Isn’t it an overgeneralization to assume that we are all uneducated? Secondly, your grammar suggests that you are either uneducated, or you simply don’t care. If you are going to make such an accusation against such a large group of people, wouldn’t it be appropriate to use proper English to do it?

Secondly, you said that just because we believe something, it doesn’t give us the right to push it on others, but I would contend that you are doing that very thing. You disagree and are pushing your disbelief on us.

“you are all freaks, you and religion are whats wrong with the world today”

Again, here you are voicing an opinion. How many of us do you know? I mean really know. We aren’t ALL freaks. Religion isn’t the problem so much as people who get a hold of it and use for their own selfish desires to rule over others. I would suggest that if one is really following Christ, he or she is learning to abandon self-centeredness, and live their lives for the benefit of others.

“srsly whats it going to take for you people to understand, you are the same as the jihadis and other religious zealots, you should do the world a favor and kill yourselves now and get a good spot in your heaven”

This statement is almost too ridiculous to tackle, but here we go. How many churches have you been to that actively teach their adherents to strap bombs to themselves and blow up innocent people? Therein lies a huge difference between us and “jihadis”. And that’s just one of several things that distinguish us from radical Islam.

As to killing ourselves to secure good places in heaven: One of the places the Church as a whole has gone wrong (in my humble opinion) is that we have put too much emphasis on the afterlife. Don’t get me wrong, Heaven is going to be amazing, but the resurrection power of Christ is so that we might walk in His life here on earth. We are now freed from our sins to walk as Jesus did. In a manner of speaking, Heaven has already come to earth. As we walk with God and by the power of the Holy Spirit we can experience Heaven on Earth.

Dietrich Bonhoeffer once said, “When Christ calls a man, He bids him come and die.” That’s what happens. My sin, my desires, my thoughts, my feelings die little by little that the Spirit of Christ would be resurrected in its place. This walk of sanctification is the life to which we have been called. That we would give our lives to love others and esteem them higher than ourselves.

Jon, I’m sorry that you haven’t had the greatest experiences with us. I hope and pray that someday, you will get to know one of us or better yet, that you could experience the love and grace of Jesus Christ that will wreck you forever.
Grace and Peace,
pakelekia

Are you going to severe all relations with people who read their horoscope?

I agree that abortion is an abomination – but our job is not to stone these people – it is to preach the good news and let them be healed and transformed by God.

Kudos on standing for the truth.