Comments on: Our Hate Religions http://www.bloggernews.net/113630 High-quality English language analysis and editorial writing on the news. Fri, 25 May 2012 14:32:39 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.3.3 By: Nancy Reyes http://www.bloggernews.net/113630#comment-221243 Nancy Reyes Thu, 07 Feb 2008 22:14:29 +0000 http://www.bloggernews.net/113630#comment-221243 You obviously had a problem: You studied theology. Me, I merely worked with poor people for 35 plus years. Could I kindly suggest that God is not in a temple or in intellectual know it alls but in what Christians call "the least of your brethren"? If I had to put up with intellectual religion I'd probably be an athiest too...\ and if all I knew about Fundamentalists was what I read in the NYTimes, I'd hate them too. But I worked in Oklahoma for a couple years. As for born again Fundamentalists: They may try to convert you, but if you are sick they'll bring you a cassarole, and if your town is hit by a tornado, hurricane, or flood, they'll load up their youth group and help you clean out the garbage.... You obviously had a problem: You studied theology.
Me, I merely worked with poor people for 35 plus years.

Could I kindly suggest that God is not in a temple or in intellectual know it alls but in what Christians call “the least of your brethren”?

If I had to put up with intellectual religion I’d probably be an athiest too…\
and if all I knew about Fundamentalists was what I read in the NYTimes, I’d hate them too. But I worked in Oklahoma for a couple years.

As for born again Fundamentalists: They may try to convert you, but if you are sick they’ll bring you a cassarole, and if your town is hit by a tornado, hurricane, or flood, they’ll load up their youth group and help you clean out the garbage….

]]> By: Mark Mercer http://www.bloggernews.net/113630#comment-221018 Mark Mercer Thu, 07 Feb 2008 16:45:34 +0000 http://www.bloggernews.net/113630#comment-221018 Ed, I share most of your fear and loathing about the beliefs of the religious right (I have written some scorching articles, too hot to publish, that could only come from someone raised in that delusional environment). I must, however, point out some apparent inaccuracies in the above article. Paul (yes, he indeed was an obedience fanatic) said he would give up his own salvation to save his Jewish people. He also told husbands to "love your wives as Christ loved the church and gave himself for her," and for husbands and wives to "submit TO ONE ANOTHER,"--radical stuff in an era where women were treated as property. Christian men typically want submission but don't give it, and they won't even sacrifice the remote for their wives, much less their lives. Billy Graham never preached hate. In a recent Larry King interview, Graham was asked if he could love one of his children if he found out they were gay. His reply? "Why, I'd love that one MORE." There is a whole slew of intolerant play actors who have desecrated the person and values of Jesus--Falwell and Coulter to mention just two--but Graham isn't one of them. And what is an atheist doing teaching in a seminary? (I know, there are lots of them--another dirty little secret.)There are a lot of Christians (and Jews, and Muslims, and Buddhists) fighting for the values that you (judging from your articles) and I strongly believe in. I don't think we should allow a bunch of fanatical unwashed religious pigs to be lumped together in the same swimming hole with all the simple followers of Jesus who hate no one and only seek to do good. --Mark Mercer Ed, I share most of your fear and loathing about the beliefs of the religious right (I have written some scorching articles, too hot to publish, that could only come from someone raised in that delusional environment). I must, however, point out some apparent inaccuracies in the above article. Paul (yes, he indeed was an obedience fanatic) said he would give up his own salvation to save his Jewish people. He also told husbands to “love your wives as Christ loved the church and gave himself for her,” and for husbands and wives to “submit TO ONE ANOTHER,”–radical stuff in an era where women were treated as property. Christian men typically want submission but don’t give it, and they won’t even sacrifice the remote for their wives, much less their lives. Billy Graham never preached hate. In a recent Larry King interview, Graham was asked if he could love one of his children if he found out they were gay. His reply? “Why, I’d love that one MORE.” There is a whole slew of intolerant play actors who have desecrated the person and values of Jesus–Falwell and Coulter to mention just two–but Graham isn’t one of them. And what is an atheist doing teaching in a seminary? (I know, there are lots of them–another dirty little secret.)There are a lot of Christians (and Jews, and Muslims, and Buddhists) fighting for the values that you (judging from your articles) and I strongly believe in. I don’t think we should allow a bunch of fanatical unwashed religious pigs to be lumped together in the same swimming hole with all the simple followers of Jesus who hate no one and only seek to do good. –Mark Mercer

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