tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7947757505254506820.post2193704959008173088..comments2024-03-27T08:35:55.978+00:00Comments on Tocasaid: Not the Tartan Taliban?Unknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7947757505254506820.post-40173488129536572392010-07-24T10:43:05.075+01:002010-07-24T10:43:05.075+01:00"But why cherry pick these fruits? Do they al...<i>"But why cherry pick these fruits? Do they also demand that every boy is circumcised?"</i><br /><br />From an <a href="http://www.pinknews.co.uk/2010/07/03/anti-gay-christian-groups-protest-at-pride/" rel="nofollow">article</a> about this year's London Pride:<br /><br /><i>Mr Clarke said he doubted whether gay Christians could exist. When asked whether he ate shellfish and wore mixed fibres, which are also prohibited in the Bible, he said: "Yeah, but you know that doesn't apply any more. Those were local, dietary laws, not moral laws."</i><br /><br />It's always like that. Whatever in the Bible suits them goes under "It's imperative as the Bible says so!", whatever doesn't is "You're taking it out of context!" Or, in Richard Morgan's words about a (not so) different church:<br /><br /><i>They’ll cite it where it suits them, ignore it where it doesn’t. They’re </i>clerics<i>. They spend their whole fucking lives selectively interpreting textual authority to advantage.</i>Thrisselhttp://www.thrissel.co.uk/noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7947757505254506820.post-46999212744394958592010-07-22T21:16:00.876+01:002010-07-22T21:16:00.876+01:00Maybe somebody should please remind them that Oliv...Maybe somebody should please remind them that Oliver Cromwell is in fact dead?!Yenlitnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7947757505254506820.post-17195174516710233102010-07-22T09:46:11.965+01:002010-07-22T09:46:11.965+01:00Actually, Christmas is on their hitlist too as the...Actually, Christmas is on their hitlist too as they correctly identify it as a pagan festival. Though most of Scotland didn't celebrate Xmas until the 1950s or later.<br /><br />http://www.fpchurch.org.uk/Beliefs/Should_Christians_Celebrate_Christmas.phpMacNaBrachahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01585663680725464839noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7947757505254506820.post-33415227293401708082010-07-22T09:01:38.138+01:002010-07-22T09:01:38.138+01:00Dear me, I never realised such religious extremist...Dear me, I never realised such religious extremists still existed in the British Isles - what century do they think they're living in up there and will they be banning Christmas this year??Yenlitnoreply@blogger.com