Dan, I'm glad that you believe in God. I'm glad that you feel he saved your life. Not once did I ever tell anyone to NOT believe in something. Go back and look through these posts to tell me when I did. There were questions of concistency through the bible. As I stated, I'm sure that I could point a few out. And, an FYI, I picked 9 out of my head. The same things that seemed inconcistent at 9 did so when I was 12, did so everytime I've thumbed through a bible.
I've got no problem with religion. It's a necessity for people to believe in SOMETHING. Me? What do I believe in? No idea.
My problem is with people using the Bible as a weapon so that they can passively judge others who have done absolutely NOTHING to other people. When was the last time you heard about a handful of drunken gay men jumping a straight guy simply because he was straight? Funny, I've never heard of it. And yet, people will say that gays will go to hell because it's "unnatural," and that "God says it's wrong," all written in a book that was conceived LONG before the times of modern science, long before instances of animals mating with those of the same sex were even witnessed, let alone written down.
I get pissed off because, in my experience, the majority of devout Christians that I have encountered are of the feeling that everyone who doesn't believe in exactly the same thing as they do are wrong, evil, and are going to hell. That, to me, is just as bad as any racism, sexism, or any prejudice against ANY person.
Bah... so much for the religion that supposedly preaches tolerance and love for all living things, even if they don't agree with you or make sense to you.
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