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Why do straight people try to get in gay people's faces with the bible when they don't agree with how gay people live their life. Seriously, i am religious, but i will take a bible, set it on fire, and throw in the next person's face who does that. It also pisses me off that they say that gay men molest little boys proven that men who are "supposedly" straight molest little boys. My question is what the hell is up with these people??

Answer 1

The particular brand of Christians you are talking to are biblio-idolators. I am sorry that you have had this experience, feel free to burn a bible in front of them, they shouldn't be bothering you.

The Bible is mythic, mainstream Christianity has known that for hundreds of years. Mythic and indefensible as anything else but mythic. The Bible is, while a very nice book that is the basis (in one form or another) the basis of the three great monotheistic faiths of the West -- actually a book of myths, and some of them are pretty horrid myths while others are just plain silly.

The earth is not flat, it does not have corners, and it is not established on pillars. Beetles do not have four legs, they have six. Rabbits do not chew their cuds, they have none. Ai and Jericho were both abandoned when the Israelites came to them and Jericho NEVER was walled. Oddly, though a million Jews (more or less) marched around the wilderness for 40 years and ALL died there, we cannot find a single skeleton from the march, even though we have found the remains of tribes of 200 non-semites in the same area. Pi really DOES work, and a perfectly round pool cannot be made that uses a pi of 3.0 rather than 3.14 -- it would leak through a gap in the side.

The god of the old testament, almost certainly either a rendition of one of the great Annunaki of the Sumerians or of Ra of the Egyptians, is a monster who cannot possibly deserve worship, even if real. He accepts human sacrifice, demands genocides, and wipes the faces of his priests with dung. He is, in very real terms, anthropomorphic, having a palace on top of the firmament (the dome covering the earth) where he keeps snow and hail "against the time of troubles" (war???) [If you want to read up on this type of thing, there is a fair list on the site I maintain. Go to www.rebuff.org and read the three pages under bible on the left hand menu.]

The short version of what I am saying is -- its myth. Fairy stories, like Grimm's and like Santa Claus. Furthermore, Christianity, despite what you have been told, was not HISTORICALLY based on the Bible as you know it. The canon was not established universally in anything resembling a form you would recognize until the Council of Carthage, hundreds of years after Christ. The early church had 40 gospels, but no one church had more than one book or maybe a very few. Often a gospel, or a letter -- or sometimes nothing at all. Different bishops wrote different canons, just as they had different theologies (gnostic/anti-gnostic for example). The Council of Nice (Nicea) established the creed by vote, and many things (trinity) won by only one or two votes. Divine inspiration? Not unless you count assasination, quite a few occurred connected to Nice and to Carthage.

Regards,

Reynolds Jones
Schenectady, NY
http://www.rebuff.org

Answer 2

I'm so tired of people using Leviticus and saying..."see God hates fags". The Laws in Leviticus also say the famous eye for an eye, tooth for a tooth and Jesus say "nah...that's old BS...turn the other cheek". I think Leviticus also mentions alot of outlandish things about a woman's period that MUST be followed and I don't see any of these bible thumpers setting women apart for 7 days. Point is that Jesus re-wrote the rules and never said nothing about gays. Sure Paul said some here and there (I believe he mentioned some in Acts and maybe Romans), but I'm skeptical on anything that Jesus himself never commented on.

As for your question... Religions are just cults with more members ya know...and as in any cult if you repeat something enough...like "God hate fags" and "Gays are evil"....well those masses will follow. Since they have no logical backing to their argument they'll instead throw some bible verses at you without any understand of them and then using circular arguments, attempt to convince you that they are right. And if they can't then they'll blame it on the demons and sin you are living in that keep you from seeing the "TRUTH" of their message.

Answer 3

I think the big deal with the Gay Issue and the church (especially Catholic church, and I myself am a Catholic and it really saddens me to say this :.. ) is that the church has a lot of dirt to cover up (all the pedophily scandals and so on ....) and Gays are such an easy target; plus it's proven that a lot of clergymen are gay, and I do think they can be good priests nevertheless...
This is the relativism the Pope talks so much about, but I don't think that values of 2000 years ago still can be completely valuable; society changed, women (not everywhere) do have a place in society,,,are we going ot stand up against that too?

Answer 4

Because a gay lifestyle is against everything that the Bible teaches us. A man should not lay with another man. I don't get in people's faces with a Bible, but I will let them know that I don't agree with their homosexual lifestyle. The people that generally get visually upset are homophobic in my opinion.

Answer 5

Hatred and willful ignorance. It's easier to hide behind a book and spout blatant lies than it is to learn. Their minds were made up for them by religious indoctrination and hateful lies and it's much easier to just keep on being hateful than it is to make the effort to change. If they learn, they may realize that gays are just like them and that's a very scary concept for some people.

Answer 6

I am a straight person and I never quote the bible because it is wrong to judge anyone only God can do that and I think God loves everyone.

Answer 7

I think that a majority of people just can't see and understand the greater scope of things. Many people want to interpret things as they want them to be as opposed to how they really are. Remember, fanatics and fundamentalist of any religion or belief are dangerous.

Answer 8

Ignorant unread and uneducated , They think they know everything and they know nothing . Dumb redneck right wing Christan's , who haven't got a clue as to what they are talking about . They are totally clueless as to what is actually happening in the world around them .

Answer 9

Because God said that a man laying with another man is detestable and punishable by death.

Answer 10

You would have to ask them. I suspect they are very jealous that we are God's Chosen People. What else could there be?