Reply #12: but, what is a greater SIN in the eyes of God? [View All]

A sexual sin (which, as the priest in my parish of years past used to say, God forgives a dime a dozen) ... or, a sin of selfishness and greed, as was exhibited in sodom and gomorrah, or Judas, and is now being exhibted bythe many bushies and fascist followers of the bush goon?

...and how, or when, and for what and to what degree does a Just GOD punish? Wasn't Judas' sin one of selfishness and greed? What was Mary Magdalene's sin, or guilt? Was one of the thieves crucified with Christ a better thief than the other? Why did one go to heaven and the other one did not?

Have our churches ever really HEARD the message of Christ? Did they forget it? If so, when and for what reason did they choose to abandon the message of Christ?

Does God think in all white, or all black terms? Is He a God who goes by the LETTER OF THE LAW or is He a God who is more in tune with THE SPIRIT OF THE LAW?

If homosexuality is bad, why does it, according to Carl Jung, live inside every man and every woman, and why do some men and some women grow to love and need a same sex partner?

Does it have to do with one's growing up and the treatmemt of emotional support vs. lack thereof received from either parent?

Why are some people so threatened by the fact that two adults of the same sex can love each other and why are others not threatened at all by the fact?

I think the answer to all of that is somewhere inside the true message of Christ but I also think that the Puritannical/Moralistic forces inside the churches prefer to look at something other than the true message of Christ which calls each human being into growth while the Puritannical/Moralistic forces want to limit the growth of self-thinking human beings.

I know that the REIGN of GEORGE W. BUSH has drawn me further from everything and anything I held as a valued religious belief. God's love can never be canned and Bush and his goons and the religious right have the need to can God and His teachings... and yet God is free and freeing. I need to find and follow that God. Not Bush's moralistic God.