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[QUOTE]Originally posted by Tora Regina: [QB] I do not make a judgment so much as an observation. If Christianity is supposed to do what they claim to do (save the world, bring peace, and so on), why has it not been done it in the past 2000 years? And don't tell me because people are sinners/won't listen/etc. If it worked, people wouldn't continue to be so. I realize that Christianity does plenty of good. I've been there and I have a few Christian friends -- quite close ones, too. And do you realize that no argument against Christianity (at least that I'm aware of) ever criticizes Jesus? It's when you say "we are the one true religion, join us or be damned" that Christianity becomes a tool for exclusion, an excuse to increase church membership. And THAT is when it doesn't do what it says it would. If you say Christianity is good, then be an example of good unto others, and let them come to you. And let me tell you a story regarding homosexuality. While I lived in England, one of my flatmates was a devout Christian. She was adventurous, loving, generous, and intelligent. And she always had wonderful things happening to her, such as one time she prayed for a job and a lady asked her to go to Hawaii for a week to babysit her children. She's okay with homosexuals *in theory*, but as another friend told me, when she walked on the street and saw gay people being openly intimate with each other, she'd turn to whoever she's with and go "that's so disgusting!" or "I can't believe they're doing that in public!", etc. That just saddens me, because her fear of gay people prevents her from loving them. It may not sound like a big deal written down, but imagine someone who's positive and loving most of the time, someone who is the light. Then they turn to you and say something like that. It's jarring and it feels..."off". I've had one-time church friends say things like to me, too. It's one of things that led to my eventual rejection of the whole thing. [/QB][/QUOTE]
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