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Styx

(30 posts)
19. Yeah,
Mon Jun 30, 2014, 09:49 PM
Jun 2014

They do pick and choose, and it certainly isn't random. I'm reminded of the "alternative versions" of the Bible that southern plantation owners supplied for slave churches, with the justifications for slavery added thereto.

They aren't going to the Bible to see what they should do, they're just wrapping themselves in it to justify bigotry that can't be justified through any tortured and warped version of logic.

They point out biblical prohibitions of sodomy, without ever seeming to realize or admit that those prohibitions cover getting BJs from women, as well. There's also a prohibition against laying with your wife while she's on her period. The hypocrisy would be funny, if it wasn't so scary.

What's really Ironic is that (if real and reported accurately) JC was probably one of the most Liberal and Progressive leaders (in context of their time) in all of human history. He's the guy who preached tolerance, love of everyone, cast out the money lenders, discouraged throwing stones, and eventually got arrested and sentenced to capital punishment. Does anyone seriously think that if He were alive today, He'd be a Republican?

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