RE: Homosexuals and Heaven
October 3, 2011 at 12:06 pm
(This post was last modified: October 3, 2011 at 12:23 pm by The Grand Nudger.)
Right, you stand by your opinion that this act is unnatural. Napolean has explained to you it is not (and why it is not), and it has been explained to you many times that your opinions may not be an accurate representation of reality.
The bible can be levaraged to promote any agenda the deluded cares to put forward. It's a large text, a veritable buffet of potential propaganda pieces. Nothing could be more deeply ingrained in the text than the concept that certain peoples are greater than others, superior by cosmic decree. A stronger show of support for racism and bigotry could not be imagined. In addition to the usual xenophobia that we carry with us as human beings, the minority you belong to was once argued to be inferior due to their barbaric pagan roots. Strange, when you adopted the faith you were still inferior. Malleability of religious justification.
I find it amusing that your defense of your own marriage clearly shows that you are willing to defer to science as an absolute authority on the issue of interracial relationships and yet you refuse to to extend that authority to any portion of your beliefs that would come into direct conflict with the same. This is the very definition of cognitive dissonance. You cherry pick your science almost as badly as you cherry pick your fairy tale.
On what grounds can you invalidate the bigots beliefs? You have a different interpretation of the text? Please, there are thousands of interpretations of the same text (and we're only one fairy tale in, there are many, many more). If we are to give your own re-telling of the narrative any weight we must afford the Klansman the same. Hardly a position I find myself in. The text you refer to as "gospel" is not an authority, on anything whatsoever. Anyone who draws inferences from this text is as bankrupt as anyone else. You, the "esteemed" members of the KKK, everyone.
The bible can be levaraged to promote any agenda the deluded cares to put forward. It's a large text, a veritable buffet of potential propaganda pieces. Nothing could be more deeply ingrained in the text than the concept that certain peoples are greater than others, superior by cosmic decree. A stronger show of support for racism and bigotry could not be imagined. In addition to the usual xenophobia that we carry with us as human beings, the minority you belong to was once argued to be inferior due to their barbaric pagan roots. Strange, when you adopted the faith you were still inferior. Malleability of religious justification.
I find it amusing that your defense of your own marriage clearly shows that you are willing to defer to science as an absolute authority on the issue of interracial relationships and yet you refuse to to extend that authority to any portion of your beliefs that would come into direct conflict with the same. This is the very definition of cognitive dissonance. You cherry pick your science almost as badly as you cherry pick your fairy tale.
On what grounds can you invalidate the bigots beliefs? You have a different interpretation of the text? Please, there are thousands of interpretations of the same text (and we're only one fairy tale in, there are many, many more). If we are to give your own re-telling of the narrative any weight we must afford the Klansman the same. Hardly a position I find myself in. The text you refer to as "gospel" is not an authority, on anything whatsoever. Anyone who draws inferences from this text is as bankrupt as anyone else. You, the "esteemed" members of the KKK, everyone.
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