More Cherry Pickin' From The Bible

I totally support the GLBT/LGBT communities and want to be alive to see society as a whole treat them fairly, with equality and with acceptance. But what is this atheist to do if the GLBT peeps are the Christian. Yea, now what.

The Rev. Dr. Janet Edwards' article in Huff Po, Top Five Questions, is an attempt to answer some common questions that she has fielded over the years to explain how she interprets scripture and, I guess, justifies her belief. I'll go over a few of her points and ask some questions of my own.

Her question #2 "How can you be sure that you are not making stuff up to justify something that is cultural trendy."

She says that Christians live by faith, not by certainty. Then she does that thing that Team Atheists hates so much, she cherry picks and quotes scripture. Ugh. First of all faith is powerful because the evolved human brain is, well, evolved and powerful. If you have faith in anything, a frackin' pencil or whatever, the results will be the same. If you pray to god, or a pencil, and you do the same activities with the same gusto, then the results will be the same. As far as cherry picking form the bible to prove your point, anyone can do that and anyone can cherry pick form the bible to prove or debunk a point. So WTF, it's totally useless.

She mentions that the bible was used back in the day to justify slavery and to "keep women quite in church." She points how at those times, culturally, believers would cherry pick passages to justify, I dunno, slavery. Then guess what, she does it herself. Her hand picked scripture that says love-n-stuff somehow trumps the scripture that says "man and a woman" or "no woman can teach a man." From the atheist perspective, they are both wrong-because after all, they both can't be correct at the same time.

Samuel 18-2. Samuel 1 is about those special bro buddies David and Jonathan (which you should read, it's kinda sexy and romantic sounding, super gay, but very touching-yes, I said touching) and it seems to say "yea, go ahead and be butt buddies, who cares." Then if you move over to Colossians 3-22, then all of a sudden it's all about "slaves listen to your masters." WTF.

Team Atheist sees the bible for what it is, a super ancient book, written for ancient people in a time when most people could not read or write. It was and is a political tool used to control, and yes, sometimes, unite the masses. Back in the day people learned from storytelling and symbolically the bible does tell many stories to live by, but to use it today as justification for your particular cause...well, I wouldn't look to it as an authoritative resource.

The Rev does the same kinda cherry picking that she accuses others of. So what if you can find a bible passage that you can interpret to justify your lifestyle; I'm sure that a different passage could be found to counter that.

So WTF. So what that there are some GLBT homies that believe in Gods special plan and that Jesus hearts the gay. They are not harming anyone, right, and they are happy, right. That may be true, but like I said before, I wouldn't want to be a member of a club that is hurting my friends. If I had an abusive friend that could hurt his self or others, I would totally say something. Well that is what the club of Christianity is. Sure some GLBT might be saved by accepting Christ, but it sure seems like there is a lot more getting hurt and persecuted by others that have also accepted the same Christ.

So WTF.

* Oops I forgot to mention true Christianity. If different groups are saying that they and they alone are the one true Christians, then doesn't that make them all...not true Christians. Just saying.

* Sammy 18...

18:1 It happened, when he had made an end of speaking to Saul, that the soul of Jonathan was knit with the soul of David, and Jonathan loved him as his own soul. 18:2 Saul took him that day, and would let him go no more home to his father’s house. 18:3 Then Jonathan and David made a covenant, because he loved him as his own soul. 18:4 Jonathan stripped himself of the robe that was on him, and gave it to David, and his clothing, even to his sword, and to his bow, and to his sash. 18:5 David went out wherever Saul sent him, and behaved himself wisely: and Saul set him over the men of war, and it was good in the sight of all the people, and also in the sight of Saul’s servants. 18:6 It happened as they came, when David returned from the slaughter of the Philistine, that the women came out of all the cities of Israel, singing and dancing, to meet king Saul, with tambourines, with joy, and with instruments of music. 18:7 The women sang one to another as they played, and said,..


Wow, that is some soul mate kinda stuffs. One day me and my awesome atheist lady will say that about each other...one day (le sigh).