[TheBlueMarvel]

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Originally Posted by Starlord67

I'm a born again Christian and I think sooo many of us are too uptight! Those types give us ALL a bad name.
I have been chastised for reading comics and seeing Marvel Movies...but one thing I can say in all honesty...you worry about your salvation..I'll worry about mine. I actually love all things Marvel including Son of Satan!! Please don't judge us all by my misguided brothers and sisters. They just need to UNCLENTCH!

LOL Agreed. Yes, I've met a good amount of very cool born again Christians, like yourself. But I've also met many sanctimonious ones that have had the audacity to tell me I wasn't 'saved' and they wanted to personally take a role in preventing my 'damnation'. "Oh, really? How magnanimous of you. I suppose the 7 years I was an altar server meant nothing." I've also been told, couched in polite Christian rhetoric, that Catholicism is a form of heresy and not 'quite' Christianity. As you said, salvation/enlightenment is a personal journey and there are multiple paths, including 'no belief'; I've met intrinsically good people that are atheists through and through. What I most take issue with is our current slide as a nation into a faux theocratic state. I say "faux" because many of the modern proponents mouthing about 'God', only truly care about the political/financial POWER 'religion' can provide. These are exactly the people parables (across beliefs) warned the pious of in countless analogies. There are certainly Catholic zealots, throwbacks to the Knights Templar, but I reject that too as the dressing up of murderous empire-building and rationalizing politics in the name of theocracy. - I'm done offending sensibilities now