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All religions have their flaws, but I believe it is the people that ruin religions, not religions themselves.

There are plenty of people who are perfectly able to take away positive messages from the Bible.

I am personally against people who twist the words of the Bible to suit their own agendas, because that shouldn't be what Christianity is about.

I guess I'm just annoyed at mean atheists because some good friends of mine and my own boyfriend and his family are Christian. They are mild-mannered, church-going people who have a genuine desire to help others through their faith. One of my mates wants to be a youth counsellor, my boyfriend's dad does amazing humanitarian work overseas... you get the picture. Hell, some of them are vocal about gay rights. They're not the scary preacher, "You're all going to hell!" types at all.

So I get a bit upset when they happen to mention their belief in God and some smart arse atheist starts picking a fight with them over it, purely based on the negative Christian stereotype when they don't actually know the person at all!

I suppose this post stems from sticking up for my friends, above anything. I don't believe in the same things as they do, but that shouldn't stop me from recognising a decent person or being able to respect their views as they respect mine.
(TheChicken Five hundred thousand points from Gryffindor, Mon 23 Mar 2009, 23:02, Reply)