Christians: TAKE BACK your religion from the maniacal Zealots!!!

and please..........HURRY.

happy easter.

of everything?

Well, except 24 various state and federal judges, of course - then they know God's will better than he/she does.

It's gonna take some effort, though. Won't be easy! Hope we're up to it, those that are taking on the battle. If you believe in prayer, send some our way.

Blessings!

Tired Old Cynic

with the phrase "Put the Christ back in Christianity"?

(this from a secular Jew)

And Randall Terry OUT.

So how can I take it back?

it's mine and they can't touch it no matter how idiotic they become. It's merely a matter of overcoming a stereotype that is growing worse and worse. I sometimes get tired of having to "qualify my faith" and make it clear I'm not like the idiots most people think of as Christians. But it does provide me with an excellent opportunity to share my faith with those who will listen; if they want to believe the stereotype and don't want to listen to me, I don't need to waste my time on them anyway. I'll just go on living my faith, and let my actions speak for me.

Tell me how to make them sane and I'm with you.

My church is sane. I don't agree with everything, but they don't support the wackos. Let me control the media, please.

and remind the world that not everyone who believes in god is
an asshole!

If some of you had better aim when you threw rocks, we might be able to spend more time working on taking our faith back, and spend less time dodging flying rocks.

Happy Easter to you, too.

SAY NOTHING.

Double entendre?

:shrug:

Take back your religion, please!

A few of my friends have gone from being devout Catholics to being raving fanatical Catholics. Up until a few years ago, I was never questioned about my religious beliefs (or lack of them). Now, it seems that every religious fanatic has the right to criticize my belief system, but I can't say anything about theirs without being told I'm going to hell! I don't mind that people are religious. I used to LIKE religious people. But now they're trying to shove it down my throat, and I don't know who my friends are anymore. So I find myself sitting here alone in front of my computer, pouring my heart out to people I don't know. I used to do that with my friends.

you don't find too many who ascribe to the same kind of fanaticism as Evangelical Christians.

www.soawatch.org

Eleven SOA Watch Activists Report to
Federal Prisons Across the US

Eleven SOA Watch activists – including a Maryknoll nun, a 79-year-old retiree, students, and a farmworker – reported to federal prisons around the country on Tuesday, March 15 to begin serving three- to six-month sentences for their acts of nonviolent civil disobedience opposing the School of the Americas/ WHINSEC. The eleven were arrested at Fort Benning in November of 2004 as part of the annual demonstration calling for the closure of the SOA/ WHINSEC.

We honor their witness, their action and their spirits as they head off
to prison! We also hold in our thoughts our two probationers who have already begun serving their time, the two SOA Watch activists sentenced to community service and the more than two million people currently incarcerated in the United States, most for nonviolent offenses.

Click here for prison addresses and more information about each of these activists.

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http://www.commondreams.org/views01/0603-07.htm

Published on Sunday, June 3, 2001 in the Binghamton (NY) Press & Sun-Bulletin

Wrong Ones Are Going To Prison

by David Rossie

We can all breathe a little easier now; Jack Gilroy's in jail.
Jack Gilroy: retired Maine-Endwell teacher, Army veteran, peace activist.

Late last month, Gilroy, along with 25 other enemies of the state, was found guilty in Federal Court in Georgia of criminal trespassing. The criminal operation on which Jack and the others were trespassing is the Western Hemisphere Institute for Security Cooperation, formerly called School of the Americas.

The WHISC is located at Fort Benning, Georgia. It specializes in training officers and non- commissioned officers from countries in Latin America so they can return to their homelands and help their countrymen and women and children become better citizens. Unfortunately, their methods often as not include killing the ones who are not quick learners.
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Jack will have plenty of distinguished company. Dorothy and Gwen Hennessey of Dubuque, Iowa, also received six-month sentences. Dorothy, 88, and Gwen, 68, are Franciscan nuns. No matter. You can't be too careful.

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