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Now I can clearly see from the quotations here that their platform rests on some pretty flimsy boards.

Yeah, pretty flemsy alright. They choose a handful of quotes out of a book that takes a year to read if you pace yourself conservatively. If you do indepth study, it could easily take you 2-3 years to get through the Bible. They have no clue about the entirety of the Bible. They just pick a few lines and shazaam! God says being gay is okay.

This is similar to the "Bible contradicts itself" crap. They find a handful of passages that have been translated the best they could be and all of a sudden "well, the Bible contradicts itself in 20 places...it is false." They don't take into account translation, interpretation, or anything.

"They choose a handful of quotes out of a book that takes a year to read if you pace yourself conservatively."

Yes, I've just decided to finally read the Bible, I'm a fast reader, so far I've just been reading it before bed (not ideal, admitedly) and I'm on page 2! I'm very much thinking I'll have to read it during a more awake time, as, even from the very start, it really makes one think.

"This is similar to the "Bible contradicts itself" crap."

Yes, the big subject for this one is slavery, I venture. I was listening to the Brian Lehrer show on WNYC (NPR) a few weeks ago, I think the subject MIGHT have been slave "reparations", whatever it was the subject of how the Bible talks about slavery came up. The guest that day was very lefty, but this excellent caller called in and said, if you look at it with allowances to the existing cultures, the Bible is pretty clear that slavery is a negative thing. Well, he was very eloquent on it, and I'm doing him a disservice with my paraphrasing here, but he really kind of shut the guest up, and that was really because he was so obviously a Bible believer, and he very much seemed to be (altho' on the phone, you can never be sure) an African-American. They didn't have the nerve to ask him, it was really pretty amusing to me. He had really studied his Bible, that always impresses me.