(February 7, 2018 at 8:30 am)Huggy74 Wrote:(February 7, 2018 at 8:05 am)Fake Messiah Wrote: Problem with religious people, when they're talking about homosexuals, is that they don't know any homosexuals personally. From the start they've been taught to look at homosexuality with prejudices and even as they try to know more they are stirred to be biased about it as they were taught it was "unnatural" and vile and perverse, because it's hard for them to let go what they were taught as kids (as they still believe in supernatural stuff).Stephen Fry experienced sexual abuse, and my brother-in-law is gay sooo..
So I would advise people like Huggy to get some homosexual friends, or if he feels uncomfortable to do that to at least read some autobiographies by homosexual people like let's say Stephen Fry.
Fry did say that during High school he experienced some bloke "taking liberties" that didn't have any psychological effect on him and that he was gay long before that.
So like I said if you're gonna make some generalizing stuff about homosexuality and if you plan to judge gays first make some gay friends, not some guy that you perhaps meet few times a year. I mean some people even have their own kids that are gay and they don't bother to know them.
teachings of the Bible are so muddled and self-contradictory that it was possible for Christians to happily burn heretics alive for five long centuries. It was even possible for the most venerated patriarchs of the Church, like St. Augustine and St. Thomas Aquinas, to conclude that heretics should be tortured (Augustine) or killed outright (Aquinas). Martin Luther and John Calvin advocated the wholesale murder of heretics, apostates, Jews, and witches. - Sam Harris, "Letter To A Christian Nation"
