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Originally posted by Dramnek_Ulk:
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Originally posted by Cerek the Barbaric:
Too many Christians use the Bible to "justify" their own personal prejudices and that does more harm to the Christian religion than anything else I can think of.[QB]
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Why the Inverted Commas?
The bible quite clearly states that we should go out and stone adulterers & homosexuals to death.
Someone I know repeats those particular passages all the time to justify his beliefs, and indeed the bible does justify them as it is written in it that you should go out and do these things.
Of course his beliefs are a load of ignorant, prejudiced tosh and not relective of all christians.
But Surely If Christianity is all about peace & love & tolerence those bits wouldn’t be in the bible right?[/QUOTE]You quite clearly have an alternate view of reality. The bible has an example of an attempted stoning of an adulteress that Jesus prevents. I don't know what you're looking at.
Also, I have Christian friends who are homosexual, so again, I don't know what reality you live in. Christianity is about unconditional acceptance.
Re. Money, the Catholic Church have historically contained Nuns and Monks who did not own possesions. Jesus was quite clear about the worshipping God/Money inconsistency. So don't try bringing up the wealth of a church as 'proof'. If a church is wealthy, it's because their members having been
giving money away not worshipping it.
[ 04-27-2002, 11:40 AM: Message edited by: Yorick ]