I am becoming a Christian

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Christian? Yes. Scared? No.

I don't understand why I should be scared or what of.

It is just you changed your pitcure.

He's always changing his picture

It's hard to find an avatar you like & can live with. Instead of Christian symbols, my avatars are as un-pretentious as I can find. Homer Simpson is my new theme, and will be for awhile. Homer is very un-pretentious, very un-assuming. He doesn't put on airs or try to grandstand. Everybody likes Homer. Christian avatars bore me for the same reason Christian music bores me: very very limited in scope. What I do usually is change the avatar every 100 posts, but if people find that distracting I can maybe put a new one up every 1000 posts.

I usually find it very confusing when people change their avatars, but for some reason you've never confused me too much when you change yours.

That's because they follow a theme instead of being totally random,

Like this most recent av change, another Homer.

I liked them.

The aversion to all things Christian turned out to be so strong that I decided it would be best not enflame the eyes of certain WP members with these vitriol-inducing symbols.

Homer is much less offensive to vampires.

As a vampire myself, I would have to disagree. But then again...I always was different.

oh come on, surely you must find such an extreme confusion at least slightly humorous? (no worries, the Pope isn't watching)

I don't find it funny.

slowmutant, do you realise that they are referring to something described on another thread where what was described was someone's confusion at having walked out during a programme about Mother Theresa and walked into the room during a programme about someone who was a crackhead lesbian prostitute and mistakenly thought the programme was still about Mother Theresa? The confusion was unintenional (us confusion generally is) but anna-banana finds it funny.

Fair enough.

i do not think it is necessary to explain to slow mutant what it was all about.
he conveyed his appraisal and that is that.
we all move in our own trajectories, and i do not move in his, or he in mine.

the upside of that is we will never collide.

he did not find my misapprehension palatable, and so he moves on to other dishes. that is a nice outcome.
at least he did not stick around me and try to attack me.

let it drop i say.

BD-- Reading the Bible is a must if you are to be a Christian.

Forgive my possible misinterpretation, but this sounds very much like you condone mass genocide, murder, and torture for those who do not thing like you do or believe as you do. Was it not God who said "Judge not lest ye be judged?" Was it not God who said that he would prefer those who are lukewarm to him not come to him?

I have read the Bible from cover to cover, in multiple languages, and cannot remember in any of those versions seeing God condone any of the acts of violence that have been committed over the centuries in his name. On that note, I know of no benevolent religion that advocates gross violence against another people. All of them teach tolerance, witnessing, and faith. None of those equate to gas chambers, red hot pokers, or torturing false confessions out of the nice-but-odd spinster down the street that prescribes hot tea with honey for a sore throat...

"I put no stock in religion. By the word religion I have seen the lunacy of fanatics of every denomination be called the will of God. I have seen too much religion in the eyes of too many murderers. Holiness is in right action, and courage on behalf of those who cannot defend themselves, and goodness. What God desires is here (points to head), and here (points to heart), and in what you decide to do every day, you will be a good man - or not." -David Thewlis, playing the Hospitaller, to Orlando Bloom, playing Balian of Ibelin, in the move "Kingdom of Heaven", 2005. A historical fiction, yes, but it does not make the sentiments behind the statement any less real. I agree with it whole-heartedly.

Blessed Be,

kelly