Mike Dulak grew up Catholic in Southern California, but by his teen years, he began skipping Mass and driving straight to the shore to play guitar, watch the waves and enjoy the beauty of the morning. “And it felt more spiritual than any time I set foot in a church,” he recalled.

Nothing has changed that view in the ensuing decades.

“Most religions are there to control people and get money from them,” said Dulak, now 76, of Rocheport, Missouri. He also cited sex abuse scandals in Catholic and Southern Baptist churches. “I can’t buy into that,” he said.

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    It talks to Jews in ancient Israel about gods of nations that surrounded them.

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      Oh…

      So some of it is outdated and we shouldn’t follow the bible literally?

      I already don’t, you better go tell the Christians to shut the fuck up about LGBTQ…

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        Good job on discovering dispensationalism. About LGBT, there isn’t a single place in Bible, old or new testament where isn’t put in a positive light

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          About LGBT, there isn’t a single place in Bible, old or new testament where isn’t put in a positive light

          It’s hard to tell what you were trying to say, but any attempt to clarify that is going to make it really easy to point out how wrong you are.

          So I don’t expect you to even try

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          About LGBT, there isn’t a single place in Bible, old or new testament where isn’t put in a positive light

          That’s just simple not true.

          In the old testament it says that all homosexuals must be killed, and in the new testament that homosexuals cannot go to heaven.

          How is that a positive light?