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republican mentality (Original Post) Dystopian Jan 2012 OP
That's what happens when you don't pay attention in church! socialindependocrat Jan 2012 #1
They hear only what they want to hear HillWilliam Jan 2012 #2
They are reading the cliffnotes version MiniMe Jan 2012 #3

socialindependocrat

(1,372 posts)
1. That's what happens when you don't pay attention in church!
Sun Jan 15, 2012, 04:16 PM
Jan 2012

I used to fill in all the O's on the Sunday
program and I retined more than these morons
did.

It's a shame - They just don't listen...

HillWilliam

(3,310 posts)
2. They hear only what they want to hear
Sun Jan 15, 2012, 04:24 PM
Jan 2012

I run into them all the time. They can fling out 5 or 6 verses we all learned in sunday school and claim they "know the Bible". I've read the thing cover to cover several times, so I enjoy flinging quotes right back at them. The shocked looks I get when I tell them "the original Hebrew/Greek for that verse says ... and you're taking a poor translation out of context" are priceless.

I left religion a long time ago for a quiet, no-name, no-need-to-talk-about-it faith. There's "something" out there, but I don't think there's a single human being on earth who knows what "it" is any better than I. For all I know, it's either an ineffable god or some damn lucky 'riffmatick that makes us and the universe go. If there is a godhead, no human can begin to understand it, so why wool on it? I like "live and let live" but that's some vocabulary just unavailable to wackogelicals.

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