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To: PROLIFE who wrote (545983)	2/27/2004 2:57:22 PM
From: Jacob Snyder	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 769670

<are you one of the namby pambys> Having a different code of morality is not the same as having no moral code. <you are saying the Bible as we have it it a fallacy> No. I'm saying your interpretation of the Word is a fallacy. The Bible, in its entirety, is an ink-blot test. It is such a large collection of Books, first written down over a 1000+ year time-span. People who are disposed to hating, can look at it, and find justification for their hatred. People who are disposed to loving, can find justification for love. People who want to judge, condemn, and punish others, who want to demonise Others and use violence against them, think God wants them to do that. Your interpretation tells us a lot about you, and little about God. The way to make the Bible a code of conduct, rather than an ink-blot test, is to set aside the Old Testament and Paul, and just focus exclusively on the Word of Christ in the Gospels. When I do that, I find remarkably little for justifying waging wars of aggression. I find remarkably little, to justify hating or condemning anyone. I find no justification at all, for condemning homosexuality. I find that, consistently, Jesus welcomed with open arms all the outcasts, all the hated pariahs, all the Others. Samaritans, tax collectors, publicans, prostitutes.....and gays. He loved them all.