God's admonitions regarding the intermarrying between races had NOTHING to do with skin color and everything to do with religion.
He told his chosen people not to marry outside their own faith. It's sound advice, the same advice I give my children.
And yet there were- and probably still are- people who believe that God does not want people to intermarry between races- and any church could refuse to marry an inter-racial couple if it chose to do so.
Churches are under no obligation to marry any couple it does not want to marry- and never will be.
I'm sure you think you made a point here.
Thanks- glad to offer it again:
And yet there were- and probably still are- people who believe that God does not want people to intermarry between races- and any church could refuse to marry an inter-racial couple if it chose to do so.
Churches are under no obligation to marry any couple it does not want to marry- and never will be.
This thing that you keep saying about the "churches" being under no obligation to marry any couple it does not want to marry- and they never will be, and then you use Blacks, Jews and other scenario's in which you keep creating for your hypothetical analysis in which has a hate message that is being placed into this thread against the entire church by you, but it is all just so transparent of you... You are trying to convey such a message in a way as if to say you are for the church's right to do what you are saying, when in fact you are not for it at all, and you are trying to nudge us and/or your affiliates to tell us how the Churches are just a bunch of bigots, but that is their right to be a Bigot even though you disagree with this thought process in which you are using... How kind of you to point all that out to us, but we know better about what you are up to in here. You are selling snake oil is what you are doing.
I am absolutely serious when I say that every Church has the right to decide how to deal with church matters- and can discriminate in any fashion it chooses to.
Yes- Churches have the right to be bigots.
And yes- I see no moral or legal difference between any church refusing to marry a couple because
- they are mixed race
- they are gay
- they are Jewish
- they are Puerto Rican
- they are fat
- they are divorced
Do you think that churches do not have that right? Do you think that there are not churches who have advocated say racial segregation? Been against mixed race marriages?
Have you ever heard of the sermon by Bob Jones- founder of Bob Jones University- a Christian college which famously forbade mixed race dating.
Is Segregation Scriptural by Bob Jones Sr 1960 A Time To Laugh
Its a fine sermon where Bob Jones explains how God wants the races segregated. Bob Jones University rules prohibited mixed race dating on Biblical grounds until 14 years ago.
And like I said, this is how
the movement is going after, and have gone after the Christians for whom they target as a whole group when going after them, and they are doing this because they feel that they (the Christians) are a threat to their cause in which they want to push heavily now in life.
They (those who have an agenda) want to blanket the Christians or stereo type them altogether as being bigoted Christians, and they want to do this by way of bringing your so called bigot theory into play almost every time against them, and to do this for the broader agenda being pushed. You want to use it against them all this claim of bigotry, and you want to use those who misrepresent the Christians the most. This is the goal otherwise to go after them all with this broad brush you keep using on them in this way.
Now we all know that there are those who are bad amongst every group now don't we, but it doesn't mean that those that are bad somehow represent the whole group and you should know this also, but here you are doing what you do.. Why?
Now there are bigots of course who are mixed into everything, just like every other race, religion or culture has the same... The Blacks have them, the whites have them, the Chinese Americans has them, the Mexican Americans has them, the Italian Americans has them, and on and on it all goes..... Every group out there has them, but they never control the whole group, so do you get the picture on something you already know ? Everyone has within their groups the same things that are mixed in and amongst their groups, but the
movement wants to put the bad who are amongst the Christians
((out into the fore front)), and they do this in order to try and stick them as representing all those who are Christian, and they do this for a reason, and they do it for their overall political agenda, and then ultimately their goals in life.
You and your buds figure that they (the bigots), are hiding always in and amongst the flock. and so you will begin by saying that they are of course those who are against interracial marriages as you might suggest or say that they are (or) that they are those for whom would deny marrying a Jewish man and a catholic woman within a baptist church as you might say that they would do, but it's all for a larger agenda that you say these things in which you do hope leads others to be bigoted against Christians.. This is why the question is asked I guess
Should Churches be forced to accommodate for homosexual weddings?, because the person who wrote the OP, must think that it is coming soon, and he or she must think this because of all the signs that would suggest such a thing will soon come to pass.
Hey, we all could take the worst among any group in the nation, and we could try to stereo type the whole group by use of or by way of the bad who are amongst the group that might be targeted in this way, but people are smarter than this, so you fail in your tactic as is used here.
They (those with an agenda), want to use the bigots who are amongst all as an excuse, and they do this in order to try and test the
faith or
beliefs of those who disagree with the agenda in life maybe, but hey (the Christians) also disagree with a lot of other things in life just as well, and they do this mainly for themselves and their children as is based upon Biblical teachings about such things. The Christians are not a threat, and they just want to be left alone is all.
