It's true that a soft answer can turn away wrath.. however sometimes there is a place for righteous anger

Indeed. There was something a guy said in this documentary 'Food Matters' and I loved what he said.

You can be sincere, and you can be sincerely wrong

I think that quote relates to a lot of Christians who protest anti-gay things. It makes me wonder sometimes, what if, when we die, we are asked a multitude of questions like 'Do you think there is anything wrong with being gay?' and then say a random person says 'yes' and then BAM God pulls the lever to their demise, followed by shouting 'wrong answer – you should have read the true meaning of the bible'. 😛

But ya I think there is a time to draw the line and give a righteous answer when all else fails. Like that Redeemer guy on YouTube. In the end after all that was said and after providing him with resources which could help him understand what LGBT people go through, I just said we'll have to 'agree to disagree'. I received an inbox message notifying me of the fact he replied to my final message. Though I'm positive he was going to say something nasty and hypocritical anyway as an "I'll get you, I'll get the last word in because I'm ALWAYS right" sort of thing, so I just deleted it without looking at it 🙂

I wouldn't get too caught up in what the passages of the bible says, and likewise what it doesn't, otherwise it can be dangerous. There are many things back then that weren't tolerated by society, like divorce for example, but the law was changed so that it was allowed, because people do change, and sometimes things don't always work out when we want them to.

There was another point someone made (I forget where) that if we were to follow EVERY single thing in the bible, A) we would all be insane by now, and B) we couldn't be ourselves. There are many things the bible says like not eating certain fish (something about their bones), and not even going anywhere near pork because it is unclean (pigs don't sweat, it's why they roll in the mud, so that is understandable in that regards), and that woman aren't allowed to speak in church? I think if we take these sorts of things too seriously (although I myself am vegetarian and I don't mind never touching pork again to be honest but that's just me ha ha), we only end up hurting ourselves.

There are probably some good passages which relate to loving the sinner and hating the sin, but I unfortunately haven't read the bible too many times to think of what ones they would be. Though in John 15:19 it says:

If ye were of the world, the world would love his own; but because ye are not of the world, but I have chosen you out of the world, therefore the world hateth you.

In other words, you can be IN the world, but not OF the world. I have come to my own conclusion that I will not let society dictate my life and how I act, feel, walk and talk. I take from the bible the main message of loving one another, and that's it. I find myself asking so many questions that cannot be answered if I delve too deep in the meanings and passages, because the bible isn't crystal clear (some parts are, but you get what I mean :D) and I think it is important to understand that when the bible was written, it was in a time where things meant something completely different compared to today's society/generation. All I know is that we can't let certain passages dictate and rule our lives completely.