Good for him! I job shadowed at an MCC church about a week ago, and it's really heartening for me to see so many people moving away from the insane idea that God hates gays :]
OMG. RIGHT. THERE. That, right there, is what people are fucking ignoring. I'm sorry, but Christ wouldn't act the way some of those close minded fuckwits act. At least, not the Christ I was always taught about, and the one that's talked about in the Bible.
Can be angered, always forgiving but never hateful.
MTE. I was always taught that God was our father in heaven. Now, in fairness, my dad is a real bastard, but ... you know, God was supposed to be the perfect image of a father. And I have never thought that fathers were supposed to be vindictive, closeminded, judgmental (well ... god is the ultimate judge, but you know what I mean), spiteful assholes, which is what this god that the right wing nuts talk about sounds like.
Then again, I was raised Mormon, and according to most of them I wouldn't count as Christian, anyway. /shrug
People forget that Sodom and Gomorrah were nuked from orbit not because of TEH GAYS but because they weren't hospitable. There's a frelling line in the NT about it, for crying out loud.
What do you mean, bb? Are you a Baptist or belong to another Christian denomination?
Trufax: how people interpret the Bible is what's really, really scary. It's what's deterred me from reading it because my interpretations might be off or something.
At least to me, it is. I've been reading Proverbs as part of a study and so far, it's pretty straightforward with Love, Kindness, Wisdom, no adultery, all those good things.
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OMG. RIGHT. THERE. That, right there, is what people are fucking ignoring. I'm sorry, but Christ wouldn't act the way some of those close minded fuckwits act. At least, not the Christ I was always taught about, and the one that's talked about in the Bible.
And this guy is amazing.
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Seriously, I never thought and never learned that God was hateful. Can be angered, always forgiving but never hateful.
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MTE. I was always taught that God was our father in heaven. Now, in fairness, my dad is a real bastard, but ... you know, God was supposed to be the perfect image of a father. And I have never thought that fathers were supposed to be vindictive, closeminded, judgmental (well ... god is the ultimate judge, but you know what I mean), spiteful assholes, which is what this god that the right wing nuts talk about sounds like.
Then again, I was raised Mormon, and according to most of them I wouldn't count as Christian, anyway. /shrug
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:3
I wish the rest of my peers would look deeper into the word about this. :/
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Trufax: how people interpret the Bible is what's really, really scary. It's what's deterred me from reading it because my interpretations might be off or something.
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Also, normal people cannot possibly interpret the bible wrong. I've been reading, and it's pretty straightforward.
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