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I want to live my life knowing I've saved at least one person... (Original Post) WillParkinson Sep 2012 OP
Oh.. I'm working on that myself. defacto7 Sep 2012 #1
A phrase I've frogmarch Sep 2012 #2
I saved one person... rexcat Sep 2012 #3
Probably someone said: "God was really looking out for So-and-So that day!" Arugula Latte Sep 2012 #5
This happened at at tennis match... rexcat Sep 2012 #6
You don't have to, they often drive their own followers away ShadowLiberal Sep 2012 #4

defacto7

(13,485 posts)
1. Oh.. I'm working on that myself.
Wed Sep 19, 2012, 04:08 PM
Sep 2012

I'm happy my kids are aware that religion is no friend of mankind. They are also happy, free, tolerant, outspoken and totally without fear of the religious boogie man.

frogmarch

(12,146 posts)
2. A phrase I've
Thu Sep 20, 2012, 01:59 AM
Sep 2012

often heard Christians say: Like dropping a pebble in a pond, making waves that move outward in ever-widening circles.

I've saved my kids from believing it, and they've saved theirs. I hope the waves keep moving outward in ever-widening circles.

Thanks, Will. That's a keeper.

rexcat

(3,622 posts)
3. I saved one person...
Thu Sep 20, 2012, 10:51 PM
Sep 2012

but it was a group effort. CPR is great when it works!

As far as religion goes, if someone wants to believe that stuff that is their issue, not mine.

 

Arugula Latte

(50,566 posts)
5. Probably someone said: "God was really looking out for So-and-So that day!"
Fri Sep 21, 2012, 07:38 PM
Sep 2012

I always want to say, "Why did that supposedly omnipotent & omniscient asshole either cause or not prevent the incident that required CPR in the first place?"

rexcat

(3,622 posts)
6. This happened at at tennis match...
Fri Sep 21, 2012, 11:21 PM
Sep 2012

and those from the club that I belong to all know better than to say something like that to me, even the über religious ones.

ShadowLiberal

(2,237 posts)
4. You don't have to, they often drive their own followers away
Thu Sep 20, 2012, 11:41 PM
Sep 2012

My brother is a pastor, and he coined a good phrase he used in a sermon a few months ago.

"If you go around cutting people off aggressively driving on the road then you don't deserve to have a sticker professing your love of Jesus on your car. That's the last thing someone you wrong needs to see, you give the church a bad name with your Jesus bumper sticker when you misbehave on the road."

I also can safely say I have George W. Bush & the Religious Right to thank for helping me realize I'm not a Christian, with how they were heavily politicizing religion & demonizing gays in 2004, which thoroughly disgusted me and got me to rethink Christianity & religion all together. After some serious thinking, they got me to conclude I'm Atheist and had been for years, but I just hadn't cared enough to think about religion to recognize it.

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