Kentucky church bans interracial couples.

Not surprising at all. Many ppl in the south still proudly hang their Confederate flags. I've never seen it here in New Orleans, but when I went Baton Rouge for an LSU football game, there were ppl who had those flags hanging in their windows.

 

This is not a true representaion of Christianity.

 

Your right, owning slaves, selling your Daughter, raping women, killing innocent babies etc is a better representation of Christianity.

 

Why don't you read Jesus' words instead of the rants of human beings? Then you might have a clearer picture.

 

And which book may I find Jesus words in?

 

(Why do I feel like this is a trick question?)

They would be in the first four books of the New Testament and in the book of Revelation, in the Bible.

 

North is not incorrect at all.

Christianity and the spreading of it was used as a mask for conquest and control over those deemed to be heathens (those who were ignorant of the word of the monotheistic God of Abrahamic faiths and instead were often polytheistic).

The Spaniards when they left the ports of Spain, they did so under the tenants of Gold, Glory and GOD. Spanish priests and friars always accompanied them on their expeditions.

Blacks in America have a strong religious affiliation and all those negro gospels and spirituals in our history because while slaves were prevented from reading and writing they were fed a consistent diet of religious fare to pacify and sedate them.

What was being done to them was God's will, how could they argue against that.

 

That is a very subjective however chesbay, wouldn't you agree.

There are many who look at religious texts to justify their actions.

Slavery was one of them and Christianity was used as a central tool of control.

A religious belief is only as influential as the actions of those who adhere to it.

There have been religious beliefs that have died out, I'm sure the Aztecs felt their beliefs were paramount above all the other native tribes, until they encountered the Spaniards and their beliefs clashed.

 

As for that church congregation, let it not be without a shadow of doubt forgotten that raw human bigotry is alive and kicking in America.

This is something you would expect to hear in 1956, but then yet again I guess times have changed they didn't try to hang him, just chose to ostracize her from a church she has been in all of her life.

Not to mention we had the fool in Louisiana that wouldn't give a marriage license to an interracial couple.

Do these folks see the calendar.

Humanity is a shameful beast of our own wanton, repugnant ignorance.

Those are God fearing individuals I ask, so they say.

 

The problem IMO is with that particular church and its leadership being racist, not the Christian religion itself.

 

EXACTLY. Every relgion has it's idiots and come up with BS translations to support their insanity.

 

No !.....It is the isolated action of one ass-backward christian church.......But you have to understand the fear and paranoia of these rural folks in seeing mandingos sweep their daughters and grand-daughters off their feet.........

 

Some religions have racist scholars and leaders. Some religions praise those scholars and leaders and teach it in their schools. Ultimately, I try to look at religious people the same way I try to look at every one else... On a case by case basis.

 

Isolated huh? lol The church is the most segregated place in public bar none. I see everybody is ok with it as long as they don't speak about it in public.

 

The fact that humans are flawed and and often use God's word to suit their own purposes, or make it up as they go, is the reason I pointed North back to Jesus' own words. John 3:16 plainly states "For God so loved the world, that he gave his only begotten Son, that whosoever believeth in him should not perish, but have everlasting life." WHOSOEVER. No exceptions. If God sent his only Son to die on a cross for whosoever will believe in Him, why would he make distinctions between races? It's humans that screw that up, thinking they can be God (just like Lucifer, and we see what happened to him).

Instead of saying that church's attitude was not a true representation of Christianity, I should have said it was not a true depiction of Christ and what He represents.

 

Then you haven't been to my church. It's very diverse and not segregated in the least.

 

A fair enough point. If those folks are as religious as they purport, then they must surely realize they will answer one day for their actions in life and sentiments in their hearts.

 

The problem with this whole issue is hypocrisy beneath the surface of it all...

The "Love One Another" doctrine apparently has caveats that allow liberal interpretations, depending on who has the floor, sway, and swag...

One of the many reasons I lost my "religion" long ago...

 

I read a piece about this on the Huffington Post. There was an interracial couple connected to the church, consisting of the daughter of a church employee and her boyfriend from Kenya. Apparently a visit by this couple to the church was so traumatic that they instituted the ban.

I find it disheartening that any church would ban anyone. I think that Jesus would be very disappointed indeed!

The real surprise for me is that one of the pages on Facebook that I like reposted the Huffington Post story. It's a lefty-type page ("Not having George Bush as President"), and even some of the comments on this post from presumably progressive people were fairly horrifying. One man posted that interracial marriages are illegal in God's eyes and against the 10 commandments. LOL!

 

the funny thing is that the bible is an advocate or better stated condones IR. for the sake of argument lets say moses is white. now read the passage

Numbers 12:1-16
New International Version (NIV)


Numbers 12
Miriam and Aaron Oppose Moses
1 Miriam and Aaron began to talk against Moses because of his Cushite wife, for he had married a Cushite. 2 “Has the LORD spoken only through Moses?” they asked. “Hasn’t he also spoken through us?” And the LORD heard this.
3 (Now Moses was a very humble man, more humble than anyone else on the face of the earth.)

4 At once the LORD said to Moses, Aaron and Miriam, “Come out to the tent of meeting, all three of you.” So the three of them went out. 5 Then the LORD came down in a pillar of cloud; he stood at the entrance to the tent and summoned Aaron and Miriam. When the two of them stepped forward, 6 he said, “Listen to my words:

“When there is a prophet among you,
I, the LORD, reveal myself to them in visions,
I speak to them in dreams.
7 But this is not true of my servant Moses;
he is faithful in all my house.
8 With him I speak face to face,
clearly and not in riddles;
he sees the form of the LORD.
Why then were you not afraid
to speak against my servant Moses?”

9 The anger of the LORD burned against them, and he left them.

10 When the cloud lifted from above the tent, Miriam’s skin was leprous[a]—it became as white as snow. Aaron turned toward her and saw that she had a defiling skin disease, 11 and he said to Moses, “Please, my lord, I ask you not to hold against us the sin we have so foolishly committed. 12 Do not let her be like a stillborn infant coming from its mother’s womb with its flesh half eaten away.”

13 So Moses cried out to the LORD, “Please, God, heal her!”

14 The LORD replied to Moses, “If her father had spit in her face, would she not have been in disgrace for seven days? Confine her outside the camp for seven days; after that she can be brought back.” 15 So Miriam was confined outside the camp for seven days, and the people did not move on till she was brought back