Monday, January 28, 2008
Religion in the Crafty World
I knew the moment I heard that this guy died, I would be then reading it all over the blogs. Do we really need to know about your devotions, when you were saved or how you are "a daughter of the King"? I mean I know that many suppose that scrapbooking is a Mormon invention but I don't care if you are Christian, Buddhist or Rastafarian, some of us would rather just see the crafts. Create another blog and chat away to the rest of the adherents...I am only interested in the seven headed goddess of paper creations!
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The only person I want to save me at this point is Jude Law or his designated clone. Aren't you supposed to die at 97 or so anyways? (well Tom Cruise will probably live to jump on Obama's great great grand children's divan on planet X in 2109) but they knew he was dying long before today, so stop the wailing and gnashing of teeth. Go scrapbook your sorrow for all the coming generations to remember. And set aside some canned goods too.
There is a blogger named Gwen who constantly preaches as people about how we are all in the dark and that Mormonism and particularly Mitt Romney are here to save us. I took her off my Google Reader after I saw her deleting any comments that disagreed, politely disagreed, with her diatribes.
I took off a blog because it was no longer stamping but constant Hillary Bashing. I have not decided who to vote for at this point but the spite in the blog was so over the top, I wanted to say I was Hillary's biggest fan just to piss her off. But she had moderation too.
Yes, the politics stuff is annoying too. I find that it is often on the very same blogs that have the religious postings mixed in. There is one very, very vocal anti-choice stamper, who btw, does beautiful stamping and I love to see her work, but I no longer want to wade through the misinformation and sensationalism along with the disdain for anyone who does not believe as she does.
Yes, the politics stuff is annoying too. I find that it is often on the very same blogs that have the religious postings mixed in. There is one very, very vocal anti-choice stamper, who btw, does beautiful stamping and I love to see her work, but I no longer want to wade through the misinformation and sensationalism along with the disdain for anyone who does not believe as she does.
OMG, I'm actually religious myself (not Mormon, though), but I don't want to hear about this stuff on crafting blogs and forums! I get really sick of the conservative gobbledygook some people preach. I remember a while ago when some people were talking about not supporting certain companies because they were pro-choice, or, get this, French. *rolleyes*
That's interesting I deleted a Hilary basher blog from my reader too. I'm not even a Hilary fan... I felt I made some valid points in the comments and she deleted them. oh well!
Blogs are online journals. Even crafting blogs. They reflect the person who owns the blog, and if that person wants to write about their religion on their blog, that is their right. If you don't like it, don't go to their blog!
I cannot believe how intolerant we have become in this day and age when we are supposed to have freedom of speech.
If a blog is a crafting blog, I think it needs to remain a crafting blog. I don't go to Starbucks to get preached at, I don't go to car sites to get preached at, and I certainly don't go to stamp/craft blogs to have to wade through preaching. There is no reason they couldn't start a second blog and keep the 2 things separate so as not to annoy people.
What is really intolerant is when you write on your blog (your perogative) and have open and free comment posting (again a choice you make) and then delete it because it isnt agreeing to what you want it to say. So why have open commenting? Why not approve each comment before anyone sees it and then no one is the wiser?
Exactly, Jan!!
Ex-Mo here...if I read one more "my heavenly father loves me" on a stampin blog, I'm gonna puke.
Gordo was OLD dammit, that's what you do when you're that old, you DIE!!
Wonder who the next PROFIT will be?
Oh, if I could only get a refund on my tithing so I could buy more stamps hehe Shit, I could probably start my own company and brag about it on SCS
LMAO ladies.....agnostics unite.
You all need the lord in your hearts. You need to be loved. Did your mommy and daddy hug you and tell you "I Love You" when you were younger? Probably not. Good to see you are all here on one site, and not elsewhere. This blog is keeping you all in one place, and keeping all of you close minded. May you have peace within yourselves. You need the peace. Peace and Quiet that is.
Anonymous- We are closed minded? We are able to THINK! We educate ourselves. We ask WHY! We dont settle for the forced indoctrination you take as true.
I personally was brought up in a narrow minded Catholic cult. I was taught to fear everything. I was taught if I kissed a boy I was going to hell after god tore my limbs off and set me on fire. I was f***ing 3 years old! I kissed the little boy next door because he let me ride his tricycle. Where is the love? Not in my family and not in that religion. It's all about the control and the money. Do you think any organized religion would be around if it wasnt tax exempt and had no cash?
I am a naturalist and a very spiritual person who now knows my place on this traveling earthship and I feel like I belong here and can maybe love myself for the first time in 50 years. No organized religion and no manufactured god has anything to do with that! It has been been my journey within myself to find that.It has come about with a lot of pain and loss and self discovery.
There are others like me everywhere. Not just on this blog. You probably have been to my blog and every one of us writing here. How do I know that??? We have some of the most popular crafting blogs out there. So you gonna go delete any blog that doesnt say in every post "I love jesus?" Go for it! We wont miss you. We have better things to do with our lives.
Now that Super Tuesday results are in I think we can get a break from the Romney and Huckabee evangelists!
Now that Mitt is gone I think we should get relief from all the Mormon stampers promoting him on their stamping blogs. Thank goodness I don't see McCain and others being promoted on stamping blogs. It was just the religious connection that was abused.
Now that Mitt is gone I think we should get relief from all the Mormon stampers promoting him on their stamping blogs. Thank goodness I don't see McCain and others being promoted on stamping blogs. It was just the religious connection that was abused.
Gettin' back to the religion topic, have you seen the new "apprentice" over at Papertrey? They had a contest with the winner getting to co-design a stamp set. They really picked a winner for this one. Guess the subject... Scripture! Just what we all need, all our fave scriptures in a stamp set. Give me a break, wouldja?
Yah, I saw it...won't buy that one...
On another well known blog last night, she is thinking of designing her own stamps(where have we heard this before?) and all of her samples were collage with bible quotes too. I liked her concepts but there are tons of quotes out there that mean something and inspire but are not just targeting religion-especially as "Christian" is so little a part of the religious world
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