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In reply to the discussion: What goes through your mind when someone says, "I'm a Christian?" [View all]TlalocW
(15,379 posts)Is going to be some sort of bigoted or hateful statement which they will attempt to excuse with a scripture.
At which point, I usually make the argument that NOBODY gets their morality from the Bible, especially those who say it's the inerrant word of God. Normally when someone uses the Bible with the old standard of teh gayz =abomination, I don't go down the shellfish route anymore but ask them, "So why aren't you out killing them by stoning?" Fortunately, they start to hem and haw instead of saying, "Hey, you're right!" which is good because I always hit them with, "It's part of the same verse(s) that say gay is bad. You believe the Bible is the inerrant word of God, but you're not following what He's commanded you to do so you've come up with your own morality, just like everyone else on the planet. You just suck at justifying it."
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