SO many watered down christians these days deluding Gods true message . They pick and choose and change the words of God to suit the people they collect donations from .
Gods Laws have changed quite a bit in the last 200 years or so .
No more slaves , no more stoning whores , homosexuals are just like anyone else , we can no longer kill all the man and rape the women during war as God taught and once you have heard the truth of the bible how can you vote for anyone who believes that this was ever ok .
Falwell exposed religion and its followers as the racist evil beings they truly are . Nascar loving ,country music fans who hate colored people and Jews and have joined the republican party .
What else can go wrong in America . George Bush and an end to human rights as we once again allow torture . The harmless recording of our conversations and a look through our financial records .
These people are helping elect our leaders .
2007-05-16 05:30:36 · 20 answers · asked by Anonymous in Politics & Government ➔ Politics
Amen!
2007-05-16 05:34:13 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 3⤊ 3⤋
Falwell encouraged a spirit of prejudice. People are people whatever their sexual gender or orientation and they are given the same rights as anyone else according to the constitution. Not all people hold the Bible up as the ultimate guide. Many people do not believe in Christianity. Should they have fewer rights than the mean-spirited, bible thumping crowd that has us in war in Iraq? The founding fathers chose to keep church and state separate. They did this because of religious zealots trying to shove their beliefs down the throats of people. People like Falwell are who the founding fathers chose to protect us from with that separation. America is a blending pot of many different people with many different religions. No one religion should be set as the standard and be the control for the masses.
And to the person that said using term colored people denotes bigotry.....what about the NAACP? They use that term. No, I am not racist. I am a person of mixed racial heritage married to a black man.
2007-05-16 12:49:26 · answer #2 · answered by kolacat17 5 · 1⤊ 2⤋
Falwell was--and his followers are--not Christians. They are frauds--members of an extremist cult-like organization that DOES NOT follow Christ's teachings. They are intolerant bigots who have stated their intention to subvert the Constitution and institute a religious dictatorship.
America doesn't need that. They are no different than the Islamic terrorists, except for the label--and real Christians will have nothing to do with them.
2007-05-16 12:46:24 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 1⤋
show me where the word "homosexuality" is in the bible.
You can't because the word wasn't used until 1869!
Jesus never mentioned homosexual acts, only God's unconditional love.
There are only 4 scriptures that are taken to say anything about homosexuality; the Leviticus laws, I Cor 6:9, Romans 1:26-27, and the story of Sodom and Gomorrah - and none address loving, consenting homosexual acts as we know them today.
The idea of homosexuality back then does not aplly today.
2007-05-16 12:45:04 · answer #4 · answered by Global warming ain't cool 6 · 3⤊ 1⤋
The only factually accurate thing in this "question," is the last sentence: These people are helping elect our leaders.
Why is that? Because they taught us that Christians had Constitutional rights, like everyone else. And they taught us that our rights came from our government, which we are to be in subjection to.
And because something like 80% of the country claims some religious affiliation. Regardless of whether they agree with his THEOLOGY, they understood his POLITICS.
If you want to rant at someone, try the ACLU.
2007-05-16 12:48:29 · answer #5 · answered by Shrink 5 · 0⤊ 2⤋
No one will refer to homosexuals as such, as of this point in American history ,unless they want to run afoul of the new hate law passed by Congress.It was initiated to protect homosexuals from being insulted as sinners or abominations of God's
Law.So if you are looking to take Jerry Falwell's place you had better be prepared to meet the legal consequences.
2007-05-16 13:25:37 · answer #6 · answered by centorious 3 · 0⤊ 2⤋
It also said "thou shall not be yoked together with unbelievers or those who have strange gods". According to this, I shouldn't talk with my Hindu friend because in the Old Testament is a sin. If you're truly going to listen to the bible don't pick and choose.
2007-05-16 14:30:28 · answer #7 · answered by cynical 6 · 1⤊ 2⤋
Many forget that ancient Rome was actually at the height of it's Religiosity at the time of it's fall, as a matter of fact Christianity was the dominate religion at the time, is there a correlation? Well I believe there certainly is, religion will be the downfall of mankind
2007-05-16 12:37:37 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 3⤊ 2⤋
Zealots can twist the words of the Bible to suit whatever agenda they are trying to promote.
2007-05-16 12:38:17 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 5⤊ 0⤋
Whew! Thanks for clearing that up for us! Here I was, following God's commandments, and all, and I should have been concerned with "colored people," and Nascar and such.
You're funny, you know that? Not in the 'ha-ha' sense, either...
2007-05-16 13:06:58 · answer #10 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 1⤋
sorry, but the bible is an interpretation of a translation.
God only said ten things, and they were so important, he put them in stone.
now i don't know about you, but i don't remember a commandment that says" thou shalt not masterbate", or "thou shalt not be gay"
on the other hand it also doesn't say "thou shalt let your enemies walk all over you."
i am a white male roman catholic libertarian
2007-05-16 13:14:05 · answer #11 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 2⤋