The poll is promising though:

I'm forced to agree. There are too many "Pretend Christians." Good find, Makri.

Another of my personal gripes with so-called "Christians": Picking out of the Bible whatever they choose to believe and completely discarding/discrediting the rest. It doesn't work that way. The Bible is a very all-or-nothing kind of book.

Either you're going to be a Christian and stand up for it, or not. Stop sitting on the dedgumm fence.

I dunno if I can put any stock in that. Ask the same people what being a Muslim means and they'll tell you "bombing people and hating Jews."

That's the whole point of the article. Not all Muslims are like that, and not all Christians are focused on abortion and homosexuality. But those that are, are very loud and that's what an outsider will see.

Abortion and homosexuality are important issues in the Christian faith. They cannot be ignored. However, focusing exclusively on them takes away from the other issues Christians are supposed to care about, and in some extreme cases undermines our reputation. Just like the "crazy Muslims" makes everyone tend to look down on all Muslims.

What about brotherly love, the greatest commandment?

I don't recall that commandment

You'll probably like this then:



Kevin

I'm sure they think you're a so-called "Christian". No one is an indisputable authority of what makes a Christian and what doesn't (Christian God, if he existed, would be). You're entitled to hold your view, of course, as are those who don't think you're a real Christian.

I don't see what's so wrong in using your common sense to ignore the bits of the Bible you don't agree with, and stick with the rest. If you believe in creation, your common sense is something that god equipped you with.

The Pharisees were trying to get Jesus in a trap and so they asked Him, "Which is the most important commandment?" If He specified any single one of them, they could get Him by saying He was reducing the importance of any other one.

He said (not exact here, just from my memory) "I give you a new commandment. Love the Lord God with all thy heart and all thy soul. And second to that is love thy neighbor as thyself" This answer shut them up because it covers all 10 original commandments in 2 short sentences.

If he were here today, I think it's safe to say that Jesus wouldn't pay any attention to polls.

I don't think the poll's intention is to guide Jesus in what are important matters and what are not. This is not politics.

It's all about what people think is important to their gods. Because whether there is a god or not, that's what people who believe in them are going to act up on.

I have to say that I feel sorry for those who think that homosexuals are number one on Jesus' hit list. Unless it's a comedy option picked by some. Which is entirely possible too.

Once again the voice of hysteria pounces on a widely held misconception seeking to prove some incidentally tangental point. Religion has been co-opted throughout the ages (thank yo u senor kaiser Soze! ) and used to justify insanity. The ONLY thing it means to be a 'Christian' is found in the actual taxonomy of the phrase.. I won't spell it out for you 'cause I hope you can see through the red haze of your opininons and think it through. If you can't then God bless you. And this from a debaucherous psychedelic kapa haka!

Do you truly believe that the 'Jesus' of lore would be in league with our current dictators of 'divine' mandates? NO ONE EXPECTS THE...... It's interesting the way you like to cast aspersions, but in the end its all like any human mandated orthodoxy, vain jangling. Nice try stirring the pot, hopefully someday you'll rise above all of this and find your own vantage of truth. Till then I'll keep sending you warm and fuzzy thoughts.... 'cause it looks like you're gonna need 'em!

I have no idea what you tried to say there. Would I be correct in assuming that you once again decided to make up things that you think I could have said and replied to that? It's getting a bit old.

Read what people post and reply to that and not to the voices in your head, thank you.

Dear Kevin,

Only people who haven't the slightest knowledge of the Bible can wave this "Owning-A-Canadian" thing around and actually think it means something.

Reboot

Booya!!!

Those people are known as "Cafeteria Catholics". Pickin' and choosin' what they want to believe and be concerned with, however, I think that those are two MAJOR issues that deserve a lot of attention but not all of it.

ce n est ce pas un pipe

Dear Reboot,

I posted it entirely for the humor content, not in order to validate its loose retort to those quoting the bible against homosexuality. It's because I've been a devout Catholic my entire life and spent almost three years studying to become a priest before deciding against it that I **do** see humor in it. I don't have the bible memorized, but I believe I'm more than a little familiar with it.

Maybe it's just me, though.

Kevin

Dear Kevin,

I misinterpreted your meaning. Pardon my defensiveness. I am searching now for a prickle-remover.

Reboot