All these so called christians spend vast amounts of money and form big organizations judt to fight each other for power, control, size, bigger and bigger buildings, bigger crouds, and all that good stuff that is actually worthless except for fame and glory in a temporary position. What is going on? what has happened to the world? what has happened to this so called christian movement and better life.\n\nToday religion is just a slave pit that is demanding more donations, working to get big, have that great hollywood image, and be honorede by the masses like a bunch of movie stars.\n\nMaybe in the future there will be a academy awards cerrimony or a Miss Christian contest yearly on TV, who knows.\n\nWhere is that moral cuidance center and the place of refuge when one is down and out so to say and could find a place to kinda put things back in order and finde a new way to life? Is is a thing of the past?\n\nI see religion has become a big business!\n\nA thought fm cjkeysjr@yahoo.com.ph
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I'm sure you remember the Inquisition.. or the papal pardons, or especially the crusades(did you know that in one crusade they sent children in battle because they we're the only ones left? and all for money...). Imagine you we're the pope, and that millions of people believe that you are the represent-ant on earth of the God that gave them all that they have.. you would give him total obedience, in respect for God. Such a power would corrupt many, if not all... maybe it striped the officials of the church of that time of their faith and fear of God, or maybe they never had faith and we're fake as today's politicians.. we can only assume, will never know for sure.. Of course there are good guys too, that fight for preserving God's laws and for the well-fair of Cristian's, they are the motif for which people believe in God up to this day, they are the hope of the church and of the salvation pf humanity as we know it:( It's sad that those who preach moral values have never done anything more with them..
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Religions are fighting each other for the almighty DOLLAR.\nThe more believers you have the more you make.\nThe only truth they convey is guilt ,fear and false promises.
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It does not bother me in the slightest.  How can such tyranny have come from a true Christian?  That's not Love, that's not how Jesus would ever want people to act in His precious name.\n\nRather, those who participated in such heinous deeds were users of the faith for their own political agenda's and had no real love for Christ.  They have nothing to do with me.
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There IS a cultural war going on between conservative Christians and secularists.  They (the Christian party, mostly Republican) want to put God into everything public!  They do not realize that the Church was given the task of evangelizing the world, NOT the government (State). And they are furious when they do not get their way!
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The Evangelists are trying to take over the world with their televangelist programs that are being telecast across the world. This isn't real, and is called to for attention in the Bible by the Lord. Capitalism is not a religion, it's only a process.
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Just another scapegoat to blame society's problems on, and a way to divide people. There is a massive misconception in the US today that this is a "Christian" nation and that certain people/behaviors should be condemned. Funny thing, historically speaking every time a single religion comes to power that nations folds in on itself.
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Unfortunately so..\n\n.Perhaps it's a need to "be the one" who gets it right?\n\n Perhaps they're trying to get Christians to work the "Great Commission" harder?\n\n Perhaps they feel "scare tactics" will bring more to Christ?\n\n All of the Above are counter-productive, because then it paints a "charicature" of Christianity...
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I thought everybody already knew that religion, or the fanatical, misguided practice of it, was the source of violence in the Middle East.  And why do we keep electing religious whackos in this country????  Because a majority of the voting population cast ballots based on their religious beliefs.  So, is this country run by the Christian Church?  It sure feels that way to me.  I am a Republican, but am feeling shut out by the Christian fanaticism.
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They really are getting rich, you have to give them credit for that.  \n\nSome scams are successful, and no one can really do anything about one that calls themselves a church.
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What you've written is what organized "theocracies" have perpetrated since the dawn of recorded history. While the Catholic Pontiffs of yesteryear have acted particularly egregiously, they are not the only examples of how "Cows, Pigs, Wars, & Witches" (- the title of an anti-religious anthology of anthropolgical, cross-cultural studies, written in the 1970's) have come to be enlisted to create fear in the masses and exact control over protracted periods of time. Look at what the "Religious Right" want to do in this country. I suggest you read a book by Kevin Phillips entitled "American Theocracy." In there you can derive the sense that even a country such as ours is vulnerable to these age-old tactics... for example, think on just how effective the "culture of fear" trumped up by the present administration has been in creating an effecient "smokescreen" or deversionary force to escape the public's otherwise probing eyes.
