(June 26, 2016 at 11:57 am)Cato Wrote: Disciple,
Your reading comprehension skills need work. Nowhere did I defend Islam nor did I claim the existence of a Christian theocracy. In fact I was quite clear regarding the reason none exist.
Your 'few bad apples' No True Scotsman defense is ridiculous. Abrahamic religious adherents ascribe to special texts that are openly hostile to homosexuals. The few bad apples can simply point to the text to support their position, the 'others' such as yourself must rationalize a position contrary to what your sacred text suggests.
And from my viewpoint (and most likely from God's too) these "'others' such as yourself" types are apostates.
I'm not inclined to give much weight to the arguments the folks in that category make when they come to AF, as they bluntly, aren't doing their own faith correctly.
Their remedy is to either get square with their God, announce a revelation and instigate their own schism, agnosticism or atheism.
Attempting to put their own spin on their ''faith" while repeatedly contradicting their deity is essentially the serving two masters problem. If they want to be the CEO of their own church, fine, but running amok with the heresies and apostasies while espousing fealty to the Lord isn't going to convince any of the atheists here of anything.
The granting of a pardon is an imputation of guilt, and the acceptance a confession of it.
