This would be hilarious if I didn’t think this kind of thinking was epidemic among Christians.
Christian Culture News reports:
CNN’s Piers Morgan, who has described himself as a Christian, apparently thinks the Bible, like the U.S. Constitution, needs to be rewritten to get rid of passages condemning homosexuality and those describing marriage as exclusively heterosexual … so that Christians will some how change their minds to embrace same-sex marriage.
Morgan’s comment reportedly came during an interview with Saddleback Pastor Rick Warren aired on CNN on Christmas Eve, according to Twitchy.
Morgan clearly hasn’t thought through anything about his religion which he professes to be Christianity.
Here’s the thing. We’ve seen what liberals have done to the Constitution when they made it a “living breathing” document. It means we can all do whatever the heck we want and no institution shall stand against our every whim. To do the same thing to the Bible is the destruction of Christianity.
Christianity has commandments, not amendments.
Christianity is not supposed to mirror secularism folks. It’s the antidote. Our natures are fallen. Our world is broken. Secularism wants to play with the pieces of a broken world. Christianity allows us to build.
January 2, 2013 at 3:08 am
Sophia – I'm not sure what I said to garner such a vitriolic personal attack. I can only assume it's the way you react when someone questions or voices an opinion that differs from you.
Perhaps if you take issue with the witch analogy, perhaps I should have offered as a way to respond to the condemnation of gays in the Bible, the same reading we take to those sections of Scripture (particularly 1 Corinthians) that require women to be silent in churches and to have no teaching authority over men. We essentially ignore them today.
As to the witch allegation a re-reading of my post would reveal I said Christians and although your response may reveal that you think the only Christians are Catholics I was not talking exclusively about Catholic approach to witches such as exemplified in papal bull Summis Desiderantes Affectibus but how most Christians has stopped hunting down and persecuting witches.
January 3, 2013 at 7:57 am
1. Sophia's Favorite. Get my name right or don't say it, Rationalizer1.
2. Again. Witches are not a religion. They do not exist. Never have. People who do not exist, cannot be persecuted. However, the people who believe that they exist, do not conceive of them as a separate demographic, but as compatriots who commit a crime—of which they falsely accuse their neighbors. The Latin, Hebrew, and Navajo words for "witch" all literally translate to "poisoner".
3. Catholics do not base their opposition to homosexuality on the quaint ritual-purity code of a certain tribe of Bronze Age subsistence farmers who never had the arch. We base it on reason, as Socrates did—surely you knew that one of the unusual traits of his followers was in disapproving Greek homosexuality ("the poisonous bite of the tarantula", as he called it).
This is what my "vitriolic personal attack" stemmed from. You don't know what the word "witch" actually meant, and you assume Catholics have the same attitude to Scripture as Protestants—then you urge us to shift from being Fundamentalist ones to being Liberal ones. I don't like ignorant people who start pontificating on matters they know not a damn thing about.
January 3, 2013 at 2:42 pm
Sorry about the name. Feel free to shorten mine to Rat.
Witches are certainly a religion. Pope Innocent VIII issued a papal bull against witches and magicians in 1484 ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Summis_desiderantes ) I know a family who practices Wicca and while I think it's ridiculous they take it quite seriously. Witches exist in the same way as devils exist.
I didn't assume Catholics have the same attitude as Protestants. If you check my original post I said Christianity previously persecuting witches, but now most Christians do not. Both Catholics and Protestants have had a checkered past on treatment of witches with modern persecution mostly on fundamentalist Protestant sects (I believe Gov. Sarah Palin's denomination was big on that)
I suggest you get some perspective. If this is how you react when someone differs in opinion from you, then you need to deal with it.
January 5, 2013 at 6:10 am
Wicca is a fake religion founded in the 1950s by a British government worker named Gerald Gardner. It is based on the debunked theory of the 1921 book "Witch-Cult of Europe". If you think that religion has any historical reality, do you also think Madagascar is the end of a sunken continent called Lemuria and that light-waves propagate through a medium called aether? Those are other theories from the 1920s that have since been debunked.
"Witchcraft" historically refers to people who gain power to harm their enemies by deliberately violating their own culture's taboos. The Navajo word for the concept is ántiinzhin; the Hopi word is powaka; the Latin is veneficus; the Hebrew is kashaph. How, pray, did the Hopi have a name for something you are claiming is a European minority religion?
That encyclical was written, you will notice, in the Renaissance, when the pagan Roman belief in witchcraft had been re-introduced. The Renaissance also brought back a lot of other nasty Roman habits, like slavery and women as legal minors (medieval women had all the same civil- and property-rights as men, read Regine Pernoud's "Women in the Days of the Cathedrals).
I suggest you grasp this concept: you are not entitled to any opinion founded on false facts. You can react however you like to real facts, but if you form an opinion without reference to reality, you are at best a psychotic, and at worst a liar.
January 5, 2013 at 1:30 pm
I finally figured it out, Sophia Favorite. This is a Poe(http://rationalwiki.org/wiki/Poe's_Law ). You're a non believer like me who wants to disparage religious people by pretending to be one and acting in such an offensive fashion calling people psychotic, a liar, unlettered cave-dwelling ignorant, functionally illiterate, etc. that people reading it associate religious people with such behavior.
While I can agree with your goal of making people question their religious commitment, I totally disagree with your tactic of impersonating a aggressive mean mouthed believer who lashes with such vitriol out at any criticism. The goal doesn't justify your means.
January 6, 2013 at 2:14 am
there are many Morgans who call themselves christian or catholic but do not have an indepth knowledge of christianity. They think Christ is just another person like Obama or Brad Pitt. Let us pray that they are blessed with more wisdom to seek truth and willingness to accept truth.