reBlog from blakehuggins.com: (Ir)religiosity
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[L]et us debate about sex and marriage rather than war and violence. Let us concentrate on the bedroom rather than the war room. Let us liberals get trapped — as always — on the right side of the wrong question. I write this in protest against that deviation from what fundamentally concerns the Bible, the biblical God, and Jesus, namely, that escalatory violence that by now threatens our world with destruction.
I think he does have a point. But — I can see this line of thought leading us to ignore the problem altogether. And we don’t need that. We have enough religious people using the bible and religion in general as a weapon to deny persons their civil rights; we need more religious people actively challenging that position. And yes, maybe even more religious people to say enough with the bible for a while.
To be fair, I don’t think that is what Crossan is suggesting. He is simply trying to demonstrate how absurd it is that we are even having the argument over same-sex marriage and gay rights at all. And like I said, that is a valid observation. But I think we have to be careful that we don’t ignore those that are being marginalized in the meantime by sweeping the problem under the rug. It should be faced head on. Those that use religion as a wedge to separate “us” from “them” aren’t afraid to do that. It’s time that those of us who believe in the “we,” of which all the great religions of the world bear witness, saddle up as well.
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