As I know christianity better than any other religion, I'll use that as my example.
Many christians I know are good, intelligent and reasonable people. I'm going to assume that many of you are as well.
Those christians (the good ones) seem to share the belief that human sin is impossible to avoid as we're all inherently flawed and such. Sin should be avoided as much as possibly, obviously, as those are rules that your god would prefer you follow. It just can't be avoided entirely.
Other christians though.. seem to me to be hypocrites.
A little background on me and my surroundings: I'm a college kid. Bisexual, dislike the entire idea of marriage and practice polygamy. I've lived my entire life in a "cowboy" state, painted red up and down by christians weilding shotguns and getting shitfaced every friday. Oddly enough, we were the first state to let women vote.
'Kay.
Onto the hypocrisy. Certain religious groups believe that homosexuality is a sin. Well.. most of them do. Which is fine. A good portion of those groups publicly talk about the homosexual "problem" and how to fix said problem. A good portion of those people (keep in mind I'm surrounded by college-aged hicks) partake in the acts of premarital sex with many different partners on a weekly basis.
Now my question: What do you, the assumed reasonable christians, think of people that want to persecute people for sinning against their god when they themselves are doing the same?
Is it not as bad as it seems, because there are different "levels" of sin? Or do you just.. not like those people?
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