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You mean the men who claim god has said homosexuality is okay and then began teaching children dangerous sex acts such as fisting?

Because that is the side of Christianity that has claimed Homosexuality no-longer a sin.

Or how about the little Christian occult group known as West Buro Baptist church? The priest their has molested his children and other children too many times to count yet he is seen as a Religious figure and thus has not gone to Prison for life simply because of that fact.

Honestly Christianity and even some other Religions (Catholicism, etc,) need to clean their asses and get their act together.

*lifts glass to Artemis in cheers* "As cliche as it may sound, Amen to that. Christian though I myself am, I believe in these Matrix rip-off Angels and the God under whatever name people place him under, but not the people of any denomination of it who claim to 'speak' his 'word'. And the fact no one can actually prove or disprove his existence without real experience, only what others say, makes the entire conversation on that moot, so let's just agree to disagree, we each believe what we believe through actual experience alone, 'nuff said."

*pops right wrist a bit*

"On a non-religious topic for a change, I've started to think my mind is slowly developing backwards.. I just watched someone else try and fail for ten minutes on zOMG to once again attempt to attack someone's Summon OMG.. Granted, after dealing with them as much as I have, I can see how it would be confusing, but one would think (and this was someone at CL 7.4 mind you) that if you target and attack it and it states "Invalid Target" enough times you'd learn to stop.. This person must've wasted his entire Stamina Bar three times over shooting his Guns Guns Guns at it.." *shakes head* "Second time I missed filming perfectly good Youtube gold, sad.."

DRINK PLZ X,..,X

Say such is easy over the internet for you people isn't it?

Bet your glad it's over the net, there's over a thousand ways I can disprove Gods existence and Disprove angels being even .2% on the human's side.

But they don't count because I can't do the rituals and other things over the internet and even then you've never seen this or that so it's not real but your god is even though you haven't seen him, DURRRRRRRRRRRR.

umm.... im so lost. -nibbles on cookies- ^ ~^

nothing eeehehehehehe -tail sways- so what chu up to this late at night?

-sleep in chu lap- - x- zZzZzz

Oops, never mind then. I just used to see that so much in other forums and it bothered me a ton. sad

As for ugly sides of the scriptures, it really just depends on how it's looked at. Now I'm not saying that it's all love and flowers. I agree with you that there are parts that just don't match up to the happy rainbow smiles image that it attempted to be portrayed.

That said, it's really up to the reader on what they get out of it. One person may get "exterminate the heathens", while another may get "love and hugs for all!" The biggest problem with interpretive writing is that everyone's going to get something different out of it.

This is why there's a lot of debate with things like Orwell's 1984. Sure, a lot applies, but a lot does not. In some ways, his ideas are actually outdated. He predicted governments going to extremes and joining together, but often the contrary applies with corporations going to extremes and nations squabbling a bunch and breaking apart. They're also realizing how ineffective they are at controlling their own people. There's exceptions, but in the end he wrote a story as a warning and we all took it to heart. That's why people shout Orwell's name at any perceived threat to privacy despite often times there is no threat at all.

The bible is no different, hence the thousands of different takes on what it says. You're just as right as the fundie is right in how you each perceive the bible. There is no one way to interpret things...Especially now, thanks to postmodernism.