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This is great.

That's hilarious.

I'm not assuming it's accurate. I'm saying that if we're going to work from the notion that He was a "friend to the sinners in his time," the only basis we have for that assumption is what's in the Bible. And in all the biblical accounts of Him being a "friend to the sinners in his time," He doesn't just accept them…

I totally, wholeheartedly, passionately agree with the main thrust of your argument, about the striving, and the knowledge that we will come up short, and the knowledge that we are all in the same boat when it comes to that, and our obligation to love one another both because of that and in spite of it. And you state…

Thank you for the thoughtful and considered response. I have to point out that I'm not saying "the sins of others aren't any concern of mine" - nor do I believe that's true, and if you do believe it, we don't agree.

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Hilarious.

Hell, to listen to Paul, you're not even supposed to have sex with women, for fuck's sake.

He'll have to cure fucking brain cancer before he'll live that down.

No, I'm saying the Bible has stuff in it that is wrong, and other stuff that is not meant to be taken as literal law, and that it's completely false and deceitful for any of us to pretend that we actually use it as the guidebook to our day-to-day lives, and that to do so is doubly, triply, quintuply sinful when our…

"I don't know what the hell he's apologizing for - Sean Taylor's the one at fault."

Love this.

I don't despise anyone. As I said above, I am Christian, wholly and unapologetically and religiously. But I'm not going to pretend that I, or Torii Hunter or James Dobson or the Pope (in ascending order of global importance), make any actual effort to observe and uphold all of the Bible's teachings. The point I'm…

I'm sympathetic to the author's goals (and this is an admirably genuine and heartfelt piece, thank you), but saying that Christ was "a friend to the sinners in his time" as though that's the whole story is misleadingly reductive. It's not as though Christ went around telling the tax collectors and prostitutes, "Hey,…

Ha!

Ha!

I guess maybe it's just me with Grimm. Between poor Heath Ledger's desperate imitation of Brad Pitt in 12 Monkeys; Matt Damon's, Jonathan Pryce's, and Peter Stormare's brutal accents; the ludicrous, hopelessly contrived and nonsensical plot; and the incomprehensibly awful and misguided moment when the little girl,…

I mostly agree with you, and I'm willing to grant him a conciliatory asterisk because it was a mercenary job for a guy who's typically fiercely independent, but... good gravy Marie, The Brothers Grimm is unbearably bad. I love Terry Gilliam and I so wanted to like that one - just because I hate the idea of hating a…