Hobby Lobby's Smuggled Artifacts Will Be Returned To Iraq

originally posted by: Irishhaf
a reply to: FyreByrd


People would be much more willing to add to the thread if you could have restrained yourself from mocking Christianity every other sentence and stuck to the facts.

Heck I am not even a practicing Christian and I am married to a practicing pagan but your non stop vitriol thrown at the religion of the owners of the company rather than the acts of the company really take away from the thread and will inhibit much productive commentary on the thread as it will devolve into people attacking or defending Christianity.

Well done you sabotaged your own thread by failing to contain yourself, in a rush to claim the moral high ground.

You are completely correct. It would have been better to let people reach their own conclusions.

I know many fine Christian people who really walk the talk, but I also have a life time of experience with Christians who talk the talk but their walk is rather dubious. A particular peeve is those that parrot the 'using bad people for good ends' or that 'any crime is okay if it's done for the glory of xxxxx'.

Also, Christians as a 'stereotype' are just so easy to mock and have such a thin skin and overreact to everything that it is hard not to push at that weakness.


The Family: The Secret Fundamentalism at the Heart of American Power Paperback – June 2, 2009
by Jeff Sharlet (Author)

An interesting podcast with right-of-center Sam Harris and Bart Erhman:

Bart Ehrman about his experience of being a born-again Christian, his academic training in New Testament scholarship, his loss of faith, the most convincing argument in defense of Christianity, the status of miracles, the composition of the New Testament, the resurrection of Jesus, the nature of heaven and hell, the book of Revelation, the End Times, self-contradictions in the Bible, the concept of a messiah, whether Jesus actually existed, Christianity as a cult of human sacrifice, the conversion of Constantine, and other topics.

samharris.org...