This is my response to SKLANSKY'S "Only a select few bother me" thread, and i was upset it didn't get any response, so here it is again

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woah woah!!! this isn't a "Build a Religion" shop in the mall is it. I agree that most people fall into these categories, and that the rest are annoying, but most of the believers on your list do not only believe what you had listed as (decent religious people) but also claim to be christians or what not and just pick and choose aspects of belief in... this guy a the son of god, but god doesn't make jews go to hell, but he does make muslims, oh yeah and my all time favorite ------ if you are a good person you can go to heaven even though the bible doesn't say that. (I remind you that this only annoys me when these people consider theemsleves christians)

anyway and all the circumstances that they pick and choose without much thought and claim to be christians. honestly just be a christian or not and stop making up your own religion because you don't like the idea of good people going to hell because according to your religion it doesn't matter........wow i'm ranting..

so maybe you only mean that these people don't annoy you through their actions on a personal basis.. but at least this 15% or so are actually doing their job as a christian and telling it as it is (in their religion) and not building their own religion as they go

why believe the bible as the word of god (which the builders also throw their ideas at) and believe that jesus is the son of god, but not that gays are going to hell....

And I'm an Atheist!!!!!!!

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Do these build a religioner's bother any of you more than the devout christians for example?? I would agree with DS in that people who believe in his little list of beliefs are less of a bother than very religious people, but the problem is when these people claim to be of a certain religion...

I don't know what the odds are that...Jesus is the son of god and the bible is the word of god, but there are some things are wrong with the bible...but the odds cannot be good.

My mother claims to be a chirstian but doesn't like the idea that you go to hell if you don't believe that jesus was the son of god so she chooses to believe that they do not go to hell as long as they're good people. I didn't realize that you could change whatever you don't like about christianity just because your sense of compassion got in the way [img]/images/graemlins/tongue.gif[/img]

And i also think that the majority of DS's 85% are these kind of people

So does this annoy anyone else or is it just me???