> Milan wrote:
>

>> ComandanteBanana wrote:
>>

>>> "In the Gospels, Jesus himself never mentions homosexuality.
>>> And he seldom even discusses sexual sin. In contrast,
>>> the Gospels are full of Jesus' teachings against
>>> self-righteousness, greed, pride, bigotry, sexism, racism, and
>>> hypocrisy. Like Amos and Isaiah before him, Jesus roundly
>>> condemns the rich and powerful who exploit, cheat, or ignore
>>> the poor. For Jesus, immorality had much more to do with
>>> economic injustice than with sex. He taught a morality of
>>> love."

>>
>> Please give us the passages of the gospels where Jesus condemns
>> racism, slavery or economic injustice.

>
> Indeed.
>
> The Gospels are uniformly and virulently anti-Semitic. Jesus gives
> a wink and a nod to a slavemaster in the only passage touching on
> slavery. And Jesus in no uncertain terms repeatedly emphasizes the
> need for his followers to be in the most desperate possible
> poverty if they're to have any hope of salvation.
>
> As for the rest...the only passage condemning lesbians in the
> Bible comes from Paul, who also hated gay men. Jesus might
> have said, ``don't be self-righteous,'' but he also commanded
> his followers to be obnoxious door-to-door Jesus salesmen who
> proved their worth to the rest of the world by being better
> than everybody else. He wasn't anti-greed at all -- quite the
> contrary. He was pro-poverty, and the only reason he gave his
> followers to do anything at all is for the rewards awaiting them
> in Heaven. Jesus himself was overbearingly proud, to the point of
> insulting his mother, of taking upon himself the wrath of the
> entire Middle Eastern power establishment, and the like.
>
> And hypocrisy? This is the same man who preached turning the other
> cheek on the one hand, and war and eternal hellfire on the
> other. It's the same god who created the world with love and who
> promises to destroy it in the most atrocious possible manner. The
> same god who wants you for a sunbeam and who'll condemn you to
> infinite torture if you don't kiss his ass in exactly the right
> (and impossible) way.
>
> No, it's quite clear: all the self-righteous, greedy, proud,
> bigoted, sexist, racist, hypocritical Christians are merely
> reflecting the values of their mythical founder. The ones who
> transcend all that to be good people do so in spite of, not
> because of, their religion.
>
> Cheers,
>
> b&