Religion

Not surprising at all.
After seeing what some churches and its leadership have done with their charge to spread the "word" its no wonder that anyone would become disenchanted with so called organized religion. It does'nt take a rocket scientist to see that many church leaders and members are frauds. They claim to follow the word but their actions outside the church prove otherwise. That is why I always challenge anybody that has questions about God to read the Bible for themselves and make their decisions about God based on his word alone.

Playing "church" wont get you into Heaven.

 

So despite your self-suggested intelligence, you're grouping people who do this as having Christian traits, even exclusively Christian? These people aren't that way despite the tenets of their religion? It certainly sounds as if you're putting a face on something that certainly isn't gray area.
Your own logic is that since the average Christian is different than the average agnostic/atheist, being that your friends are the latter, that the average Christian is totally unrefined, barbaric, rude, and so on, knowing that that's horribly discriminative and illogical. And that's without going into the deep-seeded disgust you have for religion skewing your view that much further.

Nonetheless, picking out a tiny snippet of what I'm saying and taking it in another direction doesn't answer my question. You don't like your feelings questioned, and you certianly have an attitude suggesting that you're not only right, you're righteous. That what you're saying is superior to those dumb theists.
So isn't what you're basically saying there, totally in conflict with this same golden rule you're noting? What you're doing, is what you're complaining of in the same post. Correct?

 

You are correct, I am painting with a broad brush that perhaps is a bit antagonistic. But I in no way retract the generalization that those who profess a belief in a higher power are meaner to their fellow human beings than those who do not.

 

So you trust your friends and those that agree with you, over a more general pool of the rest of the world, that you disagree with? I'm shocked.
Now, if you want, address your treatment of religion v/s how you'd like your own feelings to be respected.
Personally, I don't hold ill will toward you not feeling how I do. It's the treatment of those people and apparenetly feeling begrudged against them that I dislike.

 

We are not even talking about the same subject.

 

SO the golden rule doesn't apply to your criticism of people within religion? That seems to be related, just dodged.

 

Sure it does.

 

While I am very Christian like on TBR, in real life, I quite nice, calm, and helpful whenever anyone needs anything. It's my worst trait.

 

I assumed you'd continue to avoid the question, yes.
Or you could attempt to be real about it, and just not political.
Hell, don't even have to say it. You're quite contradictory in this thread alone.

 

Dang.....I'll always remember this.....you ARE my hero!