My solution, not necessarily final:

A Non Amos: Say, off point, but: I might be one of the newestly-looking Farkers around here, but I've lurked for years. I lurked while I was in high school, whenever that nag of a librarian wasn't watching.

Lurk moar.

Bevets: Christians have been around for nearly two thousand years and have not engaged in genocide.



You've never heard of Oliver Cromwell, have ya? Or the wars and genocidal acts of the protestant reformation? Or the Trail of Tears? Or how the Crusaders took Jerusalem and slaughtered everyone inside, after offering amnesty. And I bet the Spanish reconquest didn't come off without slaughtering a few whole cities. And then there's some Charlie Chaplin look alike who racked up an outrageous gas bill after having written a book that included something alone the lines of "My Christian duty".

To be fair, Religion isn't the reason for goading people to genocide. It's about power. And you'll seldom find genocides conducted without the blessing of those in power.

Oh, and one last note... Rwanda is about 90% Christian.

Ed Finnerty: More and more, Christians seem to confuse the Golden Rule with Golden Axe.

This must be a new definition of the word "good" of which I was previously unaware.

anuran: Of course, you wouldn't want to use material like that around Jews, Cherokees, Inuit, Dineh, Australian Aborigines, Congolese, Tutsi, Jews, Muslims or about a hundred others.


You said "Jews" twice

s2s2s2: When I was in my late teens, there was a new movement of gay outreach to public high schools in my town.
I was lead to believe, by the church, that this was a recruitment tool. I was skeptical. Then, I met a gay guy that worked in the program. He came to the table of the cafe I was having lunch at, and tried to convince me I was gay for about half an hour. Suddenly I had reason to believe this program was, in fact, recruitment. Then I decided judging the whole program based on what I was able to perceive of it was probably fncking stupid.

I hear that every time they convert a straight, God-fearing republican man, they get a free toaster.

BeerBear: Bevets: "Good News" clubs teach children in public schools the Biblical importance of killing all non believers

This headline is full of fail. 1) For the Secular Fundamentalist: these clubs are not held during school hours. They are held after hours when the general public has access to public schools. 2) Christians have been around for nearly two thousand years and have not engaged in genocide.

Hello Bevets, still full of it I see

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Hello Bevets, would you like to answer one simple question?

Because People in power are Stupid: this fundamental tenant?

I don't rent to fundamentalists.

UCFRoadWarrior: .have no problem when Muslims preach AND carry out the exact same thing



I believe the sergeant here would like to make a few comments about the best parts of you and inquire as to the viable status of your mothers progeny.

You know, for someone who supposedly ignored me, someone's raging pretty hard.

At this point, I'd like to take a break in the thread to plug Ben And Jerry's coffee Heath Bar Crunch ice cream.

This stuff is awesome. Each bite is like the tears of impotent rage in this thread.

This is fun. You play a brilliant fool, ICB.

Ambivalence: Bevets: 2) Christians have been around for nearly two thousand years and have not engaged in genocide.

History isn't your strong suit is it?

People, PEOPLE, come to your senses!

He meant, of course, that they never SUCCEEDED in COMPLETELY FULFILLING a genocide!

WHERE THERE ARE FUNDIES, FUN DIES.

And what a surprise it will be to them when they decide to launch their little "cleansing" program on the nonbelievers, only to find out that when you declare war on the rest of Humanity, the rest of Humanity is going to fight back.

What? Did they think that everyone was just going to meekly say "Okay" and line up to head into the gas chambers?

BronyMedic: Why do you think that there were pseudo-religious runes and symbols in almost everything the Nazis minted, printed, and fought with?

Pseudo-religious? As opposed to what?

Did Hitler fight against the churches? Certainly. They were a competing power base.
But there is no logical reason to hate the Jews, other than a reason that is based in Christianity (or Islam). The same "reason" that Martin Luther was afflicted with. Or are you going to say that that vile anti-Semite Martin Luther was not a Christian?

brap: So whose going to break the news to them that the Amelikites were already wiped out?

Don't be such a bible literalist. The Amalakites are a complex metaphor for whatever is suitable to the reader at the time.

You know, like the rest of the bible.

FirstNationalBastard: It should be considered child abuse to force religion on children.

If someone is so bugfark nuts to want to believe in fairy tales once they reach adulthood, that's their business. But to poison the minds of impressionable children with this crap and turn them into hatemongers and terrorists based on a millennium old book of fairy tales is despicable, and should be seen as a reason to have the children removed from the care of the irresponsible individuals brainwashing them.

/religion is a mental illness.

Who pissed in your coffee today?

MaudlinMutantMollusk: This thread is a Godwin waiting to happen

/is that a Godwin in itself?

Yo dog, I heard you like godwins....


And I'm really hoping the article is satire

Isn't it bad enough that they have their little clubs at colleges (like Campus Crusade and others)? Now they want to brainwash little kids?

Religion is like a penis: It's fine to have one. It's fine to be proud of it. But keep it to yourself and don't expose children to it.

I think it is a good thing that these christians are being so open about what they believe. In the long run it will lose them the children they seek to indoctrinate. There is a christian group that meets after school at the school I work at called Squire The Fire. A real nutty right wing fundamentalist group. Several of the kids go to it because they are expected to by their parents. Those kids have told me in confidence one of the reasons they allow themselves to be forced to go is so they can go to conferences in large cities a couple of times a year, the school I work at is in a town of 500. The reason they want to go to these conferences? Hook up with girls and smoke weed.

Sabyen91: iheartscotch: What's wrong with a little indoctrination; every now and then?

It might be the killing.

Now now, let's not bicker and argue about who killed who, this is supposed to be a happy occasion!

/ people will always find reasons to kill other people

// unless you want to throw out the constitution; people have the right to teach their children pretty much whatever they want

brap: 2wolves: Bevets: Christians have been around for nearly two thousand years and have not engaged in genocide.

Trail of Tears mean anything to you you ignorant f*ckstick?

Take it down a notch with the namecalling, you bloviating hoagie-biting mansandwich

HEY. Stop hating on Hoagies, you asshole.

Hoagies are the master race of sandwiches.

NOW it's time for popcorn.

Someone appears desperate for attention in this thread and isn't getting any. How sad for him.

Thank you for that, Bevets. I'm tired of setting firestorms around here. Frankly, I think I've already had my say. After all, it's not like anyone gives a damn.