Uzytkownik "Livid" <barthfv@telus.net> napisal w wiadomosci
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> ethelthrogmorton@hotmail.com (Southside of Scotland) wrote in message
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> > "Jason Gastrich" <newsgroups@jcsm.org> wrote in message
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> > > > I've read others coming after you, and all I can offer is this:
> > > >
> > > > Luke 6:22-23 KJV
> > > > (22) Blessed are ye, when men shall hate you, and when they shall
> > > > separate you from their company, and shall reproach you, and cast
out
> > > > your name as evil, for the Son of man's sake.
> > > > (23) Rejoice ye in that day, and leap for joy: for, behold, your
> > > > reward is great in heaven: for in the like manner did their fathers
> > > > unto the prophets.
> > >
> > > Amen! I take comfort in these verses. I love God more than anything
and
> > > those that hate and persecute me do not change my faith. They only
bless my
> > > eternal future. To God be the glory.
> > >
> > > Serving Him,
> > > Jason
> >
> >
> > Funny isn't it, there are more than a few fundamentalist christians
> > who think that they can convert non-believers to their religion by
> > using abuse and hatred. When the boot is on the other foot it becomes
> > persecution.
> >
> > I don't hate christians, I just hate the fact that as I'm trying to
> > get through my life in an non-hating, non-judgemental way, living by
> > doing to others as I would like done to myself, I get judged by people
> > who think that because they cherry pick their way through a 2000 year
> > old book of contentious authorage they have a right to judge me and
> > the decisions I've made in my life.
>
>
> As a gay man who has seen endless atrocities at the hands of
> innumerable right-wing christians, I couldn't agree more.Those who
> claim to have the one and only truth, are the terrorists we see today
> , be they muslim or christian.
> I fiercely defend religious liberty.But the very pinnacle of hypocrisy
> is to "cherry pick" items out of the Old Testament and attempt to
> foist them on others.Believe what you will,but do not attempt to
> incorporate your beliefs into law. Then there is the phenomenon of
> creating perpetually,the negative mindset that leads directly to
> anti-gay violence & murder.The mother of a young college student who
> was murdered in Laramie,Wyoming,said afterward, that she didn't blame
> the young men who killed her son so much as society for giving them
> permission to do so .Guess which segment of the population that would
> be ?
> Livid
Not us, that's for sure, so maybe she should make like OJ and go after the
real killers.
Uncle Davey
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