Adolescent Effusive

Ah, the Media-revised

Hahahahahaha.
I just overheard Bill O'Reily say, "Jesus never said that people who don't believe in him are going to hell."
Have you READ the Bible, Bill? Maybe you should before making "insights" about the Christian religion.
I'm so sick of people bubble-wrapping things to make them less offensive.
No, not all "Christians" believe that all non-Christians are going to hell. However, the Bible says it. Many fold. It's not even funny how many times it says it. People just ignore it because it's offensive. Yea, it is. However, if you're not a Christian, should the Christian hell make any difference to you? I'm not sure. But I'd say no. So I don't even see what difference it makes.
Let Christians alone. They have their beliefs, you have yours. Christian fundamentalists don't blow themselves up with the intention of destroying our nation. All they do is try to promote their way of life. Maybe you don't agree with it, but the solution is to take into consideration that they might have some valid points, think on it, and do whatever you truly believe is right.
I'm just saying, before you go around calling people who stand up for what their religious texts say (word for word) wrong about what the tests say, maybe you should read the texts. They probably know better than you what is written in them. Maybe the religious texts are morally flawed, but saying "The Bible never said non-Christians are going to hell..." is like saying "Atticus Finch wasn't a lawyer..."
If I've offended anyone, I'm truly sorry. I didn't intend to. Being mindful of my tone and making my intentions clear are not my strongest skills.
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Obviously, I did offend some people. I've taken out the offensive matter. I honestly didn't mean it the way it came out. If you care, talk to me about it, don't make angry posts in your own dumb livejournal.
I apologize for what I said and the way I said it, I agree that I was out of line and, quite frankly, I knew it at the time of the post. I just relied on the fact that this is Grand Island and no one seems to care anyway.
Surprise of surprises, the people who called me on it were not from Grand Island!
You've gotta see where I'm coming from though. It doesnt excuse what I said, because, I agree, it was ignorant and unfair.
Where I'm coming from is:
An evangelical, baptist Christian home. We are such a minority. "Everyone's Christian." Uuum...not really. According to Jesus Christ himself, Christians are people who DEDICATE THEIR LIVES to modeling his ways and spreading their beliefs to other people. If you don't believe me, get out a Bible and read it. I garuntee it says nearly exactly that. My parents actually live by this and use the Bible in every life decision they make. I'm not exaggerating. At all. THAT is why my family is a minority. Very few families have 4 out of 6 members cleaving to their Bibles and using it every second of their lives.
I'm just sick of the media ridiculing people I love. You think all's fair play in America. Everyone's given an equal chance. No. Who's one of the funniest characters on the Simpsons? Ned Flanders. An evangelical, bapsitst Christian. I agree, he's funny, but I think his character much less protested than other characters that poke fun at other religions or races.
Also, I'm just sick of Jesus action figures, things that say "Jesus is my Homeboy"....blah blah blah. It's disrespectful and rude. I don't care if you don't believe that Jesus was God's son or whatever. You don't openly mock people who do.
True Christians who do as Jesus instructed them to do are put down and laughed at while a Wiccan or a Muslim or a Hindu are praised for being unique and able to maintain their beliefs in a country where not everyone shares these beliefs.
Seems highly contradictory, is all I'm saying. And, yea, I'm sensitive about it. When people get emotional, they might say things that are out of line. I did and I've apologized.
I don't want to hear anything more on this matter.

P.S. I'm also mad that having Starz and Black Starz is okay. It's okay to have a channel that excludes white people. It's not being racist or unfair. It makes me laugh that this is okay. If there were a channel that didn't let anyone besides white people participate, there would be such an uprising.
I don't WANT a channel that only portrays one race, however, if there can be one, why can't there be others?
I don't get it. I really don't.

posted by M.Jazz @ 9:00 PM