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#1 2005-04-05 5:25 pm
- davic3
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why do christians...
I have a part time job in a restaurant that I have been at what seems like forever. At least once every couple of weeks there are different christian people inviting me to join their church. This has happened regularly for years. Why is it that only christian churches seem to be on such an intense recruitment drive. It just strikes me as odd that they feel such an obligation to get people to join. Is there a quota that outsiders don't know about? Perhaps it's a smug we got it right and every other religion is wrong attitude. I only say this because I can't begin to tell you how many times I've been told that I cannot be saved unless I accept Jesus as my personal savior. Also I don't want to seem as anti religious, because that is clearly not the case. I go to church almost every Sunday and I try to be true to my catholic upbringing, I just don't feel the need to convert everyone I meet. Afterall that is something people should decide for themselves.
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#2 2005-04-05 5:30 pm
- bedstuy
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#3 2005-04-05 5:30 pm
- NAG
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Re: why do christians...
Live in the Bible belt?
I think the type of people who do that are so scared of thinking that they must prevent everyone else from thinking. It is the cockroach mentality
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#4 2005-04-05 5:33 pm
- davic3
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Re: why do christians...
I'm in the northeast actually
"A bartender is just a pharmacist with a limited inventory."
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#5 2005-04-05 5:36 pm
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Re: why do christians...
Hm, that is weird. Next time ask them if they are LDS.
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#6 2005-04-05 5:38 pm
- ShnickyShnack
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Re: why do christians...
Proselytize, Proselytize, Proselytize.
It's the religious equivalent to the business maxim of volume, volume, volume.
Christians are converted, my son, not born.
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#7 2005-04-05 5:40 pm
- LittleMacKid
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Re: why do christians...
davic3 wrote:
<snip>...Why is it that only christian churches seem to be on such an intense recruitment drive. It just strikes me as odd that they feel such an obligation to get people to join. ...<snip>...Afterall that is something people should decide for themselves.
Yes, it is.
Matthew 28:18-20 :
" Then Jesus came to them and said,
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#8 2005-04-05 6:09 pm
- Camp David
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Re: why do christians...
ShnickyShnack wrote:
Christians are converted, my son, not born.
You're mistaken Shnicky... born a Christian, of Christian parents and grandparents. Baptism only formalizes the act.
Cardinal Joseph Ratzinger/Benedict XVI: "a simple, humble worker in God's vineyard." Habemus Papem!
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#9 2005-04-05 6:09 pm
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Well, you're Catholic so you wouldn't know that for every ten conversions an evangelical gets a ticket that will cancel out one mortal sin--it really makes you wonder about those folks who are really desperate to convert you, doesn't it?
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#10 2005-04-05 6:21 pm
- SpacemanSpiff
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Re: why do christians...
Camp David wrote:
ShnickyShnack wrote:
Christians are converted, my son, not born.
You're mistaken Shnicky... born a Christian, of Christian parents and grandparents. Baptism only formalizes the act.
You are offically stupid and misguided.
I'm sorry but this is so blantantly WRONG I can't help but to chime in.
I mean I feel like this is a new record for you: 2 "sentences" yield two wrong statements.
Amazing.
It pains me so that you will burn in hell (with the pope).
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#11 2005-04-05 6:45 pm
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Some cowboys went out riding,
Riding on the range
Grass was overgrazed there
And spotted like some mange
Buffalo were dead there
Trees? They all were through
And if they saw some "Injuns"
They would kill them, too!
Said one cowboy to another
"Think it would be nice
If we could take these Injuns
And convert them all to Christ!
They are all disgustin'
And bringing me great pain
And if they don't believe me
We'll put a bullet in their brains!"
I am always shouting
When I go outside
How people "should repent now!"
Or they're gonna die.
My motives are all selfish
I'm a cannon primed with powder
People don't believe me so I just beat them
AND YELL LOUDER.
West or bust,
In God We Trust
Let's Rape, Let's Kill, Let's Steal
We'll just go and justify
Everything we feel
Climbing up that ladder
Ooh! More brownie points for me!
Work my way to Jesus! Just you wait and see!
Spirit was crushed; now is fading, But I want to help make things right.
Because I can see and I can feel, and you can see and you can feel
So why don't we both either stand up and fight
Or at least together we'll call it a night.
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#12 2005-04-05 7:02 pm
- Camp David
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Re: why do christians...
SpacemanSpiff wrote:
I'm sorry but this is so blantantly WRONG I can't help but to chime in.)
