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Permalink Reply by 3equ3cp1fsw0n on January 16, 2011 at 10:38pm

A friend who I had known for 20 years got saved. She called me to inform me of this and then told me that my dabbling in new age (at the time) was "of the devil".

 

We never spoke again and that was 15 years ago but after our last words, I did receive a Christmas card from her the following Christmas in which she wrote "Jesus Loves You".

 

I ripped it up and threw it in the garbage.

 

 

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Permalink Reply by James on January 16, 2011 at 11:20pm

I would do the same, and can't fault your actions one bit. The card my parents (well, my mom really) went out in the recycling with all the rest.

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Permalink Reply by Cathleen Sessions on January 17, 2011 at 12:44am

A plastic foot and a half by six inch plastic manger scene that lit up and 'sang'.  I had not really declared my (at the time) agnosticism so maybe I can't blame her for the sentiment except it was hideously tacky and horrible.   I wasn't that it was Christian so much as it was extremely tasteless.

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Permalink Reply by Duck Tricks on January 17, 2011 at 1:37am

This guy in my class, everyday he would talk to me about God (I think he was Mormon) One day de gave me a bible, I never read it but he would ask me what I think of it every time I saw him.

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Permalink Reply by Jon Heim on January 17, 2011 at 4:07am

there has never been such a redundancy as the phrase "christian rock".

 

I got a bible for christmas 2003.

hm..i wouldn't really count them, but i get cards from members of my parent's church very often.

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Permalink Reply by Jon Heim on January 17, 2011 at 4:13am

oh, here's a funny one. my girlfriend of the time, after learning that I was not only an atheist but *gasp* not a virgin...decided to take it upon her self to talk to her pastor about my um...uncleanliness.. and brought back a neat little pamphlet for me on how to get my virginity back through the lord.

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Permalink Reply by Moria Jackson on January 17, 2011 at 3:37pm

There's actually a pamphlet for that?!  Did you read it just for fun?  I am dying to know what it suggests lol

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Permalink Reply by Jennifer Ulean Breedlove on January 17, 2011 at 3:47pm

@ Jon I would love to know what that said too. Could you post that on here and let us read, I am sure it would be worth the laughs:)

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Permalink Reply by Jon Heim on January 17, 2011 at 6:28pm

i think i ripped it up and threw it out..but if by chance I kept it, ill try to find it and post it for you.

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Permalink Reply by Julien on January 17, 2011 at 5:36am

I've been given the gift of space.

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Permalink Reply by Zombie Atheist on January 17, 2011 at 7:11am

I can think of 2 things. My ex room mate who was very religious (and one of this christian hardcore rocker types. Also must ad she had never read the bible and was reading a specially translated for women version.) She gave me a magnet that read 'Jesus is the reason for the season.' I used it on the fridge as I was in need of magnets, but I put it upside down. Always 'Fixed' it when someone put it 'right side up' too.

 

The other is I got in a bit of a debate with my mother. She tried telling me how I can still be 'spiritual' and an Atheist. I told her I couldn't really (not her definition of spiritual anyway, but that's a different story.) for Mythmas she gave me a book called 'The Little Book of Atheist Spirituality'. My mom is very silly.

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Permalink Reply by Jon Heim on January 17, 2011 at 1:35pm

hardcore rock and Christianity SOO dont go together. lol and some atheists can beleive in spirits..it's just that most of us are smart enough to realize that once there is no god, a spirit isn't necessary.

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