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I have said this before about pontificators and religious fanatics: judgmental, mocking, hard, bigoted; yet hte worship the god that told them to be tolerant and "judge not that ye may be judged"
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Agrippina [funny you chose that name],
It is clearly evident you not only have no working knowledge of the Word of God, you play repeat-it-until-you-believe-it with things either not in the Bible, or taken squarely out of context.
Tolerance is not, repeat... not a doctrine taught in the bible anywhere... just so you know. Abhorrent behavior need not be suffered by any just people they identify it and deal deal with it.
Remember, you may find this hard to believe but Christians aren't the problem with the world Agrippina - your feminist underpinnings are clouding your judgment. Secondly, on the subject of judgment, Yes we are implored not only as Christians, but as citizens to be judgmental of behavior of not befitting a decent citizen all in the natural context of the word -- not condemning. I am not your creator so I can not hold your life in my hands [condemnation] However, I can weigh and consider you behavior as it falls in the realm of behavior becoming a productive member of the body politic this is where social morays come from.
Judgment simply means to weigh and consider... yes we weigh and consider things daily, and yes we are to hold our own behavior first before judging someone else's of falling short.... that is what the scripture meant. Not the blind advocation the tolerance of all sorts of deviance in the name of getting along. Not so... God is a loving, and merciful God, as well as graceful. But liberals love hearing that grace and mercy all day long -- but don't want to hear that, that same God is also a just God as well and must punish sin.
But you won't come to know that they you are living now because that simply is not a focus in your life... which is your business. But don't' cite what you don't know -- it can undermine you arguments real quick.
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My belief in my lusts and passions that has given me a wonderful life, with a beautiful, loving family and has made me even more certain that I am the master of my own fate.
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You believe in lusts... you indulge them, however, [like me] were created with only a
degree of free moral agency - but you are not autonomous. There is a quid pro quo element to everything you do, but you master nothing -- don't deceived for one moment, family and deviance have nothing to do with each other, and this is one of the mysteries of God -- what you do that is just, right and goodly [even as a nonbeliever] has its reward in the moment because you aren't serving the Lord [scripture will verify that], however... that thing that you serve that is visceral and baser... that is where you heart is, and that is God cannot be - you war against anything that convicts the beauty [in your mind] of sensual self indulgences that is not what we were created for.
"Being an atheist makes you happy, carefree, unafraid, sensitive, kind, thoughtful and above all non-judgmental."
Being an atheist make you one thing and one thing only... separated from God. It makes you critical of others who call themselves aligned by God's principles because they mirror them and you feel convicted. Does what you do in your daily life impact me? No, not directly -- but those extremists attempting to change government can, that is where we have to part company rather quickly - but as a believer in the Lord Jesus Christ, I would want what He does and that is you understand that living for your lusts isn't enriching, just distracting... and that you can have just as a rewarding life serving others by serving Him.
Atheists attack Christianity because it is a revolution of rebellion. Christians have done nothing [personally] to anyone. Anyone that would reasonably facilitate the labels and virulent attacks from the left.. simply because they don't want to feel the social stigma attached to the behavior they engage in, I have news for you - Christians didn't create the stigma, it lives within you. You are living in contravention to laws written upon your heart... and you know this. But, you are relying on the infiltration of secular special interests and their social conditioning to reduce the amount of conviction you feel on what it is that brings you pleasure in your day to day life, and not one thing more. You guys aren't that difficult to figure out you know. Atheism and evolution are your religions and are true religion at that, they are man made institutions. God has no respect for that that, neither do I.
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How can someone who is a believer possibly know what drives atheists, you have to experience a sensation to understand it.
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You act like your fallen nature is some big cryptic mystery and cannot be deciphered by people who used to live the same way. Atheism isn't a social club full of people with special "knowledge" like ancient gnostics.... hardly. You are people who give credence to what you feel why? because if something is made absolutely clear to you, well.. you may have a problem with that, but if you engage life with a relativistic, sophic world view... it [seemingly] makes life a tad bit more palatable.
However, Christians are reminded every day that we are no different from you, and are only survived by the mercy and grace of God, and nothing more. Our faith is in the shed blood of his Son to be the propitiation of sin in our lives so we aren't hung up on guilt and distracted by sin so we can live life richly as we can according to the gifts he has given each and every one of us. He came and He died that "... we may have life and have it more abundantly" all according to his Word. I have not in any way indicted you or your lifestyle, but you feel quite comfortable doing to so-called Christians in an way almost second nature, this reveals the pathology of a sin nature, to which there is no natural justification. That is evolution exists as a band aid of an answer for those who need to be affirmed and want to have a universal heritage and sense of belonging, but with out acknowledging God as Creator in that process. It is what you are giving up that you come up short on - don't by the cake for the frosting.