I'll listen to whatever proof you care to surface, if you have any. Two Christian (Catholic) parents have a child and child is born Christian... as I said Baptism removes the original sin child is born with but Christianity is innate as child of parents. But as I said, I'll listen to whatever you got...
SpacemanSpiff wrote:
It pains me so that you will burn in hell (with the pope).
Inside knowledge of Satan's agenda there Spaceman?
Cardinal Joseph Ratzinger/Benedict XVI: "a simple, humble worker in God's vineyard." Habemus Papem!
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#13 2005-04-05 7:11 pm
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Christianity is genetic? Whoda thunk...
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#14 2005-04-05 7:12 pm
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KingFred wrote:
Christianity is genetic? Whoda thunk...
Wooboy! This could be great if the gay folk drop by here!
Christianity is choice!
Nuh-uh! You're born with it!
Spirit was crushed; now is fading, But I want to help make things right.
Because I can see and I can feel, and you can see and you can feel
So why don't we both either stand up and fight
Or at least together we'll call it a night.
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#15 2005-04-05 7:19 pm
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Re: why do christians...
Camp David wrote:
SpacemanSpiff wrote:
I'm sorry but this is so blantantly WRONG I can't help but to chime in.)
I'll listen to whatever proof you care to surface, if you have any. Two Christian (Catholic) parents have a child and child is born Christian... as I said Baptism removes the original sin child is born with but Christianity is innate as child of parents. But as I said, I'll listen to whatever you got...
that is some seriously screwed up theology. baptism removes sins? what denomination are you?
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#16 2005-04-05 7:21 pm
- bedstuy
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#17 2005-04-05 7:27 pm
- shapoopy
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Re: why do christians...

Good?
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#18 2005-04-05 7:31 pm
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#19 2005-04-05 8:15 pm
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Monty Python wrote:
There are Jews in the world.
There are Buddhists.
There are Hindus and Mormons, and then
There are those that follow Mohammed, but
I've never been one of them.
I'm a Roman Catholic,
And have been since before I was born,
And the one thing they say about Catholics is:
They'll take you as soon as you're warm.
You don't have to be a six-footer.
You don't have to have a great brain.
You don't have to have any clothes on. You're
A Catholic the moment Dad came,
Because
Every sperm is sacred.
Every sperm is great.
If a sperm is wasted,
God gets quite irate.
Oh, and play nice, folks.
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#20 2005-04-05 8:17 pm
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Well played.
Spirit was crushed; now is fading, But I want to help make things right.
Because I can see and I can feel, and you can see and you can feel
So why don't we both either stand up and fight
Or at least together we'll call it a night.
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#21 2005-04-05 8:18 pm
- shapoopy
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Bloody Catholics... every time they off and have sex they've got to have another child!
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#22 2005-04-05 8:23 pm
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Hey, wait a minute...
Somewhere I read on this board that all that's required for salvation is to believe. Now I read that I have to preach too. Who's right? I don't want to spend eternity being sodomized by Satan!!
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#23 2005-04-05 8:48 pm
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Re: why do christians...
The issue here is davic3. Clearly, davic3 is hot to Christians.
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#24 2005-04-05 8:49 pm
- SpacemanSpiff
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Re: why do christians...
Camp David wrote:
SpacemanSpiff wrote:
I'm sorry but this is so blantantly WRONG I can't help but to chime in.)
I'll listen to whatever proof you care to surface, if you have any. Two Christian (Catholic) parents have a child and child is born Christian... as I said Baptism removes the original sin child is born with but Christianity is innate as child of parents. But as I said, I'll listen to whatever you got...
I'd be more willing to look at your theology for that one. It doesn't make sense. How can you be a Christian (that is to say a follower of Christ) if you don't know who Christ is? 'll agree that children are inherently accepted by God (that is to say if they die, off to heaven with them) but to say you can be born Christian just because you have Christian parents is insane.
Camp David wrote:
SpacemanSpiff wrote:
It pains me so that you will burn in hell (with the pope).
Inside knowledge of Satan's agenda there Spaceman?
Nope, just being an ass.
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#25 2005-04-05 8:49 pm
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Roc Kit wrote:
The issue here is davic3. Clearly, davic3 is hot to Christians.
I hereby claim this thread SAVED.
Spirit was crushed; now is fading, But I want to help make things right.
Because I can see and I can feel, and you can see and you can feel
So why don't we both either stand up and fight
Or at least together we'll call it a night.
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