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Originally posted by Britney Spears
Religion is not discriminatory and ignorant, most of the religious people are.
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Originally posted by BLaCKPoWeR
No one who persecutes is truly "super-religious".
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Originally posted by Quiqui4eva
The Bible actually teaches about love and acceptance, something that many people in this world need. However, that idea gets overshadowed by some ignorants who only focus on being anti-gay
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Regarding discrimination/persecution...
Gays:
"If a man lies with a male as with a women,
both of them shall be put to death for their abominable deed; they have forfeited their lives." Leviticus 20:13
Non-believers:
"If your own full brother, or your son or daughter, or your beloved wife, or your intimate friend, entices you secretly to serve other gods, whom you and your fathers have not known, gods of any other nations, near at hand or far away, from one end of the earth to the other: do not yield to him or listen to him, nor look with pity upon him, to spare or shield him, but kill him.
Your hand shall be the first raised to slay him; the rest of the people shall join in with you. You shall stone him to death, because he sought to lead you astray from the Lord, your God, who brought you out of the land of Egypt, that place of slavery. [...]" Deuteronomy 13:7-12
Miscellaneous stuff:
Adultery:
"If a man commits adultery with another man's wife,
both the man and the woman must be put to death." Leviticus 20:10
Non-virgins:
"But if this charge is true, and evidence of the girls virginity is not found,
they shall bring the girl to the entrance of her fathers house and there her townsman shall stone her to death, because she committed a crime against Israel by her unchasteness in her father's house. Thus shall you purge the evil from your midst." Deuteronomy 22:20
And regarding anyone who doesn't want to carry out these commands:
"Cursed be he who does the Lords work remissly, cursed he who holds back his sword from blood." Jeremiah 48:10
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Originally posted by cats&fashion
Those aren't Super-Religious people. Those are incredibly angry people who use religion as am excuse for what they do. If we're talking about Religion in its truest form, then Super-Religious aren't worse than Anti-Religious people. They both are equally annoying, but at least religious people are annoying in the name of God, whereas anti-religious people are annoying in the name of hate and bbitterness.
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No, they are people who follow a literal interpretation of their religious texts. They don't just make up "kill gays" "stone women for cheating" and "burn witches" out of their asses, they read the books and with a
strong literal belief in their religion, try to do what their holy texts dictate. Something like the Ugandan "Kill the Gays" bill is literally supported in their Bible, supported by the big guy upstairs if you truly believe it is His word. Just because they place more emphasis on certain messages in the Bible which differ from the ones YOU emphasize, doesn't make them any less religious or any less motivated by their faith.