February 11, 2012
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The Church of Sweden is being asked to introduce football-style penalties for swearing, after a priest used foul language at last year’s meeting of the church’s governing body.
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"Remember how your kids used to dance around the room to The Gummy Bears and Astid Lindgren? And now, since they started gymnasium, they listen to guitar or electronic music, or reggae, or hip hop, or Sean Banan?? That's not proper music! They are clearly junkies!" READ »
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What is it that you consider to be funny? Priests and pastors ought to check their language when engaging in debates. This is not gangster's talk for people to swear off. As far as men "having sex with each other's arses" is concerned, shall I show you what heterosexual people do to one another in straight porn? You may go away enlightened as how these actors are amazingly creative with their bodies and how they can elicit fun sex out of the most bizarre positions and with the most unconventional "toys".
eZee, you are no more than an uneducated bigot. Don't think that the anonymity of the internet can help you cloud your identity and use it to spew your garbage.
The reason I said the church of Sweden is a joke is because its a "breakaway" church which allows gay marriages, women priests, priests to be wed etc
(note: I have nothing against gay people, people who marry ... or women)
As for anonymity, we have our website which is ezee.se, we have never tried to hide that - whats your excuse?
I skimmed the ezee.se site, it was fair, I saw nothing there that didn't allow differing opinions. Anonymity is the price you pay for using the internet. I saw few points that were un-educated, most were opinion, not lack of education.
Those churches that advocate subjugation of women to men, that practice Biblical literal verses (I believe that's how the "witch hunt" and the Spanish Inquisition started), that gets too big and too influential over people's lives, that stage massive cover-ups of its child abuse records, are the ones that get me disgusted.
I am a Christian And abhor bad language but Dag has to make his point somehow, he has to awaken the dopey ones who just float and have no clues as to what is appropriate and what is not.
they are supposed to embrace the people and not the sin, yes the church needs to reconnect with their leader (GOD) and not with wishy washy crap human philosophies. (even if unpopular)
I have nothing against Gay people they are people like everyone else and deserve love and respect too, although some of (them) their behavior leaves me wondering if they should be allowed out in public, its OK to be gay but not in my face please! I don't need to know REALLY!
The Bible says: No man is to have sexual relations with another man; God hates that.( Leviticus 18:22).
For SHAME Helena! I've only been a Church Pastor for 10 days but my education confirms that God does not HATE but he Severely Dislikes it when people put words in His Mouth that are UNTRUE. Lev18:22 says NOTHING of which you CLAIM but it WARNS Christians NOT to attend PAGAN CEREMONIES where people are worshiping golden calves and men are sleeping with men etc ... The WARNING from God is CLEAR and it is NOT about homosexuality but about attending Pagan Ceremonies. And yet "loving Christians" have used this LIE for decades in an attempt to show their contempt and prejudice for gay people. And that is where Matt7:1-5 steps in "Thou shalt not Judge lest YE be judged"!
So, now, Helena, you can quote the Bible properly in the future and NOT put lies into the mouth of GOD!
Also, the Bible is all about living LOVE. John states it when he says that "this entire book can be condensed into one word and that word is Love". God would not MAKE gay people if He was to punish them for being gay people. That makes no common sense whatsoever. He is a LOVING God and He does NOT condemn gays who are in a LOVING relationship doing what gays do best. BUT, in your defense, I WILL state that God is against sins of the flesh. Note again, that there are 6 admonitions in the Bible against Gay Sex but there are 166 against HETEROSEXUAL SEX. The sin is in HOW we do it and WHY we do it! Hetero sex for the purpose of lust is forbidden as is the same with gay sex. To covet a neighbors wife is against God's laws as is it when gays do the same.
Let me make this crystal clear for you Helena. If it it against God's will for gays to have sex then it is equally against His will for straight people to have sex. Plain and simple. What is good for the goose is good for the gander.
And Helena, as a man of God, He asked me to ask you NOT to speak for Him anymore unless you KNOW of which you speak. It's not a LOT to ask is it?
"Change and decay in all around I see;
O Thou who changest not, abide with me."
May that be the Church of Sweden's prayer: may it realize that the One who changes not and his divine gifts to us can't be changed. May the Church of Sweden choose to restore her roots and so grow in the faith. Kyrie eleison.