envirozentinel wrote:
This thread has wandered far from the original topic started by the OP (Nay) and has been hijacked by stuff which quite frankly belongs on a different thread.
GB aka DL, some of your comments are too close to personal attacks on other members for comfort. Please express your opinions without becoming mean, and "clean up your act". Why can't we discuss things rationally and non-judgmentally? I don't want to have to lock the thread, but will if it carries on getting derailed like this.
I am just as aware that not all stories in the Bible are the sort of stuff you can teach in Sunday School and that some of the stories raise many a question. There's lots of violence and irrationality if its to be taken at face value.
But there are many good stories and verses. What about the Good Samaritan? That shows how we should treat others, regardless of their background.
If those like Nay would deal with posts and questions instead of hypocritically deflecting due to not being able to justify loving a really evil God, there would be a lot less derailing posts from me.
Of course there are a few good ideas in scriptures, but to cherry pick those few good tenets and ignore all the injustice that Christianity and Islam have generated, and ignore all the gays and women who have been discriminated and denigrated throughout history and even today, would be an injustice in and of itself.
To get irritated by those who point those injustices out while allowing people to advocate a really immoral religion would be an injustice in and of itself.
You have a tough job my friend but you might give me points for being kind in my language to people who are spreading evil and who do not deserve respect.
Ask the gays and women in your own family if they think adoring a genocidal son murdering God and supporting a homophobic and misogynous religion is a good idea.
Regards
DL