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(Date Posted:06/22/2004 21:39:20)

Reading 1 Corinthians today, I realized that it is rather hypocritical for Christians to oppose gay marriage when Paul reportedly wrote:"What business is it of mine to judge those outside the church? Are you not to judge those inside?" (1 Corinthians 5:12 NIV).Also, I don't see Christians opposing the right of a Christian woman to marry a non-Christian, even though Paul was against this."A woman is bound to her husband as long as he lives. But if her husband dies, she is free to marry anyone she wishes, but he must belong to the Lord." (1 Corinthians 7:39 NIV).It looks to me like people are selectively choosing which scriptures they want to make law.James
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(Date Posted:06/22/2004 22:07:59)

This is the way of the fundamentalist Xtian. Choose a bias, and then find the Bible verse that supports it.



Personally, I've always thought that Paul had the hots for Timothy.

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(Date Posted:06/22/2004 22:19:30)

Choose a bias, and then find the Bible verse that supports it.







All sorts of fascinating possibilities here! Similarly to Pokemon and other crazes, can anyone think of something we can get all the fundies chasing after - it has to be something neutral.



Is there a fashion item xian males use or wear we can declare ungodly?

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Who preaches does not understand. Tao te ching
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(Date Posted:06/22/2004 22:27:59)

Well, we can start with poly/cotton blends, which are forbidden in Leviticus.



If heaven has a dress code, then most American straight males are going to hell.

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(Date Posted:06/22/2004 22:39:57)

How about shaving?  In the Old Testament men were ashamed to have their beards closely shaved or cut off.
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(Date Posted:06/23/2004 02:36:34)

In Leviticus 19:28, the Bible says: ?e shall not make any cuttings in your flesh for the dead, nor print any marks upon you; I am the Lord.?


How about tattoos?  Has anyone else ever found it ironic that so many people are now sporting religious symbols as tattoos?

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(Date Posted:06/23/2004 06:05:26)

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In Leviticus 19:28, the Bible says: ?e shall not make any cuttings in your flesh for the dead, nor print any marks upon you; I am the Lord.?ow about tattoos? Has anyone else ever found it ironic that so many people are now sporting religious symbols as tattoos?

My parents took this one so seriously, we got spanked if we wrote on ourselves with a pen.  .... Oh man,  I just realized that I wrote on my hand today to remind myself to pick up a perscription ... damn it,  now I've really pissed God off.

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(Date Posted:06/23/2004 06:51:27)

I remember someone telling me, when I was quite young, that I had sinned because I wrote on my hand with a pen. *rolls eyes*  It's hard to believe a book as primitive and  old as Leviticus actually has that kind of influence.


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Oh man, I just realized that I wrote on my hand today to remind myself to pick up a perscription ... damn it, now I've really pissed God off.


Oh dear, you have really done it this time!


Seriously, I have to wonder if you were also spanked for wearing mixed fiber clothes or eating fruit from trees that were less than five years old?      Or if your parents had a garden did they ever grow two crops together?    All of that is prohibited in the same chapter of    Leviticus.                           

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(Date Posted:06/23/2004 12:29:30)

When I got my tattoo my partner jokingly told me that now I can't be buried in an orthodox Jewish cemetary.



Which wasn't likely anyway seeing as I'm not Jewish...

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Seriously, I have to wonder if you were also spanked for wearing mixed fiber clothes or eating fruit from trees that were less than five years old? Or if your parents had a garden did they ever grow two crops together? All of that is prohibited in the same chapter of Leviticus.




    Ooops, I think they missed those ones.      Or maybe Jesus died so we can wear  polycotton blends, but his blood just couldn't quite cover the evil of getting ink on yourself

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