In response to a woman worried her pregnancy was terminating:
"But in any case, no matter what the concern, when it comes to anxiety, I think we all deal with it, but you ALWAYS have to work on NOT freaking out....realizing that fear can control your emotions way too much. I try to tell myself "fear is a sin" and that God would NOT want me thinking these thoughts! the devil puts them in your head and personally i find it's a constant battle to put those thoughts out of my head."
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Your the kind of woman who stands around rubbing your pregnant belly so that everyone is forced to acknowledge the fact that you're expecting.
You also believe (wrongly) that your kids are far superior to everyone else's.
Go away. You annoy me.
Oh the irony.
Ignorance is often a major component of fear. This, in turn, leads simple-minded folk like yourself to look for answers in anyone-can-understand-it-because-it-does-not-need-to-stand-up-to-observation ideas like "god" and giant turtles holding up the earth.
"Just don't freak out."
"All right." <sniff, sniff> "Anything else?"
"No, just don't freak out."
Fear... is... a... sin?
o.O
I try to tell myself "fear is a sin" and that God would NOT want me thinking these thoughts!
Leaving aside the fact that your religion not only functions on fear, but thrives on it, I'd like you to quote me the verse in which fear is listed as a sin.
Go on, find the passage and post it.
I'll wait.
Reading some of the other responses on the board, I was encouraged to see that most of the other mommies were very supportive and kind toward her.
"Thank you god" seems to be the exception. Thank goodness. Pregnancy is anxiety-producing enough without having some religious zealot laying the stupid down on you.
So that's the devil making people afraid to go walking down a dark city street in a crime ridden neighborhood at 3 AM in the morning? I gotta say, this devil guy is looking better and better. Now he's responsible for an emotion which brings caution and in turns saves lots of lives...Where will his evil end?
Oh man. TYG thinks she's so awesome because she didn't "freak out" and miscarry because of her godly mind-control powers. I'm detecting more than a bit of smug emanating from her post.
Psst... TYG, fear is not a sin, pride is. You're going to H-E-double hockey sticks when you die and no amount of fundie sprogs will save you...
What? I'm doing what they would. Oh shut up, you have no sense of humor. :p
so this woman brings her fundie nonsense onto a secular site, and expects a worried mother to be to be comforted by her fundie-babble.
Why can't they realise that platitudes are at best unhelpful, at worst insulting and harmful (eg "oh just put youe faIth in god and it'll all be OK!")
If someone had said this to me when I thought I was miscarrying (I wasn't, luckily), I'd have punched them in the face. How the hell do you justify making this all about YOU?
Jesus. Is comfort a little too much to ask for?
I try to tell myself "fear is a sin" and that God would NOT want me thinking these thoughts! the devil puts them in your head and personally i find it's a constant battle to put those thoughts out of my head.
Well isn't that just the way to comfort a person who's afraid. YOUR FEAR IS A SIN! REPENT!!!!!! You can't talk about bad things that happen because they're 'ov teh debbil'.
FOADIAF
Confused?
So were we! You can find all of this, and more, on Fundies Say the Darndest Things!
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