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Post by rageaholic on Jan 3, 2012 11:34:56 GMT -5
Here's a thread for stupid things you've heard fundies say in real life. I remember being at a friends house 3 years ago. Well one of their friends were a devout religious family. They seemed like nice people, but damn their views were out of this world. -When we were playing Apples to Apples, one of the words that came up was freedom. I think we were supposed to use it in a positive light or something (I don't remember the game much) so one of the kids jokingly said "Yeah like the freedom for gays to marry" as if it was a bad thing!! -These same people also said that the only reason Obama got in was because he was black. And since they were strict anti abortion people, they couldn't think of anything other than abortion to justify their vote. So to them, "the cries of the unborn" were on our hands since we voted Obama in. Because 8 years of a "prolife" president made such a difference (not to mention the tens of thousands of people killed in Iraw). Prolife my ass!
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Post by Old Viking on Jan 3, 2012 16:12:21 GMT -5
Well sure, the cries of the unborn, but what about the cries of the undead, huh? What are they, chopped liver?
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Post by Thejebusfire on Jan 3, 2012 16:26:22 GMT -5
My uncle believes that his daughters CPS workers are corrupt and mean beacuse they weren't Christians.
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Post by Shane for Wax on Jan 3, 2012 16:33:12 GMT -5
About 10 years ago my family was friends with a rather devout Christian family. They had a kid my age so we'd play a lot and we'd go to a church for 'science class'. We actually made a mars lander for a competition.
However, since I was usually bored at Church I'd read the Bible. I pointed out something in Revelation rather innocently enough and they got really mad at me. Even my mom got mad at me for saying that God would basically abandon the world for a bit. (I took this from: By the Dragon, he is granted power and authority for forty-two months. as well as the various woes that God doesn't really save people from. )
I never got over it. The fact that I had multiple people mad at me when I was just a child and trying to learn what it really meant hurt.
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Post by ironbite on Jan 3, 2012 17:53:14 GMT -5
Well sure, the cries of the unborn, but what about the cries of the undead, huh? What are they, chopped liver? They will be after I get through with them.
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Post by Mlle Antéchrist on Jan 3, 2012 19:16:57 GMT -5
My dad's normally not fundie about most things, but his views on atheism are a tad messed up. I've heard this gem from him a few times:
"Atheists believe they're smart because they're atheists, and atheists because they're smart."
And in response to my god father and I discussing our respective views on religion (he's Anglican like my dad, but very laid back about it) in a perfectly amicable conversation:
"Okay, you realize that this is your GOD father, right?"
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Post by VirtualStranger on Jan 3, 2012 21:14:01 GMT -5
One of my family members once stated that minorities in this country have more rights than he does.*
* "He" in this case being a straight, white, middle-class, christian male.
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Post by Wykked Wytch on Jan 3, 2012 21:40:35 GMT -5
I don't have any fundies in my family, but my dad is a conspiracy theorist who likes to make fun of my atheism at every opportunity.
(In response to me saying that he's kind of a dumbass sometimes:) "Oh, yeah? Where do you think you get your smarts from, God? Oh wait, you don't believe in Him!" And also: "If you pray and meditate in a large group, you can actually create miracles."
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Post by Kali on Jan 3, 2012 21:51:59 GMT -5
A while ago I was talking with two of my friends, and one mentioned that her boyfriend thinks being gay is a choice. They didn't know I was, so I told them, said I didn't choose. And the other one told me straight up that the Bible says it's wrong. This same friend also told me later, when I was complaining about a professor's comment that we didn't come from apes (that it was irrelevant to the discussion, not whether I agreed with the statement), that she believes in literal six-day creation. I am a Christian, but one, the Levitical law doesn't apply to us,, and two, how can anyone with a brain honestly believe the earth is only a few thousand years old?
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Post by Wykked Wytch on Jan 3, 2012 21:58:34 GMT -5
A while ago I was talking with two of my friends, and one mentioned that her boyfriend thinks being gay is a choice. They didn't know I was, so I told them, said I didn't choose. And the other one told me straight up that the Bible says it's wrong. This same friend also told me later, when I was complaining about a professor's comment that we didn't come from apes (that it was irrelevant to the discussion, not whether I agreed with the statement), that she believes in literal six-day creation. I am a Christian, but one, the Levitical law doesn't apply to us,, and two, how can anyone with a brain honestly believe the earth is only a few thousand years old?From what I understand of Christianity's view of Jesus, he replaced Jewish laws in the OT, which is why Christians don't feel they have to keep kosher and other Leviticus laws. But the first thing the fundies appeal to when they claim homosexuality is a sin is Leviticus, which is frankly quite baffling.
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Post by nickiknack on Jan 4, 2012 0:20:56 GMT -5
My best friend seems to have a problem with atheism. She acts as if athieists are some sort of boogymen, sometimes. I find it funny, because she has no problem with the fact that I consider myself to be agnostic, because usually people act as if both are horrible most of the time.
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Post by kristine on Jan 4, 2012 0:22:43 GMT -5
Our landlord (who is usually pretty cool about things) is a Mormon. One time when he came over and we were sitting and talking about the house (that we rent) - we offered him a beer (it was warm out and we were all drinking them) and he told us that he used to like beer when he was a heathen but then gave it up when he found god. I almost started to laugh - but one look at his face told me he was quite serious.
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Post by sylvana on Jan 4, 2012 1:02:44 GMT -5
My mom is straight up full blown fundie. However here is a little gem. My dad was in town because my grandmother was dying after a really bad stroke. Now my parents had broken up years before, and one of the reasons was that my mom was just too plain religious crazy for my dad. this day though, we all met up at the hospital and had some free time so he and my mom started talking. He started talking about how he came across this document explaining some kind of freemason curse that affects ones children, and how his dad (my grandfather) was a freemason, and that this curse is the reason why his life is messed up and why he has a transsexual kid, and how my brother died from cancer and all kinds of stuff.
Basically is was complete and utter lunacy, which was made far far worse by how my mother agreed with him and reinforced the belief. I was sitting there stunned, it was like I was a deer staring into the headlights of a mountain of crap coming right for me. Thankfully they were content to just discuss this between themselves and I could play games on my phone while they continued their crazy talk. In short though, I learned that when my parents go off on some kind of fundie / general religious rant I just keep quiet, and don't rock the boat. Its far easier than challenging them, that just makes them rant for longer and louder.
I have many rather sad stories about my fundie mother, the stuff she believes and the way she follows the voices in her head scares me.
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Post by priestling on Jan 4, 2012 1:11:42 GMT -5
sylvana: Any nuttier and it'd be a real life 'Binding of Isaac'?
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Post by lisamariefan on Jan 4, 2012 1:21:15 GMT -5
I tend to avoid religious discussion in real life, because people are touchy as hell about it, and I'd like to avoid the hassle and confrontation. Having said that, I do have a reason for posting here.
My friend is from a very religious (but very nice) family. He plays D&D and a does, engages in activity that could be considered unwholesome, and he's far from celibate. However, because of a lot of the stuff he's done, when he drunk he sometimes gets into preacher mode. I usually don't say much and try to keep the situation from escalating, but some of my other friends have been known to get into pretty big arguments/fights with him over the subject.
He knows that I don't believe, and will sometimes publicly bring up my atheism among my friends. I'm not sure if he realizes that I grew up with a {nonpracticing) Catholic dad and a Lutheran mother, and that I was confirmed in the Lutheran church. Also, I had to deal with some of the funkiness of Catholicism, because of my grandma. I think that as far as he knows, I wasn't raised in a religious house.
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