So... to some level, you do agree with me on the notion of tolerance v. acceptance in relation to religion. Or you don't. At some point, Fabio, my eyes started shaking while reading your entry, which was no doubt excellent and no doubt deserves a closer read tomorrow.
At any rate, it does bring Whosoever (http://www.whosoever.org) to mind. I'd be interested to see your response to that site, though of course on the understanding that the Christianity they follow is not of the Catholic variety. There's an article within that site discussing the exegetic reading of St Paul's comments on homosexuality and sin (forgetting the link - apologies!) which might interest you as a counter to this post, but once again I might point out that it has been submitted with a bias.
But on the note of fear and homophobia, you're dead on. To paraphrase Theresa Whitehurst, who I find quite interesting and inspirational in terms of my own (dare I say it) Evangelism: it's always as though there's a war that these people are trying to wage: as though they're threatened by something that exceeds their capacities and understandings, and instead of trying to understand they just want to quash it. I'm not sure if you've encountered Jesus on the Family (http://jesusonthefamily.org), but it is definitely an interesting read (and yes, she is anti-Euthanasia and prolife, albeit a 'liberal') and most of the content of the site is stuff I've discussed with my own chaplain about matters of morality and Christ's view on the matter. The best part of the site is that it has nothing to do with Focus on the Family.
I might not agree with a large part of what you've written, but chances are you know more about this than I do, seeing as my last experience with a 'proper Christian text' was to hurl 'The Strong-Willed Child' by James Dobson out of a moving car. (By 'proper Christian text', read 'sanctimonious drivvel written by someone so fearful of his pitiful manhood that he'd be threatened enough to beat his own kids and dachsund puppy with electrical cords'.)
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Date: 2005-05-19 11:41 am (UTC)At any rate, it does bring Whosoever (http://www.whosoever.org) to mind. I'd be interested to see your response to that site, though of course on the understanding that the Christianity they follow is not of the Catholic variety. There's an article within that site discussing the exegetic reading of St Paul's comments on homosexuality and sin (forgetting the link - apologies!) which might interest you as a counter to this post, but once again I might point out that it has been submitted with a bias.
But on the note of fear and homophobia, you're dead on. To paraphrase Theresa Whitehurst, who I find quite interesting and inspirational in terms of my own (dare I say it) Evangelism: it's always as though there's a war that these people are trying to wage: as though they're threatened by something that exceeds their capacities and understandings, and instead of trying to understand they just want to quash it. I'm not sure if you've encountered Jesus on the Family (http://jesusonthefamily.org), but it is definitely an interesting read (and yes, she is anti-Euthanasia and prolife, albeit a 'liberal') and most of the content of the site is stuff I've discussed with my own chaplain about matters of morality and Christ's view on the matter. The best part of the site is that it has nothing to do with Focus on the Family.
I might not agree with a large part of what you've written, but chances are you know more about this than I do, seeing as my last experience with a 'proper Christian text' was to hurl 'The Strong-Willed Child' by James Dobson out of a moving car. (By 'proper Christian text', read 'sanctimonious drivvel written by someone so fearful of his pitiful manhood that he'd be threatened enough to beat his own kids and dachsund puppy with electrical cords'.)