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Originally posted by Dottore
Convincingly? I don't think so.
To use a passage in the old testament, in the year 2006, as the moral justification for discriminating against someone for their sexual predilection is just nonsense and highly irrational.
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This is fairly typical of the miss-informed view of the Bible and its followers that seems to abound these days. Dottore, you know just enought to be dangerous, but not nealry enough to understand or much less to pass judgement.
Not a single Christian I know, or have ever heard from, would stand for discriminating against anyone for anything. The Bible very clearly, through the words of Christ Himself, extols us to accept and love everyone. No matter what. That includes gays.
Gays have managed to swing the debate to "discrimination", in one very visible issue, because they cannot legally marry each other. They can legally marry, just like the rest of us, just not each other. That is not discrimination. They are asking for special priveledges and muddying the waters by claiming being denied those priveledges equals discrimination. It simply does not; they want to re-define "marriage". Go ahead and live together; just don't look to re-define a term as old as mankind (with a very clear meaning) to suit your purposes.
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Originally posted by Dottore
As I said before similarly irrational people find justification for terrorism in the Koran. Another fine old text. What do you say to them? They got it wrong? They got the wrong book and you have the right one?
Give me a break!
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This has been hashed over time and again here and elswhere, but once again for your edification: The Gospels relieve the burden, responsibility, and most importantly, the AUTHORITY for men to enforce God's Law. Jesus absolved us of all of that. Anyone here on Earth that is still doing so and claiming Scriptural authority to do so is WRONG.
The Quran, on the other hand, includes the same Law. God's Law, they just call Him "Allah" instead. The Quran mentions no Savior, like Jesus Christ, that came to "fullfill" the requirements of that Law. The Quran still holds its followers responsible for following and ENFORCING that Law. That Law, if you read the Old Testament or the Quran, is very unyielding and brutal. We see that today in the Muslims that have spectacularly taken it upon themselves to enforce that Law over their fellow Muslims, and over the rest of us as well. The difference between them and Christians is that these Muslims are following their book to the letter.