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There are cases in which hypocrisy is far better than the alternatives. Legolas Send a noteboard - 12/05/2011 10:04:32 PM
I personally have nothing against a Church that says, "We're going to accept homosexual priests because we view the Bible as a flawed work written by humans and influenced by prejudices and bigotry, and we choose not to follow the injunctions of Leviticus with respect to homosexuality, and to ignore Paul's indignation in Romans and Jude's indignation in his book." That would be honest.

Instead, I see hypocrisy.

And this is certainly one of those. There are hundreds of millions of Christians, Muslims and believers of other religions in the world who absolutely refuse to consider that their holy texts might be at all flawed - but some of them are nevertheless willing to show tolerance for gay people, or for other groups of people who are somehow condemned in their holy texts. That's inconsistent at best and hypocritical at worst, yes, but so what? Surely it'd be better for the world if we had more of those people and fewer of the consistent, non-hypocritical ones who follow their holy texts on everything.
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Presbyterian Church (USA) passes Amendment 10-A. - 11/05/2011 05:39:29 PM 1436 Views
*NM* - 11/05/2011 06:10:26 PM 320 Views
I am happy to see this. *NM* - 11/05/2011 07:22:59 PM 366 Views
Homosexuals must die! - 11/05/2011 08:25:25 PM 1101 Views
I agree! This sort of behavior can NOT be excused!!! - 11/05/2011 10:38:16 PM 744 Views
Yay!!. - 11/05/2011 10:38:51 PM 994 Views
Glad to hear it. *NM* - 11/05/2011 10:46:39 PM 416 Views
Well done. *NM* - 11/05/2011 11:07:22 PM 363 Views
What's the language? Did they at least TRY to give a doctrinal justification? - 12/05/2011 02:10:46 AM 982 Views
Thank you for that rousing argument against married priests. - 12/05/2011 03:36:51 AM 917 Views
Why ARE you letting women into the priesthood? - 12/05/2011 04:16:50 AM 861 Views
Because Episcopalians don't listen to the Bible much. - 12/05/2011 05:47:03 AM 806 Views
That's just fine as far as I'm concerned - 12/05/2011 02:23:44 PM 816 Views
Yes, I suppose a church could go that route. - 14/05/2011 07:38:02 AM 772 Views
I'm not attempting to impose a dichotomy on the Bible. - 14/05/2011 03:25:30 PM 845 Views
I don't even know what following the Bible in its entirety means. - 14/05/2011 09:09:10 PM 1016 Views
As an exercise, I tried to think of how I would justify allowing homosexuals as clergy. - 14/05/2011 04:19:43 PM 827 Views
Wow. - 20/05/2011 10:15:21 AM 848 Views
Thanks (I'm actually OK with women priests though). - 12/05/2011 07:09:11 AM 900 Views
It's more a question of interpretational standards. - 12/05/2011 02:29:43 PM 787 Views
Agreed. - 14/05/2011 01:17:45 AM 860 Views
They did so, via negativa. - 12/05/2011 04:22:17 PM 955 Views
Your church has a constitution?! - 12/05/2011 03:36:41 AM 824 Views
My Church has a congress! *NM* - 12/05/2011 03:37:52 AM 403 Views
Haha no way! *NM* - 12/05/2011 03:46:32 AM 355 Views
We have a General Assembly and a Moderator. - 12/05/2011 04:18:34 PM 915 Views
I had no idea the US was based on that system. - 12/05/2011 06:22:58 PM 751 Views
It is pretty common practice - 12/05/2011 06:54:02 PM 786 Views
Oh I'm sure it is with newer churches. - 12/05/2011 10:49:11 PM 842 Views
I'm happy to hear this, personally. I also wonder how you reconcile this with the Bible. - 12/05/2011 04:11:31 AM 1011 Views
Every direct reference to homosexuality in the Bible is a reference to rape. - 12/05/2011 04:12:43 PM 841 Views
Every single word that you wrote in your response is complete bullshit. - 12/05/2011 05:50:07 PM 972 Views
Knock off your eisegesis, try some exegesis - 12/05/2011 07:02:45 PM 888 Views
I'm trying to figure out just what your "gifts" are, because I don't see any. - 12/05/2011 07:30:39 PM 857 Views
There are cases in which hypocrisy is far better than the alternatives. - 12/05/2011 10:04:32 PM 931 Views
Oh, is that how we're playing this, then? - 13/05/2011 06:29:31 PM 860 Views
Re: Oh, is that how we're playing this, then? - 13/05/2011 07:02:35 PM 832 Views
I'm not playing. I'm pointing out some glaring errors on your part. - 13/05/2011 07:25:08 PM 755 Views
Danny will correct me if I'm wrong, but... - 13/05/2011 09:55:14 PM 963 Views
Danny persistently refuses to say that - 13/05/2011 10:13:55 PM 888 Views
You're a fucking moron. *NM* - 15/05/2011 11:11:08 PM 388 Views
You make a very important but too often overlooked point. - 14/05/2011 01:54:40 AM 913 Views
??? the bible was harsher on homosexulaity than on rape - 12/05/2011 06:56:43 PM 817 Views
Read Judges. - 12/05/2011 07:17:29 PM 819 Views
Another example... - 12/05/2011 09:19:52 AM 755 Views
That's what people said about churches opposing slavery. - 12/05/2011 04:06:26 PM 811 Views
I rest my case *NM* - 12/05/2011 04:48:32 PM 352 Views
That is a false dichotomy and we both know it. - 14/05/2011 02:07:19 AM 806 Views
If you claim to follow the entire Bible, then you are completely correct. - 12/05/2011 06:04:38 PM 754 Views
On the contrary, this move will take some butts out of the seats. - 12/05/2011 07:16:22 PM 794 Views
We both know that isn't the case - 12/05/2011 07:55:41 PM 897 Views
Whatever your issue is, get over it. - 13/05/2011 06:17:26 PM 771 Views
You'd be a lot more effective... - 13/05/2011 06:45:31 PM 874 Views
You haven't adequately expressed your theology - 13/05/2011 07:28:54 PM 870 Views
Cool cool. I have a question on a semi-related note, about Protestant Gospels - 12/05/2011 05:33:49 PM 858 Views
Since I haven't gotten around to asking yet... - 13/05/2011 07:14:01 PM 773 Views
Re: Since I haven't gotten around to asking yet... - 15/05/2011 03:18:23 PM 1174 Views

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