Last week about 100 pastors and church ministers from the
metro Detroit area gathered in opposition to a federal court’s striking down
Michigan’s ban on gay marriage.
A group of 50 church leaders gathered this week in the metro
Detroit area to support same-sex marriage.
So there you have it ladies and gentlemen, Christians divided
as to the issue of same-sex marriage.
On the anti-gay marriage side you have the Baptists and
obviously the Catholics and on the opposite side you have other Baptists, Lutherans,
Episcopalians and Presbyterians.
The anti-gay marriage group immediately called the pro-gay marriage
pastors APOSTATES. I love this word…it means defector, rat, recreant, runagate,
tergiversator, turnabout and turncoat…which implies that they have abandoned
the “true” Christian teaching on the subject.
This is similar to the use of the word HERETIC. That is
someone who dissents from the recognized truth or orthodoxy. The problem is
that no one knows the real truth and the “truth” is incapable of being known so
whoever asserts what they think is the truth are called orthodox and those who
do not support the “imagined” truth are called heretics. Basically, whoever
wins the argument is deemed orthodox and those that are on the losing side of
the argument are deemed heretics and can be burned at the stake.
This is historically quite thrilling for me as there are
MANY Christianities in history and even, as we can see, today with a remarkable
amount of differing ideas of what is orthodox and what is not.
One anti-gay marriage minister said that those apostate
pastors who are attempting to turn God’s people against God should be run out
of every house of God in the country and avoided until such time as they repent
and return back to God.
As you can see in this statement, some people think they “know”
what God thinks and how He wants us to act. We have to rely on “people” that know
God because God does not have the balls to speak for himself or is just a
figment of our imagination…but I digress.
Many of these Christians base their knowledge of what God
wants on the Bible which they believe is the inspired word of God or the
literal word of God and therefore has to be obeyed. The fact is that the Bible
says absolutely nothing about same-sex marriage. It actually does not say what
people misinterpret it says, about homosexuality; the concept of homosexuality
did not exist in the days when the Bible was written.
The Catholic Church in all its wisdom thinks that
homosexuality is a choice and not the way people are born so they call that
behavior disordered; they need to accept the science behind homosexuality.
The Catholic Church is all about procreation so two people
that cannot produce a baby cannot be married; what about heterosexual couples
that are sterile?
The anti-gay marriage Christians attack those not of like
mind as the enemy of God and God’s people while the pro-gay marriage Christians
talk of God’s love for all his people…interesting?
I am starting to see a change in Christianity where more and
more Christians are following a more Jesus like approach to how Christians
should think and behave instead of following historic attitudes based on
imagined “truths” found in the Bible.
This change in Christian thinking is very significant and
historical and will have a profound impact on our society….more to follow.
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