No, trust me, that brand of Christianity disturbs me as well. As do the fire-and-brimstone-only types, because that's not how I interpret the teachings at all. Like I said, I'm a heathen because OMIGOSH I examine things in historical context and interpret other things for myself and the like. And I knew that you didn't mean you hated Jesus per se (because, hey, what's Jesus ever done to you? :-P), just the glurge. I actually don't like glurge either, religious in nature or not. It's... annoying. I don't like when things try to push you to feel things, or overly mushy or sentimental things. (We're gonna ignore Furuba here, k?) Some of the Christian glurge out there just makes me roll my eyes because it's trying too hard, and I like things that come about naturally.
So since I mentioned Furuba, here's a Furuba icon. But I've had the cross one for a long time because it is uber-pretty and has stained glass and that reminds me of my secret affinity for some Catholic things even though I am theologically at odds with many Catholic concepts. :-P
Oh, me and my weird relationship with my religion.
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...
No, trust me, that brand of Christianity disturbs me as well. As do the fire-and-brimstone-only types, because that's not how I interpret the teachings at all. Like I said, I'm a heathen because OMIGOSH I examine things in historical context and interpret other things for myself and the like. And I knew that you didn't mean you hated Jesus per se (because, hey, what's Jesus ever done to you? :-P), just the glurge. I actually don't like glurge either, religious in nature or not. It's... annoying. I don't like when things try to push you to feel things, or overly mushy or sentimental things. (We're gonna ignore Furuba here, k?) Some of the Christian glurge out there just makes me roll my eyes because it's trying too hard, and I like things that come about naturally.
So since I mentioned Furuba, here's a Furuba icon. But I've had the cross one for a long time because it is uber-pretty and has stained glass and that reminds me of my secret affinity for some Catholic things even though I am theologically at odds with many Catholic concepts. :-P
Oh, me and my weird relationship with my religion.
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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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