Actually I decide they are irrelevant because they are so full of shit the whites of their eyes have turned brown. Anyone that cherry picks what they believe from something that is apparently the word of god is not worth listening to.Nieroshai said:While I perfectly agree with your first point, you realize that religion inherently cannot believe any differently than it does unless you disprove the existence of their diety/ies? Also, as a Christian I believe all humanity to be equal and while homosexuality is a sin (one I am not exempt from) I also believe that there is not a human on the planet that has not sinned, and God measures all sins the same such as heterosexual lust. Before this turns into a debate about my beliefs, I was answering the OP and explaining that religion is anchored to whether or not the "supernatural" exists. If there is concrete proof found that God cannot exist, then religion will fade away and society will have every right to treat them like intolerant hicks.Utrechet said:My opinion is that everyone is free to choose what they want, as it is their opinion on the matter that... matters. Not ours.
Also, society isn't helping the topic by adding religion into the matter.
You do not seem to be of that credo but you must realise that the sort of people that are problematic to humanist/rationalists etc are using religion as a blunt force appeal to authority, not because they have any faith at all.