Thanks! I'm trying to gentle mock and squelish my desire to write "ARGH!! Stop making Christians sound like ignorant arrogant jerks!"
Sorry you are feeling bad and dealing with jury duty.
I happen to be very biteable, pal. I'm moist and delicious.
Xander ,'Bring On The Night'
Spike's Bitches 35: We Got a History
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askye - Mar 27, 2007 10:44:55 am PDT #2511 of 10003
Thrive to spite them
Pete, Husband of Jilli - Mar 27, 2007 10:52:15 am PDT #2512 of 10003
"I've got a gun! I've got a mother-flippin' gun!" - Moss, The IT Crowd
Plei? Jury Duty? I wonder how much bad fic she's coming up with while sat there.
ION: Lego. Batman. Game. [link]
Topic!Cindy - Mar 27, 2007 10:55:23 am PDT #2513 of 10003
What is even happening?
Thanks! I'm trying to gentle mock and squelish my desire to write "ARGH!! Stop making Christians sound like ignorant arrogant jerks!"
I thought the person wasn't a Christian and was trying to get the paper to be more inclusive.
askye - Mar 27, 2007 11:00:26 am PDT #2514 of 10003
Thrive to spite them
I read it as someone trying to claim "Faith" as being exclusively Christian because they are Christian and since the paper is trying to be more inclusive they shouldn't use that word and should stick to Religion.
Of course I see now that some how the references to the paper got stripped from my quoting. So I'll fix that.
edited because I left some words out.
-t - Mar 27, 2007 11:05:20 am PDT #2515 of 10003
I am a woman of various inclinations and only some of the time are they to burn everything down in frustration
Your letter as written sounds fine, askye, but original letter writing dude didn't sound like an arrogant Christian to me. not that he isn't, necessarily, but it's not overwhelmingly obvious from that letter, which really did sound like a well-meaning attempt for inclusiveness that just overlooked an alternate meaning.
P.M. Marc - Mar 27, 2007 11:06:22 am PDT #2516 of 10003
So come, my friends, be not afraid/We are so lightly here/It is in love that we are made; In love we disappear
Plei? Jury Duty? I wonder how much bad fic she's coming up with while sat there.
None. I'm looped up on cold medicine and my brain doesn't function when ill and tired, because I had NyQuil last night, which means I haven't slept much. (It keeps me going up an down all freaking night.)
They need nap tubes here.
Glamcookie - Mar 27, 2007 11:22:14 am PDT #2517 of 10003
I know my own heart and understand my fellow man. But I am made unlike anyone I have ever met. I dare to say I am like no one in the whole world. - Anne Lister
Lego. Batman. Game.
SQUEEE! Three great tastes that taste great together!
Hil R. - Mar 27, 2007 12:34:53 pm PDT #2518 of 10003
Sometimes I think I might just move up to Vermont, open a bookstore or a vegan restaurant. Adam Schlesinger, z''l
Can relate to Tep and her feeling that no matter what she does she looks like a Hummel. I have taken one sexy photo in thirty-three years.
I've basically gotten resigned to the fact that the best I'll get is "cute."
askye - Mar 27, 2007 12:38:44 pm PDT #2519 of 10003
Thrive to spite them
I could be wrong about the letter writer, but the phrase "miracle of the resurrection of Jesus" struck me. But also the idea that faith is only belief in the miracles, specifically the miracle of the resurrection, also struck me. The way that I've heard some ultraconservative Christians that make claims that the only way to go know good from bad/right from wrong is if you believe in Jesus.
sj - Mar 27, 2007 12:41:25 pm PDT #2520 of 10003
"There are few hours in life more agreeable than the hour dedicated to the ceremony known as afternoon tea."
Very frustrating day. My therapist did not give me a copy of the ADD test results the other day. He said if my PCP had any questions he could just call him. My PCP wouldn't call him, and wants the results faxed over before he will do anything. He acted like he had no time for me and that he didn't believe me, which is very much unlike my doctor. So, nothing was really accomplished today.
After I left there I rushed to the market to get a ready cooked chicken and drove home, because I told TCG I would be home by 6 for dinner. I got home just before 6, and call him to find out how long he is going to be. He hadn't even left work yet, and it takes him over an hour to get home.
I very aggravated about the whole day, probably more than I have any right to be.