Do You Discuss Religion?

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DO*THESE comments sound familiar?
“Please, let’s change the subject. There are two things I never discuss—religion and politics!”
“I do not want to discuss religion now. I just got home from church.”
Richard M. Johnson, an early American vice president, observed: “Religious zeal enlists the strongest prejudices of the human mind; and, when misdirected, excites the worst passions of our nature under the delusive pretext of doing God service.” Jesus Christ, encouraged love of God and love of neighbor, not intolerance and fanaticism. The tools employed by Christ and his followers in their ministry were reason and persuasion. (Matthew 22:41-46; Acts 17:2; 19:8) And they prayed for their enemies and persecutors.—Matthew 5:44; Acts 7:59, 60.
Does it strike you as odd that something as potentially elevating and ennobling as the teachings of the Bible should be misused to promote intolerance, bigotry, and hatred?
 
I always discuss religion and spiritual practices. I enjoy knowing what shapes another person's world view.
 
hahaha those comments DO sound familiar!!!!

See, I am a high school student and at my lunch table there was two Catholics, two Wiccans, an Atheist, a Mormon, a Jew, an Agnostic,and me (the episcopalian). So we ALWAYS talked about religion somehow and got into arguments about various things. Like everyday. So I guess me and my friends do talk about religion even more than we talk about American Idol or the newest Youtube video. I know it sounds strange, but that is just how we were!!!
 
It's easy to cherry pick the verses that suit your confirmation bias, but your holy pick spends a fair amount of time promoting intolerance, bigotry and hatred itself. Just a couple of the many examples:

Bigotry
Genesis 28 verse 1-Isaac tells Jacob not to marry a Canaanite

Hatred
Genesis 32: verses 19-20-God hates non Christians

Intolerance
Jude 1 verse 5-God destroys infidels

These are just top of the mind examples. The bible promotes love, hate, happiness, sadness, life, death, feast and famine. You can find whatever your looking for if you want. Just don't seem so certain of the contents of your book until you look at the whole picture.
 
Funny how if you take away "the bible" and keep only what Christ taught the picture changes a great deal. I keep thinking there may be a correlation between that and what was canonized and what was not...
 
i see the bible and the holly books a tool for evil people to do what they want to fill selfish needs. all books are the same. do good avoid evil, why is it always misuderstood?
 
I rarely discuss religion. I DO discuss my faith, my church and my personal testimony. That is not the same thing as "religion."
 
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