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Greedy,Greedy,Greedy · 04-03-2015, 10:29 AM

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Originally Posted by Tyrone Slothrop

Probably preaching to the choir here, but I really don't get why other people (and especially the media) are so quick to accept the notion that conservatives' religion somehow compels them to tell other people how to act. Maybe they should read Matthew, Chapter 7.

1 Judge not, that ye be not judged.

2 For with what judgment ye judge, ye shall be judged: and with what measure ye mete, it shall be measured to you again.

3 And why beholdest thou the mote that is in thy brother's eye, but considerest not the beam that is in thine own eye?

4 Or how wilt thou say to thy brother, Let me pull out the mote out of thine eye; and, behold, a beam is in thine own eye?

5 Thou hypocrite, first cast out the beam out of thine own eye; and then shalt thou see clearly to cast out the mote out of thy brother's eye.

6 Give not that which is holy unto the dogs, neither cast ye your pearls before swine, lest they trample them under their feet, and turn again and rend you.

7 Ask, and it shall be given you; seek, and ye shall find; knock, and it shall be opened unto you:

8 For every one that asketh receiveth; and he that seeketh findeth; and to him that knocketh it shall be opened.

9 Or what man is there of you, whom if his son ask bread, will he give him a stone?

10 Or if he ask a fish, will he give him a serpent?

11 If ye then, being evil, know how to give good gifts unto your children, how much more shall your Father which is in heaven give good things to them that ask him?

12 Therefore all things whatsoever ye would that men should do to you, do ye even so to them: for this is the law and the prophets.

The Disciples of Christ was one of the first groups to yank a convention from Indiana. Those are Christians. To the conservative squawk-box, though, those of us who find the bigotry unchristian aren't true Christians. As a devout Catholic, I have a lot more in common with some of the non-fundies of other faiths I know than the Assholes for Christ faction that Indiana's RFSA represents.