This
doesn't make pleasant reading, but anyone who thinks that Christians
are OK and harmless would be well advised to study what their holy book
really teaches. Most of those who call themselves Christian these days
are more likely humanists. Even those who believe in the divince accept
that Noah's Ark is a fable, that Creation is a poorly written myth and
so on.
Not so evangelicals. To them, the literal word of the
bible is set in stone. Those of us who have heard Nigel McQuoid in
creation know that only too well. So, here are some unpleasant (and
unrelated) quotes from the the same book to arm yourselves with when
faced by "they're just Christians" ignorance.
I haven't
annotated these as they should speak for themselves. They can be found
in any bible - including in some form, those given to the children
attending ESF schools.
Ladies and gentelmen, I give you some of what the ESF draws from as "Traditional Biblical Morality"
Quote:
"The
body is not for fornication, but for the Lord; and the Lord for the
body ...flee fornication ... Your body is the temple of the Holy Ghost."
– 1 Corinthians 6.13,19
Quote:
"The
hundred and forty and four thousand, which were redeemed from the
earth. These are they which were not defiled with women; for they are
virgins."
– Revelation 14.3,4
Quote:
"It
is good for a man NOT to touch a woman ... I say therefore to the
unmarried and widows. It is good for them if they abide even as I."
– 1 Corinthians 7.1,8.
Quote:
Wives,
be in subjection to your own husbands ... behold your chaste
conversation coupled with fear ... let it not be that outward adorning
of plaiting the hair, and of wearing of gold, or of putting on of
apparel ... but after this manner in the old time the holy women ... in
subjection unto their own husbands ... Husbands, dwell with them
according to knowledge, giving honour unto the wife, as unto the weaker
vessel."
– 1 Peter 3.1,7.
Quote:
"You
should abstain from fornication ... Every one of you should know how to
possess his vessel in sanctification and honour. Not in the lust of
concupiscence, even as the Gentiles which know not God ... For God hath
not called us unto uncleanness, but unto holiness."
– 1 Thessalonians 4.3,7.
Quote:
"For
this cause God gave them up unto vile affections: for even their women
did change the natural use into that which is against nature ... The
men, leaving the natural use of the woman, burned in their lust one
toward another; men with men working that which is unseemly ... God
gave them over to a reprobate mind."
– Romans 1. 26,28
Quote:
"Be
not deceived: neither fornicators, nor idolaters, nor adulterers, nor
effeminate, nor abusers of themselves with mankind ...shall inherit the
kingdom of God."
– 1 Corinthians 6.10.