Clay Bennett for April 26, 2013

…no place of worship I’ve ever seen…

if God does not tolerate sin why did he invent it.

@Orthodox CatholicGod apparently does tolerate misspelling.

As I recall, Jesus of Nazareth, who was later attributed to be the son of God, not only tolerated sinners, but ate, conversed, and hung out with them. If God exists, he can take care of who he accepts and who he doesn’t. Let him do it.

Accusing others of intolerance is, well, getting to be a real pain in the neck.

Of course God tolerates sin. If not, there would be no hope. Furthermore, for centuries, people have acted in good conscience in ways we would now consider sinful. Repentance is for restoring the relationship with a God who is always looking not at the sin but the child He loves. It’s sinful for us to focus on others when it is to the health of our own relationship with God that we should be looking.

Some who claim to be just about anything (Jewish, Muslim, Christian, Buddhist, Hindu, agnostic, atheist and so on) go well out of their way to make life he’ll for non-conformists. I believe it is less a religious condition than a human condition. I admit, however, that religion is often the excuse given to abuse others. I’m just convinced that even if there were no religion, you’d still have the same abuses with different excuses.

Does your God tolerate humans passing judgement on others as though they are God?

whywontgodhealamputees.com

Why Catholicism is dying out. Of all the things your book says God does and doesn’t like, why is it only the hating-others-for-who-they-are parts you seem to care about? Have you read the New Testament lately?

… said by Bennett … whose TOTAL intolerance of Republicans, Tea Party members, and conservatives is so obvious, he squeaks.

@TrustedMechanic & Harleyquinn,

I agree. Well said.

“man was given free will to chose God or chose evil”Christian fundies have told me that their god knows everything I have done, and everything I will do. Thus, no free will…all I can do is what their god has already seen that I will do.

I have to say this, if God did not want sin in the world there would be no sin. either God rules or he doesn’t it is that simple.

Orthodox Catholic: “God did not invent evil.”Bible: Isaiah 45:7 I form the light, and create darkness: I make peace, and create evil: I the LORD do all these [things].Lamentations 3:38 Out of the mouth of the most High proceedeth not evil and good?Jer 18:11 Thus saith the LORD; Behold, I frame evil against you, and devise a device against you.Who to believe? The bible, or our resident self-professed expert?

“He has warned us that these sins will send a soul to hell forever”Yes, like lying. Have you ever lied, Orthodox Catholic?

“One point two billion people and still making converts every year.”

Despite you proudly telling us that there are only sixteen thousand pedophile priests, which you call “a few”. Blessed are the gullible, right?

Quetzalcoatl created your god.And maize. He created that, too.You’ll find out one day when you find yourself explaining why you spent all that time worshiping some other god instead of Quetzalcoatl, who gave his blood for you.

“God is not the author of sin”He didn’t know anything about that forbidden fruit, huh?

“You, however, don’t see the difference, do you?”I just see that your bible says that all liars go to hell. Not liars except for those who repented. Not liars except for those who confessed to lying.Just all liars.

“Once again, Anthony, you should not try to do theology. Honestly.”I should leave it to those “few” sixteen thousand pedophile priests, huh?

So you’re telling me Orthodox Catholic, that a loving and giving god creates people who are destined for their entire lives to go without sex because they were born with sexual attraction for the same sex. The traits some of you alleged Christians give to your god make me think I don’t want to have anything to do with him. Has he got a bet with the devil again to see how many can do it?

Oh— I interpreted that comic to mean that intolerance to Christians by non-Christians is intolerable.

In response to Ahab:People’s self-righteous dismissal of what God wrote in His Word does’t change the Word— or, how God will judge by it.

" Your words and your mockery of Christ will meet you when you stand before Him on the Judgment Day."Keep it up, pal. Your words and your mockery of Quetzalcoatl will meet you when you stand before Him on the Judgment Day.And Quetzalcoatl isn’t represented by sixteen thousand pedophile priests, leading me to call them “a few” like you did with the Catholic ones.

God created the devil according to your book, which mentions nothing about giving free will to his angels only man. Preach if you want but at least know the topics you are trying to preach about. Also Jesus gave ONE rule which he said to hold ABOVE all others. Love thy neighbor as I have loved you. He didnt say only love christians, straight people, nonsinners etc. That means this rule, if you are Christian, overrides everything else in the bible. All old testiment teachings, the whole shibang.

Red Line in the Syria sand.

You either stand firm like the mountain or shift like the sand.

Sounds like Muammar Gaddafi challenging President Reagan; you cross this line, you DIE, ok, you cross THIS line, you die, umm, well, you cross THIS line you die!

Now who is redrawing Red Lines in the Syrian Sand.