They must be annoyed that we are ticked off about the gay thing. Or maybe they are mad because they carry Bibles and not porn. (Though, I tell ya, some of that music and plenty of the movies are borderline if you ask me.)
I thought they were "brighter" than those of us with religious beliefs?
I'm sorry. But, I would like to point out that you just needlessly and unjustifiably insulted high school sophomores everywhere.
"I thought they were "brighter" than those of us with religious beliefs?"
They're so bright that we are blinded to their brightness.
It'd be a shame if a bunch of bogus signatures with funny names accompanied that letter. A blasted shame.
maybe the whole thing was a joke?
I think that Colonal Bleep may have signed it.... 
Charles Nelson Riley and Arthur Fonzarelli may be signatories too.
Iosif Dzugashvili as well- better known as Uncle Joe.
How about Herr Doktor Adolf Schiklegruber, as well?
I'm with T. Shaw here. You just insulted a whole bunch of HS sophomores!
Nearly triggers sympathy for Wal-Mart.
And once again is the similarity between certain atheists and fundamentalists: Bible-alone with the understanding that one can pull any snippit out of it and hold it out as governing the whole.
This is a variation on the e-mail chain letter that the explicit condemnation of homosexuality meant that one also had to apply all the ritual laws found in the same book.
Wal-Mart may just count the signatures and not actually read and dismiss the funny ones. I could be wrong.
I've seen that one, Scott. "Dear Dr. Laura"? One web site falsely attributed it to a philosophy professor at a Christian university. I always wonder why people lie about things that are so easy to check...
I *would* like to know how y'all respond to that kind of argument, though. I have quite a few people who like to pick things out of Leviticus and Deuteronomy, as well as some of Paul's epistles, and hold them up as why you can't take the Bible at face value.
If you haven't seen the letter, the general argument goes "I really appreciate your constant stand against homosexuality in obedience to God's Word. I have a few questions though..." and goes on to ask how to apply Old Testament Jewish law to modern American society (i.e. "My neighbor insists on working on the Sabbath. Scripture says he is to be put to death. Am I morally obligated to kill him myself?" and "Thus-and-such verse tells us that we can enslave members of neighboring nations. My friend says that applies to Mexicans but not Canadians. Could you clarify?")
Things like animal sacrifice I can clearly say were Old Covenant and rendered unnecessary by Christ's crucifixion and resurrection. However, things like slavery are harder to refute without looking like I'm cherry-picking. Any suggestions?
Kasia,
Here is a link to tektonics.org which is non-Catholic, but proceeds in the C.S. Lewis' Mere Christianity
http://www.tektonics.org/lp/
laur...auraletter.html
Don't know whether to laugh or to cry...
Ok, question.
I never paid attention in Catholic school, but that's not my fault. I had undiagnosed ADD. (Actually, I did, but that's another story entirely). Anyway, I've never been entirely clear on how Christians reconcile the teachings of Christ with Old Testament brutality.
I understand that the motivation behind some of these seemingly silly Old Testament laws was to separate the Israelis from the surrounding pagans. That, I have no issue with. But the consequence of breaking some of these laws on how to wear your hair and clothes, how to plant your crops, etc... was death. Death!
Do you believe that these laws truly came from the same God that gave us Jesus Christ to die for our sins? If so, why the turn around? If not, did they come from man himself? And how can we determine what parts of the Bible came from God and what parts came from man? Is that something the Church hierarchy does?
I'm not trying to be argumentative. I'm seriously just trying to understand how Christians view these things.
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