Uppity religious facebook statuses

[milkyway2]

OH MY GOD I KNOW EXACTLY WHAT YOU MEAN!!!!!

Sorry, but this really makes me furious. Ok so I grew up in a Christian church. Modern Christian with youth conferences and whatnot. Anyways, I'm probably friends with like 50 Christians on facebook. And their statuses make me so angry. I want to quote some here because sometimes they're really really funny to laugh at. But on the real, multiple times a day I want to delete them all from my friends list..... but then I'd be bored.

 

[velocity]

Watching people's lives fall apart via status updates and news feeds. | Facebook

 

[swordpath]

I just got an "I'm not ashamed" group invite.


Well I'm not ashamed to NOT be Christian... I'm assuming this isn't the proper group for that though. So annoying.

 

[Beorn]

I'm curious to see some examples of what people consider to be uppity religious statuses.

 

[kyuuei]

Farmville makes me cry..

 

[Charmed Justice]

Religious status updates annoy me just as well as Farmville and Mafiawars, but I have had some interesting conversations about religion as a result of a few of them. What I'm really getting tired of is the paranoid 2012 talk every time CNN reports another natural disaster.

 

[milkyway2]

All right I'll post some recent ones I saw.



"The difference between effort and devotion is a revelation of grace in the work."

"I was taught grace was either "initial" (at Salvation) or "greasy". Now Im learning it is daily. Grace=more than I ever thought it was."

" ...that you may stand perfect and complete in all the will of God."

"... and there will be famines, pestilences, and EARTHQUAKES in various places.... (Matt. 24:7).... another earthquake devistated Turkey yesterday and their still dealing with intence aftershocks today... i dare you to look in the miror and askyouself... are you ready for the return of Jesus or are you still playing with sin... give it up give your life to Jesus before you're out of time"

"OH MY GOODNESS!!!! O WOW O WOW O WOW!!!! GOD IS SO TOTALLY INDESCRIBABLY AWESOME here comes the most amazing wave of revival I have ever seen in my entire life! It's breakthrough. I am overwhelmed by the awesome power of God! I am so awestruck I am shaking PRAISE GOD!"

" "Only God can move mountains, but faith and prayer move God." --E.M. Bounds"

 

[JoSunshine]

I don't like to be bombarded with anything that sounds like preaching whether it be from a religious stand point or one of personal values. One of my closest friends goes to church every weekend and I have total respect for her faith, but she would never "preach" to anyone.

I'd delete them. I delete people all the time. But then again for the most part, I only care about the opinions (of me) of people I care about. If they think I am a rude heathan, I'm OK with that, but I realize everyone's situation is different. As a side note, if they have 100000000 friends, they probably won't even notice you are gone.

 

[rainoneventide]

Thankfully I don't know anyone who are at that level of religious obnoxiousness.
But yeah that would definitely annoy me--much like Farmville already is, lol.

 

[phthalocyanine]

it has the same effect to me when someone posts something like, "religion is a conspiracy created to keep society in check and cover up our inexplicable existence." or "The first revolt is against the supreme tyranny of theology...as long as we have a master in heaven, we will be slaves on earth" (these are real examples from my facebook feed.)

it makes me wonder what the person is hoping to accomplish - to start a heated debate, to change others' minds, or just to make themselves appear a certain way?

i don't care if a person is an atheist, a religious fundamentalist, a neopagan, a generically 'spiritual' person, a cult leader, or an indifferent agnostic. i see these kind of choices as personal. sure wouldn't be my business to impose my subjective views on them. but that's why i wonder if and why they may be doing so to me. and in such an impersonal format. IMO this kind of stuff belongs to in person conversations, not blase internet chats.

also, "christians" posting about only positive stuff? lol

 

[Jeffster]

I don't understand why either would annoy. I mean, it's not like Facebook makes you do something. It just sits there.

 

[Fidelia]

I get annoyed with it too. I certainly am not ashamed of my faith, but at the same time, most people wouldn't relate like that to each other in real life and certainly wouldn't speak like that about any other topic, so it seems kind of pious and fake to me. I know very well-intentioned people who do it though, but they are the same people who also send me forwards of cute kitties and puppies or internet stories they found inspiring. I suppose I don't want to be lumped into the same category, even though I feel that my faith is a part of my daily life.

I also despise Farmville and Farmtown.

However, my (Christian) cousin had this for a status update the other day. (He's 39, married to a paraplegic, and is a hairdresser with three kids, getting a little bit of old guy paunch)
"Vance -------- has decided to become an exotic dancer. For bookings, call 1 800 MAN CANDY. Please don't be judgemental. I'm just beginning."

It made my day!

 

[ayoitsStepho]

However, my (Christian) cousin had this for a status update the other day. (He's 39, married to a paraplegic, and is a hairdresser with three kids, getting a little bit of old guy paunch)
"Vance -------- has decided to become an exotic dancer. For bookings, call 1 800 MAN CANDY. Please don't be judgemental. I'm just beginning."

It made my day!

I would totally do something like that with my facebook, but my mother and her family would have a cow. Plus, I don't know how anyone would handle the news of me becoming an exotic dancer...

 

[LEGERdeMAIN]

Faith is a girl you take home only to discover extra parts where extra parts ought not be but you try it out and then you and Faith(Tom) fall in love and you take him/her to meet mom and then mom hates Faith(Tom) and he/she finally jumps off of a bridge and then the gods are all like, "you're right, you should've been born a girl"

 

[uberrogo]

You should ask to get on their email forwards list. There are tons of "christian" emails that go around like that. I love when they aren't too bad and at the end it says "if you don't send this to 5 people you will have bad luck, if you don't send it to..." I always wonder if people actually read what they send out.

I also love the "you don't love God if you don't..."

Yeah, ok. Someone should start one about kids. "If you don't forward this one you don't love your kids" Would they feel comfortable forwarding THAT?

Can you tell I have some pent up feelings about this?

I have been thinking of writing a horrible yet unrelated to God email and then at the end write 'if you dont send this then you hate God'.

 

[Warm]

Serious business I know. I've got a fair share of "friends" on facebook that I knew growing up in church (friends of my parents, siblings etc.) who post a frequent and endless amount of these fluffy and giddy statuses pertaining to God, the bible, their faith etc.

Is it bad that seeing this ALL THE TIME is tempting me to remove certain people from my friend's list? It's not like I keep in touch with most of the people that do this (well aside from my immediate family...). I wouldn't want to be rude though as a lot of them are dear friends of my family and what not.

It's not that big of a deal but it really does annoy the snot out of me.

Why does this annoy you?

 

[Tigerlily]

i currently have two fundie conservatives blocked and the others i kicked to the curb.

 

[swordpath]

I don't understand why either would annoy. I mean, it's not like Facebook makes you do something. It just sits there.

Why does this annoy you?

Mostly because the only feeling I have towards the God (real or imaginary is besides the point) that they're obsessed about, I have nothing but bitterness towards. I can't understand these people and why they're so fluffy with it. Do they take one step outside their safe world and look around? Probably not.

You're right Jeff, "it just sits there". It's a minor annoyance, that's all. I'm not gonna slit my wrists over it... Not tonight.

 

[Jeffster]

You're right Jeff, "it just sits there". It's a minor annoyance, that's all. I'm not gonna slit my wrists over it... Not tonight.

Well that's good to know!

Why do you have bitterness towards God?

 

[swordpath]

Well that's good to know!

Why do you have bitterness towards God?

If God is real, I'm bitter towards him because he couldn't be more distant, aloof and seemingly indifferent, if not sadistic and cruel.

If God is fake, I hate the great deception that has fucked our world inside and out.