I am just so sickened.....by everything that has been happening in the world lately....globally, nationally and just individually
When you get all you news and advice from such a fatalistic source as Rapture Ready what else can you expect? What else could you get from a place that actively promotes a siege mentality, and almost seems to demand that it's members buy into the idea that there is a widespread conspiracy from the top down that is intent on persecuting any and all RR members.
The world has gone completely mad
Just because you didn't get to have the world go the way you wanted it to doesn't mean that it's gone mad. Almost everybody at RR seems to believe that if the world does not conform to their wishes the there must be something wrong with the world rather than their expectations.
Sometimes I think maybe it is just because now I am paying attention....but no.....NO...that isn't the case
Your not paying attention, you're taking every bit of news you get and warping it, twisting it, cutting off bits here or there until it can be fit into you rapture fairy tale, and if you can't do that they you just ignore it or lie about it.
because it isn't just things I notice on the news or on the forums.....it is just a total disregard of people to one another
You mean like the total disregard that you display to non christians? You can't even see your own hypocrisy, You cry and cry and cry about being persecuted and then, sometimes in the very same post, you start in bitching about gays, atheists, muslims, or the "evil" group du jour and how these people shouldn't be allowed to have the same rights under the law since the US is a "christian" nation, and then you go right back to complaining about how the big bad government is conspiring to persecute christians, and RR in particular.
It is also the crazy stuff that occurs.....small stuff that is just an indication of where we are headed....
When you look at events with a predetermined conclusion then you will always see those events as supporting your conclusion, even if that is not the case.
e.g. the soccer league my son belongs too refuses to have teams as they want to make sure that teams are even each week....what the heck???
I'm not quite sure what you are going on about but I don't see what it has to do with of your post. I'm not all that sure you even not what you are talking about.
t is the teacher not being able to put stars on the top of the paper when my child does well....
Somehow I can't believe you. Too many years of seeing people lie for jesus to advance whatever agenda they were trying to push.
I don't think there is anywhere in the that teachers can't put stars on homework or other assignments. The only way I could see something like that happening is if some christians got upset because the stars on their kids homework looked like a pentagram or star of david or some other non-christian symbol and therefore represented an insidious antichristian push to brainwash the children. That's the only scenario I can see that would necessitate the banning of stars on homework/test papers.
oh...there are so many things.
No, really there are not, no matter how badly you want there to be.
I feel like I am banging my head against the wall
Far be it from me to try to stop you, mabye you'll knock some sense into yourself.
intelligent people....some of whom are relatives voted for Obama and believe in the Goracle.
So? I've read the bible many, many times and not once did I see a commandment to vote republican. People didn't vote for Obama it stick it to the christians, they voted for him because they agreed with his platform, not at all suprising since all the GOP was fielding was divisiveness, hatred, and covert racism.
As for the "Goracle", I can only asume you are refering Al Gore, Just because some people promote some of the same causes of Al Gore doesn't mean that they hold him up as some kind of prophet or oracle.
I highly doubt that there is anybody who "believes" in him in manner that you are implying. No one is holding up Obama or Gore to be some kind of infallible prophet that is deserving of worship, it's just people like yourself, RR, Free Conservatives, and the like that are saying people worship Obama, Gore, etc.
Others refuse to see that his platform was socialist....how can they not see??
Do you even know what Socialism is? Really, do you? I hear this word getting thrown about a whole lot lately, and i'm fairly convinced that most of the people using it don't even know what socialism is. A lot seem to think that Socialism = Communism/Marxism, that is not the case.
If you want to convince people that Obama's platform is "socialist", and that that is necessisarily a bad thing then you should be able to explain why and how it's a socialist platform, and how it harms the intrest of americans. All I see is you pointing your finger and crying "Socialism!!!" followed shortly afterwards by "Persecution!!!".
I fear for my kids....
I fear for your kids too. I fear that they will grow up lacking an understanding in science, believing it to be a diabolical plot to attack religion.
I fear your kids will grow up to blindly follow dogma rather than exercise critical thinking.
I fear your children will grow up to just accept whatever the preacher says rather than research the issues on they're own.
I fear your kids will grow up being taught to hate and oppress people who hold to different ideas, ideals, and orientations from they're own.
I fear your kids will grow up believing that their religion makes them inherently superior to those of other religions, and therefore gives them the right to dictate how those "others" must act.
I fear your children will grow up thinking that disagreement is the same as persecution and should not be allowed or tolerated.
my one hope is that we get raptured soon before they get too old to be indoctrinated by the nannystate against my will.....
So you want your kids lives to end before they get a chance to truly experience all that life has to offer? It's selfish, period. You want your kids to be raptured so that they will never grow up to have ideas of their own, but just the ones you, yourself want them to have. And what's this shit about being indoctrinated against your will? No one, goverment or otherwise, is forcibly indoctrinating children in the US, You have every right to send them to a school of your choice, or to homeschool them, you have every right to control their access to media and the outside world. No one is even trying to focibly indoctrinate your children other that yourself.
but then that makes me angry....that my only real way out of this is rapture or death.
