AtheistNexus.org comment about a remark on Disqus on SCOTUS declining to hear a marriage equality case

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 Comment by Bertold Brautigan 7 minutes ago
A great response on Disqus to SCOTUS declining to hear a marriage equality case:
Leviticus, not the Constitution, is the law of the land. With gay people getting married, any day now God is going to rain down fire and brimstone on us all, and the United States will sink into the bowels of the earth, never to be heard of again. That's exactly what's happened to every other country where gay marriage is legal, right? Canada, France, Belgium, the Netherlands and all the rest---gone!


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 Comment by Bertold Brautigan 7 minutes ago
A great response on Disqus to SCOTUS declining to hear a marriage equality case:
Leviticus, not the Constitution, is the law of the land. With gay people getting married, any day now God is going to rain down fire and brimstone on us all, and the United States will sink into the bowels of the earth, never to be heard of again. That's exactly what's happened to every other country where gay marriage is legal, right? Canada, France, Belgium, the Netherlands and all the rest---gone!


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Dear Readers,




 An interesting comment that AtheistNexus.org member Bertold Brantigan posted from Disqus dealing with SCOTUS  declining to a court case involving marriage equality. The person who wrote this comment stated that American will be destroyed like the other foreign countries that legalized same-sex marriage. Here is my response to that comment:  so, Canada, France, Belgium and the Netherlands don't exist anymore? Really?  The prescribed " commandments" in the Book of Leviticus are not the "law" of the land.  With gay people getting married, I doubt that any day now, Yahweh is going to rain down fire and brimstone on everyone in America.  I don't that the U.S. will sink into the bowels of the earth, never to be heard of again.  What will happen is that same-sex couples will be treated equal to their heterosexual peers under the law.


If the  prescribed " prohibitions", " commandments" and harsh punishments in the Book of Leviticus or in any of the other books of the Bible were the "laws" of the U.S., how is that fundamentalist Christians who hold to a literal reading of the Bible don't support Jewish people holding fellow Hebrews and Gentiles as slaves, stoning disobedient children to death, executing people who worship deities other than Yahweh, forbid people to eat shellfish or wear mixed-fabrics, execute people who practice magic or force adulteresses to drink poison to see if they truly cheated on their husbands. If these adulterous women actually did cheat on their husbands, then their pregnancies will result in a miscarriage after drinking the poison.  How many fundamentalist Christians are willing to support a law that forces a sexually-abused woman to marry her rapist?  Fundamentalist Christians cherry-pick the Bible just as much as the moderate and liberal Christians do, however, liberal Christians and some moderate Christians at least acknowledge that many of the beliefs and practices in the Bible actually can and do harm people and try to look at the text from the historical and cultural contexts of the time periods in which the Jewish and Christian Bibles were written.


Fundamentalist Christians pay lip service to many of the immoral passages in the Bible which they view as "good" and harmless because they think that their god "commanded" these prescribed beliefs and practices which people are expected to abide by for their "own good", without any regard as to whether those prescribed beliefs and practices actually have the ability to hurt people or not.  What is very interesting and peculiar is that while fundamentalist Christians pay lip service to many of the prescribed practices in the Bible and say that these Biblical "laws" are "inerrant and unchangeable", they won't literally act on most of those practices. I've always found that to be interesting. Think about it.


Sincerely,


B.W.