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Of course it is. None of us reach the level of spiritual perfection that is Christ. The best we can do is try, and repent when we fail. It's why forgiveness is tantamount to Christianity. And why refusing to forgive others for their sins only condemns us of our own. And greed into righteous...

Of course they aren't. Neither is the word "liberal". Or the word "forgiveness". Yet the religious zealot seems to imagine that these words refer to conditions that are anathema to their idea of God. You don't seem to agree with them even though you keep referring to yourself as a zealot. Yet...

Epic fail, then. Clearly.

Did Jesus tell you to hate on artists, too? I musta missed that quote.

We're ALL posers calling ourselves Christians, to some degree. Because not one of us can live up to that challenge, fully. The Christians that lynched blacks just a few decades ago found their justification in the Bible, and went to their churches every Sunday and believed they loved God just as...

Why are you trying to accuse yourself?

From an exhibition called, "The Untouchables" by artist Gary Justice ... LINK

Well, they were lynching blacks just a few decades ago. And of course you're still calling for capital punishment for homosexuals and women that have abortions. And I suspect you'd happily add a few others to the list. And history shows us that the moment the religious zealots gain the ability...

Child brides were common in the 'Bible Belt' at the time. Where everyone was a democrat until the Democratic Party decided to support equal rights and desegregation. Then the Bible Belters decided they couldn't abide that, so they turned republican.

Here is the problem. Zealot "X" decides for himself, by reading tea leaves (let's say), that God is speaking to him through the leaves. And, he automatically presumes that his interpretation of those tea leaves is an accurate understanding of the divine messages that he's receiving. The result...

So your response is to excuse them as insignificant because they didn't rape, rob, torture, and murder as many people as non-religious zealots did? (Because Christian religious zealots must always be excused of wrongdoing.) I am seeing this as being a common reaction, here. Deflection by...

No, it isn't. As you stated, it's against the law. No school teacher is sexually propositioning any kids regardless of their or the kids gender, because it is illegal. And if it does happen, the kids, or anyone that knows of it (including you) should report it to law enforcement. They would be...

That wasn't what I wrote. What I wrote was that we understand that we CAN always be wrong, even when we think and feel that we're right. Because we understand that we're not infallible. And we know this because we have often discovered that we were wrong about things in the past that we had...

Yeah, there's not much point in responding to comments like that. (So what?)

You can hate them all you want in your own house. And in your own heart and mind. But when that hate becomes abusive of them, or others, the law protects them from you (or you from them).

They aren't forcing Christians to do anything. When anyone opens a business to the public, they have to abide by the laws governing businesses open to the public. One of those laws protects the public from unjust discrimination. Being a Christian or being gay has nothing to do with it. It's just...

And in spite of what you think about them. They are right because they support freedom, justice, and opportunity for all. They support your right to believe and live as you see fit, so long as you don't deny anyone else those same rights. Because there is no freedom without equality. And there...

You are not God. You do not speak or think for God. Your judgment is not God's judgment. Your idea of righteousness is not God's idea of righteousness. You cannot see what God can see. You cannot know what God can know. You have not been appointed God's instrument of judgment or wrath. Your idea...

Many things are improper for many reasons. In this instance it's an inappropriate presumption of self-righteousness. To an absolute and unquestioned degree and in spite of it's unreasonableness, irrationality, and an offensive disrespect of others. These are behaviors often associated with...

It appears to me that when a person recognizes, honestly, that they can always be wrong even when they feel and think they are right, they are no longer a zealot. They become a human; one among many, as opposed to imagining themselves to be some sort of infallible demigod, lording their imagined...