Actually, im 18, (hence the username... it's basic maths that i'm either 17 or 18), I go to school, and I study philosophy and ethics. Lukily I have a teacher who does not hold back, and tells us everything about people we are or have studied (for example, st Thomas Aquinas), and those we don't actually study but whose name's crop up (mother theresa). and yes, that is absolutly true.
I bet you didn't know that once, when visting the west, she went into supermarket, absolutly filled her trolley up to the brim, went to the check out and when asked for payment she said 'God will pay you when you die' (thats probably not what she said word by word but it was something along those lines). She held up the queue, and refused to move until someone behind her in the queue insisted on paying for her. Disgusting.
So, yes, it is true. I listen, I study, and ultimatly, I tend to get my facts right. I'm not saying I always do, but I tend to. I'll be waiting by the postbox for that nickel.
Apply to modern day... well, these days it isn't REALLY wrong to be gay, is it? Well, not unless your part of some neo-nazi movement, anyhow. But most people now accept that homosexuality is just another common thing these days. I personally think it is disgusting that the church, in some places, still thinks that the actual act of homosexuality is wrong. While I find the thought of gay sexual acts disgusting, to some people it is normal, it's who they are. There are many other things too- "though shalt not kill", for example- as I stated before, I believe that killing and vilolence can be justified, ESPECIALLY in this day and age, which I'm sure is a whole lot more full of moral evil than bacck in the holy times.
And I stand by what I say. I'm not saying all christianity is wrong-far from it. At least some christians have firm principles, albeit one's set by the bible. However, to live your life by the bible... now that is, in my opinion, very wrong. ONe of my philosophy and ethics teachers regards himself as a 'thinking'christian- i.e. he takes the christian teachings into account but, at the end of the day, he'll use situatuion ethics to decide what is best to do, not what the bible thinks it is.
Judging by your post, Jimmy, I'd say you are a narrowminded 20 or over year old who reads and hears what he wants to, and ignores the facts. Oh well.
"We dads have a saying- You can't fix it 'til you've broken it." Brian Johnson.
