And so it was this forum will go off to Toast calling all Christians evil and worthy of death, and then someone will say something to toast and it will go down the road of what religion has killed the most people.
Arrgh! It never ends! Toast is everywhere! (Believe it or not, there is actually a burnt toast smell in my house right now)
I suspect he is certainly angry 'whitebread' (no idea if he's revealed his race), but whether this prevents him being toast, I have no idea. In fact, I seem to be starting to talk absolute gibberish. Maybe we should try to get back on topic.
I just thought of this, and Roman gladiatorial games are as much human sacrifices as the witch burnings were. They were executions, with access for public viewers, who watched them like sports.
Toast is unabashedly Scottish. His views on Christianity seem to be based entirely on evangelical rhetoric.
Being raised by Catholics and then being put in a purely Protestant education has left quite an impression on me. Not to mention that I base most of my hatred of Christians in general off of these "evangelical" preachers, which we have a lot of. I don't know where the line between "evangelical" and "normal" Christians are, but it's not clear here. You are either an atheist or a really devoted Protestant, Mormon or Jehovah's Witness, there is no grey area. The exposure to the constant preachy bullshit that comes along with it has lead me to instantly assume that Christians are arseholes, seeing as I've been taught that I am going to go to hell, or all of my deceased relatives are in hell, or just Christians feeling that they have the right to lord their faiths over everybody. Might seem unfair, but I'm concrete in my sentiment. Blame a lack of secularism.
Certainly not all Christians are this way as I am not. I wont claim that my faith is the one true path even if I believe in it and I wont force it on anyone else. I am fine with anyone believing what they want in regards to religion (as long as it isn't hate filled) and I believe it is up to each individual person to come up with what they believe on their own and that trying to convert people is a bad thing. State your beliefs and if they're right for that person then good, if not then that is also fine. What I dislike however is intolerance of religion or the lack of it. People should just let others believe what they want and not hate anyone for them nor force their beliefs on others.
I believe that god sent messengers down to to earth to guide a region or a group of people to a select path, much like Natan'el al-fayyumi considered Muhammed to be a prophet to the Arabs but not the Jews. Edit: Speaking of Jews, My mother is Jewish or was Jewish when she had me (don't know if she still is, I think she considers herself to be Catholic now, but idk) so uhh does this mean anything?
Really contributing to the discussion here. I don't know what made you so desperate. Maybe it was the Cawadooty comments. You'll have a hard time finding a Muslim family that isn't completely isolated from the community where I'm from, and if you've ever seen the scapegoating that goes on with them in the UK, I doubt they want to. Same goes for any other popular religion that isn't lumped in with Christianity, like Sikhism and Jainism.