God = Allah = Jahweh
Yeah, on
that I agree, but I know some people might be offended by that anology, hence why I didn't make it.
having sex in a public park
That's bull. As if only gay people practice that? Are you
really that narrowminded? I've seen more hetrosexual people screwing eachother in public than gays. In fact, I've never seen gays shagging in public. And even if they would shag in public, then that says jack about their sexual preference. It only says anything about their manners. Which, just to make this clear, are totally independant of sexual preference.
According to the Bible...
And this is why I hate religious people who feel that their religion need to be dragged into everything. If a muslim would make the exact same statement as you did, but only starting his sentence with "According to the Koran...", would you agree with him or start argueing about which book is better?
On the subject of books; books have writers. Writers are subjective. Writers are extremely subjective if they believe in something and want to write about it. Where I'm going? The bible is, supposidly, written by the disciples of Jesus. I'm all cool and dandy with that concept, but then keep in mind that the bible is not an accurate tale of events and should be treated as the story told from one subjective point of view. This means that the bible should
not be treated as the definitive word and will of God, simply because the story is being told in a subjective manner and there's no way to verify that what's written, is actually true. (Which makes religion even funnier, as this whole argument also counts for the Koran and other holy scripts. World religions are based on books which might as well be fake and are unverified, yet no-one seems to be bothered with that possibility.)
And
even if the Bible was the definitive word and will of God, then the countless rewrites by the Church (and other religious organizations who've rewritten the scripts) have rendered the bible useless, as in those countless rewrites, lots of changes have been made and propaganda inserted. (These would then be called 'improvements'. Heh, jokers.)
Somebody here mentioned heaven and hell and how they were just added to scare people into not comitting 'sins'; he's totally right and it's a good example of added or changed material.