The Bible as 'hate literature' Canadians advance bill hate crimes (Is America Next?)

The good thing about questioning the Bible is it often drives people to search its pages for errors and in so doing, they discover the truth. Is the Bible True?

I am not a Bible scholar, and have questioned the Bible's validity and accuracy myself. In spite of my past doubts, I've discovered that life WITH Christ is infinitely better than life without Him. When I tried to save myself, I merely discovered how lost I am without God.

1 Corinthians 1:18 "For the message of the cross is foolishness to those who are perishing, but to us who are being saved it is the power of God. For it is written: "I will destroy the wisdom of the wise; the intelligence of the intelligent I will frustrate." Where is the wise man? Where is the scholar? Where is the philosopher of this age? Has not God made foolish the wisdom of the world? For since in the wisdom of God the world through its wisdom did not know him, God was pleased through the foolishness of what was preached to save those who believe. Jews demand miraculous signs and Greeks look for wisdom, but we preach Christ crucified: a stumbling block to Jews and foolishness to Gentiles, but to those whom God has called, both Jews and Greeks, Christ the power of God and the wisdom of God. For the foolishness of God is wiser than man's wisdom, and the weakness of God is stronger than man's strength."

Isn't worshipping a false god as much a sin as homosexuality?

What a straw man. You should flush with embarrassment.

And working over that tired old parallel with the civil-rights movement, which gays have labored to manufacture since After the Ball was published, was phony then and it's phony and embarrassing now.

The civil rights movement was a corrective to racial theories that attempted to substitute natural-law sanctions against "loser" ethnicities, deemed to be "losers" by the eugenicists and other racial particularists, for the rules of the social compact. Originally, there was no conflict, because African slaves were members neither of the European community nor of the society they served. They were outside the pale, aliens in our midst. The Civil War destroyed slavery to remove the incubus of slave-labor latifundism -- early agribusiness conducted on a mass scale -- from American agriculture and settlement of the uninhabited Territories. The constitutional amendments passed after the Civil War changed the status of the former slaves from nonmembers to full members of society, and the civil rights movement represented the presentation of that due bill for recognition and rights. The civil rights movement was the claiming by former nonmembers of full membership in society.

Gays enjoy all the rights other citizens do. They vote, they own property. They do not have a civil-rights beef.

I don't have the right, as a middle-aged man, to join a Girl Scouts USA troop, or a group of Brownies. The Brownies and Camp Fire Girls have always discriminated against me, because of who and what I am, and how I act. Get my drift?

Discrimination is good. What and who you discriminate against, and when you do it, are just social constructs that people change when it pleases them. It is very useful to discriminate against pedophiles who want to be preteen youth counselors. It is also useful and good to discriminate against blind people who want to enter flight school, and against homosexuals who want to date other people's teenagers and "skin some chicken".

It's also useful, helpful, and good to discriminate against liberals who like to troll perfectly good discussions and spread their diseased aggressor memes around.

Quote me on that.

I'd just like to respond really quickly to this whole issue. In my opinion (being Canadian), living in a free country means having the freedom to practise your faith. If the Bible is outlawed as hate literature, then the freedom of religious expression has been denied. I personally feel that, in today's society, people feel that everything is okay EXCEPT Christianity (I hear it from my professors all the time). Where is the liberty in that? A society that believes in specific individual freedoms such as the freedom of speech and the freedom to practise religion should not be using the justice system to infringe on those rights. It is completely contradictory. To say, "I believe homosexuality is wrong" is exercising one's freedom of speech. To physically harm or to discriminate against a homosexual in any way is a completely different issue. What we have here is the violation of the (currently) legal privileges of a religious group in order to protect the (alleged) violation of the rights of another group. I've never known a Christian to gay bash, however. If this law is passed, should Christians respond by attempting to pass a law that reinstates their rights? Because that only makes sense. It truly is a ridiculous situation. To answer the question "Is America next?", I would like to say that, if America is all that many profess it to be, I hope not. It doesn't take a lot of intelligence to see the absurdity of the bill that is currently in the works in Canada. I certainly hope that the government of America does a better job of protecting the rights of its citizens--all of them.

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