“Make your view of Scripture as high as possible, but not higher.”
“Why would one not intervene when somebody gives gullible people sewage to drink?”
“You go ahead and use the wisdom from the Bible to work on Kirk Cameron’s marriage.”
“The determination to double down on a floundering doctrine is driven by a conviction that religion is uncompelling if it fails to make significant demands on an individual’s lifestyle. These demands are always partially if not predominantly sexual.”
“Many conservative Christians have said, in effect, that it is good for gays and lesbians to be alone.”
“What’s particularly interesting about this article is that Horton doesn’t seem to think that he is any way complicit in the tragic ending of this young man’s life.”
“You cannot teach both moral character and prejudice at the same time.”
“I don’t want to be an Eagle Scout if a young man who is gay can’t be one too.”
“Christians are one of the most privileged and powerful groups in America and yet the majority of Christians in America seem oblivious to how silly and self-centered they appear when they complain about the ‘war on Christmas’ or ‘not being allowed to pray in public schools.'” (via Literata)
“Diana Franklin told one neighbor that she was ‘doing what the Bible says’ by punishing the girl for not doing chores the ‘right way,’ according to KLTV.”
“Associating oneself with causes that eventually reveal themselves to have been destructive, demonic, and insane is not a recipe for being remembered well by historians.”
“Evangelicals are preoccupied with a century of missing the point. It’s been an adventure in missing the point.”
“Is it any surprise, then, that the young-earth creationists who claim to serve such a God are themselves guilty of deceit, dishonesty, misrepresentation, and everything else that falls under the broad category of lies?”
“If one has to avoid all such influences to be genuinely ‘evangelical,’ then I am not evangelical. If one must be conservative politically, then I, a Green-leaning democratic socialist and registered Democrat, fail the test.”
The Family Research Council is not just focused on bearing false witness against gay people — they’re also renewing their efforts to bear false witness against Muslims.
Head of Boy Scouts of America respects and admires an AIDS-denier.
Joyful music leads us sunward …
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