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it just appears to me that you're still trying to have it both ways. on one hand or on one thread christianity is battered for being this monolithic moral force bearing down on society with great weight... now i'm told that it's fractured and inconsistent. of course i'm not quoting your single person specifically but rather those who i would imagine sharing your position.
i'm not sure where you got the idea that there are many christians who endorse gay marriage. that is just simply not so. an accurate statement would be that there are some.
a proper response to your question would require a couple hours and a few beers... but i think the argument, once again, transitions from a semi-relativistic post-modern view of truth versus a traditional one. the inconsistencies you perceive in the christian ranks are the inroads post-modernity (in large part anyway) have made in millenia old institutions. the very ideas that seem to be fractures are often the very same modes of thought that you employ in this thread. it's hard to discuss christianity as a cohesive whole in a societal sense because its impact on systems of thought is dying. there have been very recently conceived foreign things thrust into christianity that should not yet be judged part of the whole. gosh... i feel like roachboy being so ridiculously abstract. sorry, i'll think on this some more.
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