Well said!

I'm sorry he's wasted his miserable life.

I always want to respond to that line of talk with "I am sorry you're wasting your life misleading and wasting other people's lives with your faith in your religious fantasty." But I don't out of respect for freedom to do whatever stupid thing you want with your time on this rock.

The love of god, ha

Ok so the pastor is sorry/feels sorrow. do you have to? do you have to respond in the pastor's terms? I'll bet you're good. You have an authentic life and belief system (feel free to specify). YOU ARE GOOD!!. go forward

God is a stalker!

So sad their god allowed the Holocaust to happen.

You can't feel what is NOT there!!!!! True story: I was standing out in the entrance of a church during the church service. In walked a transvesite (we call them Mahu in Hawaii). I welcomed the person and encouraged them to go into the sanctuary and join the service. I noticed the reluctance in her body language and told her it was ok...please come in.

Unfortunately she took my advice and walked into the church sanctuary. Upon her entrance, the church folk turned around in their seats and gazed at this person as though she had walked out of a sewer. Facial expressions and all!! No love of god anywhere to be found. Embarrassed and hurt, she left the church and never came back.

The Bible encouraged.."Whosoever will let him/her come" Ironically that churches motto was..."YOU HAVE A RIGHT TO BE FREE"
The biggest line of B.S. I had ever heard!!!

One thing for certain though, I did have a right to be free from religious judgement, condemnation and B.S. I left the church!!

If your god is ok with all the suffering in the world. Then your god is a Tyrant who needs to be brought down. That's just my opinion

That is some 'read'...thank you!

Amen!

I shall relate the story of my older brother. We grew up in evangelical type church which was fun as a child. When we were teens an evangelist came to town on a slavation tour. That service went on and on and on. I was twelve. I wanted to be saved. So I prayed and prayed. At the end the preacher asked had anyone received salvation. My brother raised his hand. I was shocked. He hated everything that church stood for. I recall my parents were happy about this, while I sulked on the way home. To me my brother was the incarnation of evil. Years later we are sitting in a bar. I said to him, what did it feel like to get saved that day. "Oh that. Remember that girl Rhonda"? I did because she was very pretty. "Well she said I would never get in her pants until I was saved. So I faked it". Again I was shocked. "You mean you faked being saved in church"? "Yeah", he said. "Why not, everyone else did". Then he told me to ask my mom what went on there. Only later did my Mom tell me the truth of the what was really going on. Of people having sex with other men's wives, of all the adultery taking place. Even the preacher was in on it. That is why he suddenly fled the church. One of the men found out about him and his wife and went to his house with a gun. "And did you", I asked my brother "Get in her pants". "Yeah, she was alright".

I hope you didn’t give him any money?

God seems like a disturbed ex-girlfriend.

I really believe a high percentage of pastors really don't believe in the Bible or in what they are teaching.
You might google a story about a woman pastor in a church out west that finally admitted she is an atheist. However, the members like her so much they want her to stay anyway but the national Baptist (or whatever religion) said she has to go. funny

I hatearguments that are totally emotional appeal.

You could always show him this video:

The REAL Truth About Religion And Its Origins

Do you know he thinks that way? What denomination? The Bible does not teach such things.

May I suggest that you don’t even bother yourself making yourself upset. Simply get the switch in your brain and switch it off, for your sake and it’s only about you. God won’t mind, he’s not there anyway. James

Great comeback. Far more sophistcated than my "Oh do fuck off"

Theres a lot of insight in your post.

Some people's "happiness in this life relies on hope of the next" and they fret about how awful this life is compared to their fantasized next. Therefore, their happiness is robbed.

The only part of the Royal Wedding (which, let's face it, was different) that I couldn't stand was all the religion. They did fly the Countess of Sussex's flag though (AKA the stars and stripes). Megan's mum was a bit tearful though donchathink?

Also I found out today that someone I thought was a friend has ripped me off £1900 over the last couple of weeks (I leave my door open, she knows where my wallet is and must have watched me putting my PIN number into an ATM). Still hard to believe it but there's no other possible explanation.

OK, she has a previous criminal conviction for fraud but it still hurts.

Blackbird came to see me in my garden and sat on the fence looking hopeful. I am an angler and we use maggots as bait. I feed them to the fish in my pond. Threw the blackbird a few. It hoovered them up and then sodded off without so much as a backwards glance.
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Sodding fucking sodding criminal woman brought me a black tomato plant. Probably deadly nightshade.

OK, I'm upset.

(Good post BTW)

I was raised in Puerto Rico. Because the public education sucks and it can be even dangerous, my parents put me on a private, American, Catholic school. The nuns were from an American order and I cannot remember the name. The priests came from Spain and there were also lay teachers that were not religious, meaning that they were not priests or nuns.

One time they took all the male students in my class to have weekly lectures about masturbation. Most of us were laughing at it. It took over two weeks and this priest could not really explain masturbation. Under pressure of the students, one of them gets up from his chair and asked directly to the priest if masturbation was bad or sinful. The poor priest did not know where to put his face, totally embarrased. He said masturbation was not really sinful and other stuff that I did not understand. This was a long time ago so my memories of this are fading away.

This was in a time where the priests were getting away with sexual molestation and no one would dare to point out that some students were getting molested. I still don't know what the purpose of these anti masturbation classes was. I am glad I got out of that school the moment I had a chance to get out.

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