https://www.posetteforever.com/viewtopic.php?f=8&t=1872&p=28114#p28114 ----------------------------------- Visitor Saturday, 14 January 2006, 04:40 AM Coming back to the Dark Ages (another rant I'm sorry ) ----------------------------------- Well if you wonder why I don't like religion so much maybe this's going to explain a little. As you may know I have 2 religious fanatics in my school : my painting teacher which is adventist or something and know the scripture by heart and my litterature teacher who try to find in every writing no matter poem or prose , no matter of the subject , age , or the author of the writing a "biblical motive" , and if you don't write something like "there's a biblical motiv here or there" you got an "F" cause you haven't understand the message of the writing. According to this guy every writer or a poet who lived or live had consulted the Bible before writing and all s/he write agree with the written in the Bible. (Interesting how all this could agree with the Bible when there are contradictions in the Bible.) The last time I had classes with the painting teacher made me feel like this woman want to bring Middle Ages again. Seriously , she's probably very dissapointed that in the Middle Ages in East Europe there was no Inquisition , no tortures , and after ensclaved by the Ottoman empire the orthodox church tried to help people , instead of persecuting "witches" and we have to compensate now. First she started to talk about the "ressurection" thing 30 minutes and when finally someone suggested that we have a painting not a teology class and would be better to start with the lesson she told that the "ressurection" is more important than the painting and we have to know about the ressurection or we will go to hell. (According to her everyone except her will go to hell) Then she make some quotation from the New Testament I think in order to prouve that we'll go to hell. After 15 minutes we started to actually do something but this woman started to talk how our lives belong to God and we have power over the animals or something. She also said eutonasia is evil since God have punished people with cancer, Altheimer or Parcinson's disease and instead of wanting eutanasia sick people should play to Lord as some guy in the Bible did to kill them. My grandma had Parkinson's disease and this foolishness made me really really angry. I told her to SHUT UP and STOP with her nonsence cause this is offencive not only to people with such diseases but also to people who had relatives suffering from them and it's not her job to tell whatever eutanasia should be legal or not. Answer: "You'll go to hell!" Oh really...with such folks like her I am already in hell! Besides this lessons are not free , they are for students who want to study art , there aren't in the school program. So when someone pay you it 's not very appropriate to say that s/he will go to hell. The second class was even more interesting:she talk about her favourite subject "hell" what is the "hell" like and how we all will go there , and also said that all jews will also go to hell cause they have killed Jesus. Now am I the only one who think this is anti-semitism. Fist of all there is no prouve for the exsistence of christian hell , second the orthodox church defended bulgarian jews during WWII even when Bulgaria was allias of Germany and saved a lot of people , third jews haven't killed Jesus he said it himself "No man taketh it from me, but I lay it down of myself." and last it's illegal to propagate anti-semistic ideas , this rule is in power even for church people. And I said to that church woman all these things cause she's not only annoying , not only wasting time but she haven't met a single jewish person in her live , nor did I , so she can't hate so much people she even don't know. So we started to quarell (as always) , she said I'm evil cause I dare to question Jesus' cause of death again (we have quarreled about this before) and God knew everything and God also can think intead of us so it was sort of "sin" to think. Well this IS really really stupid! How exactly is it "sin" to think. After repeating several times that I'll go to hell I went out and left her "classes" after all I went there to paint not to listen fanatic nonsence. And I'm going to find another painting teacher cause this woman is crazy. When I was 8 grade I was sorry for her cause many people made fun of her but now ... I am really really angry. She should be born in the dark ages , it would be a paradice for her. And after that in the regular classes religious fanatic #2 gave me back my classwork with an "C" only because I have dared to write that loving your children won't compensate the lack of money , but on another hand givint them only money won't compensate love. ( The book I was writing about was about a rich broken family) and Jesus & company didn't think so.Also there was no biblical motive in my essay and no quotation from the Bible or from some saints who have commented that topic. Oh so he want quotation , I gave him quotations. For example the Apostle James is reported to have said, "No one will be saved if he is afraid of death, for the kingdom of death belongs to those who kill themselves." So , since this is quotation from an apostle I suggested him to do something to be "saved" (of course not seriously) if he really want to go in heaven . Then I asked him what would happen if more people knew this "way" to be "saved" and took it seriously? Would someone actually kill him/herself because of this? And isn't it stupid to believe in everything that's written in a 2000 years old book , or some other people's opinions , instead to think with our own brain? Otherwise "God" would not made us with brains. So he didn't correct my "C" but also gave me an brand new "F" because he wasn't contant of me and since he was the "boss" (he really likes to call himself that way) I didn't deserve a good "salary" (Hello? We are in school not at work. We don't work for him) Later he flooded us with another Bible quotation and "biblical motives" and also said that those who believe in Jesus or God without seeing him are very happy (I think this is also somewhere in the Bible) and look at me in a very nasty way like wanting to say :"You're in a bad mood cause you don't believe in Jesus". No I'm in a bad mood because such people exist and excercise a certain power upon me. And I don't like it! I'm sorry if I have offended religious people here , but those I'm talking about are fanatics! And probably most of you will agree. This is madness. Thank you for paying attention to my rant , and once again sorry for wasting your time! I have to stop with this ranting I know