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Originally posted by The Hierophant:
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Originally posted by johnny:
Lonely fella , God.  If he wanted a conversation so badly, then why didn't he just ask ?
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Because Christians use guilt as a weapon of social control. Make people feel selfish and wicked and bad about themselves and tell them that the only way to be better is to be penitent and submissive to the church 
It's worked for 1700 odd years now: there are self-sufficient, self-adapting Christian franchises all over the world. [/QUOTE]Well, THIS Christian would appreciate it if, in the future, you would show enough respect to avoid making blanket statements like the above post.
Such 'stereotypes' and generalizations are offensive and hardly the case for myself, my church or more than half the Christians I know and deal with. And like most generalizations of the kind, it is very insulting to those who don't conform to the narrow 'descriptions' put forth.