| Hawkeye said: I personally feel gay people should be allowed to estabish legal uninos for protection like visiting people in hospitals ect but it should be differentiated from marragie but still do the exact same thing. Just have a different name but the same legal statues. |
Just like separate but equal schools that aren't "really" the same but "are" the same?
@ your other post
Yeah, you've got it mostly right. Judaism was formed as a largely nationalistic religion. It is a lot about us versus them.
Christianity wasn't even originally intended to be a separate movement per se, it was intended to be the fulfillment of Judaism. The Christians, or Jesusbewegung as they are appropriately called until the Christian church came into its own, began to differentiate themselves from Jews more and more as time went on until they had completely separated.
There were a lot of disputes in the early Church about how rigorously Gentiles and the Jews should adhere to the Old Testament. Paul got into a huge argument with a lot of other early Christians about whether circumcision was necessary, with him believing that it is not and that imposing all the laws of the Old Testament on the Gentiles was fundamentally against what Jesus stood for.
I'm not gonna touch on the Islamic religion because I know very little about it.
In some religions, it actually does make sense to wage war, like in Judaism and Islam. Christianity though is about as pacisifistic as a religion as you can get. Don't tell that to the people in this country though. Its just all about what that religion stands for historically and at its core.
I'm not saying I approve of waging war in the name of religion, but it does make sense given the history and nature of some religions. But it certainly does not make sense justifying war in the name of Christianity.
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