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The homo clergy letter you mean?


This comment speaks volumes.


Right, it's ok for clergy to be gay and marry same sex couples you'll tell me at this moment because it suits you. But later, you'll be the first one to come running jeering and yelling "Hippocryte!!" when someone like Ted Haggard gets caught with a male prostitute or some weird christian cult leader gets caught with his pants down in bed with three young girls. Why is there such a stink about Catholic priests abusing boys and girls if God is defined by our own desires? The hippocryte is you Linda.



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Just for the record, during the years that I was a Christian, my God was the loving one that the Bible also describes. If people did things to turn away from him then it perhaps made him feel sad or disappointed, but he didn't try to trick them or do anything else vengeful, because he still loved them. I wouldn't have understood this Old testament-style god who punishes and burns the heathen and sends them to hell to rot for all eternity, and I have problems with such an ideology that sets people up to feel that they are righteous while others are sinners who will be condemned. In my eyes, God loved everyone because they were his people. It encourages those who believe this to likewise love others, rather than condemn them. Anyone whose religious encourages them to love others is OK with me.


oh, you were a Christian were you? Jesus saved you, led you and then dropped you from his list of saved people huh? Perhaps you mean to say, your parents were catholic so they took you to church for a while. Do you want to suggest you are an Oxford scholar because you visited the college a few times or heard a few lectures there too?

God still loves you Linda, but that doesn't mean he will always enable you or your ideas to prosper. Laugh at him and the joke's on you. The bible is full of harsh words for those who hate God. You should read it sometime, without skipping the parts that don't make you feel all warm and cozy in your confusion.