oh my freakin' god

[kho]

So at this moment I'm sitting in my favorite coffee house, Charlie's Coffee, and crocheting a little beanie cap. Okay, at this moment I'm typing on their public access computers, but moments ago and for the past four hours I've been crocheting. Regardless

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[lemmealone]

Somehow the more vocal and/or batshit sections of Catholic society always seem to forget love thy neighbour, judge not and do unto others. Weird, considering their fondness for quoting all the other bits.

[kho]

And I swear to God, the next person I hear quoting that Leviticus 22 whatever at someone I'm gonna go "do you eat shrimp or, better yet, crawfish? Cause yeah, about two sections above your precious little quote it says that YOU'RE going to hell for THAT. So I guess you can save the person you're lecturing a seat, right? Since you're going first?"

[lemmealone]

Tehnically I'm pretty sure it's a Hell-worthy offence to play football. *shrugs*

[kho]

It is. It's something to do with pigskin. Is it pathetic that I know how to get you the quote through my knowledge of The West Wing but not my knowledge of the bible?

http://www.videosift.com/video/West-Wing-President-quotes-bible-at-right-wing-radio-host

[janetmaca]

*ponders* maybe I'm not devout devout, but I've always considered myself to be closer to devout than not and yet? I won't go lecturing people, what others decide is their own business.

Meanwhile, yay Bowie!

[kho]

I think I misused the word. What I meant was zealot. Kind of like, the militant version of religious. Not just devout. Because my grandmother is devout, and as I said up there, would never go around telling people what to do.

[janetmaca]

Ahh, that makes more sense. Just remember you're gonna find crackpots in any group. *grins* I think not only does "Love thy neighbour" apply but "let he who is without sin, cast the first stone" applies as well. *nods* Personally I would prefer it if we all followed the first rule/statement rather than try to follow the second, but perhaps people need to remember both.

[puppetoflove]

When I was younger, a boy I went to church with was LITERALLY sent to a deprogramming camp. Seriously.

[suzvoy]

*facepalm*

[bloody_american]

That is... really horrible.

But you know, I don't think it's always (though I agree, a lot of times it is) so much that people just want to tell others they're going to hell for sinning. I think that for those that really, truly believe, they honestly do think that their kid or loved one could end up in hell. And if they're thinking fire and brimstone for eternity? Well, then they do see it as necessary to help them stop "sinning".

Though there are a lot of people who are bible thumpers and, like, just parrot what they hear at church and are in general annoying. I think that mother may have been one because I don't see how someone would think doing something like that IN PUBLIC could possibly do anything other than royally piss the other person off.