(June 25, 2017 at 11:52 pm)bennyboy Wrote: I'm with the Christians on this one. Not the gay-beaters-- I mean, those who actually try to model themselves after the person described in the NT.
He said plenty of things against hypocrisy, against intolerance, and so on.
I also think it's fine to think homosexuality is strange, or wrong, or whatever-- so long as it's understood that you don't get any say in how they live their lives.
And practiced both of them among other objectionable things. One of those little inconvenient truths that people try to sweep under the rug. That's why it's a really, really shitty idea to model oneself after a person instead of coming up with a decent moral system on one's own. And why no one who claims to do this deserves one tiny iota of respect for it.
Religions were invented to impress and dupe illiterate, superstitious stone-age peasants. So in this modern, enlightened age of information, what's your excuse? Or are you saying with all your advantages, you were still tricked as easily as those early humans?
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There is no better way to convey the least amount of information in the greatest amount of words than to try explaining your religious views.
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There is no better way to convey the least amount of information in the greatest amount of words than to try explaining your religious views.