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supersheep:
Hate is against the golden rule - anyone who starts hating on those who don't follow it isn't actually following it in the first place, so they're just as bad as the bad ones now. (Also, I wish to clarify that I am not in any shape or form Christian, so this doesn't apply to me.)
Also, I learned a new word today! Homoousis! I did not know there was a special word for the doctrine of the trinity.

Mnementh:
I dislike how wikipedia links it directly to the Trinity.  It would be better to say that the word is part of that doctrine, it helps describe the nature of the Trinity.

Homoousia refers to the one divine essence (ousia) shared by the three distinct persons (hypostasis) of the trinity.  Basically it is saying that the nature of God and of the Trinity is one being, represented by three distinct persons separated by only their relationship with each other.

The Nicene Creed summarizes the belief.

Mnementh:

--- Quote from: supersheep on 08 Dec 2006, 21:02 ---Hate is against the golden rule - anyone who starts hating on those who don't follow it isn't actually following it in the first place, so they're just as bad as the bad ones now.

--- End quote ---

I meant to reply to this earlier, I apologize for the double post.

Your post, if you'll forgive me for calling it this, is naive in it's rationality.  In a perfect world that would be true, but we're talking about irrational people, who have such faith in their absolutist ideas that they believe they're here on earth to do God's work, and so his rules don't apply to him.  Like I said, it is why people who quote the Bible and say "Though Shalt Not Kill" to women having abortions, will turn around and kill abortion doctors, or strap a bomb to themselves.  In their mind, the need to do God's work supersedes the need to obey the commandment against killing.

We're not talking about your average run of the mill religious person, who takes their sacred texts as a whole, and probably not literally.  We're talking about people who will pick and choose and become blind to everything that argues against what they do, even if it's from the same sacred text.

It's unfortunate, but true, and it applies to just about every fundamentalist nut out there, of any religion (hell, there are secular fundies too, same rules tend to apply).

supersheep:
I have been sick, so that is why this took me so long to get back on this.

I think we are both saying the same thing from different positions - absolutism and fundamentalism is wrong. (And neither is compatible with the Golden Rule, either.)
Basically, christian fundamentalists are BAD christians. They ignore the important bits - like the whole message of love and non-judging and whatnot that was pretty much the key of what Jesus said - and concentrate on the bits that allow them to exercise their hate while having the blessing of the Bible.
I wasn't talking about the fundamentalists, but rather that small minority of practicing/believing Christians who actually listen to what Jesus said and put that into practice, rather than the hateful disgusting perversion of christianity that fundamentalism is.
(The same argument, like you said, can be used against every other religion/belief with just a few changes of words.)

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