Religion is the **** of the masses--Karl Marx

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"Religion is the **** of the masses"--Karl Marx. My unfortunate Sociology professor mentioned it in a discussion during class. It got pretty heated. But after all the hubbub died down, it got me to thinking: does religion make us who we are, or is it the other way around? What do you think? (Even though I'm a Socialist and people say that's a step towards Communism, I still think Marx was just an emo before his time. This little adage further proves my point.:splat Smile

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Sister Tamara wrote:
PRAISE THE LORD!!! God is letting you find your own way and he does love you. He loves us all. He loved us enough to send his son to die for us. It's good that you realized that you weren't a Christian for yourself, because it never last that way. You have to come to Christ for yourself and that's the only way that you will become a true believer. When you don't want to believe things it's easy to find excuses to back up your non-belief. As far as the prayer part, there are more than one type of prayer. Some people are trying to make you feel better by telling you that they are praying for you and you don't want to accept that. That's cool. Seeing as to you were once in church and you do know the bible, if I was to pray for you it would be the prayer of the Prodigal Son. I would pray that the Lord sends you to the pig pens...Does that make you feel better??? :-)

Well, just for future references, I would prefer it if you didn't pray at all. It is not cool, in my opinion to pray for someone JUST BECAUSE they didn't believe or stopped believing (as in my case) in a particular set of beliefs. And don't believe for a minute that I am not aware of the type of prayers there are. But I don't appreciate this one at all. That's seriously shoving Christianity down my throat in a sugar-coated way. I'm no longer a Christian, so what? That's my prerogative. Trust and believe, I'm not making any excuses. I simply don't believe in any of Christianity's doctrine. A prayer of sending me to the pig pens...all because I'm not Christian. How sweet. And somehow, you expect others to come to your faith with that kind of 'loving' propaganda. Yeah, I'm really jumpin' on that Jesus train now.

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Sister Tamara from Davenport, IA · Feb 2008

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i*heart*pie wrote:
Well, just for future references, I would prefer it if you didn't pray at all. It is not cool, in my opinion to pray for someone JUST BECAUSE they didn't believe or stopped believing (as in my case) in a particular set of beliefs. And don't believe for a minute that I am not aware of the type of prayers there are. But I don't appreciate this one at all. That's seriously shoving Christianity down my throat in a sugar-coated way. I'm no longer a Christian, so what? That's my prerogative. Trust and believe, I'm not making any excuses. I simply don't believe in any of Christianity's doctrine. A prayer of sending me to the pig pens...all because I'm not Christian. How sweet. And somehow, you expect others to come to your faith with that kind of 'loving' propaganda. Yeah, I'm really jumpin' on that Jesus train now.

PRAISE THE LORD!!! Wait a minute...where's the ha, ha, ha's at??? Don't tell me when you gave up your Christianity you also gave up your sense of humor!!! I wouldn't expect you to jump on my Jesus train because it's headed for Glory...which is a place that you don't want to go!!! I don't expect anyone to come to my faith like I have my own religion. The bible says that if we lift Jesus up then he will do the drawing. All I am doing is talking about what I love to talk about...which is Jesus. Just like you have the right to tell me how much you don't believe in any of Christianity's doctrine, I have the right to tell you how much I believe in Holiness which includes the Trinity. I believe that the word of God will never return void, so even if you don't receive it, I'm freed just by giving it to you!!! Oh yeah, by the way...

JESUS LOVES YOU AND SO DO I!!!