Please remember that not all of us are crazy, but that the vocal minority has hijacked the religion (as they do with all religions) and twisted it and advertised it and made it seem crazy crazy hate doom you're all baby killers when it should be just about love. When I can't even feel comfortable going into a church because "OMG! You interpret something differently in the Bible than I do, you heathen!" is all I get, and the fact that so many people just seem so FAKE about their faith, is when I have a problem with the mainstream/organized aspects of Christianity
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Yeah, I know not all Christians are crazed pushers. Heck, some of my best friends on Livejournal are Christians. ;) Mostly I just wanted to complain about a certain brand of Christianity on the radio/TV. And I know some atheists are just as bad as other bad people, but when the song goes out of its way to specify that these two horrible parents were "non-believers" while the nice good people who take her in are virtuous church-goers, it really gets my hackles up.
PS: It occurs to me my usage of the term "glurge" might not have been clear, since it's a word I picked up from Snopes. Here's a definition. I don't hate the Jesus part of Christmas (though I, of course, mostly ignore it), it's the Jesus glurge that drives me up a wall.
Fruits Basket doesn't count, because she's not trying to make you feel a certain way to teach you a stupid lesson involving religion and patriotism and cardboard cutouts of people, though. She's just writing an incredibly moving story about characters with virtues and flaws who also happen to be very pretty. ^-^
If you really want to have fun with your religion sometime, watch the new version (circa 2000 or so) of Jesus Christ Superstar. Judas is moping because his lover Jesus has dumped him for some ho named Mary, and Jesus spends the entire time being emo while Simon prances around being the cutest gay militant zealot ever. Oh, and Caiaphas and co. borrowed their costumes from the Matrix and their evil expressions from Lazy Town's Robbie Rotten. It's very moving.
I didn't mean Furuba is glurge (because it's not trying to push a message), just that it can be viewed as overly sweet and sentimental.
Dude, I had so much fun when everyone was up in arms about the Da Vinci Code earlier this year... freaking out when anyone who's studied even basic early Christianity would realize that DVC is just a badly written *story*. But "oh no, people might fall for it!" Well, yeah, if you make a big deal out of it, people are going to assume it's for a good reason...
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Yeah, I know not all Christians are crazed pushers. Heck, some of my best friends on Livejournal are Christians. ;) Mostly I just wanted to complain about a certain brand of Christianity on the radio/TV. And I know some atheists are just as bad as other bad people, but when the song goes out of its way to specify that these two horrible parents were "non-believers" while the nice good people who take her in are virtuous church-goers, it really gets my hackles up.
PS: It occurs to me my usage of the term "glurge" might not have been clear, since it's a word I picked up from Snopes. Here's a definition. I don't hate the Jesus part of Christmas (though I, of course, mostly ignore it), it's the Jesus glurge that drives me up a wall.
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If you really want to have fun with your religion sometime, watch the new version (circa 2000 or so) of Jesus Christ Superstar. Judas is moping because his lover Jesus has dumped him for some ho named Mary, and Jesus spends the entire time being emo while Simon prances around being the cutest gay militant zealot ever. Oh, and Caiaphas and co. borrowed their costumes from the Matrix and their evil expressions from Lazy Town's Robbie Rotten. It's very moving.
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Dude, I had so much fun when everyone was up in arms about the Da Vinci Code earlier this year... freaking out when anyone who's studied even basic early Christianity would realize that DVC is just a badly written *story*. But "oh no, people might fall for it!" Well, yeah, if you make a big deal out of it, people are going to assume it's for a good reason...
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