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klk
Trad climber
cali
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Aug 16, 2012 - 04:09pm PT
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what if the stones had hung out with johnny cash instead of gram parson?
crank up the gospel & preach like paul
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Norton
Social climber
the Wastelands
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Aug 16, 2012 - 04:17pm PT
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MightyHiker
Christians, and indeed adherents of all beliefs, would be easier to stomach if they weren't often so sanctimonious. The practice of 'praying' for someone they didn't know, or who was known to be a pantheist, athetist or agnostic, and then boasting about it here, being a good example. If you must do it, do it in private.
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Marlow
Sport climber
OSLO
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Aug 16, 2012 - 04:24pm PT
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Love your neighbour as yourself is a good rule to live by or at least a good point to start as is the ability to forgive.
Beckett had his own variety:
"Use your head, can't you, use your head, you're on earth, there's no cure for that! (Pause) Get out of here and love one another! Lick your neighbor as your self!"
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WBraun
climber
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Aug 16, 2012 - 04:35pm PT
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Please let others tell their story, hold your reactions, criticize on other threads and let the Christians, or whatever faith that may post here, be proud of who they are being for a moment.
Talk about sanctimonious hypocrites to the max.
All you sanctimonious hypocrites couldn't keep your mouths out of it even as the op politely asked to do it on a separate thread.
Unconscious sanctimonious hypocrites who force their beliefs the same way .....
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HybridAlien
Trad climber
Redlands, CA
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Aug 16, 2012 - 04:36pm PT
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Anyone who lies in bed at night and tries to communicate through thought (or out loud) with an entity that will never respond is a weirdo.
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ydpl8s
Trad climber
Santa Monica, California
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Aug 16, 2012 - 04:40pm PT
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I was raised in a very conservative christian home and I am happy that my mother and dad have something that helps them through hard times.
That being said, when I was a young man I was in the army and stationed in Korea. I had never met a more loving, moral, kind group of people than those Buddhist "heathens", as my mother would call them. I told my parents that if these people were doomed to hell, then that's who I'd rather be with for eternity (personally I think I'm going to be just a new deposit in the bank of life, nutrients for everything new, and there's nothing wrong with that). To this day my mother says that "that's when we lost Scott, when he went to Korea".
Happily Lost - Moss
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klk
Trad climber
cali
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Aug 16, 2012 - 05:07pm PT
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listen up pilgrims:
sister nikki will lead you out of the wilderness of emo gospel
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Batrock
Trad climber
Burbank
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Aug 16, 2012 - 05:08pm PT
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I believe in Christ. Have from a young age. It was never anything that was forced on me or told that I had to do "or else". My parents are both Christians and I grew up in a home that practiced loving those around them and especially those in need or less fortunate. I have never forced my faith on others but I do confess to loving others as Christ called me to do. I belong to a church in Burbank that reaches out to the homeless and opens it's doors to any and all who are in need of help. I do not believe Christ approves of war or violence in His name. I am neither Republican nor Democrat, nor is Christ.
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cliffhanger
Trad climber
California
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Aug 16, 2012 - 05:17pm PT
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Religion is a mix of good and evil, the evil from men's use of religion to promote their murderous schemes and the good from, I think, God's effort to guide spiritual betterment. Hence we have the Old Testament with a plethora of God inspired genocides and a law so murderously harsh that everyone on the planet would have to be stoned to death, including God's supposed chosen, the Jews.
With religion over 50% pure evil, anyone who is believing 100% is evil as well. The atheists and agnostics are much closer to God and redemption because they have the good sense to reject all of that evil. The most spiritually advanced pick out the good from all the religions of the world, while rejecting the evil therein. Seeing and knowing is what counts, rather than thoughtless believing.
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blahblah
Gym climber
Boulder
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Aug 16, 2012 - 05:35pm PT
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Christians, and indeed adherents of all beliefs, would be easier to stomach if they weren't often so sanctimonious. The practice of 'praying' for someone they didn't know, or who was known to be a pantheist, athetist or agnostic, and then boasting about it here, being a good example. If you must do it, do it in private.
You are just begging to get prayed for! (I'd do it but I'm pretty busy today, sorry).
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zBrown
Ice climber
chingadero de chula vista
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Aug 16, 2012 - 05:39pm PT
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just happened to be troll .. er ... strolling by
Life ain't nothin' but a funny, funny riddle
Thank God I'm a Catholic boy
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Jaybro
Social climber
Wolf City, Wyoming
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Aug 16, 2012 - 05:40pm PT
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Yeah, what he said.....
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pyro
Big Wall climber
Calabasas
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Aug 16, 2012 - 05:44pm PT
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Chris I found the lord in 1999 and in y2k i gave it up.
i have no sense of place when it comes to people and church or to worship a spirit.
Mike Newheart gets upset everytime he talks to me about the word.
sorry, but not interested.
cya!
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klk
Trad climber
cali
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Aug 16, 2012 - 05:47pm PT
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i used to crank and drink until my back was to the floor
praise the lord, guitar
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rip eddy & waylon
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GDavis
Social climber
SOL CAL
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Aug 16, 2012 - 06:09pm PT
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If someone has a relationship with a potato that has improved their lives and inspires them to lead a happy life, so what?
The OP is asking for discussion of one of the best things about religion. Be cool and not make it about you.
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