Reply to Keith Michael
In His Writing “10 Laws the Church Created that are Unconstitutional”
I can never figure out where you are coming from. I can’t tell if you are an atheist, a Christian, a Christian who believes that Christians must follow Jewish laws, or a Jew. I understand all of these beliefs but your writings do not explain that you are in one camp or another. You seem to go against all of these in one way or another. You did write a book but I would write an entirely different book. In fact, I am writing my book on Medium before I pull it together for publication. Yes, there are malevolent “Christians”, quite a few in fact. Unfortunately, you never point this out. You never speak of what Jesus said. You don’t even seem to believe in Jesus. Everything in the Bible is wrong except, perhaps, the Old Testament but you even negate that. If you believe that everything in the New Testament is wrong, how are you a Christian? In your writing, “10 Laws the Church Created that are Unconstitutional”, you don’t even seem to believe the Old Testament either. Where are you coming from? Your writings are some of the oddest that I have ever read and, believe me, I am very well-read.
I don’t believe that every word in the Bible is God-given. I believe that some scriptures and books are man-given. Yet, I see that the things that Jesus said are true. The Gospels — Matthew, Mark, Luke, and John — are of God. I know this because I know God — really. You don’t seem to know God. God is love. God understands. God helps. God is good. God is not the cruel, angry, or the vengeful God that “He” has been portrayed to be. Really. I will write all about that at some point. You always seem upset, angry, in your writings, never knowing the true gifts of God which are love, peace, and understanding. My heart goes out to you. I am praying for you. God does answer my prayers — always.
In the writing named above, in the subtitle “You have to be married to have sex”, you state “The Church also manufactured this thing called “Adultery”, which is basically having sex outside of a Church-sanctioned marriage.” Actually, you can find that in the Ten Commandments in Exodus 20:1–17 in the 14th verse and in Deuteronomy 5:4–21 verse 18. Both state “You shall not commit adultery”. If you read the Ten Commandments with an open mind, you will see that they are all a good moral basis, meaning that they are all a good ethical basis, religion aside. It isn’t loving to to do any of the things that the Ten Commandments tell you not to do. Adultery goes against love and commitment. It is confusing to me that you would state a fact as not being a fact. I don’t like being confused. Confusion comes from satan (lower case to disrespect), not from God.
Or are you simply stating law without reference to the Bible? You claim to be a Christian in your bio. You even point to your book and claim that it is “The most important Christian Book You Will Ever Read”. To me, that is misleading when you are leading people away from God. What you advocate does not come from God, does not come from Jesus. You do not speak for Christianity. At best, you have a misguided understanding of God. At worst, satan has misled you.
Your subtitle “You cannot have sex with more than one person”. Yes, there is polygamy in the Bible. I believe that, under certain circumstances, that may be appropriate for some people as long as there is commitment and love on the part of the people involved. Otherwise, if it is not love, it goes against God. I would like to tell you that I am not sitting in judgment. Years ago, before I knew that I knew God, I did have sex with many men. However, I would ask you whether you believe in rights enough to say that women were property in the Bible. That was why polygamy was accepted. When you read the Old Testament, you will see that men had many wives but women did not have many husbands. Women were chattel. They were paid for through the dowry. This, too, involved no love. It was a business transaction in which the women had no say. The women were enslaved. Today we call that human trafficking. Since you obviously care about rights, do you care about the rights of women who were and are being trafficked? We aren’t just talking a few people getting together for some mutually unloving sex. There are greater ramifications here.
Let me state that I am a true patriot, a military veteran of many years. I see the merits of the Constitution. I do believe in rights for all people regardless of religious affiliation spirituality, or devout atheistic beliefs in their right to choose to be whatever they choose to be. I do hope and pray that atheists will come to know God, but they are in their own walk at their own place in their walk in life, their human experience as spirit beings.
When you state “But at the same time, the Church has no business dictating and legislating its beliefs onto people who do not agree with the Church’s peculiar brand of insanity”, I am in agreement with you. I am a Christian who knows that God created and loves all of mankind. God knows who knows “Him” (God does not have a gender) no matter which religion or spirituality or lack that they choose. I have even written about the fact that God loves all mankind and comes to people of other religions and spiritualities, not just Christians.
When you speak of blue laws, you are not speaking of the Constitution. You are speaking of state or local laws. These laws have nothing to do with the Constitution even though people in some states and municipalities believe that it does. I have lived in several areas where there are blue laws. I don’t have blue laws in New York State. I can pretty much do anything I want. Of course, there are exceptions like murdering others or stealing from others which, interestingly, are in the Ten Commandments. New York has very little to do with the Bible. It is a very liberal state which means that it does not base its laws on the Bible. It bases its laws on moral codes which are the codes of humanity. Philosophers and those who study and teach ethics agree on these principles. They, generally, do not believe in religion.
So, I am really trying to understand what you believe. You make it quite difficult. I would say that your anger overwhelms your ability to judge clearly as you are writing. Believe me, I have done that. Now, I attempt to calm down before I write so that I will not misspeak. As a Christian, please ensure that you are turning to God, not satan.
