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RE: Teen suicide
January 2, 2015 at 9:03 am
Correction I don't like murder and homosexuality because of a book.
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RE: Teen suicide
January 2, 2015 at 11:17 am
(This post was last modified: January 2, 2015 at 11:18 am by robvalue.)
Do you have a well thought out reason for why there's something wrong with homosexuality? Why it should be the business of anyone else between consenting adults?
The word "sin" is ridiculous, all it means is "stuff God doesn't like happening". I don't care what he does and doesn't like. And since he doesn't exist, neither does sin. It's the church leaders wanting you shackled up nice and tight, so that you feel you need them because you're so wretched. It's a horrific scam.
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RE: Teen suicide
January 2, 2015 at 11:38 am
(January 2, 2015 at 9:03 am)C4RM5 Wrote: Correction I don't like murder and homosexuality because of a book.
Well, that was ambiguous.
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RE: Teen suicide
January 2, 2015 at 11:50 am
(December 20, 2014 at 3:43 am)robvalue Wrote: My wife just showed me an article in the Daily Mail about a 14 year old christian girl who committed suicide. She did this because she was gay, and couldn't handle telling her parents. She felt such shame about not being what a Christian is "meant to be" that she took her own life.
Religion makes me sick to my core.
Odds are this girl and her parents were not close or she could have confided in her parents about anything. Chances are religion played no part in it.
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RE: Teen suicide
January 2, 2015 at 12:18 pm
(January 2, 2015 at 11:50 am)strawdawg Wrote: Odds are this girl and her parents were not close or she could have confided in her parents about anything. Chances are religion played no part in it.
Bullshit. Regardless of the relationship of the parents, Christianity says that homosexuality is evil. If religion had played no part and the relationship with her parents were bad, she would have just left her family. The religion conditioned her to believe her instinctual feelings were evil. It played the
whole part.
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RE: Teen suicide
January 6, 2015 at 2:47 pm
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From her point of view, there was no escaping God. She couldn't change who she was, and would only disappoint him and couldn't take it anymore. I'd say that has a lot to do with religion.