Thought for the day

"Going to church doesn't make you a christian any more than standing in a garage makes you a car"

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Originally posted by catfoodtim
I concur.

3 days of standing in my father's garage in the vain hope of becoming a 1979 Austin Allegro certainly proved to me that God doesn't hang around in garages.

There's no room in Christianity for spark plugs I'm telling you.

Though interestingly enough I did once go to Church in a car. Does that make me a Christian?

Maybe you are a Chrysler.

Originally posted by dags
"Going to church doesn't make you a christian any more than standing in a garage makes you a car"

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very true, as evidenced by the fact that i attend church services regularly. i also read the bible quite a bit, and as a matter of fact, the DVD currently sitting in my play station 2 is The Greatest Story Ever Told, one of my favorite movies. i also go out of my way to read books that describe and expound upon the christian faith.

truly, a necessary condition for being a christian is not an open mind, but rather faith.

Originally posted by dags
"Going to church doesn't make you a christian any more than standing in a garage makes you a car"

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Is the opposite true? Does not going to church make you not a Christian?

Originally posted by jimmyb270
Is the opposite true? Does not going to church make you not a Christian?

Not going to church doesn't not make you a christian any less than not standing in a garage doesn't not make you not a car.

Originally posted by XanthosNZ
Not going to church doesn't not make you a christian any less than not standing in a garage doesn't make you a car.

Shouldn't that be "doesn't make you NOT a car"?

Just thinking out loud.

Yes you are right. It's corrected.

Originally posted by XanthosNZ
Yes you are right. It's corrected.

It's true either way, though, because not standing in a garage neither makes you a car nor makes you not a car.

Not going to church doesn't make you not a rubber duck any less than not standing in a garage doesn't make you not a satanist.

All I know is the number of negatives in my sentence confused the hell out of me.

Originally posted by XanthosNZ
All I know is the number of negatives in my sentence confused the hell out of me.

Are you still the Antichrist, now that the hell has been confused out of you?

You can take the hell out the antichrist but you can't take the antichrist out of hell.

Well that's backwards but you get the idea.

Originally posted by dags
"Going to church doesn't make you a christian any more than standing in a garage makes you a car"

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being a christian has alot more to it than going to church. there are more criteria, just like being a car requires more criteria than just standing in a garage. does it make it any less of a car if its outside the garage? Its a car in whatever setting. so a christian should be a christian in any setting. it SHOULD be a way of life.