Not according to the Bible:
"For the Lord your God is God of gods and Lord of lords,the great God, mighty and awesome, who shows no partiality and accepts no bribes."
- Deuteronomy 10:17
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"For the Lord your God is God of gods and Lord of lords,the great God, mighty and awesome, who shows no partiality and accepts no bribes."
- Deuteronomy 10:17
Exactly! Its been translated, chopped, changed and written in a completely different time with different language and different conditions, yet people will use small exerts to defend what is essentially hatred (dressed up with 'love').
Being a Christian myself, I see many problems with the bible, so I look at Jesus's teachings, because there is a fairly consistent set of teachings within them.
Are you playing semantics now? Are we talking about God as in the christian god being the only god to use a capital G?
Semantics. The fact of the matter is that this verse merely puts "God" on top of other deities. A supreme deity, much like Zeus in Greek mythology.
So how does USA determine who gets welfare and who doesn't?
I disagree. If people can just make stuff up (without any scientific basis), then I'm not sure how that is reality.
Course you can, not sure why you posted that. Can I?
Always remember: freedom of speech doesn't mean freedom of consequence.
Also remember: privately owned forums don't have freedom of speech. There are rules to follow.
Super remember: hate speech isn't covered under freedom of speech in most developed countries.
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I am tired of hearing from these disturbed people who talk of an invisible sky fairy being upset about human rights for all.
Hey, they only use that Deuteronomy and Leviticus **** to hate on gay people.
So you prefer to hear from the disturbed visible ground fairys imposing thier views on the population at large?
So you can decide to be gay right now? Since it's a choice and all. Would you be a top or a bottom?
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No one is imposing their views on anyone, but I can understand how people who hate freedom can interpret it that way.
Because EVERYONE who believes in God is anti-human rights for all. I believe in God and I have no desire to tell people who are gay/l/b/(+) what to do and I'd treat them the same as I'd treat anyone else - as I posted earlier in this thread. Variety makes life interesting. If everyone was the same, this place would be one hell of a boring place. I'll repeat from my original post - why people feel the need to impose (X) on others is beyond me.
I wonder why Apple didn't make this band available to everyone, I imagine they'd make quite a few sales.
Perhaps "girly" men should marry "manly" women, and limit the role-reversal to the bedroom (with marital devices)? Or every homosexual be allowed to become fully transgendered and seek heterosexual coupling (in their new role)?
Again, I don't know the answers to all questions, but I certainly can come up with some...
I hope you were not being serious with that "allowing homosexuals to become transgendered" comment, because those two things, while often discussed in the same context (as "LGBTQ" suggests), should never be confused as being "variations" of each other (for a lack of better word).
A homosexual man is simply that: a man who is attracted to and has sex with other men. It has nothing to do with being "girly" or being transgendered.
I am gay but I am still a man (and definitely not "girly" at that – I have a beard, I don't dress in a feminine fashion, I like many stereotypically manly things, etc.) and haven't got the slightest desire to be a woman; a man is all I've ever wanted to be. I'm perfectly comfortable in my own mind, body and who I'm attracted to. Making me transition into a woman so that I could be in a traditional heterosexual relationship would, simply put, ruin my life for good.
Ask any other gay man and you would be more than likely to hear the same answer (I can't speak for lesbians but I don't think it's any different for them).
And consider this: an FtM (female-to-male) individual can just as well be attracted to other men as a cis-gendered man can.
Yes you did, and your offending posts were removed (got a DM about it). Don't backtrack now.
Your logic is contradictory. You think you can make up and change the definition of homophobia to suit your own purposes or agenda, and I can't do anything about it because I'm not homosexual? At this point I just think you're trolling us because this doesn't make a lick of sense. By that logic I can say that you're persecuting me, because you're not a Christian. See how that works? I have no ill will towards homosexuals, and I support them in wanting to prevent violence against their community and discrimination against them. What else do you want from me? Is the only thing that will satisfy you is to say that I agree with everything you believe? Because that is a very Hitler-like dictatorial behavior.
I feel bad for you. Not even atheists think they're perfect. This is narcissism to an extreme. You are now on my ignore list. Good bye.
I don't make the rules, I just follow them. You don't have to adhere to my beliefs, just respect that I can have different beliefs as I respect your right to your beliefs. That's all I've been talking about in this whole discussion. I don't want to force my beliefs on anyone. There are many happy homosexuals at my church, so it's possible. They find peace in God. My wife's uncle is a priest and he is celibate. He finds peace and joy without a sexual partner. I didn't say it's not difficult, I'm just saying it's not impossible. I only brought it up to explain to that guy who was going around saying that people who have Christian beliefs are terrorists and hate all gays. Turns out he was being completely unreasonable and trolling anyway, so I've ignored him. I'd prefer to remove myself from this debate now, thank you! I have nothing more to say other than, again, I support preventing violence against homosexuals and eliminating discrimination against them. I believe they should be loved as all people should be loved, regardless of conflicting beliefs.
Being a celibate priest goes against nature, to be completely honest with you. This is why Protestants don't bother with the celibate priest nonsense. Humans are social and sexual creatures and the need to love and be loved and spend life with a partner is a human right. No one is going to be celibate to please some people who "disagree" with the way they exist.
Then don't belong to that religion. Simple, but no, you want the religion to adapt to you and that is wrong. The LGBT community's way way to make that transition is on average, hateful.
In your responses you have proven my statements to be very accurate. You want to slap down anyone (revenge) that does not proclaim your sexual views as important and meaningful. But to some they are not. Yes, you have the right to have them. Yes, I will respect them because I am simply not an *******. And if someone punishes you for your views, I will stand up on your side. If you don't want to serve me because I am heterosexual then fine. I am ok with that too because I believe in freedom of choice. If you want to make a law that only applies to certain sexual preferences, then no that is not ok. If you want to make a law that someone has to serve anyone in conflict with their religious beliefs, then no I am not ok with that either. No I am not a Christian, but today I would trust a Christian sight unseen more than I would an LGBT supporter, not based on their sexual preference, but based on the hateful attitude, that attack mentality, and the want to remove freedoms from anyone not in the LGBT community.
But you have to decide, do I have a right to have an opposing view? Yes, or no? And if I have an opposing view, for whatever reason, are you going to call me a bigoted homophobe. If you call me by those labels, then you are the hater, not me. And today this is the problem with the LGBT community. Maybe I picked the wrong words to express myself, but the concepts behind those words still apply. In the 60s there was a problem that needed to be solved and was solved, today the LGBT community has become the problem. That is your communities fault, not mine.
As long as you refer to the only way we are capable of existing as our "sexual views" we will have issues and we'll be vocal about them. Society is on our side, get used to it. Our "community" isn't a problem to anyone who isn't a bigoted homophobe. (There, I said it again, because it's true
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Oh, also the practice of capitalizing certain nouns in the English language only goes back a few centuries. And the concept is not present at all in the ancient languages that the bible was originally written in.
Just think of all the shift keys saved by this! Oh wait... I mean ink!
And 100% agree with your signature.- Status