What’s the problem with religious leaders in Sydney? We already established some time ago, that its Catholic Archbishop, George Pell, is a moron. Now we learn that its Anglican Arcbhbishop, Peter Jensen is not even able to answer a simple question like: “What parts of the Bible should we believe?”
I mean, if you argue against homosexuality because the Bible says so, why don’t you ask that gays be stoned to death, like the very same Bible says? Isn’t it a mortal sin to think you know better than your own God?
I don’t know whether it’s the air, or the water in Sydney Harbour, that causes religious leaders to be either stupid or liars, or hypocrites, or all of it at the same time. Hmmm, wait… what if it weren’t a matter of geography at all? What if being either a stupid or a liar was a prerequisite for being a religious leader, all over the world?
We might ask Cardinal Bagnasco, when the organization he heads publishes a book that advocates genocide, slavery and the suppression of sexual “deviants”, yet he gets all upset when people send him death threats.
By the way, it fills me with pride to know that, at least according to Google, I am more famous than the Italian Catholic Church ;).
(Via God is for Suckers.)
It’s Sydney not Sidney
Why, you are right Rich. I even got to the trouble of looking up “sidney” in Google and when it didn’t correct me and told me there were 31,300,000 results for “sidney” I did not bother to check that they were mostly for Sidney, BC, Canada or Sidney, Ohio.
What’s the problem with you and religious leaders?
(sorry, cannot resist
That was a cute comment about “why not stone homosexuals” to the leader in question. To bad that you didn’t pose that to the correct type of religious leader. Stoning was a past practice of the old testament, Torah (the Jewish faith) [before you go and flame Jews I should tell you they don’t stone any more] instead of the Christian faith, which hates the sin and loves the sinner. Atheist or not, try reading a little more into your ecumenical studies before you flame someone for whatever reason. Christ upsurped the power of the law and gave Christians rules to live by within the new testament.
Grow up and read more!
I have no comment other than to say an interesting discussion…
Carmelo Lisciotto
http://www.carmelolisciotto.com
Ted, as a boy growing in a Catholic country, I got my share of religious literature, including reading the Bible almost entirely.
You are correct in pointing out that stoning is a practice of the OT, but then when people start objecting to homosexual behavior “because the Babble sez so”, they should explain why some parts of it are to be taken as a moral guide and some are not.
They also should explain why they are bundling the OT and NT together and pretending it *all* to be inspired by God.
Personally, I don’t need to take moral guidance from a book that was maybe acceptable for bedouin kings of the Bronze Age.