(August 17, 2013 at 10:39 pm)ChadWooters Wrote:(August 17, 2013 at 10:25 pm)Cthulhu Dreaming Wrote: It seems to me, Chad, that those facts are very much open to debate.People can argue about what constitutes a sin and the degree of sinneyness involved. That is why a good dose of humility is warranted.
Perhaps a good dose of 'everybody should mind their own personal business and stay out of everyone else's' is warranted. That would be the libertarian approach, after all.
Quote:But speaking out against what you believe is wrong is just part of the marketplace of ideas. As a general principle, I find it commendable that people who feel passionately about a cause advocate strongly for it, it the most civil way possible.
Yes, well, I don't really consider threatening people with untold horrors by proxy with an angry God to be a civil approach to anything, but I do concede that, for Christianity, making impotent threats represents considerable progress.