Your mindset is a perfect example of the harm that religion does to people. Why do you even think you need a way out? Religion, that's why. You have let your religion convince you that everything in the world is bad and evil, and that there is no happiness to be found. But that's not true, is it? millions of people find happiness every day, but your death cult christian heresy tells you that you musn't be happy, you musn't enjoy your life lest you get left behind.
It's the politics of fear, and the warfare of cowards, and imstead of trying to rise above it, you let it drag you down with it. It feeds on your fear, your insecurity, and your uncertainty, and worst of all... you let it.
I know we are just piligrims in this world, but why oh why can't people see????
Because all of human knowledge points to fact that this is all there is. I refuse to waste my only certain chance at life on the vain hope that there is something after it. You think that we are all pilgrims in this world, but not everybody shares your veiw on the matter, why can't you see that?
Why can't they just be good to one another
You act like being good is the exclusive province of christianity, that is simply not true.
and allow those of us who are true Christians alone?
Because you True Christians(TM) refuse to leave everyone else alone. Because you seek, both now and in the past, to impose your religious beliefs on all others, religious or not. You have sought time and time again to legislate your beliefs and use the force of law to make others conform to them against their will. That's why.
Is it just me or does it just seem like the world has just gone nuts in the last few months and that things are completely escalating??
It's just you. The only things I see escalating is the fundie anti Obama rhetoric, and the amount of Lying for Jesus(TM) on behalf of the aforementioned rhetoric.
I just had another baby this month...
Congratulations.
and what is interesting to me is that had I known back in April what I know now with how the world is spiraling into chaos I would have never gotten pregnant
And just what is it that makes the world so horrible today that couldn't be seen on thehorizon last April? Was it the financial crisis? Nah, people have seen that coming for over two years. Was it gay marriage? Nah, they managed to ram Prop 8 through in California. Is it the wave of terrorism sweeping the christian world? Nah, No such thing and fundies are always in favor of actions that will inevitibly do nothing but create more terrorists. Was it the election of the first african american president? dingdingding!!! I think we have a winner.
I wouldn't have wanted to bring another innocent child into this horrible world......
For staters, what's so horrible about the world? Don't give me some shit about america being run by a black, muslim, socialist, terrorist because that's a load of shit and you know it. Yes, there is a financial crisis, but we've weathered those before,and we will weather them again. Don't tell me it's the "homosexual agenda", because they've been comprising the same percentage of the population throughout history. Don't tell me it's the wars either, because I've seen you and your kind cheer them on and call for even more, I've seen your kind call for attrocities like nuking Mecca and Medina, I've seen you call for Israel to commit it's own holocaust upon the people of Palestine. So don't tell me it's horrible now when you have called for it to be so much worse.
I am so glad my baby is here....but I get so sad thinking how much worse this world is going to get as she grows
And this is coming from someone in a group that thinks peace in the world is a bad thing. The world is no worse off today than it was 20 years ago, and it wan't be worse tommorrow. I reject your idea of worse also. Too often it seems that anything less than Christianity uber Alles is intolerable to your kind.
My children will not have the same innocent childhood I had growing up...it makes me angry as it didn't have to be like this!
I thought children were born sinful and damned, I constantly hear fundies talking about how evil and immoral little children can be. The bible mentions no "age of accountability", nor does it ever state that children get a free ticket to heaven. So which is it?
And why didn't it have to be like that? No one, regardless of religion, ethnicity, or ideology is guranteed a happy childhood, there are children the world over that will have it worse off than yours will, so get off you high horse and stop acting like the world owes you and be thankful that your children were born in a time and place where they can be healthy and prosper, and quit crying about horrible your comfortable, middle class, suburban life is.
I know there is a reason behind this and to trust God, but I do feel bitter toward those who make this world so sinful...
I was under the impression that your "god" was the author of sin, that's what he claimed in the bible.
not that I am free of sin...
And yet you still set yourself above, and see yourself as somehow better than non-christians and those you claim make the world sinful.
I should just pray for their souls, but currently I am just disgusted with what I am witnessing.
So because these "sinners" disgust you then you don't see them as worthy of your prayers? Makes sense, why should you have to share your "god" and your "heaven" with these worthless sinners, they aren't special like you after all.
Please pray that I can move forward and not be so depressed with what I see going on and that I can just continue to turn to the Lord when I witness all this depravity.
Why aren't you praying for peace and harmony for the world? Why is it that most prayers seem to have the same common element, "What can "god" do for me". For the most part I only see prayer used in these two ways, first the selfish prayer "What I want "god" to do for me", and second the PR prayer, almost always done in public, preferablly with the largest audience as possible, an while usually done on someone else's behalf, it's true intent is to show off the righteousness and piety of the party initiating the prayer with the overall goal of incresing the prestige and social standing of the person or persons responsible. I'm not saying that is always the case, just more often than not.