Reply #10: that particular "theology" is based on a very literal interpretation . . .

[OneBlueSky]

of the Bible . . . but only in so much as it suits their purposes . . . there are tons of things in the Bible (support of slavery, etc.) that folks like this conveniently omit, or convolute to suit their purposes . . . their inconsistency is staggering, and undermines their initial premise (i.e. that all truth is found in the Bible) . . . I have no use for this kind of thinking . . . mainly because it's not thinking at all . . . it's just dogma . . .

I actually have a great deal of respect for the teachings of Jesus . . . probably much more so than people like Kirk Cameron or George W. Bush . . . the notion that Jesus would tell Bush to attack Iraq, for example, is foreign to everything he taught . . . as is most of the right wing agenda . . . their use of his name is nothing but a political ploy, and one which Jesus, I suspect, would not be happy about . . .