More things I don't get.

I did my weekly cleaning of my spam folder today and I found I had two messages from the same crazy fundamentalist Christian group. One of which was screaming about the evil of Homosexuality, the other which was screaming about the evil of abortion.

Then it occurred to me: is there another class of people on earth who has fewer abortions than Homosexuals?

Seriously, we have an entire class of people who are practically guaranteed never to have an abortion. You'd think that the two would make natural allies.

Before I go on here, I want to make absolutely clear that I have no issues whatsoever with the Christian faith, or any faith for that matter. However, I feel that an importand divisoin must exist between Religion and Government. There are, admittely, people in Canada who disagree with this assessment. I don't think that a book written thousands of years ago, which has been translated and retranslated countless times, and often with contradictory meanings, can necessarily tell us much about how to run a country today.

But narrowing it down significantly, it's my experience that the people who are truly fundamentalist, who can quote the bible with vehemence to condemn some heinous sin, and who insist that every passage in the bible must be interpreted literally, show a remarkable ignorance of what the bible actually says.

For example, it's a commonplace occurrence for people to demonstrate at various Gay Pride rallies about how much "God hates fags." When was the last time you saw people demonstrating in front of a Red Lobster proclaiming that God Hates Shrimp?

Don't get me wrong, the bible has a number of very valuable lessons to teach, but it is not, and should not be seen as the final word on any given subject. If you're going to condemn someone based entirely on a biblical passage, then you should endorse the selling of one's daughter into slavery, or lighten punishment for rape, or condemn the eating of shrimp. There are a number of passages in the bible which are either horribly violent, blatantly racist, or borderline pornographic. Not a lot of people know about those passages of the bible, however. If you're going to condemn a group of people based upon the Bible, you should have a good understanding of what the bible actually says.

Okay, down off the soapbox...