[Iowa_Flames_Fan]

Originally Posted by CaptainCrunch

Nope, it was fairly recent, I posted it in one of the bible debates pages befoer.

Fair enough--I misunderstood.

Its not up to you to decide what people should and shouldn't believe in. Besides, I think most moderate religious folks don't believe in biblical verse in a literal sense, but choose to take an interpretation of the lessons in each story or book.

Indeed not. I am, however, free to find certain excessively literal biblical interpretations ridiculous, and to describe them as idiotic. That's all I was doing. Some people choose biblical inerrancy. That's a perfectly acceptable "lifestyle choice" if you like. It tends, however, to be rank with obvious hypocrisy and predicated on useless and outdated principles. What you're describing is the use of the Bible as an exemplary moral guide. Biblical inerrancy holds that the Bible is a strict and literal moral code. That's a viewpoint that many people hold (some on this board, even) but it's ridiculous. I don't even think we disagree on that point.

The fact is, unless the Bible is a strict code, it's meaningless as a guide to an issue like gay marriage. And if it is a strict code, then you can't pick and choose the parts that you like and pretend that the others don't matter. That just makes you a hypocrite.

How about down with both of them. It takes a pretty awesome person to pull off a$$less chaps, and from the news stories that I saw last year on the GPP in Toronto, those weren't the ones wearin em. And of course I'm talking about hot chicks wearing them.

I am not a person who can pull off assless chaps. And, if I could, I wouldn't. But I'm no more about to tell people what they can and cannot wear than I am what they can and cannot believe, or who they can and cannot have consensual sex with. To those with the serenity, chutzpah and self confidence to pull off assless chaps, I say let those pasty cheeks hang out!