Bingowings said:
Warb
I know not all Christians are for killing homosexuals, however most do read the book (thought to be the word of the God you worship) as saying He thinks this should happen (only you have to be without sin to cast the first stone).
keep in mind that same book makes it clear that only one human was/is without sin: Jesus. Since none of rest us are without sin, none of the us can cast the first stone. Only Jesus could cast that stone, and he didn't. And I would not be casting any stones.
Bingowings said:
I doubt most war era Germans would be personally happy to burn Jewish children but they failed for a variety of reasons to intervene in the wholesale murder of Jewish children by the regime run by the chap they turned out in thousands to see and cheer.
I would never cheer that thing, nor would I murder any children. If I lived back then, I would hope I'd have the courage to stand up and fight against the persecution of the Jews, even die in the fight if necessary. Of course, I really don't know if I'd be brave enough to do it. It is easy to say, but quite another to do.
Bingowings said:
The murder of homosexuals in the West Indies, Africa and Middle East have religious backdrops.
The murder of most homosexuals in the West are usually down to the sort of attitudes put about by religious people (it's not natural, it's dirty).
but again, not all religions/religious people approve of murder.
Bingowings said:
Now I didn't chose to be mostly homosexual and I did give heterosexuality a good try but I felt it dishonest to myself and to any woman who would be saddled with me to do anything other than what I have in my life.
I've been mostly homosexual for as long as I can remember.
I'm not gay because my parents are or most of the people in my country are.
I'm not gay because I think it's better than not being gay.
I'm not gay because of something I believe in or to be hip or anti-establishment.
I'm just gay and biologists can back up much of what I'm saying with evidence drawn from study.
It's frequently inconvenient, it often creates situations which are awkward.
Some aspects of my homosexuality are hilariously silly but all human actions have a degree of silliness about it.
There is however nothing holy or unholy about my sexual orientation.
As for the parallel you don't understand, religions are organised, funded, community processes.
There is a difference between an individual believing in an invisible spirit with whom he has a friendship and being part of a church with a rule book and a collection plate that can lobby politicians.
That's where the militant gay night club comes in.
They could organise events, have songs and a dress code and lobby politicians.
I don't belong to a club like that either.
Now do you get it?
not sure, but my church is more than just a club or a lobbyist group to me. As far as I know, none of the money from the collection plate of my church, goes to lobbyists.