So there's naturally backlash that people are focused on Chick-fil-a. The biggest thing I hear is why don't we focus on hungry children or the unemployment rate or pick your topic of choice. Well I'd like to offer another option...that being a faithful Christian means that I can fight for marriage equality and equal rights for the LBGTQ community and also work to feed the hungry, fight the high unemployment rates, work towards a creating a better environment and other issues that I support. It doesn't have to be a either or situation. What I see as a wrong is a wrong to me. When I see my faith being used to cause hurt, pain and discrimination on any issue I have the right to fight it just like you have your right to support it. I am no less of a faithful person for my stances then you are for holding your stance. Just because I choose to add my 2 cents worth to a highly discussed topic doesn't mean I'm giving up on everything else I support. I can multitask. Trust me I'll be more then happy to help a person find a job at another company so they can have gainful employment and still boycott a company that I don't agree with. I can still support education reform while saying marriage is more then a narrow view. I can help save the environment while saying that love is something bigger then any one person.
In a conversation with a more conservative Christian then me (take in mind I call myself a bed-wetting liberal and I’m also a big time Process Theologian) the person started rambling off scripture quotes (proof texting really) to make a point. I have never claimed to be a great memorizer of anything. And even though I have read the Bible many times and own many copies of the Bible, I am still not a person who can just pull out scripture references in mid conversation. I do have several verses that I turn to and love dearly but I can’t tell you word for word what John 2:5 or Ruth 1:4 says. This got me thinking, why do Christians really feel the need to qualify their faith based on the amount of scripture that they can recite from memory? While it may be very handy to be able to quote scripture in a variety of situations, I believe that this can be dangerous. Proof texting (pulling scripture, from any religion, to support an argument without careful and learned consideration for its cont
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