RE: "God will even the score"
August 18, 2013 at 2:23 pm
(This post was last modified: August 18, 2013 at 2:42 pm by Neo-Scholastic.)
(August 18, 2013 at 11:44 am)Chas Wrote: Marriage is a civil contract that religions have tried to co-opt.It's more complicated than that. Historically, the status of marriage has always been culturally dependent. In the West, it has been a religious institution to which common law adapted itself. That has made it difficult to disentangle the religious and legal aspects. In contemporary society I agree that we should continue this process until everyone has a state recognized civil arrangement. Then believers can join couples in accordance with the principles of their religion as they choose without the state being obligated to recognize such convenents. So in the West at least, the reverse has happened; the state co-opted a religious institution.
(August 18, 2013 at 11:44 am)Chas Wrote: I don't care what your church defines as marriage.And that is your right.
(August 18, 2013 at 10:00 am)Faith No More Wrote: You've already stated that you feel it is justified to tell others that you believe pushing the homosexual agenda is leading people on the path to hell, but I'm sure we could find Christians that disagree with you.People can always disagree. And as long as they do so with grace, I think people should be free to hash out these ideas. Unfortunately, some activists want to equate preaching against homosexuality as a form of hate speech. I find that much more objectionable.
And yes, I do think sodomy is a sin. Even heterosexuals deal with various fetishes and compulsions that are also sins. So its not a prejudice against any set of people, but rather a range of sexual practices that are contrary to God's gift of sexual pleasure.
My concern remains limited to the cultural acceptance, and promotion, of practices I believe are harmful to the soul. If you think that's bullshit, that is your right and you can say its bullshit. But I think trying to characterize me as a bigot that hates gay people is not only inaccurate ; it reveals a fascist attitude of activists who disagree and cannot tolerate any difference of opinion from their own.
Sure there are Christians that disagree with me, and I with them. Is it not also possible that there people who engage in homosexual activities who disagree with homosexual activists and and their approach?
