(June 9, 2015 at 9:46 am)Rhythm Wrote: Tell the peanut gallery why JW's refuse to bare arms?Risk of sunburn?
FatAndFaithless Wrote:Did...being gay just get equated with being an alcoholic?I would probably have seen it that way, or similar to it, when I was a JW. Either condition is seen as a sign of imperfect humanity, and a burden to deal with. To deal with it successfully (ie, to avoid getting drunk, to avoid gay sex) would gain god's approval and a chance at eternal life in paradise, where those who make it would be perfected by god. So the alcoholic and the homosexual alike would be cured of their imperfections.
"Well, evolution is a theory. It is also a fact. And facts and theories are different things, not rungs in a hierarchy of increasing certainty. Facts are the world's data. Theories are structures of ideas that explain and interpret facts. Facts don't go away when scientists debate rival theories to explain them. Einstein's theory of gravitation replaced Newton's in this century, but apples didn't suspend themselves in midair, pending the outcome. And humans evolved from ape- like ancestors whether they did so by Darwin's proposed mechanism or by some other yet to be discovered."
-Stephen Jay Gould
-Stephen Jay Gould
