(June 28, 2015 at 7:52 pm)PiousPaladin Wrote:(June 28, 2015 at 7:49 pm)IATIA Wrote: I have read on the Inquisition and the Crusades, that is what cannot be tolerated. If I want to go to hell, that is my prerogative to choose through my free will and it is no business of yours. I do not intend to take you with me, only my friends.
Were it that simple. When you sin you may lead other observers to sin with you. That simply cannot be risked, that is why scandal is forbidden. Why do you think the church has gone to such great pains to prevent co habitation and keep the gossip of acts of sexual immorality in the confessional where they should have remained? Such revelations weaken the faith of those who hear them, and such an injury upon souls must be punished.
If your god has not the power to make me repent, what on this green earth makes you think that you have one iota of a chance?
You make people miserable and there's nothing they can do about it, just like god.
-- Homer Simpson
God has no place within these walls, just as facts have no place within organized religion.
-- Superintendent Chalmers
Science is like a blabbermouth who ruins a movie by telling you how it ends. There are some things we don't want to know. Important things.
-- Ned Flanders
Once something's been approved by the government, it's no longer immoral.
-- The Rev Lovejoy
-- Homer Simpson
God has no place within these walls, just as facts have no place within organized religion.
-- Superintendent Chalmers
Science is like a blabbermouth who ruins a movie by telling you how it ends. There are some things we don't want to know. Important things.
-- Ned Flanders
Once something's been approved by the government, it's no longer immoral.
-- The Rev Lovejoy
