(June 20, 2025 at 6:11 am)BrianSoddingBoru4 Wrote: I think the more people worry about gender identification, the closer society get to restricting ANY body modification - piercings, tattoos, etc. This becomes more of a concern as religious loonies acquire political influence, as one of their themes about gender affirming care is, ‘You should be happy with the body God gave you.
Where does it end? No organ transplants? No chemo for cancer patients? No vision correction?
And before certain persons in this thread accuse me of committing a slippery slope fallacy, please remember that, in theocratic societies, some slope are VERY slippery indeed.
Boru
It also comes from incompetent politicians who simply need a group of people to blame for their own mistakes. Usually it's a weak group of people who can't defend themselves; thus, Hitler had Jews back when Jews were still weak, Putin blames the West (along with gays and trans people), and Trump blames all his mistakes on trans people and immigrants. Therefore, we have MAGA people coming here spouting Trump's delusions.
I don't know if you can remember, but there was some guy here on AF who actually blamed trans kids for the fall of Rome.
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"
