(May 22, 2014 at 4:32 pm)Fidel_Castronaut Wrote: The issue is that the line between 'moderates' and 'extremists' tends to blur when you really start to examine the beliefs that many moderates have.
I've had conversations with many friends who are religious, and most if not all will profess to believe in something that just takes me out of the conversation. Like my friend (a happy clappy Methodist) who believes folk who don't believe in the same version of god he does will end up in hell. Just like that, no second guessing, no thinking its odd.
He's a nice guy, and a good friend. But his beliefs, when you drill down, aren't that different to extremists who walk around with signs telling people they'll go to hell.
Yeah, you have to talk to more "liberal" Christians before you start to lose most of that overlap with fundamentalism. Once you get here, you start to get into stuff like "there is no hell" and "everyone goes to heaven". Until you get that far, you still are talking to someone who condones consigning a person to eternal torture for not believing the right things.
Honestly, that's more reprehensible than one's public views on gay marriage.
