{"id":554,"date":"2006-07-13T21:52:20","date_gmt":"2006-07-13T21:52:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ccgi.geraldyuen.plus.com\/?p=554"},"modified":"2007-03-14T11:35:28","modified_gmt":"2007-03-14T11:35:28","slug":"christianophobia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.geraldyuen.me.uk\/?p=554","title":{"rendered":"Christianophobia&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Well, I know I&#8217;ve been classed as homophobic in the past. For some reason, because I believe the bible states that homosexuality is a sin, some people equate belief that with believing that all homosexuals should be assaulted\/abused\/have all sorts of nasty things done to them. If anything,<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Jesus replied: &#8220;&#8216;Love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your mind.&#8217; This is the first and greatest commandment.<br \/>\nAnd the second is like it: &#8216;Love your neighbour as yourself.&#8217; All the Law and the Prophets hang on these two commandments.&#8221; <cite>Mt 22:37-40<\/cite><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>so regardless of whether I agree with someone about anything, I&#8217;m still to love them.<\/p>\n<p>Of course, this becomes even more interesting when I see something like:<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\".\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/03\/gpa.jpg\" alt=\"gpa.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p>As placed in the Independent on 29th June.<\/p>\n<p>Then something like<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8220;You have heard that it was said, &#8216;Love your neighbour and hate your enemy.&#8217; But I tell you: Love your enemies and pray for those who persecute you <cite>Mt 5:43,44<\/cite><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>becomes ever more appropriate.<\/p>\n<p>An interesting observation of the ad can be found at <a href=\"http:\/\/weblogs.mozillazine.org\/gerv\/archives\/2006\/07\/writing_good_propaganda.html\">Hacking for Christ<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Well, I know I&#8217;ve been classed as homophobic in the past. For some reason, because I believe the bible states that homosexuality is a sin, some people equate belief that with believing that all homosexuals should be assaulted\/abused\/have all sorts of nasty things done to them. If anything, Jesus replied: &#8220;&#8216;Love the Lord your God&#8230; <\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more navbutton\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.geraldyuen.me.uk\/?p=554\">Read More<i class=\"fa fa-angle-double-right\"><\/i><\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-554","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.geraldyuen.me.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/554","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.geraldyuen.me.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.geraldyuen.me.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.geraldyuen.me.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.geraldyuen.me.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=554"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.geraldyuen.me.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/554\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.geraldyuen.me.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=554"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.geraldyuen.me.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=554"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.geraldyuen.me.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=554"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}