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If being religious makes me a nutjob, I'll take that label because it makes it meaningless.

by gavinhoward 3y ago

sgt 3y ago
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- gavinhoward 3y ago
  Okay, what outside of being religious makes me a nutjob?
- dang 3y ago
  Please don't call names, do personal attacks and/or feed flamewars on HN. https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
mcv 3y ago
Being religious and being a nutjob are entirely orthogonal to each other. I'm religious but you don't see me obsessing about Zion or wishing for countries to be destroyed by natural disasters. I just try to do good where I can. Edit: I'd like to stress I'm not the one arguing whether you are or are not a nutjob, I'm just saying that you don't have to be religious to be a nutjob, and you don't have to be a nutjob to be religious. Although people who are both, often use religion to justify their nutjobbery, and there's a big movement of people in the US corrupting religion to draw more people into ideas that are nuts. Not all of those have to do with the destruction of the US or bringing about Zion, but some do. And based on the things you write in the articles others linked to, I think you're a good person at heart; you do focus on the love and selflessness of Christ's message. But that makes wishing for the destruction of a country where people live, stand out even more, because it's so at odds with that love. And apparently this wish is based on questionable ideas about abortion that have been used over the past decades to manipulate well-meaning Christians into supporting increasingly extremist politics. It might be wise to free yourself from that, and instead focus more on just helping people in need, whatever their need might be.
- gavinhoward 3y ago
  I'm not wishing for the US to be destroyed. Heaven knows I don't want to go through that. I'm not that stupid. I would rather that the US evolves slowly into Zion. But that's not going to happen because the US is going the opposite direction.
pixelbreaker 3y ago
I bet you know Pastor Greg Locke.
- gavinhoward 3y ago
  No idea who that is. Never heard of him. And my church does not use pastors.

If being religious makes me a nutjob, I'll take that label because it makes it meaningless.

sgt 3y ago

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gavinhoward 3y ago
Okay, what outside of being religious makes me a nutjob?
dang 3y ago
Please don't call names, do personal attacks and/or feed flamewars on HN. https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

mcv 3y ago

Being religious and being a nutjob are entirely orthogonal to each other. I'm religious but you don't see me obsessing about Zion or wishing for countries to be destroyed by natural disasters. I just try to do good where I can. Edit: I'd like to stress I'm not the one arguing whether you are or are not a nutjob, I'm just saying that you don't have to be religious to be a nutjob, and you don't have to be a nutjob to be religious. Although people who are both, often use religion to justify their nutjobbery, and there's a big movement of people in the US corrupting religion to draw more people into ideas that are nuts. Not all of those have to do with the destruction of the US or bringing about Zion, but some do. And based on the things you write in the articles others linked to, I think you're a good person at heart; you do focus on the love and selflessness of Christ's message. But that makes wishing for the destruction of a country where people live, stand out even more, because it's so at odds with that love. And apparently this wish is based on questionable ideas about abortion that have been used over the past decades to manipulate well-meaning Christians into supporting increasingly extremist politics. It might be wise to free yourself from that, and instead focus more on just helping people in need, whatever their need might be.

gavinhoward 3y ago
I'm not wishing for the US to be destroyed. Heaven knows I don't want to go through that. I'm not that stupid. I would rather that the US evolves slowly into Zion. But that's not going to happen because the US is going the opposite direction.

pixelbreaker 3y ago

I bet you know Pastor Greg Locke.

gavinhoward 3y ago
No idea who that is. Never heard of him. And my church does not use pastors.