what I find interesting is the way that folks tend not to differentiate the faith from the fundamentalist fringe.
it is my belief, and my experience, that the bible, when taken in context is the inspired word of God. the key words here are IN CONTEXT,
I am not an idiot, I know full well that many of the Christianized holidays were once pagan in origin, and why not? god accepts people just as they are, if a pagan comes to Christ and still wants to have a celebration in winter, by all means do! but celebrate the importance of Christ in our world. :)
I'm a libertarian, i know this may sound contrary, but I believe firmly that it is more important for people to make moral decisions on their own than to be forced into a theorized " morality " by any government structure.
Unfortunately my thoughts are not pouring out entirely coherently, but the gist of it is this, Marriage has come to signify, generally speaking the union of a man and a woman in the english language, gay union between two men should have a different word to describe that, and gay union between two women should have a different word from the previous two. while the dedication and the feelings maybe similar or the same, the fact remains that each of these situations is a seperate entity entirely.
that being said, this should be regulated by the greater common sense of humanity not by the government. as I inferred earlier, the government has no business legislating morality to anyone.
it just strikes me as odd, that the moment someone starts talking bad about the "religious right" people start attacking he Christian faith as a whole, rather than just the hypocrisy mentioned. "the garden of Eden myth" ? there is as much evidence pointing toward intelligent design as toward glorious accident if not more. the truth of the matter is that NONE of us is entirely certain how the world was created, a belief in evolution is just that, a faith based religion of its own, whether those who proscribe to its beliefs admit this or not. We are not all so very different, each of us protecting his or her beliefs so fiercely and with such tenacity that it becomes acceptable in our own mind to attack the beliefs of others.
I'll likely regret this.
what I find interesting is the way that folks tend not to differentiate the faith from the fundamentalist fringe.
it is my belief, and my experience, that the bible, when taken in context is the inspired word of God. the key words here are IN CONTEXT,
I am not an idiot, I know full well that many of the Christianized holidays were once pagan in origin, and why not? god accepts people just as they are, if a pagan comes to Christ and still wants to have a celebration in winter, by all means do! but celebrate the importance of Christ in our world. :)
I'm a libertarian, i know this may sound contrary, but I believe firmly that it is more important for people to make moral decisions on their own than to be forced into a theorized " morality " by any government structure.
Unfortunately my thoughts are not pouring out entirely coherently, but the gist of it is this, Marriage has come to signify, generally speaking the union of a man and a woman in the english language, gay union between two men should have a different word to describe that, and gay union between two women should have a different word from the previous two. while the dedication and the feelings maybe similar or the same, the fact remains that each of these situations is a seperate entity entirely.
that being said, this should be regulated by the greater common sense of humanity not by the government. as I inferred earlier, the government has no business legislating morality to anyone.
it just strikes me as odd, that the moment someone starts talking bad about the "religious right" people start attacking he Christian faith as a whole, rather than just the hypocrisy mentioned. "the garden of Eden myth" ? there is as much evidence pointing toward intelligent design as toward glorious accident if not more. the truth of the matter is that NONE of us is entirely certain how the world was created, a belief in evolution is just that, a faith based religion of its own, whether those who proscribe to its beliefs admit this or not. We are not all so very different, each of us protecting his or her beliefs so fiercely and with such tenacity that it becomes acceptable in our own mind to attack the beliefs of others.