Topic: Christianity

Christianity & Homosexuality: CONTINUED

By David W. Shelton | September 24, 2006 |

A few weeks ago, I began a series on my blog and right here at Clarksville Online on Christianity & Homosexuality. There are a total of six passages in the Bible that are used as “clobber” verses for the GLBT community, and the series deals with each of them individually.

So many of us who either know gay or lesbian people, or who are gay, know the kind of religious verbal violence that is hurled at an alarming rate. This series is an effort to take a step back from our pet theologies and look at their literary, historical, and original language contexts. «Read the rest of this article»

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Are we becoming a Theocracy, Religion and Politics part III

By Bill Larson | September 3, 2006 |

Our country was founded by people looking for freedom, the freedom to worship their God in their way. It’s one of the things which makes our nation great. Some Evangelical and Charismatic Christians aided by politicians both Republican and Democrat, want to deprive us of that. We can not, no must not, stand by and allow that to happen. Some of these politicians are true believers, while others simply want to use Christians as a source of easy votes. «Read the rest of this article»

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Can a person be gay and a Christian?

By David W. Shelton | September 3, 2006 |

It’s a question that is rarely asked out loud; a question to which most people assume they already know the answer; whether they’re Christian or not. But there are a great many people that have it in the back of their minds: “can a person be gay and a Christian?”

Naturally, the first impulse answer is a resounding, “no.” After all, we’re told such awful and horrible things about gay and lesbian people that there’s no possible way that such “abominations” could ever even be interested in worshipping the Lord Jesus Christ. What’s more, we’re told that homosexuals have hundreds of sex partners in their lives, and that’s all that runs their lives. Their sexual expression is allegedly their only expression. «Read the rest of this article»

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Life and Liberty for those who believe, Religion and Politics Part I.

By Bill Larson | August 20, 2006 |

Over the next few weeks, I intend to discuss at length, the extent that certain individuals are going to, in order to blur the clear lines between religion and politics, and those between Church and State.

By their very nature religion and politics are strange bed fellows. In Christianity, when confronted with the issue, Jesus handled it in a simple manner: «Read the rest of this article»

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