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RE: A Christian group showed up at the Chigaco Gay Pride...
February 3, 2012 at 7:18 am
@KN... That is the most awesome bike pic I've ever seen. Awesome!
(February 2, 2012 at 8:00 am)padraic Wrote:
Quote:Let me get this straight: because Christians say such nasty things about some other group, it's okay for you to say nasty things about them.
NOT because they are Christians saying nasty things, but because they are human beings acting like arseholes...
Not being a believer, I do not accept 'turn the other cheek".
Get in my face or insult me here on this forum or in public,I may say some very unkind things,and use some very coarse language. Punch me in the face, I will hit you with a brick.
I do not subscribe to smug,hypocritical, bourgeois Judeo-Christian values.
Good pad because smug and hypocritical aren't judeo-Christian values to my knowledge
(February 3, 2012 at 4:56 am)CliveStaples Wrote:
(February 3, 2012 at 4:48 am)RW_9 Wrote: The difference is it's none of your goddamned business who other people love or fuck. This isn't just politics, it's about people's lives we're talking about. We are talking about love, life, and happiness. Attacking someone's pursuit of those things will make people hate you. Fucking deal with it.
Okay, let's work with this a little bit. If the principle is "It isn't your business, so don't express disapproval", what's wrong with saying "It isn't your business, so don't express approval"? Why is it that--conveniently--it is only people who disagree with your own personal views who are disallowed by the rules of polite society to express their views?
Quote:And I love how you can't let the term "homosexual" drop. Can't use gay, no, because you want to keep the last smidgen of clinical connotations to the topic that you can.
I don't care what terms we use. I use "homosexual" because I don't know what will offend people, and because I think that "gay" tends to be gender-/sex-specific, when the principle I'm trying to get at is more general.
Also, I don't give two sh*ts what consenting adults of any gender, creed, sex, or political stripe do to themselves or each other in their bedroom. I don't find the idea appealing, but I've seen enough weird crap on the internet that the idea doesn't shock or offend me.
So let's dispense with the "you're a Christian trying to tiptoe around how you really feel" bullsh*t, mkay?
+1
"There ought to be a term that would designate those who actually follow the teachings of Jesus, since the word 'Christian' has been largely divorced from those teachings, and so polluted by fundamentalists that it has come to connote their polar opposite: intolerance, vindictive hatred, and bigotry." -- Philip Stater, Huffington Post
always working on cleaning my windows- me regarding Johari
