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Thread #142208   Message #3278051
Posted By: John P
21-Dec-11 - 09:05 PM
Thread Name: BS: Virgin Mary & pregnancy test
Subject: RE: BS: Virgin Mary & pregnancy test
OK, I'll say more. Wow may be too ambiguous for you, gnu. But I hardly know where to begin.

1. I think that war is blasphemous. Images of war, movies about war, and the public wearing of military uniforms offends me deeply. Make them all stop, please. They are being rude to me.

2. I wasn't talking about the billboard when I said that to Eliza. I was, very obviously, talking about the fact that she was offended by people thinking something was funny/interesting/telling/cogent/absurd that she thought was blasphemous.

3. Comparing that billboard to telling a dirty joke in front of children is just as silly as Eliza's comparison of it to posting an offensive photo of someone. Sorry, but to the non-religious, the two concepts aren't even on the same planet. Public decorum, my ass. Go read your own post again.

4. I didn't put that billboard up.

5. The Catholic Church did put that billboard up.

6. The reason so many people are wary of Christians is because some of them say things like: "I cannot believe that some people believe they can be rude to others and then be rude to them about their "right" to be rude." without stopping to consider that what they are doing is telling people how to think and how to behave. As I said in #1, rudeness is a very subjective idea.