For all you Christians.

I know that Jesus has said in the Bible that you are to go forth and spread the gospel. How do you handle a situation where you're trying to do that but the person you're talking to is not interested? Do you continue? Do you stop and walk away?

Operation Save America was at Charlotte Pride this weekend. They brought in a group of cute, supposedly "ex-gay" teenagers to spread the word among the crowd of "pedophiles". Preaching hate and abomination is not the way to get others excited about your beliefs. Based on their website, you would think that they are loving, caring people.

I just want to know why, when someone says they aren't interested, do they feel the need to try to force their beliefs on others? I wasn't in that park to try to convince anyone of my beliefs. I was there to enjoy the company of my friends and those like me. It was obvious that they were there to convert, the very thing they claimed we were doing. How can one be so hypocritical and manage to keep a straight face?

Personally, I don't believe that being homosexual is a choice, acting on those desires, yes. I spent 26 years trying to fight it. Yet these people say they "changed" themselves. If that's so, why would God create a large number of people only to tell them that they can't be and do what they are?

 

I've covered the Operation Save America folks on both abortion and gay protests, and about 20 percent of them are good hearted. Their leader, Flip Benham is a wacko. His son, David, is actually an extremely cool dude who I've never seen yell at teenagers heading into a clinic for an abortion or homosexuals for being gay. For some reason, they think hollering and trying to scare the piss out of people is a cool thing to do. I don't get it.

 

I believe Flip was the one with the microphone shouting about pedophiles and child molesters during the One Chorus' singing of the National Anthem. I thought it was really tacky.

 

It's nonsense like that that makes us Christians look bad.

 

I didn't talk to one person that thought their presence there was going to change anyone's mind. What makes people do this sort of thing? Do they really think that at a gay pride rally is the best place to "recruit" new members? It's almost like a cult. They all had on the same t-shirts and the boys were all Abercrombie & Fitch.

 

these are the christians that give christianity the bad rap.

 

I really just don't get that whole mindset. I understand spreading the gospel, and I even think that there were plenty of people at the rally who are Christian or at the very least receptive to Christianity. But you don't shame people into becoming Christians.

Even if you think that homosexuality is some sort of choice and that it is somehow a worse sin than all the others, to support this choice, you have to really pick and choose the sections of the Bible that you are going to use to support it, because the sections that prohibit it also contain the sins of mixing cloth, period sex, etc.

I also personally believe that even if homosexuality is a sin, that God simply adds that to the list of all the others you commit in your life. God loves everyone, period. And its pretty clear that if you accept Jesus as your savior you are going to Heaven. I must have missed the part about where it said you needed to be straight.

But the way to spread the gospel is not to tell someone they are a pedophile and abnormal. That’s just stoopid.

 

Well said. Maybe next time these people are somewhere, some real Christians can go engage them in a debate and see if we can get some of builder's questions answered.

 

Speaking of the bible and beating someone with it, are completely different. We are supposed to love/care for each other, reguardless. I personally will speak of it, if someone asks. Otherwise, if it does not pertain to the conversation, what's the point? We are supposed to love not judge, thus society says different. Since when has society been right? When a man is told if he cries he's a wuss? When a woman is told her child is a bastard if conceived out of wedlock? IMHO the bible is consistently taken out of context. It is contorted, to one's own vision.

There are good Christians, and one's who use it to thier own advantage. If I accept and love someone for who they are, to me that is the true meaning of Christianity.

 

They will be there next year. First Saturday in May, Marshall Park.