Your point needs a gps... It got lost. Are you saying that it may be someone's lot in life to keep the species going?

No the man's name in the story book is Lot, and that was his life.

Oh........

The bible can be pretty messed up... hell, that's one of the things they drag out to try and claim gays are evil, apparently the conclusion of the story says incest is okay to preserve a bloodline... don't remember the religious nutjobs mentioning that bit.

Well that isn't directly hypocritical, but it does show severely misplaced priorities and moral standards.

Being hypocritical would be if it said buttsex was evil and then had Lot turn around and do that with his daughters as well as the inbreeding.

My favorite is the ones that go to Leviticus 20:13 "If a man lies with a male as with a woman, both of them have committed an abomination; they shall be put to death; their blood is upon them." as why God hates fags, however right before that is Leviticus 19:28 “You shall not make any cuts in your body for the dead nor make any tattoo marks on yourselves: I am the LORD.” Uh-ho looks like some of them sign wavers have tats...

Mm, funny how they pick and choose what part of tht they actually follow, and hell, they actually revise those texts as needed to fit their own goals, the bible was written by man after all, some people seem to forget that.

It has a lot to do with tradition. When Christianity became established in Rome, they more or less cherry picked those parts of the old Testament that went well with Roman culture. For example, homosexuality was illegal in Rome at that time, so they kept it that way. On the other hand nobody tried to ban making sculptures and pictures of saints, Jesus or god, even though the bible clearly bans it. At that time, it was probably the best way to act and it couldn't have worked any other way. And this went on in different coutries like this.
Today this just means that "but the bible says so!" is a completely ridiculous argument, even for Christians. Catholics, being attacked for hundreds of years by Protestants for not keeping to the word of the bible, are often one step further and use "church tradition" and "lore of the Doctors of the Church".
I'm just glad that stoning your children to death for misbehaving didn't make it into christian tradition.

Yeah, well that's just a slightly better thought out flavour of bullshit that the catholics do there...

Isn't religion all about making bullshit up?

Heh, well-said.

Ooh! ooh! I know this one!

Okay. Jesus was a carpenter who made a cross, and when people started admiring it, he agree that it was a really great cross he'd made. By the time word got around town, the story had grown into Jesus saying he was the son of god. (I'm being meta!) Pontious Pilot, the Simon Cowell of the carpentry world, was so angry at the story, he had soldiers crucify Jesus.

Okay! Your turn to tell the story to someone else!