Bingowings said:

darth_ender said: I think all points have been made over and over. Rather than accept that some people believe something different based on different criteria, this zealous missionary effort to dissuade a belief in Christ because of a rather obscure passage that was seldom enforced, even less so at the time of Jesus. It seems that rather than accepting there are good people who believe in a book that has a lot of truth, perhaps more than they are willing to accept, every atheist's purpose is to shove their own reasoning down someone else's throat.

I don't know how many times I've been told that Mormons and Jehovah's Witnesses are annoying because they keep coming back and sharing their beliefs. What about those who keep coming back and demanding that you see things their way?

The problem may be that the whole book is often shoved under the noses of people as the whole truth and nothing but the truth (oaths are still sworn on it).

Yet there are passages that most reasonable minded believers don't believe and would never follow inside it's covers.

And while some of the cruel punishments prescribed in the Old Testament were rarely carried out do you hear much about the laws against wearing clothes of two different twine or against shell fish, tattoos or the wrong beard trim or hair cut outside of conversations like this one?

Do Christians and Jews still deliberate over which country it's okay to sell their children in?

And yet the homosexual lines (and it's still open to debate if it's actually about homosexual sex anyway) get pulled out again and again and again by people who do take it seriously and really would like to lock us all up again or worse.

Mathew 5 29-30/Mark 9 43-48 that nonsense if it really doesn't square with how you would behave to your fellow men.

^fixed for Warb.