“Yes I always believed, Piers, the Scripture shows that it’s a sin, but, you know, I’m not one of those that are out there to bash homosexuals and tell them that they’re terrible people and all that. There are other sins in the Bible too, I think sometimes the church, I don’t mean this critically but we focus on one issue or two issues and there’s plenty of other ones so I don’t believe his homosexuality is God’s best for a person’s life. I mean, sin means to miss the mark.”
– Joel Osteen on Piers Morgan
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I'm really disappointed to hear this. Osteen keeps saying he doesn't understand it all but he is going ahead and passing judgment on gay people by saying it is a sin. If he doesn't understand it all, then I think he should not speak about it, at least not publically.
Also, how does he expect people to rectify this so-called sin? People don't choose to be gay. I've seen too many friends struggle horribly with this before finally admitting that they are gay. It's who they are. It's in their DNA. How would they rectify this? Change their DNA?
And Morgan is right, Osteen is judging and he has put himself in a position that what he says can and will influence the judgment of a lot of other people. It is different than Joe Blow citizen making this statement. Osteen has a different standard to live up to because of the position he has put himself in…. that of a leader and a teacher.
con'tAnd he keeps saying "the scriptures say". 1) HUMANS wrote the bible. Imperfect, fallible, biased humans wrote it. And it has been re-written over the centuries by equally fallible, imperfect, biased humans.
2) You have to take into account that the bible was written about 2,000 years ago by what we would consider uneducated people by today's standards. They didn't know what we know today about homosexuality and of course that lack of knowledge would have affected how they wrote the scriptures.
I get so tired of people using religion as a tool to criticize others.
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