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I find that it is generally wise to listen up when an octogenarian war veteran is telling you what it means to be an American. They fought for it, their buddies died for it, and they’ve had a lot of time to think about it.

No, it’s not Christianity as a whole that is a problem. It is the people who say they are Christians and do not actually practice following the most important commandments Christ mentioned in Mtt 22:37-40, Mrk 12:28-34 who are the problem.

(For the curious the quote is: When Jesus was asked, “Teacher, which is the great commandment in the law?” he replied, “‘You shall love the Lord your God with all your heart, and with all your soul, and with all your mind’ – this is the great and foremost commandment, and there is a second like it, ‘You shall love your neighbour as yourself’. The whole Law and Prophets hang on these two commands.”)

There are many out there who SAY they are Christians; however, they are what I’d call “lip service Christians”. They do not love their neighbors as themselves because no one persecutes themselves as they often do other people.

As a Christian whose faith does NOT persecute or disallow homosexuality, I don’t blame one person who is gay or lesbian, for being tired of the fundamentalist Christians who profess to live according to the Bible. If they did, they’d be living QUITE differently… show more

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