Dan Savage on How His Religious Upbringing Helped His Career

It really did help to read the Bible...

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[choongd]

I've read the bible...I found it to be an extremely dry read. I recommend the Quran, it's shorter and has more violence.

[sillykatz]

i'm a christian, and i approve this message!

[53dumey]

@JessicaWise

For one thing, Deuteromony is the Old Testament !!!!

[JessicaWise]

@totallyprudent49 Paul...

[JessicaWise]

@kd1s The Bible was the first book I ever read, and I read it during my formative years many times, in many translations, with many commentaries. Best way to inoculate adults against fundamentalism is to get them to read the Bible... maybe not such a great idea for kids! ;-)

[JessicaWise]

@53dumey Why follow bronze-age rules when you can use logic and ethics to make the right choices? Sometimes the old rules are right, but often they are wrong (slavery, poor treatment of women and children, etc...). Keep the good ones for sentimental reasons, sure... but let's not use them as the blueprint for our behaviour.

[53dumey]

@xXvolhvXx

Better look up Humanism, it follows the life and teachings of Jesus in most cases !

[xXvolhvXx]

@53dumey The New Testament isn't all as lovey-dovey and pacifist as it seems at first sight. Take for example Matthew 10:34-36. I'm not even going to mention Revelation yet.

As an atheist, I follow the same set of rules that is, thankfully, conventional in secular ethics; namely, that people should do what they want to do. “Man has the right to live by his own law.” As in humanism, it naturally and logically follows from the notion that there is no god but Man.

[53dumey]

@xXvolhvXx

You're talking about the Old Testament and Christians follow the New Testament.

And Yes, there is a big difference !

SO, as an atheist, which set of rules do you follow ?

[residentevilfreakk55]

@xXvolhvXx it doesn't mention homosexuals, go a few verses back: Romans 1:30-31, Backbiters, haters of God, despiteful, proud, boasters, inventors of evil things, disobedient to parents; Without understanding, covenantbreakers, without natural affection, implacable, unmerciful

[xXvolhvXx]

@residentevilfreakk55 “Who knowing the judgment of God, that they which commit such things [homosexuals] are worthy of death, not only do the same, but have pleasure in them that do them.” — The New frigging Testament, Romans 1:32.