My first brush with Christianity...

[an]

<div style='font: ; text-align: left; '>My sister just became one of those 'new born christians' who spend half of their life going to church, bible study and whatever else they do. I have no problem with that, in fact she seems less bitchy after she converted, which is a good thing. Another plus is that her curch members seem to regard videogames as the tools of evil, since videogames can make people asocial, worthless POS who spend their lives in front of TV. That may not look like a positive thing, but since she also played games (RPGs only though), that means I can have the PS2 all for myself, which is also good.

Everything seems great right? Well, I met her yesterday (I live in my college's dorm) and guess what? The PS2 is gone! All the games are also gone! And when I confronted her about it, she said that she just threw away all of them! I can tolerate it if at least she sold them away (we're kinda strapped for cash right now), but no, she threw them away like garbage! And the reason why she didn't sell them? If she sold them, it means she advocates playing games (which, as I mentioned earlier, is a greater evil than AIDS and cancer combined) to the person who buys the games and PS2! What kind of BS is that? Hello sister, in case you don't know, money don't grow on trees! Man was I pissed when she told me that, if she were not a girl (and my sister), I would have hit her on the face. Very hard. Why is it religion can make people do the craziest, most idiotic things? At times like this I'm glad I'm agnostic, at least I can still use my brain.

*Done venting*
PS: sorry if I offend someone</div>

[SineSwiper]

<div style='font: 10pt "EngraversGothic BT", "Copperplate Gothic Light"; text-align: left; '>I'm having trouble finding that passage in the bible that says video games are the tools of Satan. Can anybody help me out here?</div>

[an]

<div style='font: ; text-align: left; '>I'm not a theology scholar, but IMO you can find/interpret anything you want from a book as deep as the bibel.</div>

[Julius Seeker]

<div style='font: 12pt ; text-align: left; '>Now take her forms of entertainment and trash them =)</div>

[an]

<div style='font: ; text-align: left; '>LOL so should I trash her bible? :P Anyway yeah I've met some really nice Christians too. I hope this is just a stage in her life that'll pass sooner or later.</div>

[G-man Joe]

<div style='font: 11pt "Fine Hand"; text-align: left; '>Born Agains? Ugh....and I'm a laid back Catholic and they bother ME! At least she's not dancing with rattle snakes.</div>

[Lox]

<div style='font: bold 9pt ; text-align: left; '>I'm born again. Don't pile us all into the same category. There are stupid people in everything, including Christianity.</div>

[ManaMan]

<div style='font: 12pt Arial; text-align: left; '>Was it her system? If she threw away your system then I you have a right to get some money back.</div>

[SineSwiper]

<div style='font: 10pt "EngraversGothic BT", "Copperplate Gothic Light"; text-align: left; '>Except most people who converted to Christianity don't say that they are "born again", just that they converted to Christianity.</div>

[Eric]

<div style='font: 11pt ; text-align: left; '>But you're an evil dirty old man deep down. :)</div>

[Kupek]

<div style='font: 10pt verdana; text-align: left; padding: 0% 10% 0% 10%; '>There's no such thing as a "true Christian."</div>

[Kupek]

<div style='font: 10pt verdana; text-align: left; padding: 0% 10% 0% 10%; '>Collect the money from her.</div>

[Imakeholesinu]

<div style='font: 10pt Arial; text-align: left; '>I guess this makes up for the non-bitchiness...I think you smack her with that bible.</div>

[G-man Joe]

<div style='font: 11pt "Fine Hand"; text-align: left; '>As the rest of you will be. 8^D</div>

[the Gray]

<div style='font: 12pt ; text-align: left; '>My best friend is marrying a girl very close to what you describe. It's actually tiring just being in the same room with her family.</div>

[Derithian]

<div style='font: italic bold 14pt ; text-align: center; '>you shouldn't trash it....that's boring....it's called a bon-fire</div>

[Julius Seeker]

<div style='font: 12pt ; text-align: left; '>There's about a billion of them. I don't know how anyone could have possibly missed that, but I suspect you don't get out too often.</div>

[Kupek]

<div style='font: 10pt verdana; text-align: left; padding: 0% 10% 0% 10%; '>Define a "true Christian." Now compare your definition with someone else, maybe another Christian. They'll have a different one. Who's right? No one - there's no such thing as being a "true" Christian.</div>

[Eric]

<div style='font: 11pt ; text-align: left; '>Isn't this one of those subjective things?</div>

[SineSwiper]

<div style='font: 10pt "EngraversGothic BT", "Copperplate Gothic Light"; text-align: left; '>Your instinct to immediately question somebody's outdoors skills when you think they are wrong is becoming highly annoying.</div>

[Kupek]

<div style='font: 10pt verdana; text-align: left; padding: 0% 10% 0% 10%; '>Why, yes. In this case, it's more obvious, because a "true" Christian implies some sort of authoritative definition of what one is, which not everyone (Protestants, Baptists, Catholics, etc.) will agree on.</div>

[SineSwiper]

<div style='font: 10pt "EngraversGothic BT", "Copperplate Gothic Light"; text-align: left; '>For that matter, I'm sure there are some Satanists that might be able to use that in some spell. Imagine the look on her face when you say that you just gave her bible to some Satanists for a book-burning spell.</div>

[an]

<div style='font: ; text-align: left; '>It's not going to be that simple. She was retrenched 3 months ago, and I don't think I'm evil enough to ask her money now :P</div>

[an]

<div style='font: ; text-align: left; '>Actually some of my best friends are devoted Christians, but they never let our difference in beliefs get in the way.</div>

[Kupek]

<div style='font: 10pt verdana; text-align: left; padding: 0% 10% 0% 10%; '>Seeker resort to insults? Surely you jest.</div>

[ManaMan]

<div style='font: 12pt Arial; text-align: left; '>Retrenched?</div>

[SineSwiper]

<div style='font: 10pt "EngraversGothic BT", "Copperplate Gothic Light"; text-align: left; '>To lessen; to abridge; to curtail; as, to retrench superfluities or expenses.</div>

[an]

<div style='font: ; text-align: left; '>Or, in other words, fired. Sorry, English no well, vocabulariy confused :P</div>

[SineSwiper]

<div style='font: 10pt "EngraversGothic BT", "Copperplate Gothic Light"; text-align: left; '>BTW, if she's going to start this "born again" kick, give her the Oxford Annotated Bible, which is about the most accurate bible you can find, next to the Dead Sea Scrolls. Chances are she's drawning her faith from some damned Cliff Notes' Bible for Dummies.</div>

[SineSwiper]

<div style='font: 10pt "EngraversGothic BT", "Copperplate Gothic Light"; text-align: left; '>I think you're doing pretty good if Malay is your primary language.</div>