(June 26, 2017 at 12:05 am)Astonished Wrote:(June 25, 2017 at 11:52 pm)bennyboy Wrote: I'm with the Christians on this one. Not the gay-beaters-- I mean, those who actually try to model themselves after the person described in the NT.
He said plenty of things against hypocrisy, against intolerance, and so on.
I also think it's fine to think homosexuality is strange, or wrong, or whatever-- so long as it's understood that you don't get any say in how they live their lives.
And practiced both of them among other objectionable things. One of those little inconvenient truths that people try to sweep under the rug. That's why it's a really, really shitty idea to model oneself after a person instead of coming up with a decent moral system on one's own. And why no one who claims to do this deserves one tiny iota of respect for it.
I don't want to defend the Biblical Jesus. But I would say if most Christians were actually trying to be a lot more like he was, we'd all be better off. Bombing countries full of brown people or beating up homosexual men is infinitely less better a solution to issues of contention than turning the other cheek and refusing to cast the first stone.
