[Melly]

Originally Posted by Vautrin

As always the supposed set of Christian (or Jewish, or Buddhist, or Islamic) rules that people of one country act upon is only a small portion of those which are mentioned in the holy writings of their religions.

Take the interest issue for instance. The premarital sex. The booze. The not worshipping of false idols. I as an atheist can see at least one point on which Paul Harvey is inconsistent with Christianity, but that is just my opinion.

What bothers me, and I think many atheist, that some Christians / Jews / Buddhists / Muslims, do not mind not living up to all these rules, yet have no problem to dig up even the vaguest references to how sinful an atheist or non-believer is.

Homosexuality is one such issue. I know it is being considered an abomination in the OT, but in the NT there is barely made any mention of it, and not by Jesus himself. Yet still some christians do consider it an abomination - with of course all consequences. If Christians do so based on the vaguest references, I cannot see why an atheist does not have the right to call the Christian on the rules of interest, idol worship, et cetera, that are also present in the Christian holy writings.

In short, it is the intolerance of both the religious and non-religious people that causes issues and problems like that.

I agree with you totally...thank you