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Because religion is all about social control and money. Did you ever hear of a religion that didn't want to control people or that never asked for money.\nNaturally a lot of people think that they should have equal opportunities in this field so they just go on inventing  new types of christianity and claiming it to be the only right one.\nThis leads to conflict with other religions which see their market share disappearing.
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well i am a Christian, and i first and foremost try to take in consideration that everyone i know or that may be in the conversation isn't a Christian.  I know from experience that many Muslims, Atheists, Catholics, etc...can hold a very educated conversation about religion, without ever believing in God, or the Christian God.  As long as the Christians involved can respect that the "non-Christian" people are not interested in converting, now nor ever, and do not try to force their faith or beliefs on them, then there should not be any problems.  but i can somewhat relate to what you are talking about, thats why religion, politics and money are 3 things i try to avoid talking about in abundancy.
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I'm a Christian, but many times I think if I wasn't I'd be so turned off by how some other Christians behave/act/talk.  In the name of Christ, they do some really outrageous stuff or twist the scriptures to fit their own agenda. Or act SO radically ridiculous  that it is a total turnoff to those who maybe are seeking. It's only a small handful of people, mind you, but those few can really spoil it for those that are genuinely trying to walk day to day and show God's love in every circumstance.  I consider myself a radical Christian, but mellowed by age, and a general sense of not wanting to turn off and offend every person I meet!
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I am not sure what you mean. Some Christians are making quite a big stir and fighting back in opposition to homosexual marriage. Or do you mean that too many Christians are being too quiet and not being outspoken enough against homosexual marriage?
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Is there such a thing as Christian politics? Yes. And I think it's gone too far. I personally think that the Republican party has become a religious party. People are voting for republicans because they think republicans attend church more and are more faith based.\nMaking decisions based on faith without fully understanding a situation is dangerous in my opinion.
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I have seen christianity mislead people.  I've seen large amounts of christians support torture and murder, I've seen vast numbers of christians support war and killing, I've seen christians that support executions like the one that killed Jesus, I've seen christians that have thrown their own children onto the street, homeless because they were born gay, to be raped and abused by criminals.  I've seen christians mothers disown their daughters for marrying outside the faith.  I've seen many high-up christians cover up the rape and abuse of children, And now there is a massive wave of moral sickness moving through the US christian community with the idea of the "undeserving poor".  Yes, now millions of american christians are promoting this corrupted ideal in order to escape from Jesus's most fundamental commandment of loving one another and caring for the poor.  Yet millions of christians in the US promote the idea that the poor take advantage of the rest of us, that they do not deserve our help, and that they are lazy.\n\nFrom where I stand, the majority of modern christians resembe the pharasees of the bible more than righteous men and women.
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Josh, I can understand your reaction and plea. It's sort of like having a bunch of mosquitos buggin' you and you can't get away from them, and you don't have any "RAID". Religious arguments are useless. Many Christians are trying to do God's work for him, rather than just focusing on their own walk with God, and letting God do his own work. They get pushy in their zeal to get everybody "saved". Some of them mean well, but some are really not mentally or spiritually well, and they'll give RELIGIOUS answers to everthing, including NON RELIGIOUS questions. I know that you can delete your own answer to a question, but sometimes I think it would be a good idea if people asking a question could delete answers that offended them. That way the pushy ones (and other people who give offensive answers)would get their answers deleted quite often, and they would soon learn that what they were doing wasn't appreciated and wasn't doing any good. And it would filter the answers for other readers who want to read relevant answers and cast a vote etc. You might want to suggest that to Yahoo. By the way, I am a Christian too.