. The rapture refers to a specific event.

 

[hotatlboi]

When the youth of today grow old, they will also get as opinionated and conservative as the older generations and we'll be stuck with the same situation.

Not on this issue we won't be.

It will probably be similar on another issue though.

 

[Level27]

The only idea that comes to mind, Metta, is that, if you wish for bigots to die, then we should ALL die: we are all bigots on this earth.

Having said that, consider this if you haven't already: "Aliens" coming to earth. They don't have eyes, ears or noses. They don't even look like they're "alive", yet they are moving. Surely, people aren't going to be frightened of, supersticious of, averted to and/or disgusted by them. Nope, not a single one of us living on Earth who have never had an experience involving them before...

(I was being sarcastic in the last two sentences)

Do you see where I'm going with this?

 

[hungrybrownbear]

No sir, I know a lot about the Bible, and I'm an athiest btw just so that's clear. I was simply pointing out that what you stated was incorrect.

The rapture as it is understood in modern society is not mentioned anywhere in Revelation.

The rapture is the concept that God will return to earth and take back all Christians with him to Heaven before the final judgment. That does not equal "apocalyptic literature" The second term is far more general. The rapture refers to a specific event.

Oh please, now you're just getting all choosy with words.

Sure, Revelation isn't only about the very specific point where God returns to earth --now you're just arguing semantics.

Just because the term "rapture" doesn't show up in the Bible, it is still a term used to describe the events of Revelation.

Saying Revelation is all about the Rapture is not a faulty statement, as it deals with events leading up to it and proceeding it. The focal point of Revelation is still about the second coming of Christ.

Whether you agree or not that somebody's view concerning the Rapture is in the Bible, yes, then, you can say that post-mil, pre-mil, and a-mill philosophies concerning the Rapture are not explicitly stated or mentioned in the book of Revelation.

Your understanding of Rapture is one dispensationalist view of the Rapture. Sure, I agree, that is not stated anywhere in Revelation. It was popularized by the books series Left Behind.

Just note that the Rapture is used as a general term to describe the events of Revelation and does not always mean that Jesus will come and save the Christians first, leaving those who aren't on earth until judgment day --that's only one view.