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Post by RavynousHunter on Apr 9, 2010 14:09:38 GMT -5
"I'll be praying for you."
Translation: "Hahaha, fuck you."
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Post by John E on Apr 9, 2010 17:31:46 GMT -5
"I'll be praying for you." Oh yeah. That's one of the most annoying.
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Post by Sleepy on Apr 9, 2010 17:48:36 GMT -5
To me, "I'll be praying for you" sounds incredibly smug.
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Post by Caitshidhe on Apr 9, 2010 19:00:54 GMT -5
Thank God for saving me! Forget the pilot that just remained stone cold calm while most other would have been pooping themselves. Forget the firefighters that ran into a burning building not even sure if you were there and had the shear nuts to check that last room even after half the roof collapsed. Forget that stranger who gave death the double middle finger just to jump in that raising water to save your dumb ass. This times a million. I find it a lot nicer that PEOPLE save other people--firefighters and kind strangers and pilots who crash-land airplanes on the Hudson. I also think it's silly when people attribute their survival of traumatic events (like kidnappings, being lost in the wilderness, whatever) to god'n'Jesus. YOU SURVIVED BECAUSE YOU'RE ONE TOUGH COOKIE, NOT BECAUSE OF SOME IMAGINARY SKY-FAERIE. It reminds me of the joke about the guy who was on his roof in a flood and prayed for god to save him, and turned down a boat and a helicopter because he was convinced his god was going to reach down and pluck him off his roof personally.
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Post by insanedesigner on Apr 9, 2010 20:05:07 GMT -5
"Well, X is a good Christian."
As if this is supposed to mean anything to me. Just because someone goes to church and thanks God for everything doesn't mean they're a good person.
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Post by djhollow on Apr 10, 2010 1:17:01 GMT -5
It reminds me of the joke about the guy who was on his roof in a flood and prayed for god to save him, and turned down a boat and a helicopter because he was convinced his god was going to reach down and pluck him off his roof personally. You Mean This: Once there was a man whose house was in a flood. He stood on the porch as the waters rose. A boat came by, the driver urged the man to get on board but the man said he was waiting on the Lord to save him. The waters rose, the first floor was flooded and as the man looked out his second story window, another boat came to rescue him. The man turned the boat away, saying he would wait for God to rescue him. Finally he was clinging to the chimney on the roof. A helicopter flew overhead and dropped down a ladder. The man waved it off, saying Jesus would save his life. Finally he was swept away in the waters and drowned. At the pearly gates, he saw God and said, Lord, all my life I did as you asked but when the time came you did not save me. And God said, "I sent you two boats and a helicopter, what else did you want?"
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Post by valsa on Apr 10, 2010 1:31:06 GMT -5
I'm in a stress management/wellness class and we just got done with a week on how to deal with stress and bad times. Several people said they deal by using prayer. Now that, in-and-of-itself, doesn't bother me (it does strike me as pointless but, you know, different strokes and all that...)
However, several of them also said things to the affect of "Yeah, prayer's just great. God will come through for those who pray/everything works out in the end/ God doesn't give us more than we can handle, etc etc"
That always pisses me off because there are lots of good people, Christians, who do get handed more than they can take and don't have God come through for them. Christians who pray for their cancer to go into remission, but who die of it. Little kids who pray to God for physical/emotional/sexual abuse to end, but suffer with it until they're old enough to move out. Christian families who lose jobs, get sick, lose their houses, and are forced to live on the streets.
That whole "God will come through if you just pray" B.S. always annoys me because it implies that, if everything doesn't work out okay, either you're not good enough or didn't pray hard enough, or something else ridiculous like that.
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Post by Vene on Apr 10, 2010 1:34:15 GMT -5
The orange! The horrors of the orange! Make it go away!
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Post by Vypernight on Apr 10, 2010 4:34:51 GMT -5
"Jesus, my lord," "Jesus, my king."
I don't know why those two phrases annoy me to no end. I mostly hear them from Born Again Christians, and it feels like nails to a chockboard when I do hear them.
Maybe it's because I was raised Catholic where God was the main guy and Jesus was the son. Or maybe it was because they put so much emphasis on Jesus, yet they completely ignore what he said and did.
You know, that "Love thy neighbor" thing.
Best religious bumper sticker (next to COEXIST); "God loves everyone, NO EXCEPTIONS!"
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Post by Art Vandelay on Apr 10, 2010 5:04:43 GMT -5
Referring to their deity as "lord". Now I'm no expert on feudal heirachy but I'm pretty sure that lords aren't exactly #1, nor is it an appropriate title for something that's supposed to be all-knowing and all-powerful.
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Post by Deimos on Apr 10, 2010 7:41:50 GMT -5
"I am cleansed in the blood of Jesus" or anything related to bathing in Jesus blood.
It reminds me of that scene in one of my fav horror movies. Where a woman lies naked in a tub, and another naked woman in above her, dangling upside down by a rope. Then the first women starts cutting the hanging women and bathing in her blood.
Everytime I see/hear a Christian say that. That scene plays in my head
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Post by Cymraes on Apr 10, 2010 9:02:21 GMT -5
Yes, the blood thing sometimes creeps me out. I was once at a meeting (a united churches thing) where this total stranger leapt out at me and yelled "So have you been washed in the Blood of the Lamb?" I told him I used soap and water like normal people, and then ended up being cold-shouldered by half the people present.
I also hate the "Christian" abbreviations smugly tagged on to notes and emails - like 'PTL' (Praise the Lord) or 'PFY' (Praying for you) or the one that somehow seems so accusing 'WWJD'. The most recent one I have come accross is 'FROG', which apparently means 'Fully reliant on God'....?
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Post by Aqualung on Apr 10, 2010 9:43:26 GMT -5
When shit goes wrong and yet they say Jesus/God is good! Er, if everything is pre-ordained doesn't that mean God/Jesus caused the bad shit to happen? That's not very good of him.
Just yesterday one of my friends posted this on Facebook:
"Ok.. my 10am class was cancelled WITHOUT notice.. My Blackberry was stolen today.. had a bad day at work.. BUT.. Jesus is still great.. I'd take him over ANY good day.."
I just...don't get that. :/
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Post by scienceisgreen on Apr 10, 2010 9:48:20 GMT -5
"I'm was 'born again' " = "I went from derp to herp derp"
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Post by meraude on Apr 10, 2010 12:11:28 GMT -5
"god does'nt shut one door but he opens another"
Said to me a few times after my previous husband's suicide
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