‘Religion is Morally Neutral’

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[MSNBC] December 30, 2004--I keep having to remind people that religion in and of itself is morally neutral. Religion is like a knife. When you use a knife for cutting up bread to prepare sandwiches, a knife is good. If you use the same knife to stick into somebody’s guts, a knife is bad. Religion in and of itself is not good or bad—it is what it makes you do…

Archbishop Tutu confuses the outright persecution of gays with the rejection of homosexual behavior on solid Biblical grounds. The two are not the same even though gay activists and their liberal supporters seek to confuse the two in people's minds, perhaps because they themselves do not distinguish between the two. However, there is considerable difference between beating up a man and leaving him for dead because he is a homosexual and refusing to recognize the consecration of a bishop because the individual in question is involved in a homosexual liason. Gay activists and their liberal supporters tend to blur these important distinctions.