Told my girl I don't follow Christianity last night.

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Not all religious people are nutjobs.(coughObama,Condelezza,Powell,MichelleObama,stephencolbert,cough)

Its a matter of not joining a nutty pentecostal or fundamentalist church. I'm not pentecostal and my mom was in a church that wanted all the children to speak in tongues to show we were "saved". I hit the youth leader with the :merchant: gaze.

Try and get her to go to a decent church with an intelligent congregation. I was in some with business leaders, biologist, teachers, scientist, doctors, college professors, accountants, etc before I moved.


There's more to church than following a bunch of rules. There's helping the community, helping people out of poverty, off drugs and off the streets, community service, etc. The trick is to make sure you plug yourself into a good church where the pastor is not one of those "THERE ARE DEMONS EVERYYYWHERE!!! LETS FILL THIS PLATE UP TO CAST OUT THESE DEMONS BREHS!!!" who only seek to fill their pockets and push BS. Find a good church with a level headed pastor who wants to see the children do good and his congregation do good things to set an example for the world to make it a better place. If they actually went to a legitimate divinity school(Not one of these bible diploma mill schools or fundamentalist bob jones institutions) then the odds of them being a nutjob tends to go down exponentially.
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Not all religious people are nutjobs.(coughObama,Condelezza,Powell,MichelleObama,stephencolbert,cough)

Its a matter of not joining a nutty pentecostal or fundamentalist church. I'm not pentecostal and my mom was in a church that wanted all the children to speak in tongues to show we were "saved". I hit the youth leader with the :merchant: gaze.

Try and get her to go to a decent church with an intelligent congregation. I was in some with business leaders, biologist, teachers, scientist, doctors, college professors, accountants, etc before I moved.


There's more to church than following a bunch of rules. There's helping the community, helping people out of poverty, off drugs and off the streets, community service, etc. The trick is to make sure you plug yourself into a good church where the pastor is not one of those "THERE ARE DEMONS EVERYYYWHERE!!! LETS FILL THIS PLATE UP TO CAST OUT THESE DEMONS BREHS!!!" who only seek to fill their pockets and push BS. Find a good church with a level headed pastor who wants to see the children do good and his congregation do good things to set an example for the world to make it a better place. If they actually went to a legitimate divinity school(Not one of these bible diploma mill schools or fundamentalist bob jones institutions) then the odds of them being a nutjob tends to go down exponentially.
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I'm like 90% sure Obama is a closet atheist...but carry on.

I'd be cool with "churches" if:

1. they paid taxes (even though its kinda a bad idea)
2. if they weren't religious but still provided the same services to the community
3. weren't so inherently conservative

I guess i'm just describing non-profits :heh:
 
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