Matt Wixson wrote:
The whole point of godhatesshrimp.com is to point out how people today pick and choose which biblical rules to follow. It's asinine to use the Bible as a rulebook these days, because so many things are "conveniently outdated" to some people, while others are "obviously relevant".
In some fairness, I don't think that's limited to the Bible or people using it. The Bush Administration decided to invade Iraq and decided how to justify it afterwards. It's just human behavior. We like to be "right" in what we do, so we find a justification for it. Communist China and the USSR were both very successful at this without using religion, which is one argument I'd make that religion per se isn't the problem.
Anyone that honestly thinks the members of Westboro Baptist Church hate gay people because they think the Bible tells them to, I got news for you -- gay people scare them and this is how they have come to justify their fear, pure and simple. I've heard plenty of other homophobic people justify their fears using any number of other justifications, but it always comes back to fear and ignorance. Its been the same thing for blacks, Hispanics, Jews, Catholics, Muslims, immigrants, you name them. Same problem with different faces and names.