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<p>[QUOTE="Kaleion, post: 10459, member: 13"]</p><p>I don't want to be mean, but that's exactly why I can't deal with religion, there are no good answers just circular logic that expects me to take a bunch of ancient men and the people who translated and edited their text at their word, which isn't enough for me, I can't base my Philosophy on because "Matthew"(Not really though, it was some anonymous scholar which was later decided was Matthew to give more authority to the Gospel) said that Jesus said that God said so, it's absurd.</p><p>I had questions but no pastor or priest ever had answers, not real ones at least.</p><p></p><p>I would need to read the bible again to provide one, but I don't remember any outright condemnation in the version I read when I was a kid, sounds like awfully convenient cherry-picking to me, nothing but hypocrisy, as the Bible also states that one shouldn't judge others yet that's exactly what this thing against homosexuality does.</p><p></p><p></p><p>To address both the points about "Needing" a bible based reason to establish a protestant religion seems awfully hypocritical and absurd to me, after all isn't the Bible based on the same texts as the more ancient Torah but dismissing the parts of it with which it doesn't agree?</p><p></p><p>Being able to cherry pick the Torah but not the Bible just reads as yet more hypocrisy and dishonesty to me, like Christians just choose whatever they think is convenient, forgetting that their Bible is based on an edition of another book with several additions made by the Catholic church in part to make the religion more palatable to the Romans, to me it's nothing but excuses to justify their appalling behaviour, if they claim that their bigotry is based on faith after all they can argue for free speech, which is quite frankly disgusting.</p><p></p><p>Finally I would like to apologise, I think I'm being a huge asshole but I'll admit it's not a topic I'm particularly rational about and I think it shows.</p><p>[/QUOTE]</p>
[QUOTE="Kaleion, post: 10459, member: 13"] I don't want to be mean, but that's exactly why I can't deal with religion, there are no good answers just circular logic that expects me to take a bunch of ancient men and the people who translated and edited their text at their word, which isn't enough for me, I can't base my Philosophy on because "Matthew"(Not really though, it was some anonymous scholar which was later decided was Matthew to give more authority to the Gospel) said that Jesus said that God said so, it's absurd. I had questions but no pastor or priest ever had answers, not real ones at least. I would need to read the bible again to provide one, but I don't remember any outright condemnation in the version I read when I was a kid, sounds like awfully convenient cherry-picking to me, nothing but hypocrisy, as the Bible also states that one shouldn't judge others yet that's exactly what this thing against homosexuality does. To address both the points about "Needing" a bible based reason to establish a protestant religion seems awfully hypocritical and absurd to me, after all isn't the Bible based on the same texts as the more ancient Torah but dismissing the parts of it with which it doesn't agree? Being able to cherry pick the Torah but not the Bible just reads as yet more hypocrisy and dishonesty to me, like Christians just choose whatever they think is convenient, forgetting that their Bible is based on an edition of another book with several additions made by the Catholic church in part to make the religion more palatable to the Romans, to me it's nothing but excuses to justify their appalling behaviour, if they claim that their bigotry is based on faith after all they can argue for free speech, which is quite frankly disgusting. Finally I would like to apologise, I think I'm being a huge asshole but I'll admit it's not a topic I'm particularly rational about and I think it shows. [/QUOTE]
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