Who said that quote? I like it…
and yeah I just noticed it… I’ve been kind of afraid to re-enter the DC threads since I don’t have anything much else to say and what I’ve been saying is kind of controversial.
As for Timeless_Soul… I was raised a Christian, not really conservatively or anything, not until we moved to Church Town/Hicksville USA and well… then I went to church a lot and “found myself” … and EVENTUALLY (like a year ago) I finally found that I never really “found myself” … and yet doing so was not really finding myself either.
So umm… yes… well… I tried to read the Bible when I was younger, starting with the old testament, all this talks of killing people for working on the sabbath, sacrifices, circumcision (i think you should be able to sue if you were circumcised as a child… that’s just horrible… especially that we still do it) lots of people begetting each other… and um… well… nothing it said seemed to really apply to real life in the 20th century at all.
I basically think the Old Testament should just be looked at as some historical stuff, but you know… Christians should stick to Christ rather than sticking to “spare the rod, spoil the child” because I mean… if you’re going to follow some OT laws, you’d might as well follow ALL of them, but then of course you would contradict Christ’s teachings… which is why I think they should not follow the Old Testament at all…
Becuase you know some righteous Christian with too much time on her hands will go around telling people how right she is and how it’s not okay to accept homosexuality, and blah blah blah… well correct me if I’m wrong but Jesus never said a thing about gays did he? If you’re gonna condemn homosexuals maybe you should go sacrifice goats and be SUBMISSIVE IN CHURCH!!!
Man… I don’t know what I saw in her… I’m glad it’s over though… maybe she’s changed since then, she told me she did in a dream but I’m not so sure it had SD like qualities… I figure I more just wanted to hear that from her.
So anyways… my philosophy is do whatever you want unless it hurts people, and if it doesn’t, it isn’t anyone’s business but yours.
Basically the GOLDEN RULE… people should follow it:
this means,
gay marriages for all, marriage is already a joke in the US, ask any celebrity.
legalize it 
… legalize it all really, give kids proper education about responsibility, used the saved billions on endless drug wars to establish free rehab centers… government regulate things to prevent lacings and keep dosages standardized, allow small growth for personal use of ANYTHING (who trusts the government to sell them drugs?) etc… most other countries don’t have much drug problems at all, rather more or less the same rates we do, including places where harder drugs are legal, and the hardest aren’t exactly things to be thrown in jail for… so… ( www.drugwarfacts.com ) kids in places with legal pot tend to not think pot is “cool” either.
VIOLENCE, PROFANITY, AND SEX ON TV… let parents censor their kids viewing material, they have lockout options for a reason
Did you guys know (this has been claimed by a popular US magazine, too, I’m not just spouting off opinion) that America is THE most backwards western democracy (or nation?) in the world? Why? CONSERVATIVE CHRISTIANS… I mean… you’d think we’d get over petty things that aren’t your business when we stopped being puritans and made dancing legalized… but nope… a bunch of old ladies think it’s their business to legislate their crazy morals that no one agrees with… I know some christians that want christianity to be the only allowed religion in the US…
It ultimately doesn’t really matter what you believe, but it isn’t your business trying to regulate what other people do unless it HURTS YOU. And if it something deemed a threat to society (violence, SEX, drugs) it should be dealt with SANELY… such as telling kids how to use condoms, telling them the prevalence of STDs encouraging responsibility, but understanding this is not some fairy tale world… instead of censoring the hell out of everything, give parents easy tools to decide what their kids can and can’t listen to and see… if someone is addicted to something, TREAT HIM, don’t throw him in jail with murderers and rapists and thieves… if he isn’t addicted, leave him the hell alone.
So anyways…
I think the problem is religion teaches you to be submissive to authority (religious authority/God) and therefore they develop authoritatiran mindsets where they can’t question the government, and they feel like it is THEIR BUSINESS what we do in our own homes, etc…
It largely depends on how you are raised… most christians are pretty tolerant and sensible and whatnot… so are most jews, buddhists, muslims, etc…
afterthought: What I find odd, is that NYPD Blue used the word bullsh!t (yes i’m censoring myself…) on various occasions, they never received one complaint… yet still, they are getting all this censorship crackdown nonsense on them, for something NO ONE CARES ABOUT… I mean … ugh… I don’t know, I read an article about it the other day and about how they’ll cancel the show rather than censor the daylights out of it.
