I'm sorry, but it seems to me that a lot of religious people who claim that their religions are peaceful when they're not are, quite frankly, a bunch of hypocrites.

No need to apologize if you're right (and the writer is). Nothing much to be done about it but Xtians opening their eyes to it would help. Oh, and it is going on today. Conversion Therapy is exactly like "the olden days," I gather.

Oh yes, Christian and their 'love,' but WHERE I ask is this so-called 'Love' when they will just kneel down and pray when a friend, family member, etc, etc, is dying in agony?
And yet, on the other hand, should a family pet, for example, become incurably ill or injured they are the first in line to seek to have its life ended without further pain and suffering.
Is the comfort and dignity of a dying pet/animal more meaningful to a Christian than that of Human Being?

I guess christians want to be treated how they treat others.

There are some genuinely good people who are Christians, and some awful, despicable ones who are Christian. Likewise, there are big differences between Christian denominations. Many United Church of Christ congregations are consistently there, marching in gay pride parades, and marching for women's reproductive autonomy, and who marched against Bush's invasion of Iraq, etc. And then there are the conservative denominations that are polar opposites.

I would not paint some of the good people I've known with the brush of the Church's Crusades, Inquisition, and other crimes just because they are Christian, despite the fundamental fallacy of their belief in god. People cherry-pick from the Bible to suit themselves. It's more of a mirror than anything.

Not any longer. Does not surprise me at all.

No. Because I know most of them are not living in reality anyway.

All the time! Biggest bunch of hypocrites ever!

It’s a hypothetical. I don’t know.

As annoyed as if a mentally ill patient starts talking loudly to some imaginary being on the street, you've seen people like this in any city.

They remind me of liberals and Democrats actually.

I just correct them. "Oh you mean the Crusades, small pox infected blankets, the Spanish Inquisition, Slavery, Murder and Genocide?"

If actions aren’t there to back up the words...I dismiss their words as camouflage!

Yeah, that 'love the sinner, hate the sin' bullshit is so fucking annoying.

It annoys me a lot. Religion is totally made up and all you have to do to prove it is study how the bible as we know it came into being.