Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.1 6/24/83; site mgweed.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!floyd!harpo!ihnp4!we13!mgweed!rjk From: rjk@mgweed.UUCP (Randy King) Newsgroups: net.flame Subject: Re: response to anti-religious flame Message-ID: <7599@mgweed.UUCP> Date: Thu, 8-Mar-84 23:28:11 EST Article-I.D.: mgweed.7599 Posted: Thu Mar 8 23:28:11 1984 Date-Received: Sat, 10-Mar-84 08:44:40 EST References: <692@hscvax.UUCP>, <824@hscvax.UUCP> <583@pucc-h> Organization: AT&T Consumer Products - Montgomery Illinois Lines: 23 It sounds like this partridge person has had many doses of Jesus-freakoria, a term I just coined to describe a well-meaning Christian with bad steering. Quite often people *talk* Christianity rather than living it. How can you tell? Are you annoyed, uncomfortable, or turned off by a "born-again moron" or "Jesus freak?" If so, [s]he's a talker; one who thinks that [s]he can talk you into Christianity or make you feel lower than whale turds because *you're* not born again or babbling in tongues. Au contraire, have you ever met someone who is fun to be with, makes you feel good, is helpful, patient, and generally makes you wish you were a little more like them? Are you shocked to find that this person is "born again" or the leader of his/her church youth group? Do you ask them why they aren't weird or not shoving Jesus down your throat? If so, [s]he's living his/her faith. Anyone with a small particle of brain lodged in their skull can easily see that item #1 *wishes* [s]he were a Christian, whereas item #2 really is. Unfortunately, I think there are more item #1's around than item #2's, so it's not so hard to see why this partridge has a pear tree up his ass. Nice flame, Mr. Partridge, but I hope you don't really feel that way. If you really do, then you probably feel like you've polished off a gallon of 6 molar HCl.