You've become quite intolerant. :whothere: I'm disappointed.
I'm intolerant because I believe its stupid to boycott a business because they allow someone to speak that says they don't believe every single solitary word in the bible is "100% true".
This is absolutely hillarious American. I never see you pissing and moaning at yourself and other conservatives for being "intolerant" for flat out calling every or most liberals idiots, hateful, disgusting, anti-american, or anything else. I don't see you calling anyone intolerant when they imply all or most muslims are evil, terrorists, insane, dangerous, or anything else. You never speak of "intolerance" then when there's at least a relative amount of broad reaching intolerance.
But I say that its ridiculous to get upset at a politician because he doesn't believe every, single, solitary word of the bible is 100% LITERALLY true and
I'm so intolerant you have to make a comment.
Spare me if I don't really care, because your transparency of the reason you're saying it is crystal clear.
I think you're being very overdramatic here. He's not saying that we have to do every single thing that the bible says exactly the way it says it. He's simply saying that nothing in the bible is a lie. When you put it that way, there are probably 1.5 billion people who would agree, few of whom I would consider radicals.
I would probably disagree with you that 1.6 billion people believe that every word in the bible is LITERALLY true. I dare say there are scholars and common men and women alike that believe that there are portions of the bible that are allegory or metaphors rather than literal statements. I dare say that the majority of Christians do not believe the earth is only 6,000 or so years old which, if every word in the bible was LITERALLY true, it would be.
Hell, actually, lets take a little informal poll here....
How many people in this thread that are christian believe the bible is 100% literally true in everything it says and therefore the earth is only 6,500-ish years old?
This doesn't even come upon the idiocy of the notion of believing its 100% absolutely literally factual. If that's the case, why are they ignoring portions of it that are now antiquated? (Like stoning women that are raped)
If the books of the bible truly ARE the work of god through man, and not the work of man trying to understand god, then who the hell was it for MAN to decide that certain works of GOD himself were not allowed to be put in the bible?