The whole concept of Jesus makes absolutely no sense if you think about it for, like, 5 seconds. God’s all powerful but he needs his son (who is also himself?) to die so people can get into heaven? Something tells me the Almighty has a few problems when it comes to logical thinking.
Ratatouille Strychnine: I don’t quite understand the argument used against homophobic…
I don’t quite understand the argument used against homophobic “Christians” that states that Christians should be totes fine with homosexuality simply because Jesus didn’t speak about it so, therefore, it mustn’t be “essential to his teachings”.
BUT Jesus did speak about adultery and marriage,…
OMG
Like, I am an atheist. Hard-core atheist.
But what I hate more than homophobia and all that junk is people cherry-picking the bible and trying to make gays feel accepted.
No.
NO.
I lived half my life as a gay christian (albeit unknowingly for quiet a while), and it hurts. Because no matter what anyone on the TV or radio says, my mother told me that gays went to hell and were horrible, scum of the earth.
I don’t want anyone to have to deal with a religion that makes anyone say that, so I really think that all gays should be banned from Christianity.
Once I actually talked to a christian, and they pointed out that there were churches that were for gay people and only gay people to keep the gay people out of the real churches. I yelled, “THAT’S SEGREGATION!”
And they replied with, “They want it that way.”
I agree. I mean, people criticize Christians for cherry-picking the Bible to justify discrimination but cherry-picking the Bible to make it look good still makes little sense. In my own opinion, being (certain denominations of) Christian and being gay are incompatible because the Bible does nothing to discuss homosexuality in a positive light. Jesus was positive in his actions to women and other “races” (for example, the Samaritan woman at the well) so why couldn’t he have said anything about being gay or lesbian or trans*?
Saying this, however, I think the Quakers have Christianity right. The whole “continuous revelation” aspect of Quakerism is awesome. Unitarians are pretty cool, too, as well as some liberal Presbyterians. Other Protestant denominations have similar doctrines but unfortunately they’ve been used in the wrong way :(
I don’t quite understand the argument used against homophobic “Christians” that states that Christians should be totes fine with homosexuality simply because Jesus didn’t speak about it so, therefore, it mustn’t be “essential to his teachings”.
BUT Jesus did speak about adultery and marriage, where he states that, basically, you can only have sex if you are married and the person you are married to is of the opposite sex, otherwise you’re not being nice to God…or something. Surely the Son of the All-Knowing God, apparently accepting of gay people, should have at least had the knowledge to use gender-neutral pronouns? He knew when was going to die anyway, so he actually could have spoken directly about gay people without the fear of major pwnage by the people of Galilee. It would have cleared up a lot of nonsense.
“Oh and you guys, that bit in the old testament about man lying with man? Yeah, God loves everyone now, not just the Hebrews, so don’t be mean to the gays plz”
We need to stop pretending that Jesus and his disciples didn’t have hot, gay orgies when God wasn’t looking.
