Is It Bigoted To Have A Supported Opinion?

Not true Phat, you never use the Bible as you admit in the second paragraph. What you do is take one verse out of context simply because it supports the position YOU want to hold.Your version of Christianity is not to use the Bible unless it supports your position and to ignore all the other parts.The Bible is large, complex, often incorrect, often contradictory collection of individual biases.And the Bible has NOTHING to do with who can marry. When it comes to marriage the Bible should be totally irrelevant.If someone should want to marry their car then fine, let them marry their car. Trust me, the car cannot care whether it is married or not.

But of course we would carry on as usual. Those critters that learned to have heterosexual sex would pass their genes on and the rest, as is the norm, would go extinct.It's been happening like that for years and years.

I think he is saying that they shouldn't divorce.Look at the first two lines:

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Matthew 19:

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9 I tell you that anyone who divorces his wife, except for sexual immorality, and marries another woman commits adultery.

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10 The disciples said to him, If this is the situation between a husband and wife, it is better not to marry.

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What Jesus is objecting too is not marriage, not even divorce when it is justified, not any committed long term relationship but the ending of a relationship without cause and forming a new one. It is the SECOND marriage that is the issue; the sequential commitment of sequential fidelity.

After a parent said that, could anyone expect their child to see them as anything but clowns?
"We prefer you date that Jesus fella.."HUH?Date Jesus?Now that's really strange."We prefer you stuck to necrophilia until you marry a nice girl."Yup. Sage advice.

If it was (and of course it could not be) is there anything wrong with idolatry and should you have anything to say about whether or not someone else practiced idolatry?

How about the race of Americans. For that matter, what is American culture?

Alive applies to living things like pond scum and trees and monkeys. Once dead they are no longer alive. I can't see anyway to apply the term "alive" to supernatural stuff like ghosts or zombies or gods.And celibacy is not synonymous with dating. In fact the term dating implies something quite different and alien to celibacy. And the term for dating things that have dies really is necrophilia.

You keep making that claim and then trying to support that claim by taking the "Word of God" out of context and by misrepresenting what it actually says, substituting YOUR interpretation of what is written for what is actually written.

To support you position and also to provide a little history and background, there are only two sacraments mentioned in the Book of Common Prayer, a protestant document that predates even the Authorized King James Bible; Baptism and Holy Communion. Marriage is among the services listed but it is "Celebrating and blessing a Marriage".

Of course I would not just disagree with that, I'd laugh at anyone who tried to put such an infantile argument forward.The value of any written work depends on the content of the work and not on the author.Actual authorship is only relevant in very limited conditions.

Yes I'm calling his argument totally infantile as well as irrelevant.None of the examples he uses has anything to do with the validity of the Bible or almost any other book or anthology.While actual authorship might be relevant in some legal instances it is totally irrelevant in considering the value of the content of a document, story, Bible, scientific review or study.

And it is infantile to think that except for very limited legal instances, actual authorship is relevant even in those cases.If the content is accurate or useful the authorship is irrelevant.I'm sorry if you think accurately describing a argumment is insulting. Hope you feel better soon.Edited by jar, : appalin spallin

And you are still taking an infantile and incorrect position. Have you asked Phat if he believes God wrote those passages? Yup, there are fundamentalists and literalists, but have you asked Phat if he is one of those?Not all Bible believers think God wrote the Bible. No, it is YOUR caricature of Bible believers that you are describing.Sorry but you are still simply posting your own position of what a Bible believer is and believes.