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Nah. Whichever way you look at it, the point remains that the Church happily ignore some supposedly sinful acts while concentrating 100% of their bile on a certain other. It's hypocritical bullshit.
Yes the church has been hypocritical on many occasions, but in this instance the traditionalists who object to gay 'marriage' are not being hypocritical.
They are following the scripture and therefore they're practising what they preach.
Sorry my knowledge of Christianity is limited. Ask me about Islam though and I'll have a field day.
Now I don't believe for a minute (and nor would anyone else) that no clergyman in modern history has ever become aware of someone else working on the Sabbath. In fact, you can bet your life they all know numerous people who do. So why don't they put them to death, or even ask for them to be put to death by somebody else?
Believe me sanitize, they're hypocrite bigots happy to ignore countless of 'sins' while concentrating on the evil gays. There is nothing consistent about them.
Not really. While Jesus didn't retract the old testament law, and in some senses even went further, he also stressed that it was not for one person to punish another for committing such sins in the way that the old testament preaches, with statements such as, "Let he who is without sin cast the first stone." Although there are still plenty of other things that the church is hypocritical on.
The pick-and-choose dogma is there for all to see. It's a load of bigoted bollocks, and quite simply the Church wouldn't have a leg to stand on even if it was acceptable to discriminate against people's sexual orientation because it says so in their holy book, since it continuously and consistently chooses to ignore hundreds of other types of sins and sinners.
Indeed, it is happy to welcome them every week and for them to fully participate in its rituals and ceremonies without them having to repent or promise to change their ways. But those evil gayers, they're not welcome unless they're "cured"...
Good post, I agree with that.
It's only fair that homosexual couples can enjoy the same legal status as married heterosexual couples, something which they can do already, so to force Churches into conducting homosexual marriages seems to me as more spite against Christianity than anything else. It's something to be expected though, considering the number of barely reformed Trotskyites within New Labour.
For as long as they continue to do everything in their power to interfere with the rights of others, including those who don't subscribe to their beliefs, they should expect the same treatment.
Jesus (which was not his name) affirmed ALL the LAWS of the scriptures.
Matthew 5 : 17 18
try Matthew 23:23 (or the whole chapter for context!
more important translates better as weightier. One way of viewing can be found here.
Jesus broke the law on a number of occasions - for example he worked on the Sabbath, yet according to the bible "in him was found no sin"
one could therefore say that doing one of the more weightier things of the law - such as promoting justice for the dispossessed when you come across, it could override another part of the law that says you should work on a particular day. Trying to workout which was right or wrong is the wrong questions - its like trying to workout how heavy the colour blue is
So if the church focused on the more important things then all the other stuff becomes (well should become) a non-issue
When did Jesus work on the Sabbath ?
picked grains of corn, healed people, taught - all were classed as work by the rulers of the day
The rulers of the day distorting the law to fit their perception of right and wrong. I guess some things never change.
That reminds me of Sunday trading laws ( especially with regards to Easter Sunday). Sunday is not the Sabbath day and Easter is a pagan festival. Two distortions for the price of one.
that's very true, but verses in Exodus (20:11, 31:14-15 = the equivalent in Leviticus and Deuteronomy) state that one shouldn't work on the Sabbath. So as you say, someone somewhere has to define what work is and this is a subjective process. The same could be said for how the Bible is used to define (or proclaim right or wrong) on the whole gay wedding business.
Actually, I don't wonder, but those that make the claim should.