For instance, on controversial issues like abortion, I personally am pro-life, because of my faith and other factors. But a lot of people expect me to yield to the ever-changing morals of society. The big problem with that is that society’s opinion on things always changes and therefore can’t be true or right (because society’s “truth” at time A could conflict with it’s “truth” at time B).

As far as scriptural interpretations, I would agree that a church shouldn’t teach something 100% unless it is scripturally black-and-white. I think your church is pretty closed-minded and insecure about what they believe if they don’t offer people any room to interpret “unclear” scripture themselves (by that I mean I don’t think your church is confident that what they believe is correct if they don’t want people to question it).

As far as different denominations go, I don’t believe in that either really. I think it’s perfectly okay to go to a church that preaches an interpretation that you believe, but I think it causes problems when people define themselves by their denomination instead of just “Christian”. If people start putting their identities in what denomination they are, it becomes a “I’m right and here’s why, in your face” sort of thing in which case those people COMPLETELY missed the point and should probably invest in reading the Bible and figuring out why they believe what they believe in the first place. <- that’s another kind of ignorance that is pretty in-line with the post.

I have issues with being told what’s right or wrong to believe in. I don’t like how we’ve got all these different denominations that all have their own guide lines and what not. I’m okay with the fact that they exist, I just have a hard time understanding why there’s so many interpretations of faith and each believes it’s path is the only way.

Speaking of interpretations, I also strongly disagree that some church is going to dictate it’s interpretation of the bible or whatever scriptures a religion has to me.

I’m a huge fan of the movie Dogma, even if it’s a satirical comedy. The writers of that movie were pretty intelligent and I love the idea of faith being, more or less, just a “good idea”. If everyone had their own good idea of faith and it included some sort of moral code, I think that’s all the religion the world would need.

I have issues with being told what’s right or wrong to believe in. I don’t like how we’ve got all these different denominations that all have their own guide lines and what not. I’m okay with the fact that they exist, I just have a hard time understanding why there’s so many interpretations of faith and each believes it’s path is the only way.

Speaking of interpretations, I also strongly disagree that some church is going to dictate it’s interpretation of the bible or whatever scriptures a religion has to me.

I’m a huge fan of the movie Dogma, even if it’s a satirical comedy. The writers of that movie were pretty intelligent and I love the idea of faith being, more or less, just a “good idea”. If everyone had their own good idea of faith and it included some sort of moral code, I think that’s all the religion the world would need.

For me, I think that if a religion needs human over-sight to manage the image of a deity, it’s probably not a “correct” religion (and I do believe religions are either true or they’re not, that’s just common sense). I was raised Catholic which is a big organized religion and I now feel like all of that organization has only interfered with God’s plan. Basically, I honestly see it as people not trusting God enough so we implement government to make sure “God’s will” gets accomplished–as if God couldn’t handle that himself. But that’s just my opinion and I sincerely don’t want to offend people who believe differently.

As far as religion goes – I have to say that I consider myself Christian, although I’m strongly against what organized religion has become. I do understand generalizations are horrible, horrible things that unfortunately each of us make on a day-to-day basis. Derek’s an awesome dude, this cannot be denied.

However, neither can I deny that I am, in fact, quite seriously afraid of some religious groups and the power they have in our country. I don’t mean to sound all crazy-like, but that’s how I feel on that issue.

Hayley Williams? I’d be all over that ass. That’s something you can have faith in.

How’s that for professional journalism?

As far as religion goes – I have to say that I consider myself Christian, although I’m strongly against what organized religion has become. I do understand generalizations are horrible, horrible things that unfortunately each of us make on a day-to-day basis. Derek’s an awesome dude, this cannot be denied.

However, neither can I deny that I am, in fact, quite seriously afraid of some religious groups and the power they have in our country. I don’t mean to sound all crazy-like, but that’s how I feel on that issue.

Hayley Williams? I’d be all over that ass. That’s something you can have faith in.

How’s that for professional journalism?

Also Derek Kimball is an Evangelistic Christian. Lol. That’s an entertaining thought. I don’t think he’s going on a Gihad against your political beliefs anytime soon.

Generalizations = bad.

Evangelistic Christians scare me.

Evangelistic Christians scare me.