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Originally Posted by a.e.B.O.T.
If you believe in what the book believes in great... but if you believe it, then just speak for yourself and not from a book! do YOU believe gays should have civil unions? do YOU believe that these civil unions should bare the name of "marriage"? If you have to look up in a book to know what exactly you believe, well then, . . . But "I believe this because the Bible or God says..." crap... thats not a belief, and so don't piss in my ear and tell me its raining.
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Wow. That's a rather simplistic and naive approach that ignores the fundamental question --
why do you believe what you believe.
It's simple enough to say "do YOU believe gays should have civil unions" or "do YOU believe these civil unions should bear the name of 'marriage,'" but whether the answer is "yes" or "no," the next question is "why?"
Why is it crap to answer the "why" with "because the Bible/Scripture/my religion teach me so and I accept that teaching"? Why is it not a belief if there's reliance on the Bible?
Sure, there are plenty of people out there who take the Bible -- or any other "source" -- at face value and merely parrot it when stating their own views. There are people who reject any religious teaching as superstition. But there are also plenty of people who ask the tough questions, who doubt and who {gasp} think who come to the reasoned conclusion that they, in your words, "believe in what the book believes in"
because they believe the book. For those people, making a distinction between speaking for yourself and speaking from the book is nonsense.