Hiya Mark
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forgive the but what do you think of the vaticans stance Russ? whilst i acknowlege you are not a Roman Catholic, alot of your beliefs overlap, and they are deemed to be the leading christian faith. Are they wrong, or are christinas supposed to think "homosexual unions (are) immoral, unnatural and harmful.?
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To a point I agree with them but the Vatican's opinions over the years on this has given the impression that gays are to be "CAST UNTO THE FIRE OF HELL FROM WENCE YOU CAME!!" This to me is hypocritical - taking the Bible's true view of gays means that their sexual practise is a sin, and we ALL sin (I'm sure even the Pope has his moments!). It should be noted that it is NOT homosexuality that is frowned upon - it's homosexual
activity which is negated in the Bible.
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Its opinions like these that make meturn awayfrom religious faiths,as they prefer to take their commandments from public opinion defined a few hundered years ago, and not relate to the world as it is today?
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On the contrary - I feel the Bible is still relevant, only some wording needs to be updated.
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If homosexuality is so wrong, then by the same right its fine for us to own slaves and stone people to death? i belive those sort of things were written at the same time? (im no theologan, so cant provide exact quotes)
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Yes Levictus stated that gays should be stoned to death but that was Old Testament, and when Jesus arrived (New Testament) a lot of the old teachings were updated. Remember it was Big J who said 'Let he without sin cast the first stone'.
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its still religion both seem a bit similar to me
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If you actually did some research, you'd see how wrong you are.
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well i can accept the fact that if 2 same sex people are happy and are willing to commit let them they are not harming anyone are they ?
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What if it happens so much that kids growing up believe it's the norm?