Just as a theist comment on this thread. I am truly sorry all you seem to have encountered is such demonizing and horrendously ignorant theists. I personally (nor does any1 in my congregation) believe their morals are derived from the Bible. Yes, we believe God is a moral absolute and we use the bible to better our societal understanding of morality. To say all theists derive their morals from the Bible and that's the only thing not making them homicidal would be fallicious though.
"There ought to be a term that would designate those who actually follow the teachings of Jesus, since the word 'Christian' has been largely divorced from those teachings, and so polluted by fundamentalists that it has come to connote their polar opposite: intolerance, vindictive hatred, and bigotry." -- Philip Stater, Huffington Post
always working on cleaning my windows- me regarding Johari
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