wow. there is so much here I don't even know where to start.
ok, gays int he church. As Bob Dylan once said, the times they are a changin. The world is a very different place than 2000 years ago. Sure, the same beliefs and morals may be held, but with the population busrt in the last 200 years or so, we ahve to come to grips with each other. The church, the Catholic church is an institution has political and social power of people all over the world. The various sects that branch off practice sermons and all that basic church stuff the same way practically, but they don't follow the pope, or they allow priests to marry, etc. If being gay, indulging in your personal desires is a sin, then genocide is is jsut as worse....much worse. If you don;t know hwat I am talking about, read about the Aztecs, the Incas, the Trail of Tears, and all those tribes who were annihilated withint a week on the islands of the Carribean.
Someone said that the Cradle of Civilization was int he Middle East. Actually, it is in Africa. The Bushmen of Africa are considered one of the oldest peoples to some social anthropologists. Humans migrated out of Africa int opthe MIddle East, and then into Australia, Europe and Asia, eventually coming down to the Americas.
Science tries to answer the same questions as religion does. Where we came form? How did we come to be the dominant species we are today? What is our future as humans? if God was the first mover, then He caused the Big Bang and created the universe especially for humans. Maybe. We do not know. Evolution is a well proven theory; adaptaion can be witnessed by the eye in places like the Galapagos Islands. God provides species of animals a chance to develop anatomically better. I mean, no one knows how evolution completely works, or why it works. What causes it to work? Him?
Getting back to the Christianity....it is a very holy belief that anyone should practice. Howeve,r there are fanatics, jsut like in any mass religion who take the teachings of a creed to an unnecessary level and use it to their own needs mostly. LIek these televangelists. They are evil. They use the Bible to make money. You can be saved for a small fee, just sign your name and give up your credit card number. It is ridiculous how these people are really robbing others in the name of God.
It is too hot to type any further. Thank you and have a good night.
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