"So let’s get this straight. On the one hand, if you read the Bible literally on the subject of homosexuality, you’re a hypocrite, because we 'ignore bull–- in the Bible' all the time. But if, as a Christian, you read the nuanced, complex message of Christ about the subject of sin and sinners, Mr. Savage is insulted."
It appears Hicks is intentionally ignoring the real issue -- the issue Savage brought up. Christians love to point to this or that verse to justify their position. But they do so selectively. They pick and choose which issues are nuanced and complex while ignoring the complexity in others. But it's always their choice. They make the Bible conform to them, not the other way around.
I hate to say I told you so, but … well … I did.
In my book, “Don’t Let the Kids Drink the Kool-Aid,” I posited that radicals within the gay lobby are using the important issue of bullying to indoctrinate America’s children with leftist dogma about homosexuality.
They have chosen an issue with which no one could possibly disagree — that bullying is a horrible, hurtful epidemic among young people — to implicate religion (specifically, fundamentalist Christianity) as a root cause of homophobic, aggressive behavior.
It’s all part and parcel of the movement to secularize our society while at the...
So what? There are verses about lots of things we chose to ignore today -- verses not even most radical Christians would accept. Do you want to kill witches? Do you want to stone unruly children? Is slavery okay as it was in Abraham's day? Why single out some verses on homosexuality? That's the root of the problem.
Louie
What is unclear and un-straightforward about that? Yet most Christians would not think of stoning mediums today. Why the double-standard? What lets you decide which of God's laws to ignore? And if you can decide which laws are relevant today, why can't anyone else do the same? Why is your standard more just?
The so what is that you were clear that this issue revolves aoround one verse when it is clear that more than one verse addresses the issue.