Okay, so in regards to the whole Indiana thing and the idea that ‘Christians’ shouldn’t allow gays in their establishments or work with them, I’m pretty sure the bible goes something like this:
Jesus ate and drank with sinners and tax collectors and whores
and the Pharisees looked at him and were like “Dude, wtf are you doing with these dirty people?”
and Jesus was like “Dude? My Father dgaf. Help those that need it.”
janto-owns-my-soul replied to your post “Okay, so in regards to the whole Indiana thing and the idea that…”
Yep. But that’s unfortunately not what they focus on in church. The whole not judging/loving everyone bit tends to get ignored in favor of the bits that aren’t even relevant any more because of Jesus.
The Golden Rule people: Do unto others as you would have others do unto you.
As a form of identity, religion is inextricable from all the other factors that make up a person’s self-understanding, like culture, ethnicity, nationality, gender and sexual orientation. What a member of a suburban megachurch in Texas calls Christianity may be radically different from what an impoverished coffee picker in the hills of Guatemala calls Christianity. The cultural practices of a Saudi Muslim, when it comes to the role of women in society, are largely irrelevant to a Muslim in a more secular society like Turkey or Indonesia. The differences between Tibetan Buddhists living in exile in India and militant Buddhist monks persecuting the Muslim minority known as the Rohingya, in neighboring Myanmar, has everything to do with the political cultures of those countries and almost nothing to do with Buddhism itself.
No religion exists in a vacuum. On the contrary, every faith is rooted in the soil in which it is planted. It is a fallacy to believe that people of faith derive their values primarily from their Scriptures. The opposite is true. People of faith insert their values into their Scriptures, reading them through the lens of their own cultural, ethnic, nationalistic and even political perspectives.
After all, scripture is meaningless without interpretation. Scripture requires a person to confront and interpret it in order for it to have any meaning. And the very act of interpreting a scripture necessarily involves bringing to it one’s own perspectives and prejudices.
Reza Aslan, Bill Maher Isn’t the Only One who Misunderstands Religion (via visardist)
Feminism In Faith: Four Women Who Are Revolutionizing Organized Religion
Feminism In Faith: Four Women Who Are Revolutionizing Organized Religion
The first publicly ordained Orthodox Jewish female rabbi; an attorney leading the campaign to ordain Mormon women; a nun whose career was threatened for daring to question the Virgin Mary as a symb…
Long read, but a very interesting look at four women making a difference in their faith.
Pope Bluntly Faults Church’s Focus on Gays and Abortion
Pope Bluntly Faults Church’s Focus on Gays and Abortion
We have to find a new balance, Pope Francis said in the first extensive interview of his papacy, in which he sought to set a new tone for the church.
Okay I’m not even Catholic and I like this pope:
““A person once asked me, in a provocative manner, if I approved of homosexuality,” he told Father Spadaro. “I replied with another question: ‘Tell me: when God looks at a gay person, does he endorse the existence of this person with love, or reject and condemn this person?’ We must always consider the person.”
and
“This church with which we should be thinking is the home of all, not a small chapel that can hold only a small group of selected people,” he said. “We must not reduce the bosom of the universal church to a nest protecting our mediocrity.”
I agree with this tweet:
Guy makes some interesting points!
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