Ok so a while back posted an epic argument against a very self contradicting Christian over prop 8. Unfortunately after posting said epic argument the girl backed down and removed the journal. This journal is merely so I can copy the argument which I had previously saved on one computer onto another. (yes I liked it that much I saved it) Bow to the great mind that is

Since you feel the need to bring this up I feel the need to refute your point because it's thoroughly intellectually dishonest. You can't use a "NO U" approach to refute a claim that your religion is bigoted by denouncing "liberals" as equally intolerant of Christianity, that's a form of circular logic that doesn't prove anything. The irony is that were religion removed from the equation you would have no reason to dislike anything about homosexuals at all, your current basis for it being that a 2000 year old book of desert scribblings says a few lines about it being bad (amongst other gems of wisdom like killing everyone in a neighbouring town if they don't believe in Yahweh, woo yay go Leviticus).

The fact that you presumably cherry-pick the bits of the bible to adhere to proves that you uphold only what you think you can get away with without needing to account for your reasoning. The bible says to hate homosexuals and almost certainly does not intend for you to distinguish between hating the act and the person, that you do is further evidence of your selective reasoning about the issue. You're quick to denounce others of hypocrisy, but if you believe the bible is literally the word of god and not just some book written by a bunch of different men over a long period of time (which by the way, the last time I looked on the inside cover of one it said specifically that it was), why are you not following it to the letter? If you really possessed the perfect word of the creator of the universe who laid down a specific set of instructions that it expected you to follow, why are you not stoning gays to death? That's a much better example of hypocrisy - attempting to justify selective reasoning with an absolutist framework. If you don't think it's the exact word of god and thus potentially falsifiable, then you have nothing to prove all of it isn't.

Have you ever stopped to consider how "annoying" it is to rational people that you and billions of others a lot less smart than you most likely are believe in baseless apocalyptically-driven supernatural terrors that have retarded humanity's growth since the dawn of our species? Annoying would be the understatement of a lifetime. That you don't stone your gay friends to death is thanks to the cultural enlightenments brought about by secularism, not of your own good will if you think the bible is completely true. That you have a computer or the internet to mention this is thanks to secularism and its corollary exponents of science and technology. What does religion have to show for itself besides a myriad of crusades, torture, pogroms, and the infliction of fear, intolerance, oppression and misery upon countless billions of people? Every advancement that has made our lives better has been made in the teeth of religious opposition, and perhaps you're unaware of this but neuroscience is already distilling an answer as to why people suffer such delusions, the initial findings proving that a number of brain processes that evolved to deal with specific problems being hijacked by bad ideas like a viral infection. [Source]

Citing tyranny of the majority as evidence of a perception being correct is also an extremely poor argument, because we need only look back a few hundred years to see what the endgame of that attitude was - witch burnings, hangings or torture for anyone that dissented from popular opinions like the Divine Right of Kings or that god existed at all. If you think I'm intolerant of religion you'd be correct, because not only is it untrue but it causes innumerable problems and schisms between people that are unnecessary, wasteful, and now capable of escalating to the nuclear destructive scale. I see no reason to tolerate that kind of devisive, insidious mentality and more than you'd presumably tolerate sexism or female oppression (which by the way, religion strongly advocates). What would you do if the women's right to vote was repealed tomorrow and whenever you complained about it being unjust people just said "too bad, it's the law - deal with it". That wasn't good enough for your parents' generation and presumably it wouldn't be good enough for you either, so don't assume that just because the law happens to agree with you on an issue right now that makes what it advocates right or just.

In summary, if religion was just what people did on Sundays no one would care, but the fact that its advocates lobby to block anything from gay marriage to stem cell research means it's not a private belief but a public force bent on pushing its own regressive agenda at all costs - but that's what it's always been.

Once again you are my hero XD