A liberal friend of mine posted this on her FB page today, and while I'm not religious, I thought it makes a good point. Not sure I have the guts to re-post it on my FB page, but I saved it just in case I ever want to use it as a reply comment to some of the hateful posts some of my friends and relatives post.
They will post hateful things, and then if I comment in disagreement, they "like" the post and then private message me about how much they "love" me.... Grr... I want to reply "Um... but you just said something hateful against people like me, so maybe you should think about that?" I guess they just like to perpetuate the hate to fit in with their church's stance.
Interesting that several comments bring up the hate in the Bible, when that comment/post is clearly about others who do the judging when that spot is clearly reserved for "God".
Another point is the word homosexual does not appear in any Bibles prior to around 1940.
My Dad was born into a very Catholic family, some are real believers. Dad was the youngest son so he was pegged for the priesthood. That clearly did not work out and he was atheist or agnostic most of his life, right up until he passed. BUT he really enjoyed reading the Bible, the hypocrisy and the bullshit amused him. As he said, "There are lots of good stories in it". He told me this when he realized how much I enjoyed Sci-Fi authors.
I never heard one judgmental comment -ever from my Dad. Yes, there were people he did not like but he did not judge them.
The doctrine of Bill and Ted
"Be excellent to each other.
I wish more of the people who call themselves christians believed in their own religion.
Well, at least believe what they were taught it says in Sunday School.
Using someone's own words or ideas against them is a perfectly valid tactic, but let's be clear. Just because you point out their hypocrisy by citing their words or ideology does not necessarily mean that you accept that ideology in its entirety. You can agree with the "love thy neighbor" part while rejecting the omnipotent sky daddy part. Just because you see the value in everyone doing their best to appreciate the good in others does not mean you have to betray your own capacity for critical thinking and turn a blind eye to the many inconsistencies in the God hypothesis, principal among which are the facts that [a] there is no independently-verifiable evidence for God's existence, and [b] if such a being did exist then the shocking and continual suffering of innocents in spite of His purported omnipotence would indicate that He is a cruel and sadistic son of a bitch and therefore not worthy of worship.
When in reality no one asks you anything when your dead!!!
I have never heard a dead individual or a dead pet talk to anyone!!!
That is why some humans kill others because “”dead men tell no tells”, a human reality of control over others and protection for those who have some sort of Elicit reason, hence the actions to let or have individuals die or succumb to death!!!
You just have to use a bit of abstract thinking as if they myth were true to see the point being made. The sentiment could also be conveyed as what other people think of you, if you spend all your energy in hatred instead of love for those who made lifestyle choices you don't like. Maybe BE the example you wish everyone would be, but then let everyone else make their own choices, judging only yourself.
That is what liberals think regarding values and what matters. But Republican Jesus doesn't agree with any of that...
Republican Jesus would see to it that everyone started a 401K at birth.
@DenoPenno You're so right. In that internet meme video, Republican Jesus said almost the same thing, that we should all give all our money away to a solid mutual fund, rather than to help feed and care for the poor...