The Torah is a manual for genocide. How......liberal.

I no longer consider religious people who point to passages in the Old Testament -- particularly Leviticus -- to support their prejudices, to be "Christians".

Anyone who adopted the Old Testament 100% literally would be a sociopath in the modern world. Last time I checked, parents weren't allowed to kill their children for disobedience, and stoning will land you in jail or the psych ward.

Those who pick-and-choose verses from the OT to justify anti-gay beliefs or other such bullshit are, at best, "Jehovanists" and NOT Christians. Jesus came to Earth with a, whaddayacall, NEW Testament that replaced the old one. Insisting on a partial enforcement of the old laws while pretending to follow them in their entirety is disingenuous at best.

Ah yes.

Any open public white space is a chance to act like a right-wing, mouth-breathing, brown-person-hating, sociopath-loving, thought-bashing, money-grubbing pervert and repeat the lies of the past 7 years over and over and over until we're all supposed to think they're true even though they completely counter reality.

How...conservative.

"Do not think that I have come to abolish the Law or the Prophets; I have not come to abolish them but to fulfill them. I tell you the truth, until heaven and earth disappear, not the smallest letter, not the least stroke of a pen, will by any means disappear from the Law until everything is accomplished" (Matthew 5:17-18).

Sorry, but Jesus IS the god of the Old Testament, despite a few "kinder and gentler" pronouncements in the NT.

Oh gosh, then we've done for! Gay-bashing and wiretapping and civilian-massacring then is perfectly oK.

Forgive me Father...

Manitou Akbar!

Ah yes. Christian interpretations and devotion to the Old Testament = JOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOZE. How...revealing.

When his disciples asked Jesus, "Master, what shall we do?" he told them to "Love one another." He didn't ask them what Moses said or tell them to find their answer in the scripture, he said something entirely new to them.

Jesus proclaimed himself the new testament, which, for a follower of Jesus, ought to end the utility of the old testament by tossing it out completely. What else could he have meant by that?

Keep those cards and letters coming, people, we haven't exterminated everyone yet.

The letters of Paul have plenty of anti-gay rhetoric, so that one need not depend on the OT for justification of one's moral disgust of homosexual practice. In Galatians 5 Paul condemns all forms of "sexual immorality," as well as "impurity and debauchery; idolatry and witchcraft; hatred, discord, jealousy, fits of rage, selfish ambition, dissensions, factions and envy; drunkenness, orgies, and the like."

BUZZKILL!

Anonymous 05:19 AM wins the early morning non-sequiter prize! For making no sense at all, you win a self-paid trip to Guam!

are the sole domain of organized religion, you're either retarded or a college student in poli-sci.

...the boys at Local 328 ought to make use of Pauline typology instead. These things are drawn allegorically.

I'm no theologian--heck, I'm not even a member of any of these religious traditions--but are you implying that Paul is a deity Do most Christians actually give weight to the notion that because his letters are published in The Book, his word is the word of God?

Seriously, this seems shaky to me. Someone please enlighten a bemused bystander how this whole contributing-scripture-author thing works.

More importantly, what (pray tell) is inherently immoral, impure, debauched, idolatrous, wiccan, hateful, discordant, jealous, fitful, selfish, ambitious, dissentious, factious, or envious about homosexuality?

I'll give you that some of these characteristics are bound to appear in your average romantic relationship between two persons of the same sex. But then, the same is true of any two people, regardless of gender.

Tell you what--let's encourage heterosexual Christians everywhere to put an end to boozing, extramarital nookie, substance abuse, materialism, greed, road rage, ladder-climbing, and treating fellow humans like belly-button lint.

When you've made some progress on those fronts, perhaps there'll be time to split hairs over whether homosexuality was an axe that one particular non-divine Biblical author wished to grind.

Well if you think ideologies that can plausibly lead all the way down to the abattoir are the sole domain of organized religion, you're either retarded or a college student in poli-sci.

But to jump from this comic to your statement, you must be feeling incredibly defensive. Touched an all-too-true nerve there, didn't it? Have to point a finger somewhere to get the glare of truth off yourself? Saying "They did it too!" isn't the same as "We didn't do it." It is an admission of guilt with an attempt at lessening the perceived severity.

The comic was about how the Old Testement is much harsher than many Christians think and the willingness of people to try and explain it away.

Your jump to an indictment of Marx is almost as comical as the comic itself.

Obsolete, Jahweh did a heap of smiting.

He did not teach "love thy enemy" nor did he do much for his own worshipping devotees, except test them and to preach "fear Me".

That was the Old Testament.

He made this corrupt realestate deal with a racist tribe after an untimely flood and a fairly famous garden eviction.

Then he directed his wrath against various sinners and apostates , finally retiring to turn the firm over to His only begotten (possibly illegitimate) Son who changed the rules. "Love the enemy", "Turn the other cheek", "Smite less often, if at all" etc.

I know it is probably hard for some readers to imagine but the obsolete God, while being an interesting read, did not have quite all the answers, left to the demands of his biographers' presumptions.

All of this led to Jimmy Swaggart and Rabbi Kahane and those illegal settlement on the west bank and some accused witches hanged (one pressed) in Salem, Mass. back in 1692- amoung a few other misadventures.

That Son, meanwhile (horrified at the misguided spactacle) is probably considering retracting His offer to return someday, yet tolerant enough to listen to Chris Hitchens and the 700 Club in equadistant bemusement.

The kids are confused because God isn't sexy enough.

Why does everyone seem to expect God to be logical or in any other way scientific. Logic and science are important in human terms- but isn't the point of God supposed to be his Superhuman illogic and nonscience?

Anyone blaming God for terrestial or cosmic dilema and suffering just isn't imagining enough.