God says homosexuality is in

[live love laugh]

[usonian]

1. Addition by subtraction. n/t

[RKP5637]

2. K&R !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! n/t

[LakeArenal]

3. Didn't god's son travel around with 12 men he " recruited" from their families?

What’s with that?

[live love laugh]

6. 😂😂😂

[NowISeetheLight]

20. Grooming?

Was He grooming them?

[Aristus]

4. Great.

Another fad...

[JuJuChen]

5. no one seems to "get" God

God is love, and if you're doing anything but loving you're doing it wrong.

[LakeArenal]

7. I'm not sure that's the god I've heard of.

Jesús I think might represent all the positive god-like qualities.

But I find the Christian god to be vengeful and cruel. I think this god, widely represented as a man, has been holding a 6000 year grudge against a woman who ate a piece of fruit. Both a failing by the infallible god who creates fallible people.

The Christian god sends plagues and destroys cities. Turns poor fallible creations into pillars of salt.

[vlyons]

11. There is no invisible sky god, who can suspend the laws of physics and biology.

"God" is an anthropomorphic concept, created in and projected by human minds. No such thing as a virgin birth, no holy ghost, walking on water, turning water into wine, a 3 day old corpse that gets up and starts walking around, no escaping earth's gravity to ascend into without a rocket and oxygen supply. No heaven. No hell.

There can be humans acting towards one another with compassion and loving kindness. Just as humans can cultivate hate and aggression towards one another.

[YDogg]

12. Amen

[LakeArenal]

14. I'm an atheist but I was speaking to someone who believes.

I respect their desire to have faith in something.

[vlyons]

16. I have immense faith and confidence in Buddhist teachings.

There is no creator god in Buddhism, because everything arises from previous causes and conditions. So who or what would have created a creator god?

[LakeArenal]

17. I respect your choice.

I personally do not believe in divinity. That’s it.

As to how we got to this point in the universe, for me, would be very amateurish at best.

I think Hawking said god is superfluous to the creation of the universe.

I think Neil De Grasse has made some comments that I support.

[BlackSkimmer]

13. How do you feel about the "gods" of other religions?

Do tell.

Name one of the biggest that does not discriminate against women?

Name a Christian country that forces women to cover their faces and/or bodies? Name a Christian country that does not allow women to drive? Please, name it. I'll wait.

Do you know of those countries that do not allow women to drive? To vote? Do you? They are not Christian countries.

I'm not religious, but let's not serve out the scorn for Christianity without filling the plates of those other religions that are worse.

[Mariana]

18. That would be hijacking the thread, since it's irrelevant to the topic.

The church in the OP is a Christian church.

[BlackSkimmer]

19. Well, DU has no paucity of hijacking. It's an honored tradition lol.

In that case, the person I responded to was doing the same thing. The OP was humorous and made a point. The poster took it further, and I responded to that. So take it up with them.

But that's neither here nor there.

I expected crickets, and that's what I got.

[GenThePerservering]

21. Islam has been distorted

By political expediency and male patriarchy. Studies of Islam do not support them.

[roamer65]

8. Jesus healed the Roman centurion's male lover.

No questions asked.

WWJD.

[MagickMuffin]

9. They should add that left over S after God

Gods: Let us make man in OUR image!

[AllaN01Bear]

10. love it.

[Behind the Aegis]

15. Jesus turned out fine.