07-09-2017, 02:26 PM
(07-09-2017, 12:11 PM)Belsnickel Wrote: What's funny to me is that I just read this after changing into basketball shorts and a tshirt after coming home from church.
But in all seriousness, my faith teaches me that every person is responsible for their own actions. Each person is both a sinner and a saint and to blame their actions on teachings of your religion, whether good or bad, is pointless. My particular brand of Christianity teaches us that using, interpreting it, to affirm our opinions is not how we are supposed to use scripture. But, that is what a ton of people do. They don't start with the scripture, they start with an opinion that they want to affirm. That is what leads to this corruption of religion, and it happens because people are human, and humans are flawed.
It's ok, I'm on your side. The prophet Isaiah wants you to play basketball today! And he also wants you to shoot every time you get the ball. Screw loving your teammate as yourself. Jesus loves a shooter!
We've discussed your sect before, and I think I would dig most of what y'all are about, even though I'm an agnostic with loose ties to the UU Church.
JOHN ROBERTS: From time to time in the years to come, I hope you will be treated unfairly so that you will come to know the value of justice... I wish you bad luck, again, from time to time so that you will be conscious of the role of chance in life and understand that your success is not completely deserved and that the failure of others is not completely deserved either.
