[quote=LoneSilverWolf]Being religious myself, I can say that there's a LOT of people who give Christians a bad name. The bible says just the OPPOSITE of what you claim your problems with religion are, Magic Magnum. Jesus teaches us to love one another. The people he helped and spent his time with were murderers, thieves, prostitutes...because they needed direction and guidance the most. Jesus didn't shun the non-religious or look down upon them. I think the biggest problem with Christianity today are the people who sit there, with their noses in the air, acting like anyone non-religious is a piece of crap--OR come up with the stupidest shit, like "if you smoke you'll go to hell" (baptists and Catholics are big on this one, among other things).[/quote]

Jesus himself may of been a decent guy. But that sadly doesn't change what the Bible which Christianity is based off of says.

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Deuteronomy 21:10-14
Judges 21:10-24
Judges 19:24-25
Zechariah 14:1-2[/hider]

As for murder, women degrading, racism, homophobia etc.
My family atm is yelling at me to hurry up so we can get going somewhere so I don't got time atm to pull out the quotes.

I'll link some pages of them quickly, but past experience shows that to be messy so I'll pull out specific quote's afterwards.

http://www.kingjamesbibleonline.org/Bible-Verses-About-Killing/
http://www.kingjamesbibleonline.org/Bible-Verses-About-Racism-and-Slavery/
http://www.kingjamesbibleonline.org/Bible-Verses-About-Homosexuality/
http://www.kingjamesbibleonline.org/Bible-Verses-About-Women/

[quote=LoneSilverWolf]But not EVERY person who loves and believes in God is like that. MANY of us respect people's right to live any way they choose, and follow our own faith without trying to shove it down everyone's throats. It's just that those who do, they are louder and get more media attention.[/quote]

I'm not against all religious people, just the way religion is used.
Though I already addressed in the post you replied to that I don't think someone should call themselves a member of ________ religion anyways if they don't follow the Bible.
Which is where a lot of my issues with Religion comes from.

[quote=LoneSilverWolf]As for most non-religious people often not shunning people who ARE religious...to put it bluntly, that's bs. I can name a BUNCH of examples where this is simply not true--from taking "under god" out of the US pledge of allegiance, to telling people they aren't allowed to pray quietly in public--which to me, violates not only freedom of religion but freedom of speech. It seems to me, there is this HUUUGE anti-religion movement happening in the United States, where our rights to religious freedom are slowly being chipped away at.[/quote]

What's happening there is people fighting for the separation of Church and State which is in the american constitution.
People don't want a Religion being given special status among others by putting on their money, on the pledge etc.
America and it's founding father never wanted America to be a Christian Nation, it was Christians who later on made it that way without the consent of everyone non-religious.

Also, no one's saying you can't be religious, or that you can't pray.
What they're saying is that you can't be forcing others into your religion or be forcing others to pray.
But I can sympathize with having grown up in a country where praising God was just common practice to suddenly be told people don't like having to do that and want it to stop having to can seem like discrimination.
But it's really just fighting for the rights of everyone who isn't a Christian.

[quote=LoneSilverWolf]And a lot of atheists are incredibly rude and demeaning to those who are religious. I can speak from personal experience here.[/quote]

I won't argue that part. 
This is true, but I mentioned in an earlier post also how this is basically a retaliation to how Religious people demonize those non-religious.
Treat 10-20% of the population like second class citizens simply for who they're attracted to, kicking their own children out suddenly to fend for themselves cause the child is atheist or of another religion etc.

Atheist's may be rude much of the time, but I find that much preferable to the outright horrid treatment Religion causes so many people to inflict on others.

[quote=LoneSilverWolf]I seldom even get involved in these kinds of discussions because often, the second I mention that I believe in God, it's like I open the floodgates to total flamage. But I can't be silent on this post, because as much as I've come to like you Magic Magnum, I have to disagree with you on this one. I may not be the perfect Christian, I may have ideas that would have me labeled a heretic in the Renaissance days , but in the end I believe in everyone's right to follow whatever God they choose and not be lashed out and bullied because of it. Likewise, I believe that no religion should bully non-believers either. I think there's room for improvement on both sides, but don't deny the fact that a LOT of non-religious people are quite cruel/judgmental/hateful to anyone who says "I believe in God."
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I just tend to be very blunt and straightforward with what I think, and learned to not be afraid of conflict.
The way I see it, if people I know can even agree to disagree with each other stances, the friendship probably wasn't true to start with (Not implying this is our case, I'm speaking in general here).

Honestly, even though we disagree I support you being vocal and standing up for what you think and believe.
We need more people willing to do that if we want to move forward in the world.

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What's bothering me? .....well, I am back being friends with a girl I've been friends with for almost 9 1/2 years...... she thought I was shacking up with her boyfriend just cause he and I started being friends.. so after they broke up, she saw how close her ex and I got and then she went after my ex, actually slept with him and then called me a bunch of uncalled for names...........................when her and her ex got back together, I backed out of the friendship he and I had cause I didnt wanna complicate things for him and wanted to respect her.....even after all the shit that happened, when it finally hit that we werent friends anymore, I cried and felt as if a part of me had been ripped away from me....................................................now that we are trying to repair our friendship again, it just feels super different (i know its not supposed to be the same as it was before all the bullshit happened....but....).. I feel as if I am walking around in a dream... almost like I dont know what's reality anymore, and its just....mentally and emotionally exhausting.
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To put it quite bluntly, from what you've said here your friend sounds like a bitch. :/
And I don't see what made ending another friendship worth it for you.

Though I'm not there personally and just going on what you said here so take this as you will.

[quote=LoneSilverWolf]
What's bothering me is that I'm still feeling extremely lonely after someone I thought was good friends and I parted ways. That pain, the hurt...it's still there and it sucks. I see her name every day, and I want to PM or message...and I know I shouldn't because she pretty much made it clear we'll never be friends again. The sickest part of it all, is I never wanted us to be apart, I just wanted this person to realize they were hurting me, and care about that fact. It sucks to lose someone who was so close to you, that you felt almost like they were a of you. That is a pain that nobody should ever have to face, but happens all too often.
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I can relate to this :P