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  1. I personally like this show and don't think it portrays Christians badly at all. I think it portrays them as human, with the same problems and skeletons in the closet everyone else has. But then, I have always thought that you have to be able to laugh at yourself to get along in life.
  2. My thoughts exactly! I too agree that it is about being pissy about not being able to run the show rather than actually being persecuted. I work on another forum and I hear this all the time. It makes me want to scream, frankly.
  3. thanks:) I definitely have a hard time with letting go, so to speak. My friend said that the group screwed me up and she wishes I had never gotten involved with them, but I guess God had a reason for it.
  4. www.spiritualabuse.org and www.spiritualabuse.com are good resources for people like me who have experienced abuse in a sense. The first is mainly dealing with the Pentecostal church (but not entirely) and the second has a good forum for discussion. I will say that it is very difficult to get over abuse and recognize it for what it is because you never think this sort of thing will happen to you, in a church of all places. That, and it is hard to know when you have forgiven the people who hurt you because you can't help but carry the feelings with you to your next church. But it is worth the effort of getting your faith back intact. It might seem touch-and-go for a while, but it tends to come back stronger when it is rebuilt. I will say that I still have a hard time passing churches of the type that hurt me without getting visibly upset or wanting to throw something wet and squishy.
  5. I haven't seen this movie yet-I don't think it will play in our small conservative town and my friends are not likely to want to drive to Atlanta (nearest major city) to see it. I heard good things about it, though, and it looks like it is a nice love story with the 'gay thing' being secondary. Besides, both guys are hot:)
  6. I know what you mean. I had an ex who was a fundie and saw everything in black and white. Sometimes I envy him that he can do that because the reason he can do that is because he has never really encountered any real hardship in life or any period of uncertainty where he just had to slog on like the rest of us do. But then again, I am glad that I am not that way because, if anything *does* happen to him and he ever *does* have his faith tested, he won't be able to handle it. I have had my faith tested almost to the point of walking away and now I feel that my faith and trust is stronger as a result. So maybe it is better that we are able to see the shades of grey, because *life* is grey. There are so few things in black and white that we learn to greater appreciate them when we do find them. And I like the avatars you sent me:)
  7. I dont think a lot of fundies would be comfortable as progs because they have to have certainty about everything-everything must be black and white, no shades of grey allowed. We progs are comfortable with the grey, and I think that threatens a lot of fundies. They can't stand not having every answer in a neat little box. I should know, I was one.
  8. And yes many of the characters are not likable, but a lot of *people* aren't all that likeable either. I think the show is more like real life than some conservatives are comfortable with. They seem fine if they can run the show and if everyone all looks and acts the same, but that isn't reality.
  9. I actually thought the show was funny, and I think it is great that the Episcopal church can apparently laugh at itself. I thought the Jesus character was pretty real. I don't really understand why some afiliates in some cities wouldn't play the show, given all of the much worse crap that gets aired with no problem.
  10. What makes it worse is that, unlike our cats, people *listen* to Robertson and think all Christians are like that. You do not want to know *how* many times I have had to tell non-Christians that he doesn't speak for all of us when he says hateful things like this. Maybe we need to have our own TBN?
  11. okay then perhaps I am a progressive or moderate evangelical, and I have taken the word with the baggage. I am in the south and here it definitely has the baggage.
  12. I know what you mean. I live in the south and I see this all the time. It isn't unusual to see 'We support president Bush' on a church sign. I think this sort of thing has no place in a church. I don't like religion and politics being linked at all, but I hear them being put together a lot here. One only need look at the Taliban to see what can happen when religion and politics are too closely linked.
  13. I also hate that some people seem to think that, because I am a Christian, I wouldn't know an original thought if it came up and bit me in the behind.
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