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Originally Posted by Rtoups
Sorry I called you dude. Where I'm from, "dude" isn't gender specific.
I in no way tried to insult you with the giraffe explanation. I know what you meant. I was trying to show how complicated this kind of stuff is, and how saying "It's too perfect" just doesn't make sense to me.
And if someone wants to burn a flag, that IS their right. It doesn't make sense to me, but they can do it if they want. It might insult some people, the same way some people get insulted when they hear things about the US being a "Christian nation".
And you don't know what the members of this group are doing. Some of them could be members of other activist groups that are trying to end poverty and things of that sort. It doesn't really matter. They've found a cause that they feel strongly about and they are fighting for it. I have a lot of respect for them. I may not agree, but the fact that they are trying to do something about it legally is a tribute to the way our great nation is run. See, not everything is all bad and violent.
I also want to add the I understand the power of faith or lack-thereof, for that matter. The fact that I'm atheist plays a huge part of how I live my life. I do not believe that there is an afterlife, so I know I need to live life to the fullest.
I am in no way trying to take God or religion away from people. I think you just have the wrong image of atheists or those who don't want religious connections on our money. We don't want to take religion away or god away. Those should be personal things anyways. If the government wrote "Buddha" or "Allah" or "Yahweh" or "Shiva" on every single thing they could, I wouldn't become religious or stop being atheist. That's MY belief. Only I can take it away or destroy it.
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I respect your opinion and like I said I don't believe that all people that are non Christian are bad, I honestly am not saying anyone is bad because believe it or not I have friends of all kinds, but please understand it hearts my heart so much for people to get together and try to take God out of things. I really do feel like before you know it all religion will be taken away. I understand the concept you can take my bible but you can't take my Christianity but some people don't understand why. Before I was hired at the hospital where I work I was told we are not allowed to pray for patients because some people frown on it. If a patient ask me to i'm gonna do it even if it means my license because they depend on it to help them through a terrible situation, and most of thesepatients are usually cancer patients that believe they are going to a better place. But you are right about some of these people, they probably are activist that do other things, I honestly did not look at it that way. Like I said I am a Christian but I am in no way a great one because I have a long way to go. But I am the type of person that if I think something is going to affect someone or hurt someone in anyway I do not want any part of it and this topic does mess with a lot of people. I guess that is why I feel why I feel so strongly about it. There are so many elderly people living today that grew up it seems like in a different time and I can't help but believe they are being forgotten. Like my 88 year old grandmother says "everything is going away that I knew". I honestly did not mean to offended you or anyone else, like I said my brother is not religious and I love him very much. It just hurts knowing that some believe in that saying and it's really not hurting anything being there or anywhere else but still yet some people want it gone. I don't stop going into places because they don't say "IN God We Trust" nor am I gonna get a bunch of Christians together and try to have it engraved all over the place because I do understand their are people who don't like it. I guess when it comes right down to it I feel that they are not considering some people that have been on this earth a lot longer then them. I don't know dude all I know is I have cooled off after going to a movie with my family and I am really sorry if I did not come across the way I meant to today. I just know I have read the bible and everything that is taking place today the bible speaks of, and even you have to admit it's scary. I mean everything that is going on is in the book. I am not trying to push it I'm just saying hard to believe it's just coincidence!