I am not friends with anyone on this board. I dont know you all and really have no desire to. I came here for support during a transition in my life. I just have a couple of things I would like to say.

People who hide behind the Lord to chastise other people or use the Lord to make others feel guilty should be ashamed of themselves. HOW DARE YOU drag the Almighty God into this kind of bickering. Do you keep God on the same level as yourselves?? Keep Him on a leash and turn Him loose whenever it makes you look good?? I can't stand when pious people throw this "I will pray for you crap" around to make them seem holier than thou.. Just as bad are the people who use your christianity to slap you in the face. "I thought you were a Christian"... As if that is something they just came up with and haven't used that line time and time again to attack people. Christians are sinners, people. Jesus is the attonement for our sins. Paul, David and Moses were all murderers for God's sake and the Lord used each of these men in mighty ways. They each wrote major portions of the Bible. God created us to worship Him not to use Him for our own foolish gain. Come ONNNN!!!!! Enough if enough. Dont you all have friends in "real life"?? If your so unhappy online then step away from the keyboard... Shut the dang thing off... move on with your lives.. find another message board where everyone is perfect.. Or do SOMETHING!!!! But leave God out of your petty, childish bickering. If your not a Christian then be a decent human being and leave Him out anyway... He is very important to some people.

My Advice to all the angry people: Get a grip and move on past it.

Kathy

Until you have been at bedside of dying people for 15 years, you really should not comment on why people say, "Oh, God" at death........ Sure many people say it like "oh dear" thats not the point, is it? We are talking about people who DO NOT believe that God exists and on their death bed call out for him..... By the way, Believing that god exists and having a personal relationship are two different things....... Even satan knows that God exists..... How far will that get him??? I guess some of you don't believe that satan exists either........ that is exactly what he wants you to beleive...... I will not comment further. It is not my intention to use this great website to cause friction......... we all have our opinions. I am simply stating mine. Now back business....

I'll tell you how they know that in in recent studies, they put a camera in vehicles to record the responses and reactions that people have just before they have a car crash or an accident.

1. In New York it was filmed that a woman driving just befor she crashed said " Oh My God, hold on.

2. California: Oh God, please don't let me die,

but in Texas a strange thing was recorded:

the driver was recorded and videoed by saying to the passenger just before the crash,

"HERE, HOLD MY BEER and Watch this crap" LOL

Just kidding,

Lighten up folks we all have bad days! Life is too short.....

I'm just curious how you know that? Or is it just a saying that you heard someone else say once? I mean, how many non-believers in their dying hour have you been around? Just curious. I love this thread. I value EVERYONE'S opinon. This just made me curious.

Enough said?

by Maya Angelou

When I say... "I am a Christian"

I'm not shouting "I'm clean livin'."

I'm whispering "I was lost,

Now I'm found and forgiven."

When I say... "I am a Christian"

I don't speak of this with pride.

I'm confessing that I stumble

and need Christ to be my guide.

When I say... "I am a Christian"

I'm not trying to be strong.

I'm professing that I'm weak

And need His strength to carry on.

When I say... "I am a Christian"

I'm not bragging of success.

I'm admitting I have failed

And need God to clean my mess.

When I say... "I am a Christian"

I'm not claiming to be perfect,

My flaws are far too visible

But, God believes I am worth it.

When I say... "I am a Christian"

I still feel the sting of pain.

I have my share of heartaches

So I call upon His name.

When I say... "I am a Christian"

I'm not holier than thou,

I'm just a simple sinner

Who received God's good grace, somehow!

Amen, Sister!!:clap2:

Until you have been at bedside of dying people for 15 years, you really should not comment on why people say, "Oh, God" at death........ Sure many people say it like "oh dear" thats not the point, is it? We are talking about people who DO NOT believe that God exists and on their death bed call out for him..... By the way, Believing that god exists and having a personal relationship are two different things....... Even satan knows that God exists..... How far will that get him??? I guess some of you don't believe that satan exists either........ that is exactly what he wants you to beleive...... I will not comment further. It is not my intention to use this great website to cause friction......... we all have our opinions. I am simply stating mine. Now back business....

A lot of people say "Oh God", "Dear Jesus", "Oh my Lord" as they are reaching orgasm.

So what does that prove?

OK, THAT got a chuckle outta this Catholic, Tired Old Man...

TOO Funny!!

(Note to self: Be more careful what you say in bed. *blushing*)

A lot of people say "Oh God", "Dear Jesus", "Oh my Lord" as they are reaching orgasm.

So what does that prove?

Well Duh, it proves that there is indeed a Heaven.

And we know how to find it. :angel:

When I am reaching the "BIG O" I usually shout the following: OH PERSON WHO DOES NOT EXIST IN PLACE THAT DOES NOT EXIST, OR MAYBE I'M WRONG BUT JUST DON'T KNOW IT YET, OR IT MIGHT POSSIBLY BE TOO LATE BUT THIS FEELS REAL GOOD, COULD THIS BE WHAT THAT FICTIONAL PLACE IS REALLY ABOUT, OH! Just kidding. hmmmm. wonder why I can't keep a man. Does that seem to long and like a turn-off? LOL,

Tired Old Man, I must congratulate you on having the most appropriate name of all the users I have ever encountered on LBT.

