Atheism is Indeed A Civil Rights Issue

Sometimes the religion itself isn't teaching too many horrid values (with the exception of slavery and some discrimination), however, people interpret religion in a way that makes it seem as if the religion wants all homosexuals to die.

For example, The Bible states that homosexuality is a sin. I disagree with that, but is what it states. However, as far as I know, it says nowhere that homosexuals should be persecuted. In fact, The Bible does say repeatedly, just in different terms to respect your neighbors (in general terms, this includes coveting your neighbor's goods and all that), so they obviously don't want you to attack homosexuals. Unfortunately, all the religious fanatics out there interpret it just right out wrong and think that the homosexuals themselves are evil people, and commit hate crimes against them, sometimes killing them (against one of the Ten Commandments ironically).

The Bible obviously has some contradictions in it however. I remember someone posting earlier a quote that states that slavery is okay (sorry for forgetting who you are), which obviously goes against respecting your neighbor.

Back to the religious fanatics and The Bible though. Most religious fanatics think that everything in The Bible actually happened, which isn't the way they should read it. They should read it for (some of) the values, not learning how some guy magically rose from the dead. Most of the story stuff in there thrown around the values are mainly to keep people from just randomly killing people, simply so they don't get smited by some God that may or may not exist. It's similar to government. What's the point of having laws if you have no one to carry them out and enforce them? Think of it as the Ten Commandments being the laws and God being the police.

have you ever spoken with a christian with sound understanding of doctrine and logic? have you even read the bible instead of hearing it from a secondary source? i hope you know what you have said completely proves the point made about christianity in the media's eye.

a small tidbit about logic and the bible. The bible references itself in many aspect to maintain its consistency and logic. if any part of its message counter one another, its a fallible book and not to be used as any standard. so what that means for you is one cannot take part of the bible and say its good while say parts of it are bad. you have to take it all or none of it. its like saying of the math problem 2+2 is nice, but i do not like it equals to 4.
the real question is how do yo prove or disprove the bible.