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WillParkinson Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Nov-28-11 08:53 AM
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A Christian Store Denied Him This T-Shirt…
A Christian Store Denied Him This T-Shirt…

Gotta love this story from Reddit, about an atheist who walked into a Christian store…

They had a t-shirt printer that was used to put verses. I asked if a printing of a Timothy 2:12 shirt was reasonable. Being Christians, they had never looked that far into the Bible, so they looked it up with their handy dandy on site Bible. When they recited the verse (A woman happened to be the reader of the Bible) they informed me of how disrespectful of their religion I was being. I was unsure of how I was being disrespectful by asking for a verse from their Holy Book.

In case you’re curious:



So I really want to know: Why is that disrespectful? It’s not really out of context — not anymore than any other quotation would be. It’s in the Bible. So what if most Christians don’t happen to agree with it?

http://www.patheos.com/blogs/friendlyatheist/2011/11/25/a-christian-store-denied-him-this-t-shirt/

(Yeah, I don't have the cajones to post it in R/T.)
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Goblinmonger Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Nov-28-11 10:34 AM
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1. I'm feeling kind of peckish
so I may post this in R/T later today.
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trotsky Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Nov-28-11 11:00 AM
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2. And here is the response you will get:
"I'm a Christian, not a Paulist. Paul was a misogynistic fool."

And they won't even bat an eyelash as they reject wholesale parts of the bible with no more reason than the right-wing fundies reject the stuff they don't like.
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rrneck Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Nov-28-11 05:39 PM
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3. Wouldnt do
to piss off a market that large. Plus, if they're completely silent they can't harangue government.

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NMMNG Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Nov-28-11 07:33 PM
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4. Some believers like to live in a bubble
Their Bible is holy and moral. Those violent, nasty parts don't exist. You know, the rape, murder, incest, genocide, infanticide, etc. Point them out and you're the bad guy.
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awoke_in_2003 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Nov-29-11 01:40 AM
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6. Wasn't it Job...
who had angels visit him, and when the town wanted him to release, what appeared to be men, for them to have sex with he didn't- yet let his daughters go out there. Yeah, great family values.
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laconicsax Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Nov-29-11 02:17 AM
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7. That was Lot, and it's worse than that.
He offered his daughters as a substitute for the angels and then fathered his own grandchildren with them.

The NT calls him "righteous" and "just" :wtf:
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awoke_in_2003 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Nov-30-11 02:00 AM
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10. I should be ashamed...
my grandfather was a minister- you would think I could keep my fairy tales straight :)
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FiveGoodMen Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Nov-29-11 01:48 PM
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8. I think that was Lot
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lot_(biblical_person)#Fleeing_Sodom.27s_destruction
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frogmarch Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Nov-29-11 07:39 PM
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9. Yes, it was Lot, and here's proof:
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awoke_in_2003 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Nov-30-11 02:04 AM
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11. That's a great song...
thanks for posting that so I could hear it again

"You know it was her own damned fault
when god turned that bitch to salt"
:)
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uriel1972 Donating Member (343 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Nov-30-11 08:48 PM
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12. I love Job's story
When Satan quite rightly suggests Job's faith was only because God had given him so much, God get's into a snit and tells Satan to take away everything and see if Job still worships. Just before Job curses God, God turns up does a song and dance number gives him everything back and dissappears. By not allowing the bet to run it's course God shows what a bad loser he is.
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FiveGoodMen Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Nov-30-11 08:58 PM
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13. "tells Satan to take away everything"
Including killing his whole family, whose individual lives obviously meant nothing to the book's writers or to their "god".
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Deep13 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Nov-28-11 08:59 PM
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5. Those employees were totally disrespectful of God's anti-woman message. nt
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