In my lifetime Mark 10:11 went from 'damn right!' to optional to positively old fashioned, to freely ignored.

No shit, Princess Margaret (Queen Elizabeth's sister) could not marry her beloved Captain Townsend (decorated war hero, BTW) since he was married and divorced, when they were dating in the early 60s because in those days, Christian marriage was deemed to be indissoluble.

When's the last time (outside of me, here) have any of you heard anyone in public say anything like 'Christian marriage is indissoluble' ??

Anyone getting worked up about Jesus and His silly ideas about how He thinks marriage otta be conducted could very well be institutionalized, and they could very well find themselves being institutionalized by folks claiming vigorously they are, in fact, Christians.


How about that ding dong clerk in Kentucky, on a repeat marriage of her own, having a hissy fit about gay marriage licenses, and she's claiming 'Sincerely held BELIEFS" as her reason to deny.

Sincerely held beliefs?!?!?! Jesus fucking Christ, what kind of sincerely held religious beliefs are there left for her to have after shit canning a Christian marriage of her very own ?

Oh, wait a minute.

I'm not supposed to be pissed off about that.  Her intermittent Christian values are a BIG step towards atheism, aren't they ?


Hell, atheism is a less sin than her thinking she knows better than Jesus how marriage otta work, despite what He said.

That ain't merely denying God exists, that is rebellion from God's Holy Word.  Atheists might yet be persuaded, rebelling against God is another thing entirely.

The current bible itself has been cherry picked, with uncomfortable bits and stories being discarded over time. The myth and characters are themselves cherry-picked from other religions and older myths. So yeh, christians cherry-pick, and so does christianity.

I accept your apology.

Boru

(March 22, 2017 at 11:55 pm)Polaris Wrote: Are these cultural Christians who were brought up in a Christian household who are too scared to admit they are actually atheists? 

Nope.  They're just christians who, like the majority of christians, believe something ever so slightly different from what you believe in the periphery of christ.  

Quote:For example this a passage from the Bible. It's from 1 John. While 1:7 is my favorite verse (my signature), I know the surrounding verses are much less rosy.

"If we claim to have fellowship with him and yet walk in the darkness, we lie and do not live out the truth. But if we walk in the light, as he is in the light, we have fellowship with one another, and the blood of Jesus, his Son, purifies us from all sin. If we claim to be without sin, we deceive ourselves and the truth is not in us. If we confess our sins, he is faithful and just and will forgive us our sins and purify us from all unrighteousness. If we claim we have not sinned, we make him out to be a liar and his word is not in us."

This is their happy feel-good, BS version they will tell you while omitting all the negative text. If they post this version to you, they are purposefully committing sections of the Bible and are, in essence, lying to you.

"But if we walk in the light, as he is in the light, we have fellowship with one another, and the blood of Jesus, his Son, purifies us from all sin. If we confess our sins, he is faithful and just and will forgive us our sins and purify us from all unrighteousness."

You're all lying to us, so what does it matter?  Are you really complaining that some other liar hasn't exactly related to me the contents of your preferred lies?  

What's the eta on an apology for that, and no, apologizing to jesus for doing it doesn't count.   

and a flip side to scripture cherry picking:

hyper vigilance to one, or a small number of selected strictures, or edicts, or rules, or commandments, or even something not in the Bible at all.

I'd say if the picky Christians were forced to speculate why they do that too, an honest answer would be along the lines of deflecting God's attention from all the scriptural guidance they are ignoring and patting themselves on the back for being really good, at least, in following at least one bit of scripture and hoping by their demonstration God might be hopeful they'd eventually start following some of His other rules.

Someday.

Oh, this twat again?

Dude, give it a rest.

You are far from the worst of the lot, Polecat.