cinco de mayo: I DON’T DESPISE ALL CHRISTIANS, I DON’T HATE CHRISTIANITY AS SUCH

What I do not accept is Christianists, Dominionists, and Evangelical-Fundamentalists who are fanatical.

I have said it on so many occasions: I don’t care if you believe in little green unicorns from Tasmania and you hang from the chandelier to worship them. It is when you get together with others of the same mindset as yourself and make laws that take away my rights that I put my foot down…It is when you take your beliefs and your Scriptures and give it an interpretation that is erroneous or that goes against common sense and logic. And I even go further than that; I am willing to fight for your right to have faith and to practice your religion freely as long as it doesn’t hurt me or someone else…which is something these religious fanatics are not willing to do for me or those who don’t have faith.

I take issue with anybody who will interpret the Scriptures literally. I know for a fact that “it ain’t necessarily so…the things that you’re liable to read in the Bible, it ain’t necessarily so” like the song says.

I have no issues with somebody like ex-President Jimmy Carter for example. He has recently written a book in his new book, NIV Lessons from Life Bible: Personal Reflections with Jimmy Carter: the ex-President is a very deeply religious man but he is also a scientist and a humanist. I celebrate his faith as I celebrate the faith of millions who like President Carter draw inspiration and wisdom from the Scriptures but know where to draw the line as to the extent in which the Scriptures should be viewed and adhered to.

“There are many verses in the Bible that you could interpret very rigidly and that makes you ultimately into a fundamentalist. When you think you are better than anybody else -- that you are closer to God than other people, and therefore they are inferior to you and subhuman -- that leads to conflict and hatred and dissonance among people when we should be working for peace.”- Jimmy Carter

Where Jimmy Carter and others like him and I part ways is in my belief that the Bible is not the word or the work of God as such and because it was written by men…men who were of those ancient times, it becomes clear to me that the Bible is fabricated…albeit the reasons for its existence or its content are deemed to be useful and relevant today.

This is what Jimmy Carter had to say about that: “When we go to the Bible we should keep in mind that the basic principles of the Bible are taught by God, but written down by human beings deprived of modern day knowledge. So there is some fallibility in the writings of the Bible. But the basic principles are applicable to my life and I don’t find any conflict among them.”

Jimmy Carter: 'Jesus Never Said a Word about Homosexuality'

Jimmy Carter talks about homosexuality, the Bible, and gay marriage in his book:

“Homosexuality was well known in the ancient world, well before Christ was born and Jesus never said a word about homosexuality. In all of his teachings about multiple things -– he never said that gay people should be condemned. I personally think it is very fine for gay people to be married in civil ceremonies.

I draw the line, maybe arbitrarily, in requiring by law that churches must marry people. I’m a Baptist, and I believe that each congregation is autonomous and can govern its own affairs. So if a local Baptist church wants to accept gay members on an equal basis, which my church does by the way, then that is fine. If a church decides not to, then government laws shouldn’t require them to.”

And I am fine with those statements by the former President except that the Government should not take one religion’s interpretation of marriage or to give its seal of approval and be complicit in that religion’s crusade to judge, condemn and criminalize what people are born into, what the Creator intended them to be and made that way.

So that basically it is the role of Government to remain secular and marriage as an institution that is part of a religious organization can be separate from marriage that is part of a set of laws and rights that are granted by Government to everyone…and I do mean EVERYONE. To deprive one group of people of these for whatever reason is downright discriminatory and reinforces even what the Bible teaches us not to do: PASS JUDGEMENT ON OTHERS…That is supposed to be left to God. Churches can accept or not whether to marry two people of the same sex and there are some religions that do; but government however doesn’t have that option and must extend the legal ability of two people to be in a committed relationship and receive all the benefits and have all the obligations which that marital status brings, TO DO OTHERWISE IS DISCRIMINATORY.

LISTEN UP YOU MOTHER FUCKING EVANGELICAL-CHRISTIANISTS: AMERICA IS NOT A CHRISTIAN NATION

Regardless of your insistence, our Founding Fathers wanted a separation between the church and state.

If you want to change that and want a theocracy, then you will have to amend the Constitution. Good luck on that.

The CHRISTIAN religion is a RELIGION with many denominations; granted, America’s population is predominantly Christian, but that does not mean that our government and our country should be designated as such. The long standing concept that our FOUNDING FATHERS laid out for us was one in which no religion should be established or favored over the other…and that includes CHRISTIANITY.

I DARE ANY MOTHER FUCKING EVANGELICAL-FUNDAMENTALIST CHRISTIANIST SON OF A BITCH TELL ME ONE THING, ONLY ONE THING THAT CHRIST SAID CONDEMMING HOMOSEXUALITY.

AND WE ALL KNOW THESE ARE THE RESULT OF RELIGIOUS FANATICISM AND WHAT IT CAN DO: