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| Keyblade Novice | I believe that being a devout Christian and even just a good person, is so much harder these days simply because of the enormous amounts of tempting things that are available to us everyday. In the old times, certain temptations weren't around. They had it so much easier than we do now! Does anyone else agree?? If so give me your opinion. |
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| Little Death | Quote:
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| Keyblade Novice | I know! I try to do the right thing but sometimes its like you just can't! And I think that you are exactly right about the media and tv, because they do portray things that are bad, as cool so sometimes you think about that and really gets to you. |
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| Little Death | I know. The media is one of the biggest influences in our culture, which makes being a devout Christian harder than ever. The media portrays things such as pre-maritual sex and drugs and whatnot in the majority of shows that are aired. It is so hard to avoid the crap the media releases on TV, music, movies, ect. |
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| Keyblade Novice | On one of my favorite shows of all time, they had pre-marital sex a lot. Me and my brother love the show so we had the seasons, and we would always try to avoid our parents finding. It didn't show anything, but just the fact that we knew our parents (especially my mom) would be disappointed, that tells me it was bad. Hey, here is a theory! If God wouldn't watch or do something with you, its not good. |
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| ARE YOU OKAY Join Date: Aug 2005 Location: BUSTA WOF
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| PLATINUM USERNAME WINS Join Date: Aug 2006 Location: KEYBUREDO? Graphics Clan: TheCitrusDistrict Age: 17
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Rep Power: 15 ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() | Please stop insulting the Christian religion =/ And yes it is harder to become a devout Christian, but that doesn't mean you should give up. The Bible clearly explains how the end times will become tough and hard. I don't think we're too far before society ends up destroying itself =/ We went in just over 100 years to accepting things like homosexuality, underage sex, drunkenness, drugs, lust, violence, etc. How sad. Quote:
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| ARE YOU OKAY Join Date: Aug 2005 Location: BUSTA WOF
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Rep Power: 12 ![]() ![]() | I'm not insulting Christianity. I'm insulting the modern practice of Christianity. Quote:
Exactly, except I forgot to throw in "groundless." Oh, but of course, because nobody outside Christianity practices any of those, AMIRITE??? | |
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| The humans are dead. | This is what the Amish observed, is it not? Anyways, not being a religious person, lots of people find the concept of me being a good, moral person out of the question. I mean, if there aren't any commandments or pillars for me to follow, how could I possibly know what's the right thing to do? Yeah, I don't think that times are any worse now than they ever were. Sure, there's more evil, but there's more good, too. Hell, there are just more people...and with technology and whatnot, people are just more able to be outspoken. *shrug* |
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| Keyblade Novice | All Christians don't judge people who aren't Christians. But we are going to address problems and the whole fact, is that some of us do judge people... but doesn't everyone else? Just like you said. It's just the practice of Christian involves trying not to sin... and to spit on Christianity is blasphomey. You may have said that you weren't but you kinda were. And most of the time when one doesn't like Christianity its because either they don't understand or they did something that is a sin in Christianity. But I am not saying that Christians don't sin. I do everyday, I just think that some Christians tend to put down people that do, too, even though they do. But Christians are going to speak against things that are written as sins in the Bible and against things that are morally wrong, so the people who they are speaking to assume that the Christian thinks they are better than them, but they are actually just trying to give their opinion which is what this forum is for. The common misconception is, Christians are portrayed on tv, radio, and other sources of media as thinking they are better than everyone else. Some do, but some don't so I don't think its fair to put down all in the Christian religion, because people who are non-Christians do the exact same things as us. And just so you know: Christianity is not a backwater moral guideline. First of all it traces back to the beginning of time and second of all it just seems "backwater" because people in the South tend to be more religious. -to Square Ninja |
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| (E)motion Isn't Meaning | |
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| Keyblade Novice | Sadly, we do. But not in a way where we say "hahaha your going to hell", we pity those who don't realize that they are. And if I'm coming off as arrogant I don't think I am. My religion says that anyone who does not believe in God is going to heaven, so actually we don't "think" we are going to a better place; we "know" it. |
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| Keyblade Novice | *I mean't anyone who doesn't believe goes to hell* |
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| (E)motion Isn't Meaning | Knowledge = Certainty God = Uncertainty You can't know something that's uncertain.... |
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