Comments on: Say what!? US Christians are appalled by Uganda’s plan to execute homosexuals

By: â€˜Killing gays might not be helpfulâ€™ says politician as pressure on Uganda mounts

Thu, 24 Dec 2009 22:22:30 +0000

[...] then quotes fellow homo-hating twat Scott Lively, who wrote: When Ugandans began to convert to Christianity in the 1880s, a group of Catholics, led [...]

By: barriejohn

barriejohn — Fri, 11 Dec 2009 19:04:31 +0000

That’s a good point, Stonyground. These “fundies” are almost apoplectic at US for taking the attitude that we are now too well educated and sophisticated to take seriously a book of iron age fairy stories, yet believe that THEY are free to pick and choose which parts of that book to take literally nowadays, based upon their level of education and sophistication, which is far in advance of those more primitive believers of earlier generations!

By: Stonyground

Stonyground — Fri, 11 Dec 2009 17:46:34 +0000

Why should we suppose that “Scripture” should automatically be considered as an authority about anything? The notion that any holy book was divinely inspired was blown away centuries ago when advancing human knowledge proved these books to be wrong about almost everything. Now Bible believers are reduced to claiming that God communicates mainly through allegories and metaphors, to avoid facing up to the fact that God is either a liar, doesn’t know what the hell he is talking about or doesn’t actually exist at all.

By: Harry

Harry — Fri, 11 Dec 2009 14:19:06 +0000

See, the version I read had Romans saying that they indulged in their lusts together. I took it that the men left their girlfriends at home and went off to indulge in their lust for drinking beer and watching footy.

By: barriejohn

barriejohn — Fri, 11 Dec 2009 10:09:49 +0000

They’re like liberal parents who have taught their little darling to “stand up for himself” in the playground, only to find find that they’ve turned him into a psychopathic monster completely beyond control, @valdemar!

By: barriejohn

barriejohn — Fri, 11 Dec 2009 09:58:59 +0000

Reichsfuhrer Ould is, of course, completely wrong about what is and isn't "scriptural". "Likewise also the men, leaving the natural use of the woman, burned in their lust one toward another." (Romans 1:27) "Whosoever looketh on a woman to lust after her hath committed adultery with her already in his heart." (Matt. 5:28) If just thinking about it is as bad as the act we might as well get on with it and enjoy ourselves, I'm thinking!

By: valdemar

valdemar — Fri, 11 Dec 2009 09:58:06 +0000

Christians have moved on from Jews to gays, I suppose. It used to be commonplace to say ‘If only those Jews would let Jesus into their lives, we wouldn’t keep calling them names and smashing their windows – oh, and banning them from this and that’.

Then along came dear old Adolf and took a thousand years of Christian anti-semitism to its Wagnerian conclusion, and a few more thoughtful believers were shocked to see their own impulses made real. ‘I mean, I know we kept CALLING them a race of foul, lustful, cowardly and avaricious Christ-killers, but this is going a bit far, old boy.’

Now Uganda’s nasty little Jebus goon squad is going a bit far, too. But they wouldn’t be able to go so far if they hadn’t already been helped most of the way along the road by more ‘respectable’ bigots, just as the Nazis were taken most of the way along their particular highway to hell by centuries of mainstream Christian thought.

By: barriejohn

barriejohn — Fri, 11 Dec 2009 09:27:17 +0000

Here’s a good one, with some further eye-opening links!

http://www.peter-ould.net/2009.....lity-bill/

This guy (of whom I have actually never even heard before) seems to think the whole world is hanging on his every word. Get this (and he has it in bold himself, BTW!):

“It is a completely unScriptural idea that being same-sex attracted is immoral in and of itself.”

Well, being a “same-sex attracted” personage myself I’d just HATE to be “unScriptural”!!

By: barriejohn

barriejohn — Fri, 11 Dec 2009 09:04:06 +0000

They have already dropped the life imprisonment and death penalty clauses, @Perspix, as I said last night! I have a feeling, though, that most of the repressive legislation will go through unaltered. We will see.

By: Perspix

Perspix — Fri, 11 Dec 2009 08:48:07 +0000

I would not be surprised if Uganda, under international pressure, is forced to remove this law. Christians will then claim a victory for religious compassion along the same lines as the Wilberforce/Slavery assertion.