I'm a little askew from the description of (most religious) people having 'binding contracts with God'. I just try to square that with the rampant cafeteriaism and cherry picking of Scriptures most folks consent to follow and I get a little dizzy.
A 'binding contract' with God would preclude only following the path of least Biblical resistance through life. Not the wholesale disregard of the 'meat and taters' of Christianity. Like not remarrying following divorce, failing to drink poison and handle serpents, not hating your parents with a Godly hate, and looking forward to "All the shrimp you care to eat" night at Red Lobster.
Especially for those of that particularly odious religious stripe that fail to see their buffet approach to Scripture, but want to throw the entire book of Leviticus, for instance, at us queers.
Sorry to take a hard 90 there on the topic. But in the title a question is posed, and I'm thinking the Cafeteria Christians have punted the whole idea there.
A 'binding contract' with God would preclude only following the path of least Biblical resistance through life. Not the wholesale disregard of the 'meat and taters' of Christianity. Like not remarrying following divorce, failing to drink poison and handle serpents, not hating your parents with a Godly hate, and looking forward to "All the shrimp you care to eat" night at Red Lobster.
Especially for those of that particularly odious religious stripe that fail to see their buffet approach to Scripture, but want to throw the entire book of Leviticus, for instance, at us queers.
Sorry to take a hard 90 there on the topic. But in the title a question is posed, and I'm thinking the Cafeteria Christians have punted the whole idea there.
