Reply #41: being a real Christian is more than actions [View All]

[davidinalameda]

or lack of actions

and I disagree with you that it's the job of progressive Christians to set anything straight, your language not mine, with anyone

you have people on here who are just as bad as any conservative Christian when it comes to bashing progressive Christians, and some of the posts on here that do bash Christians would never be allowed to stay if they posters were using the same language against women, blacks, etc but when it comes to Christians, it's fair game

"The people who beat up the lesbian I know were likely influenced by Christian ideology being Texan fratboys" Where the hell do you get that leap of logic?

and what I believe is not passive agressive; if these people think that they're going to get a rise out of someone, they're going to continue to do whatever it is that they're doing; if they realize that people are ignoring them, they'll go away

why do think that Fred Phelps does what he does-people respond to him in the way he wants; he plays people like a drum-he says something hateful and outrageous and people respond

the decline of the Klan and other groups is because they're being sued out of existence not because someone kicked their asses

anyway-you and I have two different views and I'll never accept that answering these kind of people who came to the Castro to sing songs with violence is the answer

it's like saying that if a group of gays went to some neighborhood, then it would be okay for the residents there to beat the crap out of them or kick them out of the neighborhood because it wasn't a gay neighborhood

that's the kind of thinking that lost us Prop 8-no one bothered to reach out to groups like African Americans and Latinos in order to attempt to educate them about our issues