I may have misinterpreted, but it sounded very much to me that you were calling any Christian that vocally objected to a show in an attempt to have it removed the air a jerk. That is where I disagree. Handling a situation the wrong way doesn't make a person a jerk.
On other topics, it doesn't sound to me that you are nearly so much of an agnostic as a humanist. There is a big difference from being completely unsure of what is true and unwilling to take any steps to believe one way or the other and what you seem to believe. If I understood you properly, you don't really care one way or the other if God exists, because he hasn't shown himself to be worth much. You believe people should take their own situations under control and find their own worth, yes?
I didn't mean to come across like I was sitting here pitying you, though I guess the way I put it it did. :D By feel bad for you, I just meant it in the same way that you think "Aw, poor person" when you see someone holding a road map and trying to figure out where on God's green earth they are. It was a passing, gee, poor person kind of thought. I hate to be lost and I actually love, more than anything, to find new ways to get around my town. I think the same way when it comes to God. I love discovering new avenues and things about him. So I feel bad when people have no idea what's up or what they might believe, because I think it sucks to be lost. You don't actually sound like you are in that position, though.
"'God' isn't going to solve all your problems. That is what you are for."
Alright now. ;) Now you are telling me what to believe. God doesn't fix everything, he never claims to fix everything and the people that think he does are... well they need a mindset adjustment. If you can't relate to a person having an actual relationship with God, one on one with real conversations, then you can't really understand that there comes times when everyone else can't see how things will work out, but you just know that things will be okay. I tend to think it's more cowardly to have so little faith in God (for those of us that believe in him, not a general blanket statement) that you can't trust him *to* fix things.
The truth of the matter is that it doesn't really much matter if God hasn't impacted your life personally. That doesn't mean he hasn't impacted some of the rest of us. It's not cowardice to trust in something that has been proven to be real. It only seems like cowardice to you because you haven't been witness to the proof.
Last thing, I swear...
"I don't want your sympathy. I don't want your pity, and I sure as Darwin don't want your prayers."
I don't understand that. Why not? Regardless of what I believe when it comes to God, why would you not want people to care about you? There was never a point that I told you what to believe about God, and I didn't even say that I felt bad that you don't believe in God, but that I felt bad because I thought you were lost on what you believed in general. It wasn't a superior, "Gee, she doesn't believe the right thing, how I pity her" sort of thing. It was a genuine care for someone that I've had contact with. I'm one of those mushy people that gets attached to people quickly. :D Purely because you are a friend of Steph's, that makes me concerned for you and because I've had (albeit limited) contact with you, that adds to it. You aren't a number in my list of those I must evangelize. You are a person who has crossed my path in life and I'm genuinely interested in you as a person.
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On other topics, it doesn't sound to me that you are nearly so much of an agnostic as a humanist. There is a big difference from being completely unsure of what is true and unwilling to take any steps to believe one way or the other and what you seem to believe. If I understood you properly, you don't really care one way or the other if God exists, because he hasn't shown himself to be worth much. You believe people should take their own situations under control and find their own worth, yes?
I didn't mean to come across like I was sitting here pitying you, though I guess the way I put it it did. :D By feel bad for you, I just meant it in the same way that you think "Aw, poor person" when you see someone holding a road map and trying to figure out where on God's green earth they are. It was a passing, gee, poor person kind of thought. I hate to be lost and I actually love, more than anything, to find new ways to get around my town. I think the same way when it comes to God. I love discovering new avenues and things about him. So I feel bad when people have no idea what's up or what they might believe, because I think it sucks to be lost. You don't actually sound like you are in that position, though.
"'God' isn't going to solve all your problems. That is what you are for."
Alright now. ;) Now you are telling me what to believe. God doesn't fix everything, he never claims to fix everything and the people that think he does are... well they need a mindset adjustment. If you can't relate to a person having an actual relationship with God, one on one with real conversations, then you can't really understand that there comes times when everyone else can't see how things will work out, but you just know that things will be okay. I tend to think it's more cowardly to have so little faith in God (for those of us that believe in him, not a general blanket statement) that you can't trust him *to* fix things.
The truth of the matter is that it doesn't really much matter if God hasn't impacted your life personally. That doesn't mean he hasn't impacted some of the rest of us. It's not cowardice to trust in something that has been proven to be real. It only seems like cowardice to you because you haven't been witness to the proof.
Last thing, I swear...
"I don't want your sympathy. I don't want your pity, and I sure as Darwin don't want your prayers."
I don't understand that. Why not? Regardless of what I believe when it comes to God, why would you not want people to care about you? There was never a point that I told you what to believe about God, and I didn't even say that I felt bad that you don't believe in God, but that I felt bad because I thought you were lost on what you believed in general. It wasn't a superior, "Gee, she doesn't believe the right thing, how I pity her" sort of thing. It was a genuine care for someone that I've had contact with. I'm one of those mushy people that gets attached to people quickly. :D Purely because you are a friend of Steph's, that makes me concerned for you and because I've had (albeit limited) contact with you, that adds to it. You aren't a number in my list of those I must evangelize. You are a person who has crossed my path in life and I'm genuinely interested in you as a person.