On 2005-06-11 08:37:00, Anonymous wrote:
"Girl - (1) the reason I do not use your name, is you are still a minor. It was not appropriate for your name to be used to start with. Just because someone else chose to throw your name out in the open, does not mean others have to do the same.
You're a fucking moron. Amanda *is* 18. She is no longer a minor, and the people who adopted her no longer have any legal control over her.
She turned 18 early this year.
She's a legal adult, get over your personal issues with your own life, whatever they are, that you're projecting on to her and leave Amanda alone.
Free Clue--People do not stay the same age, they get older. We've been talking about all this for a long time and in that time Amanda reached her majority.
Which you should have asked about, instead of just ASSuming.
I don't know what your major childhood damage is, but go fix your own life.
If you truly want to get biblical:
"Remove the log from your own eye before you seek to remove the mote from your brother's eye."
This young woman's life is no longer anyone else's business but her own.
Jesus would be appalled at you.
What you're doing is basically saying:
(Luke 9:11-12)
11The Pharisee stood and prayed thus with himself, God, I thank thee, that I am not as other men are, extortioners, unjust, adulterers, or even as this publican.
12I fast twice in the week, I give tithes of all that I possess.
You ARE the Pharisee in the parable of the Pharisee and the publican.
What would Jesus do?
Jesus would have simply said, "You're grown now. Go and sin no more."
That's *it*---he wouldn't have kept harranguing her, he would have just left it to her to follow the advice or not, and he would have only given it once.
The *only* specific people Jesus harangued in his entire life were, "Scribes, Pharisees, hypocrites."
That's you, in case you missed it.
Other than that, he preached against sins, not specific people.
But you've been told this before.
You refuse to do what Jesus would have done, you refuse to follow the precepts of your own religion.
Why should Amanda listen to you, when you're so blatantly a hypocrite?
I'm not a Christian---my family is, which is why I know your book (Better than you, apparently--or, at least, I know following the spirit of Jesus for what you do is more important than searching through all the versus until you find a couple that say you can get away with being cruel and hateful *instead* of Christlike).
You look in your religion for excuses to tell you it's "right" to be as hateful as you want to be, in the darkness of your own heart.
But you *know* what Jesus would do---and it isn't what you are doing.
You have, unwittingly, demonstrated my biggest problem with Christianity. It's too easy to abuse the religion by cherry-picking verses so that you can draw the inference that it's not only *okay* to be hateful to people, but is what you *must* do to be a Good Christian.
Your holy book is too long---and it gives people driven by malice and spite and self-righteousness in their deepest hearts too much wiggle-room to say they're really only being *true* to their religion when they're hateful to others, and that God *expects* it of them.
But Jesus didn't follow the Samarian woman around haranguing her for her ongoing behavior after he moved on. He didn't send his followers to go follow her around and harrangue her and either check up on her or just *assume* that she was behaving wickedly.
He told her *once* what he disapproved of---which you've already done over and over ad nauseum---and he didn't read her a catalogue of *all* the sins in her life. He told her to go and sin no more. And then he left her alone.
That's what *you* could do if you weren't getting such personal satisfaction off of being hateful to Amanda.
If God didn't think Jesus was sinning to say it *once* and leave it, he wouldn't find it sinful in *you* either.
You are hateful to Amanda because you *LIKE* being hateful. You wouldn't do it if you weren't getting a charge out of it--because your religion *clearly* doesn't require it, and Jesus disapproves of being hateful to people.
It wasn't hateful to say it *once*.
Harping on it *is* hateful. And it's not what Jesus would do.
*YOU* repent.
And I'm telling *you* this more than once for the very same reason Jesus told the Pharisees more than once---because what they were doing to others in using their supposed piety to beat on others was a more serious sin, being more harmful to others, than the Samarian woman's.
Get the log out of your own eye, Lady.
Timoclea
