Recent content by JackSafari

And I will also add, people who have daily contact with people who are gay. Not just "some guy" who works at a local store, but a family member or someone at work. It makes a huge different to wanting to suppress the rights of a group of people who you don't know, and tend to be perceived as a...

I good\fun\interesting book to read is The Tipping Point by Malcolm Gladwell. The book addresses the social phenomena of how things rapidly increase after they reach "The tipping point", and once that point is reached, its a snowball effect everywhere. In this case, the acceptance of...

The bible is clear about many things that nobody takes literally, which is the point. People pick some parts of the bible to be symbolic and other parts to literal. I suppose if a person is a true fundamentalist, they will take the entire bible to be literal in meaning. What you believe to be...

KCKID, at the core of fundamentalism is to rationalize personal beliefs as being God's opinion, so it does not matter what questions you might ask, there will always be some rationalization\justification for individual beliefs. This has been historically true for 1000s of years. Before medical...

This can only go so far. Take for example that historically husbands that chronically beat\abuse their wives, later sincerely\honestly\truthfully asks God for forgiveness for having beaten their wives. How many times does the wife have to be beaten before it becomes clear he's never going to...

"Being left behind" is a metaphor for those who do not strive to be Christ-like. Example would be that Christian racists are being marginalized because they can't let go of their racist beliefs, and to their credit they can quote the scriptures to justify racist beliefs, but the rest of...

My thinking and approach represents the majority of how Christians act\think. With each generation Christianity becomes a better religion, and it God's Will that Christians become more and more Christ like. Those who do not, get left behind.

It my perception that most Christians are not like the anti-gay people who tend to yell the loudest, and who perceive acceptance of homosexuality being one of many signs that world full fulling biblical prophecy. Most Christians are related to LGBTs and\or work with them, or live next door; As...

This is strictly your assumption that someone who is strong and good looking is always a bully, not all Christians believe this to be true, even if you can find a bible verse to support your belief that strong and good looking people are all bullies.

Homosexuality is not something a person chooses to practice, its sexual orientation, just like heterosexuality, which is also something people have no choice about. Cant change your skin color, eye color, being right\left handed, or sexual orientation. Its all hardwired.

I do feel very sorry for children of fundamentalists parents within any religion. I believe all children have the innate ability to over come bad parenting when they get older, but it can take many years to over come the years of BS of being in a highly negative home environment. Imagine being...

As a general statement, I have always found it interesting\puzzling that many\most parents have the ability to accept their children for who they are, rather than who they are not, yet when it comes to the perception of God, many believe God is just the opposite, he sits in judgement without...

I've always imagined that Jesus reached total enlightenment just like Buddha and several other spiritual masters that somehow were able to transcend the physical and become one with God. Got to wonder if there are many more out there, but their mission does not include becoming historically...

Many\most of the Christian Churches in my area are accepting of LGBT and do not object to gay marriage. Where I live (Washington State) tends to be very progressive and it recently legalized SSM as voted by a majority of the people in the state. Thus, churches of all religions in the state tend...

Yes this is good, and most pro-choice people agree that abortion should be the last option, and nearly always is. At the core of the debate is who has the legal right to make the final decision. So far legally, at least in the US, the legal decision has been that women get to make the final...