DangerousTalk

I was having a discussion yesterday with a gay Christian. He assured me that he was a liberal, progressive, person and that he too opposes the “misuse” of Christianity by politicians. The problem is that politicians aren’t “misusing” Christianity any more than he is.

Here again we have liberal Christians who claim the monopoly on the one true interpretation of the divinely inspired Bible. Unfortunately for these liberal Christians, the fundamentalist Christians still have the biblical high ground and even they interpret the Bible rather liberally. People forget that the Bible says that people shouldn’t work on Saturdays, should stone disobedient children, stone adulterers, non-Christians, Blasphemers, and gays. There is a lot of stoning. Jesus wants people to give away all their possessions, hate their family, and pluck their eyes out to avoid the sin of Lust. And those are just some of the highlights.

It makes no sense to me how any gay person can be a Christian when the Bible not only calls homosexuality an abomination, but then says that gays should be killed. Being a gay Christian seems a lot like being a Jewish Nazi or a Black member of the KKK to me. It just seems so insane. Now granted, being any kind of Christian is pretty insane, but to believe in a God and a Holy Book which endorses one’s own murder, it just over the top.

Now I know not all Christians believe that homosexuality is an “abomination,” but they do have to acknowledge that the source of their knowledge about the divine, claims that it is. If you reject that part of the “good book” why would you accept the parts of that same book which claim that there is an all-powerful deity? And let’s say one could “reason” an all-powerful deity without the Bible, there is no way one could “reason” the whole Jesus scheme without the Bible as one’s source.

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