A Guy wrote:

Amen, DFOKN.

youre lucky i wasnt drinking milk when i read that
i dunno if it was meant to be funny but it was

It was meant to be ironic, yes.

He was really starting to get on my nerves, I repeatedly told him that I don't have his religion and that I don't believe in hell.

Luckily, no one has tried to force religion down my throat at SpyroForum. However, it has happened on RuneScape, and when I told one of my Classmates that I wasn't religious, she gasped and said that I'd go to hell.

Now, I may not believe in God, but I do believe in an afterlife. I believe that when you die, you become a free spirit. I don't believe in a heaven or a hell.

If your religion is not Christianity than what is it.

hinduism
atheism
agnosticism
islam
satanism
judaism
shinto
buddhism
wicca
jedi
scientology (as much as i hate to say it some morons believe in this)
flying spaghetti monster-ism
[every religion which is based on christianity but doesnt call itself christianity]
etc.

If your religion is not Christianity than what is it.

I don't have one.

Before people start calling me an athiest, my family believes there is a god. But. We don't do all this praying and church and asking for forgiveness and calling him "Our father" and "the lord".

Amen, DFOKN.

youre lucky i wasnt drinking milk when i read that
i dunno if it was meant to be funny but it was

as for the issue at hand, i dont know who it was that offended aicebo but my issue with Adams posts is that if anyone questions his beliefs he takes pity on them and suggests that god loves them anyway

now that might not be as bad as "well then youre going to hell you heathen" its still offensive to me, i dont relish the idea of being pitied because i dont believe in your version of god, its patronising.

now im sure my comments on such posts were taken as kindof provocative, the reason is this, if someone wants to discuss religion, im happy to do so, but they should then be prepared to be questioned about it, and defend their position, just like if i were to start a thread about how spyro is obviously agnostic then i would defend my position, both regarding that, and regarding my own beliefs

or to use a better comparison, if there was a discussion about the atheist themes in the golden compass novels by phillip pullman then christians would have every right to come in and ask what you gain from not believing in god

the problem is, just about every topic in the world can be argued and it can then sprout into different arguments revolving around the same general theme
but as soon as religion is mentioned, tempers flare, for some reason, religion is often not allowed to be questioned, i think its because religion is based on faith or "belief without proof" and so religion will always have trouble defending its position, i feel however, if you believe in something so strongly, then you should be able to explain why, you don't need physical evidence, give reasons why you "feel" god exists, and why he does the things he does

One person hu, yes that pretty much narrows it down to...MEEEE! Since I am the only one who quoted from the bible. How about giving me a private message instead of going behind my back and making it so obvious who it was that offended you.

What? I was talking about another user. >__>

If you where talking about another user I am sorry but you took it as a defense on my other posts. I guess I need to learn not to jump the gun. I get emotional real easy hints the reason why I have a journal and aspirations to become an author. When you guys say that someone said that you were talking about some one else, me being the one who quoted from the bible it seemed that you were talking about me. 

Perhaps we could put this behind us and agree to disagree about our religions. I am clearly not the one to bring Jesus into your life. As I said before I have only sympathy for what has happened to you in the past. If your religion is not Christianity than what is it. Perhaps I could then understand you better. It might be easer to pm me rather than taking up space.

DragonFireOKN for Moderator!!!111!

[sub]OK, seriously, though, DFOKN has a point. I personally have a religion: I am Catholic. But just because someone doesn't share my religion doesn't mean I have to attack him or her.

I don't know of the exact incidents Aicebo is talking about; I wasn't online at the time when it happened, so I can't say too much on that. But I've seen a few comments on the forums that might be offensive, (probably without that intention, however) such as this one. [/sub]

[sub]That may be your interpretation of the song, but it doesn't have to be everyone's. As Aicebo was the only person in the thread who said she didn't like the song, I assume that comment must have been directed at her, and can you see where that may be offensive?

It isn't the fact that you're talking about religion: People should be able to freely talk about their religions on this forum. It's the fact that it comes off as a little forceful.

It is perfectly acceptable to quote the Bible. It is perfectly acceptable to talk about religion. It doesn't make sense to me that anyone should be offended by simple things such as that. It's when comments, to use Aicebo's phrase, "shove religion down someone's throat" that it becomes offensive.

I suppose I should add in a little disclaimer about this post to avoid flame wars: Adam Thurman, this entire post was not all to do with you. I merely used your post as an example, and I'm sure your intentions on that post were not to offend anyone.[/sub]