Reply #50: But what are basic rights? Every country defines them differently. [View All]

[stopbush]

I believe that it is a basic human right for people to love and marry whoever they wish, but most Christians in this country don't believe that gay people are entitled to that basic right.

And if god gave us the "liberty to follow him, " I would ask you again: WHEN did he give this liberty? To the humans who lived 150,000 years ago? To the Neanderthals? Certainly not to his "enemies" in the OT who were utterly exterminated in his genocidal rages. At least those OT enemies weren't consigned to an eternity of suffering because they weren't chosen by Yahweh. When they were dead, they were dead. Period. No afterlife whatsoever. It was gentle Jesus, meek and mild who ordained that god's enemies would suffer eternal torment. Read your Bible.

Seems clear to me that Yahweh would dispute your claim that "all mankind is entitled to certain basic rights," unless one person's basic right is utter oblivion while another's is eternal bliss...which means the rights aren't at all basic to all people.

Your opinions as expressed above are heavily informed by the progress the world has made in the secular arena, bearing little connection to what is actually written in your holy book of choice.

Why is that?