On What Verses in the Bible Have You Based That Idea?

It’s stunning to me how many Christians express their ethical, moral or political ideas strongly as if they got those ideas straight out of the Bible. Ideas like:

“God hates homosexuals!”
“America is a Christian nation.”
“You can’t believe in abortion and be a true Christian.”

Later in this blog, I’ll briefly address each of these. And it doesn’t mean you can’t find some teaching in the Bible that seem to support some part of these ideas. But here’s a question I’ve learned to ask people who make statements like these;