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Re: "It's not a religion, it's a relationship"
« Reply #15 on Sept 28, 2011, 10:11am »

I love it. It gives me a chance to bring this up:

http://atheism.about.com/od/whatisgod/p/AbuserAbusive.htm

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Re: "It's not a religion, it's a relationship"
« Reply #16 on Sept 28, 2011, 10:59am »

Someone tried to tell me that once. I told them I had a "relationship" with Vincent Price and I can call him up from the dead anytime I wanted.

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Re: "It's not a religion, it's a relationship"
« Reply #17 on Sept 28, 2011, 12:08pm »

Sept 27, 2011, 5:58pm, carole wrote:

Where did you hear this at?

It's a not-uncommon fundie line. They use it when trying to distance themselves from fundies of other faiths and/or attempting to join in the “all religions are bad” bandwagon.

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Re: "It's not a religion, it's a relationship"
« Reply #18 on Sept 28, 2011, 2:41pm »

Atheism is not a religion. It's a relationship with reality.

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Re: "It's not a religion, it's a relationship"
« Reply #19 on Sept 28, 2011, 2:54pm »

Burglary isn't a crime. It's a relationship with someone else's stuff.

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Re: "It's not a religion, it's a relationship"
« Reply #20 on Sept 28, 2011, 3:11pm »

Paedophilia isn't a crime, it's a relationship with---

Wait, that...still makes it a crime...

On a fun note, my fundie sister uses this argument from time to time. She then gets flabbergasted at the very IDEA that God might be poly.

I may have also implied that God = Ronald Taylor and essentially built up a harem of 'relationships' based on people fearing/loving Him, but hey, she started it.

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Re: "It's not a religion, it's a relationship"
« Reply #21 on Sept 28, 2011, 5:24pm »

I've found implying that jesus has a relationship with all those little children makes some folks less willing to sing "Jesus Loves the Little Children". Not quite as high as remarking on various catholic diddies though.

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Jun 12, 2011, 4:22pm, johnerickson wrote:

Just more proof that god's laws on Earth are absolute! until they become sufficiently inconvenient.

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Re: "It's not a religion, it's a relationship"
« Reply #22 on Sept 29, 2011, 5:31am »

Sept 28, 2011, 2:41pm, Old Viking wrote:

Atheism is not a religion. It's a relationship with reality.

Best quote ever.

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Re: "It's not a religion, it's a relationship"
« Reply #23 on Sept 30, 2011, 9:46pm »

It comes from them believing that other denominations other than their own (or, with the less fanatical ones, all liberal churches, as well as Catholics, Jehovah's Witnesses, Christian Unitarians, and Mormons) are corrupt because they have sources of authority outside the Bible (or even just interpret the Bible "incorrectly"). Such churches tend to hold the Gospel of John, the most mystical of the four gospels and the one containing the most references to Jesus' divinity, in high regard. They also claim that the Bible is somehow free of human corruption, and believe in using that alone.

But they still have church leaders, they still have rules, and their churches are still as much of a "religion" as any other faith. It's just all about feeling "more Christian" than all the others.

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Re: "It's not a religion, it's a relationship"
« Reply #24 on Sept 30, 2011, 10:05pm »

Sept 29, 2011, 5:31am, QWcanary wrote:

Sept 28, 2011, 2:41pm, Old Viking wrote:

Atheism is not a religion. It's a relationship with reality.

Best quote ever.

I prefer the burglar one.

Define "well-intentioned." Sure, they may be trying to express their warm fuzzlies about their God, but they're also implying that your beliefs are wrong & stupid. And they know that.

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