But we ' re taking about Italy 15 years ago <| sep |> Jekyll and Hyde by Five Finger Death PunchorFall Back Down by Rancid . <| sep |> Bloody hell I thought it was gonna be a photo of him before the trip 😵 <| sep |> What you call interpreting scripture backwards I call interpreting the scripture in its proper context . Conservatives are perfectly comfortable doing this for some parts of the Bible e . g . the parable of the Good Samaritan is just a story made to prove a point , but for some reason can ' t do it for others the flood literally happened , despite all evidence to the contrary . Conservatives are too reluctant to accept that the Bible contains contradictions . God is just He gives everyone what they deserve , but He is also merciful He doesn ' t give people what they deserve . God can either be just or allloving , yet many conservatives insist that He is both . To do this , they must by necessity twist the meaning of justice , love or logic , and thus lie about God not intentionally . To me , the more honest response is to say that , yes , this is contradictory , and then try to determine which of the passages are more likely to be correct . Even though all scripture may be profitable for teaching , all the books in the Bible are not equal the Gospels and the words of Jesus ' have to be the lens through which the rest of the Bible is read and interpreted . As to your second point , I would never say that all religions are equally valid or correct . However , we liberals do several things that may be confusing . First , we say that the effort to reach truth made by followers of other religions are as honest and heartfelt as our own . Second , we often point to the horrible abuses of our own tradition when people are attacking other religions . I . e . if someone are saying that ISIS are being true Muslims when they keep slaves , I would feel inclined to point out that many US slaveholders were Christians who found support for slavery in the Bible . Third , we recognize that other traditions have some strengths and our traditions has some weaknesses . That doesn ' t make the other traditions right , but they are worthy of respect . Christianity is still the truth , and the others religions are wrong , but parts of other religions are right , and parts of Christianity are wrong . If you decided to be a Christian , why do you then reject some of the beliefs considered by the Christ himself and his apostles to be the most important ? I don ' t . But you and I may disagree on what Christ himself and his apostles deemed to be the most important .