America's Social Pillars Falling Like Dominoes.
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witness23
Veteran Expediter
You have a choice, either stop your gluttonous ways and make right with Christ or dine on rats, toads and snakes.
Take your own hypocritical advice and stop fulfilling the lust of the flesh.
You could always pray the fat away.
You just keep reassuring yourself as to what anyone can do against a ceaseless attack and harangue by aggressive, radical activist organizations. As to character, gays span the gamut of character quality and lack thereof just as does every other group. So yes, some of the gays involved are of bad character. My comments though have addressed radicals with agendas intruding where they have no business not character or the lack thereof of said radicals.
A personal observation. In my life's journey it has been my experience that those who profess the loudest about being "Christian" are anything but when it comes to practicing it.
Well, I sure don't envy them. [If I were a believer, I'd say "There, but for the grace of God..." right?] It being totally outside one's power to choose, any one of us could have been born that way - including me.
Every ugly and hateful slur [yes, AMonger, that includes yours] directed against homosexuals is derived from a religious belief and/or the Bible, but not every person shares those beliefs, so why should they be imposed on those of us who don't agree with them?
If the implication is that I don't 'see' or concede the pressure placed on the BSA, you're wrong. But I see much much worse pressure placed on pro choice people, with billboards everywhere that feature adorable innocent babies [totally dishonest, because it's all about emotion, not facts or rights], and protesters marching outside Planned Parenthood locations, [at least they quit bombing them!] and legislatures in many states creating legislation to limit the availability of legal abortion [to please the right wing crowd who keep their campaign chests funded] and oh, yes: the deaths of doctors who perform legal abortion - all of which has continued unabated for 40 freaking years already, and are the pro choice people changing their minds?
Nope, because they believe they are right, and there is no pressure that can change that belief.
If the BSA believes they are right, they should stand firm - if they don't, well....
The primary imposition of beliefs is from left wing, in your face activates, who don't believe in the rights of a free people to associate with whom they choose and ONLY with whom they choose. I don't see many normal people filing law suits over this, that and the other, only the almost lunatic, mind others business fringe does that.
AMonger
Veteran Expediter
You are ignorant of scripture. The Bible tells us that the truths of scripture are spiritually discerned, that the unregenerate cannot understand, and you are proof of that.
You fail to continue reading to verse two, which is a fault of nearly everyone who plucks that verse out of context.
Hypocrisy is an issue, yes, but in the insurance of holding someone to a standard other than that to which you hold yourself.
My sin? I call it sin. And you read how I said that those who are tempted by
gotry and resist it are admirable.No hypocrisy to be found.
AMonger
Veteran Expediter
That's not true. Most people recognize, religion aside, that
gotry is unnatural and perverse. Even children know it, inherently. For those who are, for whatever reason, morally bankrupt, religion also tells them that
gotry is wrong. God prohibits it, so it's wrong whether you can recognize it or not.
AMonger
Veteran Expediter
Don't know where you're getting that. It's extrascriptural, so it's wrong. And again, since I won't be in hell, I won't be eating anything there.
As the Bible tells us, Blessed is the man whose sin is not held against him. No merit of mine, just the mercy of God.
It's true that overeating, similar to gluttony, is a sin of the flesh. Could we agree that both it and
gotry are sins of the flesh?Won't be necessary. I'm studying the primal diet. Food volume might not be the issue, but eating things that aren't suitable for 21st century Westerners. Life is much easier for us than for even our grandparents and especially great-grandparents, let alone humans in Biblical times. Eating grains, which pack on the pounds, is a problem affecting most Americans.
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Why bring abortion into this discussion? A cursory look indicates 4 American abortion doctors have been killed in the past 20 years... while during the same period 20 million babies have perished to abortion. For many observers, abortion is the greatest moral wrong since slavery. Someday, in a more enlightened era, humans will look back on the abortion craze with horror; just as slavery was an abomination.
Someday, the abomination will be seen as forcing women to bear children they didn't want, or risk 'back alley' abortions.
In an age of enlightenment, every baby born will be wanted and welcomed.
We're not there yet, because accidents happen, birth control fails, humans fail, and unintended pregnancies happen.
Ban abortion, and women will find other ways to end them, just as they always have. That doesn't look like enlightenment to me.
The pro-slavery groups made their excuses. The pro-abortion forces do likewise. It will be settled one day.
Yeah, those poor pro death people, so mistreated by the pro life people. And those dam babies, imagine thinking they have the right to live instead of being murdered by those innocent, perfectly reasonable pro death people.
Oh, and I didn't add in any of that huge amount of annoying formatting stuff. I just took out the / parts to highlight how intrusive it is.
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RLENT
Veteran Expediter
If this were being said by someone who was a big fan of state-sanctioned purveyors of violence and death I might just think it a tad bit hypocritical ...
... oh ... wait ...
Obamacare?...Guns?...Gay Marriage?..Gay Rights?..Repeal of Don't ask don't tell?...Immigration?....hmmm. Where are the people winning these fights again?...just sayin