Comments on: I feel sick

By: Bible Verse

Bible Verse — Sat, 01 Nov 2008 20:28:12 +0000

Excellent post.Keep up the smashing work,You should definitely have to keep updating your site

By: ehg

ehg — Sun, 24 Aug 2008 01:33:46 +0000

rob2e: Dickface.

By: ehg

ehg — Sun, 24 Aug 2008 01:33:23 +0000

rob2e: Go fuck you mother. atheist asshole.

By: Phianix

Phianix — Sat, 28 Jun 2008 11:00:44 +0000

I don’t think Christianity can be blamed. Whilst not techically Christian myself, I acknowledge that its basic ideals are good: love one another and believe in something greater than yourself. Fundamentalists such as this woman are not truly Christian, in my opinion, because rather than living by those two ultimate truths they allow themselves to be caught up in all sorts of stupid “rules” like this unacceptance of homosexuality.

This is sort of spiralling into a debate over whether God exists or not, but I don’t really think that’s the underlying issue presented by this article. I don’t think there’s anyone here who wouldn’t agree that the woman was wrong in her actions. The question is, why? Because homosexuality is, in fact, natural and not to be suppressed? Because one ought to side with one’s family rather than culture? Because God himself would urge her to love her son, no matter what his sexual orientation? Or for all those reasons?

Whatever the answer, if there is an answer, I’ve definitely come away having learned something. Thanks to the person who posted this, it’s certainly given me something to think about. And yes, I too am sickened.

~Sophia

By: rob2e

rob2e — Wed, 23 Jan 2008 21:51:03 +0000

I hate religion. I hate religious nutjobs. I don’t believe in the lord. If my belief system is wrong, may I be struck by ligh–shit I’m blind. I’M BLIND! Oh wait, no, I just had my eyes closed. I hate religion and all it stands for. God (which I only capitalize because it is the first word in this sentence) is an imaginary friend for adults. Religion is a crutch for the weak minded and the biggest killer of man on Earth. Or is that just me?

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Tue, 22 Jan 2008 06:30:32 +0000

you can’t blame it on religion about what happened but that mother was wrong she should have just excepted her son how he was god would have, what ever she has been taught in her life was wrong and yes played a big part in her son killing his self. I am a christian and i have many beliefs but i also believe that people should treat each other as they want to be treated, how would that mother have felt if it were he telling her parents that she would have wanted them to except her not put her down.

By: Diane

Diane — Mon, 31 Dec 2007 17:45:28 +0000

I, too, found this whole post so incredibly sad.
How sad for that young man that most likely the one person who understood him(therapist) was removed form his support system.

These people scare me. I happen to watch Jesus Camp last night.
All I could think of was “American Taliban”.
Wherever I see or hear about people like this I think we have our own homegrown terrorists that have at this point not turned against us.
But what happens if they don’t get what they want and they feel threatened.?
Will we become their enemy, an impediment to their salvation?

By: Limeyre

Limeyre — Sun, 30 Dec 2007 01:41:23 +0000

It takes a very disturbed mother to murder a son. It takes a very great evil to drive an otherwise ’sane’ person (If we can call this wretch that) to murder a child.

By: MG

MG — Fri, 28 Dec 2007 20:38:56 +0000

Wow! This post really generated a hell of a lot of comments! Hi MG by way of Jon Swift’s post our best of 2007 posts.
This is great! Been poking around your blog and I like it! This post in particular is really sad! After reading the threads from the Evang Christians in response to the mother’s sadness it really gets to me. I maybe would not go so far as to say that I hate all Christianity (there are many Christians who believe quietly and without imposing their beliefs on others) but as a non-believer I do think that fundamentalist evangelical christianity is really bad news. In this case, it proved deadly.

By: A believer

A believer — Thu, 27 Dec 2007 15:48:45 +0000

Hello,

You are wrong, Christianity didn’t kill this child, but a culmination of terrible events and circumstances. Christianity when fundamental can be dangerous, but it is a choice of the individual to practice it in such closed way. We the rest of society do not do this, but we accept and embrace that which we do not approve of, that is the Christian way. Love thy neighbor and forgive all, many forget. Think about it, most democratic and liberal societies are those were Christians live. It takes time but we will get there.

By: candace

candace — Tue, 23 Oct 2007 14:38:08 +0000

I just noticed all the spelling mistakes I made in that entry. I guess proofing it would have been nice. Sorry folks! I have such strong feelings about this. I’m just hoping to God my nephew doesn’t end up like this story.

By: Candace

Candace — Tue, 23 Oct 2007 14:33:28 +0000

I was raised in church and believe in God with all my heart although I do not believe in structured religion. Who’s to say who’s right and who’s wrong? Catholics believe it’s OK to drink meanwhile Baptist do not. With that being said, I have a nephew who recently came out and said that he has known that he was different since he was little. We knew he was different when he was little. He was obsessed with being a witch; he wanted his nails painted all the time. He was never a boy, boy he was always more famine. So after watching him grow up there is no one that can convince me that they are not born that way. I really hope that people wake up and realize that they are humans. We are dealing with lives here and no life is any more precious than the others I don’t care how you believe. His parents are not handling it well at all and I’m so fearful for him.

By: Fred V

Fred V — Thu, 11 Oct 2007 13:52:03 +0000

You may have just described a worse form of child abuse than any beating or round of cigarette burns.

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By: Dan Butler

Dan Butler — Tue, 09 Oct 2007 03:55:57 +0000

Hate is the most appropriate word to be directed at murderers. I agree with you – I don’t care what she thought, what she believed. You can’t believe things like that through logic; it has to be a willful choice. If you are willfully deceiving yourself to the point that someone dies because of you, you might as well have put a gun to their head and pulled the trigger.