I awoke this morning and turned on the news and what to my wondering eyes should appear an actual news story!!! New Jersey’s legislature is to pass civil unions and the governor will sign the bill.
Now math and spelling weren’t my best subjects in school and any time I attempt to do math I start pulling my hair out in clumps so lets see if I can do this with out becoming bald .
50 states 4 (VT, NH, Conn, NJ) have civil unions 1 ( MA) has marriage and 1( CA) has domestic partnerships. That would mean that 6 out of 50 have some form of gay unions or better than 10% WHAT HAPPENED !! Where is the outrage ! Call your congressmen! Check your flood insurance!
With all the money spent on PACs, advertisement and just generally being a pain in the key string. Evangelical Christians seem to be losing this argument. So I have compiled a list of new hobbies evangelicals could be more productive with as political action doesn’t seen to be working out.
2006-12-15 01:51:50 · 14 answers · asked by Anonymous in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
It's not our job to change the world. It is our job to live our lives as purely as possible and to pray for those that stumble (ourselves MUCH included).
2006-12-15 01:57:00 · answer #1 · answered by nrwilcox 2 · 1⤊ 0⤋
They are wrongly told all their life that the U.S. is a Christian natoin founded on Christian principles. So they are misinformed.
I haven't done a intensive research on our founding fathers religious beleifs, but I do know from just casual reading that some of the signers of the declarition of Independance and the Constitution wer not Christian and others were what is today the Unitarian Universalists, far from the hard core conservative Christian yelling and screaming today.
They forget or neglect to understand that this country was founded on RELIGIOUS FREEDOM. Religious freedom is the freedom to beleive the way you want religiously Christian or not, yes this includes muslims and pagans and Buddists and Native Americans. Not just Christians it is also the freedom to not beleive and this includes athiests.
The problem arises when Christians feel this is a Christian country so therfore they try to elect Christian politicians, which in my opinion is a contradictory statement, but they feel they need to legeslate their own morality.
A short study of bible times will reveal that Christians in the first century and second century lived during a time that governemt officials were bisexuals and homosexuals and this lifestyle was accepted as the norm. The early Christians were not concerned with trying to change the political views, but more concenerned with living the life they proclaim to beleive in, unlike those today. Early Christians beleived it was sinful to get involved in politics.
2006-12-15 02:28:28 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 1⤋
They should get a new hobby or take the time and effort to understand their own religion instead of believing something the preacher said, or believeing the bible is the literal word of God.
Christians think Satan is a very powerful entity. It is not.
Christianity is based on Judiasm. Judiasm and more importantly the Kabbalah teaches that Satan is the negative impulses that tempts us to do bad or evil things.
Those negative impulses are NOT coming from a powerful outside influence; Those are coming from the annimalistic tendencies of the subconscious mind.
Kabbalists call the subconscious mind the Nefesh; the Hawai'ians call it the unihipili, the Mongolian shamans call it the ami, the Lakota indians call it the nagi, and Freudian psychoanalysis called it the id.
Our job as conscious beings are to teach and train the subconscious mind out of it's animalistic tendencies.
Climbing down from soapbox now.
2006-12-15 02:03:47 · answer #3 · answered by Rev. Two Bears 6 · 1⤊ 3⤋
A group here in IL tried to get a proposal on the ballot to ban this. But there were problems with it and it didn't make it to a vote. But it will be done again, and I believe it will be successfully make it the next time. I was one gathering signatures for it and will again!
2006-12-15 02:01:47 · answer #4 · answered by RB 7 · 2⤊ 0⤋
I don't think a ton of Christians have problems with civil unions... they seek to protect marriage for themselves and thier posterity.
2006-12-15 02:08:08 · answer #5 · answered by Josh 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Gay marriage is the one issue since slavery, where the mob seems quite content to restrict the rights of the tiniest minority. As Rummy says, "Democracy is messy".
2006-12-15 02:03:55 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 2⤋
my hobbies are writing term papers and playing NCAA football 07 on xbox 360
2006-12-15 01:54:34 · answer #7 · answered by Joe the God of Averageness® 4 · 2⤊ 0⤋
I don't thnk evangelcal Christians are losing the argument. We are not arguing we are just warning. The losers will be the ones who violate God's commandmants. IT always work that way. The whole wrold can't outvote God.
2006-12-15 02:03:23 · answer #8 · answered by oldguy63 7 · 2⤊ 2⤋
Why? It's too much fun going about telling everyone else they are going to a fictitious realm of fire and brimstone, to be tortured by a red guy with a pitchfork. Fear mongering is evil, but hey. Whatever floats the boat.
2006-12-15 01:56:25 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 3⤋
Eventually it will be legal to marry the same sex in the US. The Evangelicals are not big on change. Have you noticed? That's all there is to that. Change frightens them.
To call others LOSERS shows immaturity and shallow thinking.
2006-12-15 01:56:32 · answer #10 · answered by a_delphic_oracle 6 · 2⤊ 3⤋