Love thy neighbor
23 September 2005 by SeanSchool Expels Girl for Having Gay Parents
I suppose it’s just as well that the poor kid got out of that fucked up Christian school. Maybe her parents will find some under-funded local public school to put her in.
23 September 2005, on 9:25 pm
Too bad the public school isn’t being funded by the money that’s being hemmoraged into Iraq. Poor xians… they can only remain ignorant for so long. Pretty soon, hopefully, they’ll decide the only option is to leave the country and live on some uncharted island. If it could only be true.
24 September 2005, on 8:07 am
“Love thy neighbor unless thy neighbor is a sinner” seems to be how they interpret it. The Christian right is attempting to destroy the public school system so that their “faith-based” crap will be the only form of education.
24 September 2005, on 8:34 am
It sure makes you reconsider whether you want to make your parents gay, doesn’t it?
24 September 2005, on 8:46 am
That’s a brilliant and ironic zinger, Ben. One has to wonder if its subtlety would be utterly lost on your average Christer.
24 September 2005, on 9:40 am
It would be really funny, what with all the money being spent on private schools, if Scientology schools made a big surge under vouchers. I’m sure the xian voters would suddenly lose tehir water over that one. Ah, Scientology, as asinine as xianity, yet somehow considered a cult. Hmmmmm…. I smell a rat here.
26 September 2005, on 5:48 am
And while we are at it, Marcus, can I get some of those public funds for my extremist Muslim school?
Burqas not optional.
26 September 2005, on 7:50 am
Sounds good- would you like it with additional DOD monies? I’m sure if you request it for your the jihadi hunting club, we can support you with a few AR-15’s and maybe some plastique for your physics classes.
26 September 2005, on 9:29 am
Whoops!
*for your jihadi
27 September 2005, on 4:33 pm
Amazing. We should picket the school. God, I can’t stand Bush and his ilk.
28 September 2005, on 11:33 am
This is the thing I just don’t understand with religion. Especially within the Christian circle.
I am at a loss for words when I hear stories such as this one.
Although 99.9% of you guys that run this site believe there is no God, you all know of course, that I do. The thing is, is that it frustrates me when I see that Christians use their belief system as a way to pick and choose what is right and what is wrong. And even though most would claim it is for the benefit of the people, or for the Greater good; all I see is that they are using their religion for THEIR greater good.
I feel like most Christians have missed the point. Whether or not they agree with someone else’s creed, belief, or sexual orientation is not what matters. I have absolutely NO idea who taught them that they need to be so judgemental and particular as to whom they let in to their “group’.
If they would quit spending so much time and energy on pointing fingers and evalute their own lives, I wonder how different things would be.
The other thing is, is that Jesus was not about religion. And He still isn’t about religion. He promoted love and peace.
I don’t know…I’m not sure where I’m trying to go with this; other than I’m so frustrated with other Christians. Sometimes I just want to put my hands on their shoulders and shake them in hopes to knock of a few marbles out of their skulls.
28 September 2005, on 12:02 pm
Hi, Dena. If only more Christians were like you, sites like this wouldn’t need to exist.
I posted this a while ago but if you missed it, check it out. Bill McKibben argues that a large percentage of American Christians have missed the point of the Gospels entirely:
The Christian Paradox
28 September 2005, on 3:38 pm
You may be the coolest Christian I’ve ever heard (Frank too, but for different reasons).
28 September 2005, on 3:49 pm
I’d love to see a web site or a radio/TV progam made by Christians who expose Christian hypocricy. Like these moderate Muslim leaders who are trying to take back their religion’s public image during the so-called “war on terror.”
Have you ever heard of Ole Anthony? He is a Christian who has devoted himself to exposing sham televangelists and getting them prosecuted for tax evasion and stuff. The New Yorker did a fascinating piece on him which is worthy of its own separate post here. In fact, I am going to post it right now.