Wait, what does Carrie mean when she says that her Christian faith informs her support for marriage equality? Aren’t good Christians supposed to love everybody like Jesus told us, except for whichever minorities we’ve been trained to hate? But she sang “Jesus Take the Wheel!”, right?
These questions and more are written on the faces of the Christian Broadcasting Network anchors, as well as one guest commentator, as they ponder the question of Carrie Underwood’s support for marriage equality:
[h/t Joe]
The Levitican Paulists are always confused when Christians don’t hate all the same people they do.
Got to love thos so-called Christian BIGOTS!
Love the sinner NOT the sin!!! SOOOO DISAPPOINTED IN CARRIE UNDERWOOD!
Why, Donna? Because love-the-sinner-hate-the-sin is where so-called good so-called Christians go so they can look for the speck in someone else’s eye? Have you posted on any of Newtie’s blogs about marriage-adultery-divorce-marriage-adultery-divorce, or do you only have time to beat uyp on gay people?
There is no such thing as loving the sinner and hating the sin. That is a PR campaign that has nothing to do with the lives of real people. It is a marketing device to allow fundies to feel good about harming and discriminating against LGBT people.
Telling folks that you care about them as long as they endure a bleak life of loneliness and sexual frustration — while you are enjoying or seeking to enjoy such pleasures and emotional needs — is the very essence of disrespect and malevolence.
Save your b******t for another website that is willing to indulge you in your silly semantic game.
Donna, you’re the only sinner here, and we *don’t* pretend to love you!
I guess I fall firmly into the New Testament, where the Son of God says to “Love thy neighbor as thyself”, not the precursors in the old testament that tell us we can’t cut our hair, eat shellfish, or wear clothing of mixed textiles.
Somehow the Son should have more authority than the prophets, and Jesus didn’t say anything other than: “He who is without sin among you, cast the first stone.”
Need we say more?
Point of order: That story about Jesus and the woman caught in adultery is, apparently, NOT in the oldest surviving manuscripts. Ergo, it never happened.
It’s a nice story though.
This of course begs the question, what else was added later during various translations?
So much for the inerrant word of god.
Gew– do you have a link for that?
Here are some. There’s a plethora via google. Some in favour of inclusion, some not.
http://www.probe.org/site/c.fdKEIMNsEoG/b.4222385/k.E4EA/Woman_Caught_in_Adultery_Story_Not_Found_in_Early_Manuscripts.htm
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jesus_and_the_woman_taken_in_adultery
And in favour of it’s inclusion:
http://www.tektonics.org/af/adulterypericope.html
Donna,
“Love the Sinner not the Sin” isn’t in the Bible. It’s just a dodge Christians use to justify hating while making themselves feel righteous.