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The Christian Right is Helping Drive Liberals Away From Religion
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<blockquote data-quote="iluvatar5150" data-source="post: 74310527" data-attributes="member: 313046"><p>If that had been the totality of the church's response to homosexuality, then you'd have a point.</p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p>I have zero temptation regarding homosexuality. A preacher could call for fire and brimstone against every homosexual and I would have absolutely zero pangs of guilt or conviction; it's just not something that I deal with. My conscience is completely clear.</p><p></p><p>Yet, I have heard many Christians - some pastors, some media figures, some ordinary individuals - use language about homosexuals that I find abhorrent - language that has, at times, been so ignorant, so hateful, so dishonest, so hypocritical, so unbalanced that at this point in my life, I would walk out in the middle of a service if I heard it preached from the pulpit. And I've been hearing it for decades. You're well within your rights to blame it all on guilty consciences, but you're wrong and people can generally see through that. It's possible to label something as sinful while appreciating the struggles associated with it and without being a jerk, yet many Christians seem to not be interested in that approach, preferring instead the warm fuzzies that come with angry self-righteousness.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="iluvatar5150, post: 74310527, member: 313046"] If that had been the totality of the church's response to homosexuality, then you'd have a point. I have zero temptation regarding homosexuality. A preacher could call for fire and brimstone against every homosexual and I would have absolutely zero pangs of guilt or conviction; it's just not something that I deal with. My conscience is completely clear. Yet, I have heard many Christians - some pastors, some media figures, some ordinary individuals - use language about homosexuals that I find abhorrent - language that has, at times, been so ignorant, so hateful, so dishonest, so hypocritical, so unbalanced that at this point in my life, I would walk out in the middle of a service if I heard it preached from the pulpit. And I've been hearing it for decades. You're well within your rights to blame it all on guilty consciences, but you're wrong and people can generally see through that. It's possible to label something as sinful while appreciating the struggles associated with it and without being a jerk, yet many Christians seem to not be interested in that approach, preferring instead the warm fuzzies that come with angry self-righteousness. [/QUOTE]
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