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4. Nice response
Mon Apr 13, 2015, 09:58 AM
Apr 2015

thank you for providing that reference.

I can't understand how those who supposedly worship a being who claimed to love the world so much he gave his only son so that we all might be granted eternal life have no issue with hating some of their god's own creations even if they view those creations as flawed. They will quote old testament to validate their hatred but new testament to validate another position, many of them picking and choosing the passages they will adhere to and use for reference while discarding those that don't suit their current world view.

The problem is religion isn't a chinese take out menu with the option to have some from column A or some from column B. If you think homosexuality is a sin you must decide whether to stone the offender, judge not, or to remember Mark who said, And thou shalt love the Lord thy God with all thy heart, and with all thy soul, and with all thy mind, and with all thy strength: this is the first commandment. And the second is like, namely this, Thou shalt love thy neighbour as thyself. There is none other commandment greater than these.

Not all of us who have chosen to disregard a belief in fairy tales are without a baseline understanding of the literature associated with those tales.

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