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"More babies means more Christians to these people."

I know it does but they're STOOPID!

I am an ex Christian who was raised in a Christian family as a Christian. I sometimes go to an ex Christian forum and 99.9% of the people there were ALSO raised in Christian families and grew up with it as did I.

Kids when they grow up don't always follow their parents belief system so having kids to breed more Christians, Muslims, Atheists even whatever is STOOPID. (And yes I am friends with a girl raised Atheist who has now converted to Islam. Because she believes in it - - - it can happen!)

I KNOW all Christians are not all the same.
I know what it's like to feel like everyone else thinks that I have BEEN there!
I also HATE it when people claim that all Muslims or those from the Middle East are the same, being happily married to an Egyptian Muslim (although technically Egypt is in North Africa!)
I know what it's like to cringe cos someone makes your religion look bad and you are NOTHING like that person!
There are different degrees of religion.
Personally I don't want to be religious anymore and wouldn't want a child of mine raised religious but if they chose a religion as an adult that's a different story.
To each their own.
And I have nothing against people who are religious or Christians per se!

I'm glad Kimkenney brought up the fact that the writer of this article totally lied about our population. Why is it that fundie Christian sites blatantly lie about this issue? I guess they could argue that they just got their numbers mixed up, but COME ON!

It truly disturbs me that these people are so fundamentally wrong about this because there are a LOT of people out there who believe it!

It just makes me feel so helpless.

I, too, found the article amusing.



Catholic wedding ceremonies include phrases along the lines of, "Will you accept children as a gift from God?" and "Will you raise your children Catholic?"

The hubby and I were both raised Catholic, and while we disagree with many of the stances the chuch has on these types of issues, we still call ourselves Catholic.

We were married by an American Catholic priest (who didn't require those statements to be included in our vows) at a wedding chapel rather than at our Roman Catholic church where his brother and sister were married. Why? Because I refused to lie in my wedding vows to God, my husband, and 280 wedding guests. I don't want kids. I don't care if the religious right (of any denomination) thinks that's how I should live my life. It's my life, not theirs.

Kim

Ug. I can hardly get worked up about this because obviously the nut-job that wrote it is coming from a fundamentalist background. I find that I disagree with his type on almost anything, so of course we wouldn't see eye to eye on this.

Now there they go again... misunderstanding what Christianity is actually all about...

Churchianity is scary.