(August 3, 2018 at 10:53 am)Neo-Scholastic Wrote: Posts like this would have more credibility if people didnt constantly lump moronic extremists with more moderate Christians who vastly outnumber a vocal fringe.
Remember the whole Chick-fil-a thing from a few years back? Opposition to gay rights is a widespread phenomenon among contemporary evangelicals. Hordes of people came out and made their postion known.
My Dad goes to a run of the mill Baptist Church where they spout the same sort of nonsense. They aren't the Westboro type of Baptists; God isn't hating any fags in there. But things like gay marriage and "the homosexual lifestyle" are disapproved of. Apparently because such things denounced in the Bible.
But so is divorce. According to Matthew 5:32, not only is divorce forbidden by Jesus, but any woman who remarries commits adultery.
But no Baptist in their right mind is going to beat that drum so fervently. They wouldn't want to alienate half their congregation. Better that they judge and condemn something unpopular. Frat boys still commonly have "no queers" rules in their frat houses, and gays are commonly bullied by people who have no religious affiliation whatsoever. The Christians just pile on, contributing to the bullying of this "out-group"... using people's inborn societal prejudices as a starting point and then justifying it all with scripture.
What can be said about modern Christianity's focus on a couple of edicts from Leviticus (a book whose laws they otherwise ignore) while neglecting a commandment that comes straight from the mouth of Jesus... simply because it is popular for believers to break that commandment?
I believe the correct term is "moral cowardice."
