NC Baptist Church Votes to Stop Marrying Any Couples Until LGBT Couples Can Wed

1 word. AWESOME!

this gives me hope

*slow clap* Bravo!

Holy WOW!

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Wow… So we’re supposed to forget that the chief reason we’re considered “less than citizens” in this country is in direct influence of these particular religious teachings?  

Just because you ignore something doesn’t mean it isn’t there.  This applies to the indifference Christianity currently preaches towards homosexuality, slavery, sex slavery, rape, genocide, child abuse, murder, etc…

Why any intelligent person wishes to pursue a legal contract of love with an institution whose basis is on a book (be the book divinely inspired or not) which condones aforementioned acts is simply beyond me…

Thank you Mr. Mitchell for pointing out what the writer of this article should’ve put into it in the first place.  I’m sorry, religious folks, but that whole ‘at least 2,000 years of persecution’ thing we’ve survived?  It’s come almost entirely from your hands.  You’re not gonna’ put a band-aid on it and say you’re sorry and just make it all go away. 

You have a lot of sucking up to do, and I’m sure I’m not the only one who thinks that you should go through what we have before you’re forgiven.  

Proof that it’s not necessarily the religion to blame, but rather the people who claim to practice it.

Incredible example of love over hate!

Incredible example of love over hate!

I think that just because a group of people have done wrong in the past is no reason to hold that against the next generation.
Yes, some Christians have actively made me feel like I am quite possibly the scum of the earth and that I will rot in Hell. However more Christians have shown me love, and supported me through some of the worst times of my life. I say kudos for out growing old bigotry. I think we should forgive the past as we move towards the future. Doing the one thing bigots can’t stand, and that is love one another unconditionally. 

Not to butt into the discussion here, but I’ve never heard of what Joey mentions below:

“This applies to the indifference Christianity currently preaches towards homosexuality, slavery, sex slavery, rape, genocide, child abuse, murder, etc…”

Specifically, I’ve never heard anyone preaching indifference to slavery, sex slavery, rape, genocide, child abuse, and murder. Can you provide some details?

Indifference – lack of interest, concern, or sympathy. 

Not taking interest in preaching the commandments of their deity; which include but are certainly not limited to, slavery, sex slavery, rape, genocide, child abuse, murder, etc.  These ‘laws’ have been used for justification of past barbaric acts which were in direct causation of their ‘holy’ book. 

For further details, read the bible – no skipping around, front-to-back.  It’s full of this hate-mongering!  If you read the bible and then go to church and see that what’s preached nowadays isn’t really what the message is, you’ll be amazed! 

Sadly, the only group to uphold the true interpretation of said book are the members of the Westboro Baptist Church – chew on that for a moment.  People like to put the bible up on a pedestal and have it shrouded in mystery.  Truth is, it’s really not that hard to understand, and, aside from certain parables, requires little to no interpretation – it says what it means.

In all due respect, adults believing in fairy tales – no matter what those fairy tales are – is detrimental to our progress as a species.  My thoughts are that when anything impedes on human progress, that impediment should be placed under scrutiny and re-evaluated as to its necessity.  

Humankind (as we know ourselves, not as the genus Homo) has only been around for 200,000 years – we are merely a blip in the evolutionary process.  Archaeological evidence supports that we survived 190,000 years before the Axial Age and the dawning of religious philosophies.  

To believe that there is a god in our enormous universe and he created us, watches us, condemns us, and saves us with no evidence or support makes no logical sense.  Christianity is a failure of a religion and a blemish on our society.

Organised religion will always impede on human progress.  It doesn’t allow room for growth as individuals or as a species.  Science now does what religion claimed to do – explain the world and the universe.  Why keep something that’s clearly past its expiration date?