There are a large numbers of dif religions out there... so I don't say that this is entirely true or not for every religion or non religions, but when it comes to Christianity, God tells Christians that all the commandments (ten commandments) are summed up by Jesus :) when he says "Love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your mind. This is the first and greatest commandment. And the second is like it: ‘Love your neighbor as yourself.’ All the Law and the Prophets hang on these two commandments.”

It doesn't change the history that the Church was a big purveyor of antisemitism, a supporter of slavery, was against women's rights, interfaith marriages and interracial marriages, etc. You're talking about modern Christianity, which has mostly shed these issues. Go back fifty years and you would see your fellow Christians arguing why interracial couples need salvation.

^This is what it is like for Christians. The Bible which is the word of God, says that God will judge all of humanity and those who are not His (Believers, adherers to him) will indeed be sent to hell... So when Christians come across as judgmental, just know its because they know that there is a proverbial train (Gods judgment) and they will do their utmost to help anyone and everyone off the tracks (eternal damnation) and into safety.

God's judgment was what condemned slaves to their fates, it condemned Africans to second-class citizenship. It condemns women to be seen and not heard. It condemns Jews too, as unsaved people who don't worship Christ.

But all of these divine judgments have become unfashionable. Just as calling homosexuals "sinners" will be too. For the simple reason that people are more important than dogma, and this is why "god's judgment" has been receding for centuries. Human lives are worth more than an ancient edict. In this case it means sacrificing your fear of god for treating your fellow humans as people.

Christians are not called to be "haters" when it comes to people... so if a Christian is "hating" on you, chances are they are not doing what they should... God calls his followers to to hate sin (no doubt about it) but he does not call them to hate the sinner (people). This can be confused;

It achieves the same thing and masks the blame behind "I was just following orders." How many Africans suffered because Christians thought it their sacred duty to treat them as property? How many women were denied meaningful, fulfilling lives because Christian men believed that a woman was essentially property? How many homosexuals are now living as second-class citizens unable to serve in the military openly, unable to donate blood, unable to adopt children, unable to enjoy the benefits and stability of marriage, in addition to being persecuted by hateful people who make it their mission to spread lies and hate?

You have to make a decision to care for your fellow human being more than dogma. Flesh and blood is more valuable than paper.

You merely point out Christianity? what makes it stand out to you? what makes it intrinsically so horrific or offending to you?

The debate poster mentions that he has an evangelical family, not a Hindu, or Muslim family.

Of course, any religion that uses its authority to condemn innocent people strikes me as horrific.

Well for example: in the Muslim culture if you are a homosexual you could be in danger of being put to death... Christians may seem naggy and seem/bee judgmental... but I think the former is a bit worse . . .

Christian fundamentalists support the death penalty in many cases, though not so openly now that they are being called out on it.

Did you know that there was Christian support of the Ugandan bill which would make homosexual sex illegal and punishable by death?

If your homosexual you are sinning against God, and thus not fallowing him, which in tern means if you do not turn from this sin you are headed toward Hell. so I would implore the homosexuals of today to turn from their sin and fallow hard after God so that they will not die, but have eternal life!

One wonders why such a god would need to single out innocent people for death and damnation. I should think that a god worth following would love everyone unconditionally. Anything less is callous, and possibly evil.

P.S. I forgive the "evil" "white" "Christian" man for enslaving my ancestors... a looonnng time ago... I'm black and have thoroughly studied my history... it wasn't just the Christians... and I don't appreciate this argument as a person of African American decent, nor as someone who has studied history

Back in those days it was seen as the law of god, and nature, that the superior whites ruled over the primitive blacks. It was seen that the white southerners were improving the conditions of the Africans, bringing them the Gospel as well. Some proposed that the Africans were the Canaanites, and thus fallen from grace. The Mormons proposed that sin made your skin colour turn dark, and so the blacks were awful sinners by their standards who could never enter heaven.

Of course, there were also liberal Christians who opposed this and tried to rework the theology to fight against slavery. Truthfully I cannot reason how you could work slavery out of a religion which recommends conditions for owning slaves, but they won the majority of opinion eventually. Now Christians oppose slavery because you must love everyone as yourself. The coming change of theology will be the embracement of homosexuals into it, and this will eventually win majority support, and a century from now people will wonder why the discrimination existed in the first place.

I would ask you, if you're capable of loving your fellow man above dogma. You seem passionate on this matter, why can't you put that passion into revising dogma so that fewer people suffer?

would a kind and compassionate G-d send homosexuals to hell? This sounds more like a malevolent entity, who sends a group of people to eternal damnation because of rules that are illogical and not verified to be true.

Even by your 'concern' for homosexuals, you outright state that you are wrong they are right end of story. When Abraham came across an idol worshiper, it was G-d himself who told him to treat him well. Obviously, a kind and benevolent G-d would want people to act in a manner that they see as correct. Only a sadistic mind would punish people for laws that are not even proven to have any merit whatsoever.

That makes my system of morality superior to them. I'm not afraid to say that I am more moral than the god of the Bible. He's a disgusting creature, and if he does exist, he is not worthy of anyone's worship.

Here are the evidence you need. People are different because they all have a different genetic properties just like everyone has a different type of DNA. These are the evidence you need:

http://www.skeptictank.org/gaygene.htm

http://newsgroups.derkeiler.com/Archive/ Alt/alt.politics/2006-05/msg00677.html

Through the "gay uncle" theory:

homosexuality is a recessive trait. which is why a homosexual child can be born from heterosexual parents. Additionally, there is a selective benefit to holding the recessive gay gene: even if the phenotype of the heterozygous carrier is unchanged, a non-reproducing offspring could aid in the caring of their sibling's progeny, thus causing a net gain in the genetic success rate. After all, if one views a species as a system of replicating genes-rather than themselves as individuals- it would be beneficial for humans, with such long prepubescent developmental stages, to have back-up parental systems should the biological parents, through sheer chance, die before their offspring are self sufficient.