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[quote=jsteele][quote=Anonymous]No, we don't agree. We're talking *relative* differences in latitude for scriptural interpretation. You want to make it black and white: you want to say that both Christians and Muslims differ on how to interpret their holy books, end of story. I'm saying that, when your holy book tells you that being gay is bad, and it also claims to be the literal word of God, then we've got a whole different scale of problems in interpreting away from it.
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I really don't know what to say. You are simply ignoring what I have written about 10 times. There are some Christians that believe their holy book tells them that being gay is bad. If your argument is that is less important because the Bible is not considered the word of God, I think you are making a meaningless argument. There is no homophobe in existence who justifies his homophobia via the Bible that also offers caveats because the Bible is not God's literal word. To the contrary, such people more than likely do consider the Bible the word of God.

Muslims consider the Quran to be the literal word of God, but they don't agree on the meaning of those words. Some Muslims believe that the Quran says that gays should be killed. Some take the "love the sinner, hate the sin" approach and argue that gay people are okay but gay acts are forbidden -- not unlike the position of some Christians. Others say that being gay is forbidden, but any punishment should be left to God. Others argue that the Quran doesn't forbid homosexuality at all and find support for their arguments in the life of Muhammad. All of these interpretations are based on reading the exact same "literal word of God".

Yet, you are convinced that all Muslims agree on the exact same thing because the Quran is the word of God. I guess you will just have to ignore me once again.
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