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This is precisely why churches should have ZERO INPUT in American government, workplaces and ALL publicly funded organizations and programs.
God should be limited to individual households and churches. Once you step outside of those two places, your relgious views become null and void to everyone around you and if you express yourself religiously in a manner that's intimidating or discriminatory to anyone else, you should be arrested.
PERIOD.
Netherscourge
Once again, any actual Follower of Christ wouldn't use discriminatory or intimidating remarks to spread the word of Christ. Somehow we "Christians" gotten a bad wrap. All anyone sees or hears about is some radical jumping off of a roof or shouting at people in the streets. No one hears about the countless groups that feed the hungry or comfort the homeless for some reason. If everyone is worried about not judging gays, why would we judge Christians?Because the crazy Christians hide behind the same cross the "good" ones pray to.
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It's the same problem with Muslims. The "good" ones claim to be against terrorism, YET, you don't see them coming forward and openly condeming the crazy radical Muslims and saying they are not accepted in the eyes of their god.
Maybe if the "good" Christians would come out and openly, publicly and DEMONSTRATIVELY attack and denounce the crazy radical Christians as false heathens with their own, unrighteous agenda of hate and discrimination, then MAYBE we can all be friends.
But this never happens, becuase the hypocrisy of most religions mandates that they are supposed to be tolerant of intolerant people, so long as they pray to the same god.
It's a pathetic joke.
The bible tells us that we shouldn't be angered easily. It also says that if someone refuses Christ that we should warn them. So yes, we should try to be tolerant of people. No, it doesn't tell us not to get angry. Everyone is angry at some point. Jesus was angry in several occasions. But all in all it was for the good of the church. Why would we denounce or attack anyone? We would simply sit them down and talk to them about what they believe and give them the facts. I hope that someday everyone will have the chance to be exposed to Christ in the right way. I agree that these radical ways are wrong and no one should ever force anything upon anyone. However, I do think that you're being a little closed minded about Christianity. There are real people who are real believers. Not every "Christian" is out there to get you. 
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