Are the media biased

[mistaram]

You can't beat a quiet night in with a copy of the The Watchtower . I've learned they don't do conscription , they don't recognise Xmas Easter or Birthdays .

[Andy_Faber]

Yawn, lets all pile in on the easy hits again. Anyone who's been defending minorities/diversity in this thread and/or burnishing up their virtue signalling badge (ie most of you) needs to take a mo to reflect. At least TTR and Gunterry's bigotry is in the open.

[ramAnag]

Yawn, lets all pile in on the easy hits again. Anyone who's been defending minorities/diversity in this thread and/or burnishing up their virtue signalling badge (ie most of you) needs to take a mo to reflect. At least TTR and Gunterry's bigotry is in the open.

Oops...tbf, Andy...most of the comments were aimed at their beliefs and behaviour.

Personally I’m never rude to them...if I see them coming I might pretend to be out or just say ‘not for me thanks’ and close the door...but I do think some of their beliefs are ludicrous, as I do about much of organised religion actually.

[swaledale]

Yawn, lets all pile in on the easy hits again. Anyone who's been defending minorities/diversity in this thread and/or burnishing up their virtue signalling badge (ie most of you) needs to take a mo to reflect. At least TTR and Gunterry's bigotry is in the open.

Everybody has a right to practice whatever belief they want, BUT if they choose to knock on my door and start preaching then I have the right to tell them what I think! Again I'm never rude but its fun tying them up in knots!

I do often wonder why religion's are so often anxty about being criticised, surely if the "man in the sky" is on your side you've nothing to worry about?

Me thinks your being holier than thou, never a good stance!

[Andy_Faber]

Everybody has a right to practice whatever belief they want, BUT if they choose to knock on my door and start preaching then I have the right to tell them what I think! Again I'm never rude but its fun tying them up in knots!

I do often wonder why religion's are so often anxty about being criticised, surely if the "man in the sky" is on your side you've nothing to worry about?

Me thinks your being holier than thou, never a good stance!

you have me wrong there Swale, im Christian by inclination but always up for a bit of a josh at my/our expense. no issue either with folk having a bit of doorstep fun with evangelists of any persuasion, im no evangelist in fact im probably a bit of a black sheep, ive gone toe to toe with local 'management' about such issues (and me defending) gay child adoption.

i would however sooner open the door on well meaning and polite but misguided folk that a guy with an oozy because id had a laugh at his Gods expense yet its the JWs that get the flak. although a different strand of bigotry its in the same orbit as those ' broadly non racist' folk i spoke about - there are cultural and racial easy hits too

[ramAnag]

you have me wrong there Swale, im Christian by inclination but always up for a bit of a josh at my/our expense. no issue either with folk having a bit of doorstep fun with evangelists of any persuasion, im no evangelist in fact im probably a bit of a black sheep, ive gone toe to toe with local 'management' about such issues (and me defending) gay child adoption.

i would however sooner open the door on well meaning and polite but misguided folk that a guy with an oozy because id had a laugh at his Gods expense yet its the JWs that get the flak. although a different strand of bigotry its in the same orbit as those ' broadly non racist' folk i spoke about - there are cultural and racial easy hits too

But a completely rational objection to aspects of a belief isn’t ‘bigotry’.

[swaledale]

you have me wrong there Swale, im Christian by inclination but always up for a bit of a josh at my/our expense. no issue either with folk having a bit of doorstep fun with evangelists of any persuasion, im no evangelist in fact im probably a bit of a black sheep, ive gone toe to toe with local 'management' about such issues (and me defending) gay child adoption.

i would however sooner open the door on well meaning and polite but misguided folk that a guy with an oozy because id had a laugh at his Gods expense yet its the JWs that get the flak. although a different strand of bigotry its in the same orbit as those ' broadly non racist' folk i spoke about - there are cultural and racial easy hits too

If you have ludicrous beliefs, many of which are patently untrue and spend your time preaching on the street and peoples doorsteps, then its likely your going to get flak. Not a shred of symapthy, nor do I see how you make out its Bigotry, I am happy to tolerate the JW's, they amuse me and I wouldn't ban any religion unless it involved illegal practices. You kind of sound like those very people you have been complaining about the so called PC Brigade!

Your straying into the stereotype, that crticising Islam or parts of it is more dangerous than criticising Christians, as my friend in the States often reminds me, mocking Christianity over there is just as likely to get some unhinged fanatic at your door waving a gun!

As I've posted before I know the game you play, you think its subtle, to me your completely transparent.

[MadAmster]

i would however sooner open the door on well meaning and polite but misguided folk that a guy with an oozy because id had a laugh at his Gods expense yet its the JWs that get the flak. although a different strand of bigotry its in the same orbit as those ' broadly non racist' folk i spoke about - there are cultural and racial easy hits too

I think we all would Andy. For me it's, as with Swale, they come to preach and they get preached back at. Bible quotes and all. The guy with the Uzi probably realises he wouldn't have a prayer in any discourse. They come holier than thou. I show them otherwise.

With regard to "Christianity", the basic "rules" are a more than reasonable way to go about life and, I would hazard a guess, most, if not all om here, think most of them are reasonable and sensible things tofollow.

The first 3 are to do with God, as I don't believe in a God, I ignore them. Some may say, at my peril, but, thinking about them I don't break #1 as I don't idolise any God I might get away with that one
#2 is one most of us would have broken at some time or other taking God's name in vain, I know I have
#3 I break the Sabbath, or both of them actually as Jews see it as the Saturday, Christian Churches have it on the Sunday.
#4 Honour Mam and Dad. I'm with the respect and even the obey bit when they are young. Once your mind is sufficiently developed you can respect without hte necessity to obey.
#5 I haven't killed anybody yet and am not intending to so I'm OK on that one
#6 We've probably all indulged in a little unmarried s e x , masturbation and some ****. I did once have a short lived relationship with a woman who turned out to be married which I ended as soon as i found out. A couple of years later I was the cuckolded one. Maybe serves me right. Not guilty on the rest.
#7 Thou shalt not steal. Fine on that apart from stealing the odd kiss.....
#8 We have all embellished the truth at some point
#9 Covered that with #6
#10 I'm OK with that although I have had odd pangs of jealousy on occasions but nothing huge and nothing that got me to break any of the other commandments

[Geoff Parkstone]

You can't beat a quiet night in with a copy of the The Watchtower . I've learned they don't do conscription , they don't recognise Xmas Easter or Birthdays .

Nor do they accept blood transfusions, so if any of them get anywhere near that walking accident known as macstheman, we'd better start digging holes.............

[mistaram]

Yawn, lets all pile in on the easy hits again. Anyone who's been defending minorities/diversity in this thread and/or burnishing up their virtue signalling badge (ie most of you) needs to take a mo to reflect. At least TTR and Gunterry's bigotry is in n the open.

Not like you pretend to sit on the fence but usual fall off on to the right side of it 😂😂