You really do sound like.... a tired old man

(this post is all in good jest, just incase you think I am being mean).

When I am reaching the "BIG O" I usually shout the following: OH PERSON WHO DOES NOT EXIST IN PLACE THAT DOES NOT EXIST, OR MAYBE I'M WRONG BUT JUST DON'T KNOW IT YET, OR IT MIGHT POSSIBLY BE TOO LATE BUT THIS FEELS REAL GOOD, COULD THIS BE WHAT THAT FICTIONAL PLACE IS REALLY ABOUT, OH! Just kidding. hmmmm. wonder why I can't keep a man. Does that seem to long and like a turn-off? LOL,

I think that sounded great!

More women should talk dirty like this in bed.

Carlene, I hope you read my post.

I think that sounded great!

More women should talk dirty like this in bed.

You know it Paul!

Carlene, I hope you read my post.

Which one?

Until you have been at bedside of dying people for 15 years, you really should not comment on why people say, "Oh, God" at death........ Sure many people say it like "oh dear" thats not the point, is it? We are talking about people who DO NOT believe that God exists and on their death bed call out for him..... By the way, Believing that god exists and having a personal relationship are two different things....... Even satan knows that God exists..... How far will that get him??? I guess some of you don't believe that satan exists either........ that is exactly what he wants you to beleive...... I will not comment further. It is not my intention to use this great website to cause friction......... we all have our opinions. I am simply stating mine. Now back business....

It could be an Eye of the Beholder thing.

My mother is 83-years-old and has just moved to Assisted Living. One of the questions they ask is the resident's religious preference. She wrote "Raised Catholic but no religion now...please leave me alone."

Does that stop the well-intentioned people who are convinced it's okay to be deceitful if doing "God's work?" Uh...no. So they stop by to welcome her, AND to proffer non-stop invitations to join their services...and they are relentless, in spite of her "please leave me alone" comment. And I'm sure they are all convinced that she is "moving in the way of the lord," because Mother tries to be polite and that's how THEY perceive her politeness. (When they leave, she calls me and says, "I almost told them to get the F out of my way...")

It rains? Thank God. It STOPS raining? Thank God. Someone SURVIVED the crash? God protected them. Someone DIED in the crash? God wanted them home. They were running late for an appointment, but traffic was light? God did that, too. If that is how someone perceives the world, what they see is is STRONGLY influenced by their belief system...and that belief system influences how they percieve everything.

Not to mention that, as you know, dying people are often under the influence of drugs AND have other physical problems that interfere with their processing information and communicating what they are thinking...IF they are thinking.

(And, no, of course I don't believe in Satan...or any other mystical or spiritual stuff.)

Most of us I'm sure have had some sort of religous influnce in our lives.

Mine is as follows:

My mom is a non denominational church,

My grandparants were Pentecostal

My great grandmother was a God fearing Baptist Which I was raised that way.

My late husband was a catholic

his mother and family were Johova Witness,

My current husband is a Presbyterian,

one of my sons doesnt really beleive in anything

So with all of that education I believe that what ever we choose to believe or not believe in is our own business, we find our own path.

For the record, I believe there is something greater than I, maybe that power is within me and I'll tap it one day.

Good Love to all

My mother was the eldest sibling born into a Roman Catholic family of 6. She was two years older than her brother and then there was a 10 year gap followed by two more children.

My grandfather was ill for many years and after the doctors gave up, many friends of the family brought "healers" to the house. When my mother was 17, a Pentecostal minister "healed" my grandfather. My mother and her eldest brother refused to convert when grandpa decided that the family would become Pentecostal from thence on.

I was raised as a Roman Catholic, but spent many weekends with my grandparents who's idea of a good time was going to a Pentecostal church at least 4 times a week. I spent more time in Pentecostal churches than Catholic churches.

When my mother died, we had 3 days of wakes, 2 sessions a day. My grandfather was told that he could have as many Pentecostal ministers as he wanted lead the visitors in pray services, but that at 8pm on the last day of the wakes, a Catholic priest would be there to give the final prayer services (as was my mother's wishes).

The room reminded me of a civil war, with the aisle being the Mason-Dixon line. Pentecostal on one side and Catholic on the other. Over 12 Pentecostal ministers came to pray before the Catholic priest arrived. When the priest arrived, we reminded my grandfather, but he had a Pentecostal minister start a sermon just after the priest got there anyway.

I was 19 at the time and could not believe the fight that took place between the Pentecostal minister and Catholic priest. It culminated in the Catholic priest decreeing, "This woman will burn in Hell because of these heathens praying over her".

I accosted the priest and gave him a lecture. "Who the Hell are you to condemn my mother to burn in Hell because of the acts of someone else?"

He calmed down and after the Pentecostal minister was escorted out, he performed the service.

I lived with my grandparents on Long Island not too long after that and every week a different Pentecostal minister was invited for Sunday dinner. Their prize was to convert me. We would debate religion for hours. 42 years later, I am a Christian, thought neither Catholic nor Pentecostal.

Religion is the antithesis of Godliness IMHO. Jesus would be sick to see what has been done in his name.