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Why use "sacred" texts to defend intolerance? Christians who reject homosexuality remind me of Muslims who advocate veils and beatings for women - because it's written in the Qu'ran. How can Christians use the same scripture-based attacks that Muslims use?
Why can't Christians see the plight of homosexuals as the same persecution the early church faced under Rome? Christians were a distinct minority, seen as cultists worshipping a convicted criminal: ridiculous, don't you agree? Then how can Christians use similar arguments for other minorities?
How can Christians sit on the sidelines and even tactily advocate oppressive laws that seek to contain and delimit homosexuals to be judged by society?
It's written in the bible? The Bible was written by men - not by god(s) - and god "himself" was created... by men. The Torah was written by men, the Bible was written by men, and the Qu'ran too, was written by men.
This is just my opinion. Even though I'm atheist, I find many passages in the Bible to be wonderful. The basic message is tolerance and opening your heart.
Many passages, however, are vague or irrelevant in 2009. And some passages are just wrong. Just like the Qu'ran.
If Christians cannot sort the "good news" from their Bible and leave behind all that is pure rubbish, then, like any other religion before and after theirs, they will pervert all that is good and pure about humanity.
Someone please explain to me how not allowing gays to marry is different from not allowing blacks to sit in the front of the bus.
Someone tell me that the Bible has not historically been used to advocate the oppression of Jews.
Why can't people see these texts for what they are, full of contradictions, both good and bad and that any value they hold for humanity is in their ability to be re-interpreted, or even superceded by greater, more-refined texts?
When will the faithful, of all religions be able to get together and put their God-inspired texts to good use?
Islam and Christianity are evolutions of the Jewish tradition. Didn't Constantine evolve? What on earth is wrong with evolution? Does not God evolve, does not the heart evolve?