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Re: "I'm Christian, unless you're gay."
Posted: Wed Dec 14, 2011 1:59 pm
by jemagirl (imported)
feedback (imported) wrote: Wed Dec 14, 2011 9:27 am
You sound like a real tolerant loving person Ieunuch.
One need not tolerate intolerance.
And to speak truth to intolerance is a good thing even when the truth is harsh.
Re: "I'm Christian, unless you're gay."
Posted: Wed Dec 14, 2011 3:21 pm
by punkypink (imported)
jemagirl (imported) wrote: Wed Dec 14, 2011 1:59 pm
One need not tolerate intolerance.
And to speak truth to intolerance is a good thing even when the truth is harsh.
I agree with this sentiment. One cannot blindly tolerate everything. It's just being lazy and stupid.
Re: "I'm Christian, unless you're gay."
Posted: Wed Dec 14, 2011 4:26 pm
by Riverwind (imported)
Cainanite (imported) wrote: Wed Dec 14, 2011 12:03 am
Those words still haunt me. This was a Christian minister. This was a person preaching about love and acceptance and missionary work. However, there was a hole in his love, and I came to see it a hole in faith itself. There can only ever be one way. Anything outside that prescription is unworthy. Is less than human.
The problem with this kind of dogma is simple, who's dogma is the right one?
Cainanite (imported) wrote: Wed Dec 14, 2011 12:03 am
Any God that would punish me for loving, is no god I'd want to spend an eternity with anyhow.
True words for sure. You can be in my heaven if I can be in yours.
River
Re: "I'm Christian, unless you're gay."
Posted: Wed Dec 14, 2011 6:57 pm
by Cainanite (imported)
River
Sounds like a deal to me.
Re: "I'm Christian, unless you're gay."
Posted: Wed Dec 14, 2011 7:37 pm
by BossTamsin (imported)
feedback (imported) wrote: Wed Dec 14, 2011 9:27 am
You sound like a real tolerant loving person Ieunuch.
And I'd say you know little to nothing about me.
Re: "I'm Christian, unless you're gay."
Posted: Wed Dec 14, 2011 9:30 pm
by Cainanite (imported)
No one said everyone in every religion believes these things.
No one said churches teach hate and separatism. What was said, is that it is wrong when people interpret religion as a justification for hate.
I'm going to stop this discussion right here. Religious discussions can get very ugly when they go wrong, and I see this thread as about to jump that shark.
No Holy Wars on the EA.
This thread is closed.
Re: "I'm Christian, unless you're gay."
Posted: Thu Dec 15, 2011 1:57 pm
by Cainanite (imported)
Per request I am re-opening this thread.
Tread lightly, and respect each other's beliefs, or I will delete posts.
Re: "I'm Christian, unless you're gay."
Posted: Thu Dec 15, 2011 7:31 pm
by MacTheWolf (imported)
Cainanite
In my 65 year old opinion, we shouldn't allow any religious threads on the Boards. Ok, I've put in my two cents now. I'll shut up now
Re: "I'm Christian, unless you're gay."
Posted: Thu Dec 15, 2011 8:21 pm
by Sweetpickle (imported)
I had not realized that this was an intelligent discussion. With intellectual arguements like;
Cainanite (imported) wrote: Tue Dec 13, 2011 1:55 pm
A lot of those negative and terrible thoughts permeated me as well. So much suffering, hatred and violence was dished out with the justification of religion it was
It's about a petty little tinpot dictator who's so egotistical and insecure about his own existence that he's going to put someone through an eternity of the worst torments imaginable merely because that person failed to acknowledge how great he is. Meanwhile, you could be the worst human being who ever lived, preying upon the weak
and innocent, and if you kowtow before him, you're good.
PS. I agree with MacWolf
Re: "I'm Christian, unless you're gay."
Posted: Thu Dec 15, 2011 8:29 pm
by zeroau (imported)
I also agree with both Sweetpickle and MacWolf