I don't agree with Faith on this subject, as I believe if a Christian wants to make cakes he must know what he is getting into, and at no point is anyone forcing a Christian at gunpoint, to make cakes. So if it bothers Faith that much my suggestion would be not to make cakes.
I make toys, and particularly toy wands which people interested in witchcraft sometimes buy from me or I at least guess it might be used as a genuine wand, but I am just making it, my intention is to create a toy, their intention is to wield it, so it doesn't bother me because that's their decision.
I don't believe I am contaminated because I made a toy.
However, I think this point you make isn't quite a fair comparison;
Rrhain writes:
Funny...I'm looking at the marriage contract for various states and I don't see anything about god in there. God didn't write the law. It seems that humans did.
So when people claimed that god made the races separate and didn't want them mixing, were we wrong to ignore that?
I think there is a clear difference. Christians accept what the bible says, as what God says, and Genesis describes the point in marriage which Christ elaborated, but it doesn't say anything about races.
So biblically we can argue that, "God intended marriage for this reason", but you can't make a case that the bible says to be racist.
I don't like the way people try and falsely compare racism with a Christian belief that certain things God says, are sins.
Yes, homophobia, a fear and hatred of gay people, may be comparable with racism, but being a Christian isn't comparable with either, for if as a Christian I do not fear or hate neither gay nor coloured people, then it is a false accusation.
You could say of course, "the bible is homophobic" but then I could respond with an equal epithet; "it is also murdererphobic, and theftaphobic". As Christians we believe God is omniscient and has full knowledge of what is sin and what isn't, so to accuse God and the bible, from our perspective, is futile because mankind is the one with the sin nature and God doesn't have dark motives.
We aren't given permission as Christians, to "correct" God, remember. If God says He made it to be a certain way, I don't have the power to refute Him.
Most Christians accept what God says because they have to, not necessarily because they want to.
If I had not made that wand for that witch I would feel terrible, I would feel very judgemental. Really this is what concerns me about the position many Christians take on these matters. We aren't supposed to judge people like that. But those like Faith are controversial, and are the vocal minority, so it may seem like her position is the, "Christian" position, and she claims it is the Christian position, and that all Christians take her position.
I appreciate why you feel you have to take that stance, Faith, and no doubt will think I am not a true Christian if I don't, but I believe your position is an unnecessary judgement on gay people, and you are singling them out in this matter. I know you perhaps do mean well in acting out of loyalty to God, and don't know your full motives, but I don't think you are being purely sinister, I think you have just told yourself this is the correct thing to do, but the bible doesn't say you have to do this thing so try not to argue it is the, "Christian" position, for only what comes from the Christian bible, is the Christian position.
Edited by mike the wiz, : No reason given.