Reply #9: P.S. Fundamentalists attribute the whole jewish=arab deal to the bit about hagar.

[No Elephants]

And Abraham's conduct is very important, IMO, because God liked Abraham so much that Abraham was the foundation of Judaism. And, Judaism was the foundation of of the so-called Judeo-Christian tradition.

BTW, IMO, Christ's teachings were radically different from those of the Old Testament. i understand a great deal of jewish tradition and a great deal of Christian tradition, but I don't really have a clue what 'judeo-Christian' tradition means. oh, I know what people who use the term intend it to mean, but, IMO, it's bs.

Anyhoo, the reason that I mentioned gossip is that, somewhere in the Book of Proverbs--I cannot quote chapter and verse unfortunately without a lot of research that i don't feel like doing--is a short list of behaviors described as the things God hates most.

Gossip is among them; homosexual sex is not. In fact, IIRC, nothing sexual is in the list of things God supposedly hates most, according to the Book of Proverbs.