Christians

do what you want about your own beliefs, but nobody better try and "share the love and depth of that relationship" with me.

dude you are the man

then why share your negative vibes with us?

A mother fucking men. That was soooo ironic. I don't even really support any religion, but you can't preach to someone about how they can do what they want, but not preach about there own experiences with jesus. You are preaching yourself bro...

I could be, I don't understand what you said there, but I may be..

not u man, lol i was agreeing with you. I'm talking about bobyohan. The first sentence is supposed to read "amen" with emphasis. haha

jesus is my savior

Ya, I like Jesus too, but I don't go around wearing crosses, and thanking Jesus for passing math tests and shit.

For all those who feel the need to overtly flaunt their religiousness, I have a question: Are you religious or are you spiritual? I make a distinction between the two. One is made up of empathy for fellow human beings. It is the construct of a love for others. The other is the age-old ritual of social control manifested by behavior, not done for the good of others, but done instead to claim one's right in a religious group as one of the pack.

People who are religious have given into the age-old dogma handed down by the pseudo-pious. They flaunt their religion both visually and verbally to advance themselves in their religious circle, church, synagogue, temple or what-have-you. It is important for them that others see how faithful they believe themselves to be. By doing so, those who think likewise think more of them. Further, they do this because they have been scared into believing in the medieval construct of hell. To not act in accordance with the dogma of their "chosen" religion almost certainly means banishment to hell upon death. Nevermind that the central theme of many of the great spiritual founders such as Jesus, Buddha etc. was not about going to some fiery hell. That was the central message of the religious foundersthe idea being that if you don't follow me, you will go to hell.

A person who is spiritual is different. A spiritual person would do the right thing even if no Bible, Koran or Torah were present. The right thing it seems, manifest across all cultures, is to be nice, forgive others and foremost to avoid harming other people. A person who is spiritual will have these as their central tenants. They do not need to show people how moral or cool they are in their convictions; they merely do what is right and make no fuss about it. Praying at the top of their lungs so that all can hear them or so "God will not send them to hell" does not play a part in it. A spiritual person knows that these are all constructs meant to control and further the goals of religious leaders who may be deluding themselves into believing that by showing everyone their beliefs, they score points with the Supreme Being as well as with their religious compadres.

nice vocab. I do what the Bible says. and today? I am doing nothing but purely defending myself.

That's cool. It's a very good book, and has alot of great concepts in it.

But I'm just defending the idea that its overzealous and superficial to stick Jesus stickers on your skis or board, implying that your riding has something to do with Jesus. And just for reference, I didnt even write any of that shit in my post before, it was all from an article that I found in the past and thought made some good points.

hahahahahha, go check out their products. whoever made that site is just doing it for the money. 7 bucks for a small jesus sticker?

let me clarify my statement. you are entitled to your beliefs as I am entitled to mine. but the need of some christians to 'share the love of jesus' as is suggested on the website is something that really pushes my buttons. It would be no different than if I approached every person with a jesus sticker and told them why I think religion is a comforting excuse for those afraid to ask the tough and unanswerable questions. I dont share my 'negative' vibes unless someone tries to share their religous vibes with me.

right, this thread was called CHRISTIANS adn you clicked on it, putting yourself there, no one is imposing anything on you

Thats like saying you should just ignore that wierdo at the intersection yelling about the end of the world, cause you could just roll up your window.

dude, posting shit all over the forums like this is just begging for an argument

I don't have any problem with the thread, christians, or the jesus stickers. its the suggestion that purchasers of these stickers "share the love and depth of that relationship" with me that I object to. which is why i keep quoting that phrase.

as I said in the other thread, just write Jesus on your skis with a sharpie.

mines are dark colored. But I'm not really arguing about the stickers anyway

jesus loves you. *grin*

we get the point, okay? that's too bad for you.

you don't have a link to that article do you? that sounds very interesting.

Jesus was definetly a righteous dude, I don't think there's any denying that...

but Jesus synonymous with modern American Christianity is almost an oxymoron.

Pat Robertson made me an atheist.

wtf eh? leave jesus alone i bet he only gets embaressed when he think about us skiers.. smoking weed, drinking every day, fucking everyone.

"In God we trust inc."

i really just don't like jesus

i dont like the comercialization of any sort of religion. thats not what its about.

I don't even understand why I can't want to put Jesus Stickers on my skiis.

you can if you want... actually, according to some, there is really no freedom of speech in this country, so watch out.

If you don't want people to share their beliefs with you why did you click on a forum that said Christians? It is simple, if you don't want to hear about it don't click on it and start reading about it. Easy as pie.

Did anyone see that Roan Atkinson(mrbean) stand up where he was the devil and welcoming new comers to hell, and hes listing of people like fornicators and murders, then he says "Christians, Chrisitians, Yes, Im sorry the Jews were right."

i was actually going through that link to maybe buy a cool little jesus sticker. but all those stickers suck.... maybe im missin em but the ones i saw werent even cool.

religion is so gay