I saw, lying about on a windowsill at work this morning, a pamphlet called 'What does the bible really teach?' - I believe it's a Jehovah's Witness publication, they seem to have a campaign going on at the moment to hand their stuff out at stations in London. Well, I drew a deep (metaphorical) breath, and, in no particular order, came up with - misogyny, homophobia, xenophobia, religious intolerance, approval of slavery, approval of genocide, stoning of disobedient children, rapists being allowed to marry their victims on payment of a fine to the victim's father....
Need I go on?
Love & best wishes to all
Sammy B
Need I go on?
Love & best wishes to all
Sammy B
The thing that bothers me the most is the "picking and choosing" of today's hate focus, or tomorrow's "unpardonable sin". If a divorced and remarried woman isn't considered to be committing adultery, and tattoos aren't as awful as "lying with man", then you have no grounds to even THINK about me and my relationships!
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Jay
Hello Jay
DeleteThe irony of the tattoo and 'lying with man' proscriptions coming from the same book of the bible would be hilarious, if it wasn't that so much bigotry has stemmed from the latter. And then, of course, there are the very widely ignored biblical passages, like 'judge not, lest you be judged', and 'let he that is without sin cast the first stone'.
Love & best wishes
Sammy B