User blog comment:Red Compassion, Red Love, Red Hate/Coca Cola Commercial/@comment-17479654-20140211000023/@comment-5384369-20140215154334

Okay. I won't totally mention your little outburst of anger, because I understand, I get them often times enough. But the fact that you still left it there, and the part where it says, not in the strike through, that it can be considered an insult, I have to reference back to the strikethrough for more clarification. You don’t have to argue back with me, but I can’t stand not saying what I truly believe is the right thing to say. You may not be looking for an argument, but you found one, it is completely your choice on whether to retaliate.

The “God hate’s Gays” part was completely necessary. Do you really think that people don’t reference the bible when they make crude statements towards homosexuality? That is the main reason why same sex marriage isn’t allowed in about 33 states, because some people can’t look past their religion and what the bible says is wrong and right. People are being so anti-secularism (if that’s the correct word), that it forbids people to be married in the eyes of the law? Not just God, but the law; because people can’t separate their religion, from the state/the government.

I know the sin “Thou shalt not lie with mankind, as with womankind: it is an abomination”. I hear it often enough. But the thing is, I personally believe that it’s outdated. There are some parts of the bible which I do think are resourceful and are to be taken seriously, but I don’t think that we can pay attention to one verse that explains a sin, and ignore all the other outdated ones, that pretty much prove that we’re practically walking balls of sin.

And if they will learn any thing, let them ask their husbands at home: for it is a shame for women to speak in the church."
 * Tattoos- Leviticus 19:28 states- “Ye shall not make any cuttings in your flesh for the dead, nor print any marks upon you: I am the LORD.”
 * Okay, I’m also assuming the “print any marks” also means writing on yourself in pen. If so…
 * Rounded haircuts-Leviticus 19:27 states: "Ye shall not round the corners of your heads, neither shalt thou mar the corners of thy beard."
 * The Beatles must be horrible people them
 * Consulting Psychics- Leviticus 19:31 reads: “Regard not them that have familiar spirits, neither seek after wizards, to be defiled by them: I am the LORD your God.”
 * No palm readings.
 * Gossiping- Leviticus 19:16 states: "Thou shalt not go up and down as a talebearer among thy people: neither shalt thou stand against the blood of thy neighbour; I am the LORD."
 * EVERYONE DOES IT! We are all horrible, aren’t we?
 * Wives helping their own husbands in a fight- DEUTERONOMY 25:11-12 "If two men, a man and his countryman, are struggling together, and the wife of one comes near to deliver her husband from the hand of the one who is striking him, and puts out her hand and seizes his genitals, then you shall cut off her hand; you shall not show pity."
 * Okay, part of this I was a bit skeptical about, I mean, with the actual action, but the reaction from the man to the woman is way too extreme.
 * Children cursing/swearing at their parents- Exodus 21:17 states: "And he that curseth his father, or his mother, shall surely be put to death."
 * I know that some children don’t, but if a child ever does… they are going to die. I mean, it says so… right in the Bibile
 * Getting remarried after divorce- Mark 10:11-12 states: "Whosoever putteth away his wife, and marrieth another, committeth adultery: and whosoever marrieth her that is put away from her husband committeth adultery."
 * Okay, that’s just sad. Not being able to marry again without that being considered a sin? Shouldn’t we all strive to be with the one we love?
 * Women speaking in Church- 1 Corinthians 14:34-35 states: "Let your women keep silence in the churches: for it is not permitted unto them to speak; but they are commanded to be under obedience, as also saith the law.
 * So… the feminist movement moves back a few steps because of the bible…. Okay….
 * Eating shrimp, lobster or other types of seafood- Leviticus 10-11 states: "And all that have not fins and scales in the seas, and in the rivers, of all that move in the waters, and of any living thing which is in the waters, they shall be an abomination unto you:

They shall be even an abomination unto you; ye shall not eat of their flesh, but ye shall have their carcases in abomination." Then they shall bring out the damsel to the door of her father's house, and the men of her city shall stone her with stones that she die: because she hath wrought folly in Israel, to play the whore in her father's house: so shalt thou put evil away from among you”
 * Red Lobster=bad
 * Losing your virginity before marriage – Deuteronomy 22:20-21 states: “But if this thing be true, and the tokens of virginity be not found for the damsel:
 * Being the victim of rape, if one is an engaged female virgin and the rape occurs in a city- Deuteronomy 22:23-24: "If a damsel [that is] a virgin be betrothed unto an husband, and a man find her in the city, and lie with her; Then ye shall bring them both out unto the gate of that city, and ye shall stone them with stones that they die; the damsel, because she cried not, [being] in the city; and the man, because he hath humbled his neighbour's wife: so thou shalt put away evil from among you.”
 * So, if a woman is engaged and raped, because people didn’t hear her cries, she gets stoned. How fair.
 * Planting a garden with more than one type of flower/plant in it- Leviticus 19:19 “Thou shalt not sow thy field with mingled seed.”
 * Wearing polyester, or any other fabric blends- Leviticus 19:19 reads, "You are to keep My statutes. You shall not breed together two kinds of your cattle; you shall not sow your field with two kinds of seed, nor wear a garment upon you of two kinds of material mixed together."

These things that I just listed are considered a sin, but we still do them anyways. Some are a bit more “out there” than the others, but some of them are just plain outdated and don’t really make sense in the 21st century anymore. And by my logic, if wearing polyester isn’t a sin anymore, why is homosexuality a sin? It’s not really fair to say that only certain parts of the Bible are okay, but some aren’t, or that only some apply to a person, whereas other parts apply to another person.

I’m not saying that people who don’t agree with same sex marriage are idiots, but I am saying that it’s somewhat ignorant to say that because they say God thinks that homosexuality is bad. People can’t say that “God thinks this and God thinks that” because in all honesty, we don’t know that God thinks. God is supposed to be a holy power, who are we, to say what God wants. I mean, doesn’t God love all His people? And to say that some people are sins and they should die because they love someone? Doesn’t that seem a bit extreme? Everyone should love everyone.

It breaks my heart that people have to face discrimination (and it is discrimination), and ignorance, and prejudice, and hate just because they love someone.