Because the Bible Tells Me So

There are some people out there who probably ought not read the bible.  They definitely take it too seriously sometimes.  Pastor Curtis Knapp, of New Hope Baptist Church in Seneca, Kansas, probably ought not.  In a recent sermon he stated that the government should start killing homosexuals because that's what the bible says.  (JoeMyGod)

"Is it His word or not? If it’s His word, he commanded it. It’s His idea, not mine. And I’m not ashamed of it. He said put them to death.  You got a better idea? A better idea than God?"  Well, I am not so sure God himself wrote the bible.  There were a few other guys during that time that had their pens to paper.

There are a few other things that the other guys, saying it was from God, jotted down.  No playing football: "You shall not eat of their flesh nor touch their carcasses; they are unclean to you." (Pigskin)  No tattoos: "You shall not make any cuts in your body for the dead nor make any tattoo marks on yourselves: I am the Lord."  No polyester: "nor wear a garment upon you of two kinds of material mixed together." Expensive clothes and jewelry: "Likewise, I want women to adorn themselves with proper clothing, modestly and discreetly, not with braided hair and gold or pearls or costly garments." (11Points.com)

Doubt the pastor preached on these.  And what about that part that God wrote about "Thou shalt not kill"?  If it's His word, he commanded it, right?