Far too many religious people define themselves by what they hate, and measure their own worth by how much hatred they can stir up.
Excellent observation.
Personally, I'd like to see all these hateful "Family" outfits treated the same way as other hate mongers that are currently dealt with harshly by law, like neo-Nazis and Islamists.
When law enforcement acts like they're supposed to (in the USA), such extremists only get nailed when they start breaking laws.
That's my view as well. Let the state manage the necessary legal aspects of a union, and let couples add a religious sacrament on top if they wish.
Which is in fact how it usually works in practice. The only problem is when people think that their religious (or non-religious) prejudices should dictate who can participate in the legal arrangement.
That is such semantic nonsense. Heterosexuals have the right to marry the person they romantically love. Homosexuals do not have that right in most of the United States.
I.e., "everyone has the right to do whatever I say they can do".
That always confounded me - why on earth would an earnest religious person turn away someone from their church, just because they were a sinner? Aren't non-christians the people you -want- to come to church? Afterall, Christ did lunch with sinners, and preached love and compassion. It's become clear to me that many christians (but not all) are not interested in saving souls, but only about their social club that lets them feel superior to people who are not Them - the other, the different, the outsider. It used to be the jews and gypsies until it became unpopular to ostracise them - now it's the gays and muslims.
What's even stranger is that they want to pass laws so that secular law enforcement will coerce everyone into observing their inhibitions. Like that would help anyone get to Heaven, according to their doctrine.
"Religious Right" is just a euphemism for "sex obsessed control freaks".
In British English, a billion used to be equivalent to a million million (i.e. 1,000,000,000,000), while in American English it has always equated to a thousand million (i.e. 1,000,000,000). British English has now adopted the American figure, though, so that a billion equals a thousand million in both varieties of English.
I bet their billionaires didn't appreciate the downgrade.
No one is going to take time to give you a basic high school education on the internet. Posting as AC because you don't want people to know you are a whackjob is more like it.
Probably trolling. Creationists don't usually feel a need to hide their identity, because they think *they're* the ones with sane views.
Why pay all the premiums when you can just sign up when you're diagnosed and get everything paid for.
Sometimes it costs a lot of money to get diagnosed. Sometimes you get whisked away to the hospital for an injury, and spend all the money before you're patched up enough to apply for insurance.
There may be some point to what you say, but it doesn't seem to be certain.
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I find that if I can substitute the word "bigot" in place of the word "family" and the title still fits, then I don't listen to that organization.
Great suggestion.
So to you, relationships are based solely upon a prudes view of sex? I hope you're not paying much for boring sex.
Everything he knows about life, he learned from his game console.
The various plugs, cables, and ports on my game console have male and female ends.
It's no coincidence that the male part and female part mate up much better than male-male or female-female connections.
Maybe someone should tell you how well the male penis fits the male anus.
You can ask your favorite theologian why God chose to make it that way.
Far too many religious people define themselves by what they hate, and measure their own worth by how much hatred they can stir up.
Excellent observation.
Personally, I'd like to see all these hateful "Family" outfits treated the same way as other hate mongers that are currently dealt with harshly by law, like neo-Nazis and Islamists.
When law enforcement acts like they're supposed to (in the USA), such extremists only get nailed when they start breaking laws.
Any place, game or person that condones homosexuality is going straight to hell.
That's funny... God told me that it's the heterosexuals that are going to hell.
And if you don't believe me, I'll write it in a sacred book so you can read it for yourself.
No, instead, these idiots want regulation and law to enforce their standards and ideals on others. Have some personal accountability.
A threat of a boycott (which is what the letters are about) has nothing to do with regulation and laws.
But the same people *do* want laws.
These people only have a media outlet because we even listen to them. They might as well just burn these letters.
If someone would tell Ric and Fred that Teh Gay isn't contagious, the problem would probably go away.
But some companies are finally starting to show some backbone. JCPenny stood up to the "million moms" hate campaign, and they eventually gave it up.
Actually, he's right. The god of the bible is a tyrannical child deeming seemingly random things as "sins."
He also punished Saul for not being thorough enough in carrying out his ordained mission of genocide.
Gay people have a specific burden to bear, to deny themselves of their own sexual desires...
And it's you who is asking them to bear that burden.
Would you comply if they expected you to deny yourself your heterosexuality?
BTW being gay is natural.
So is wanting to punch someone in the face when they do something to make you angry. Doesn't mean I have to actually punch people in the face.
The difference is that a gay couple that wants to get married is a pair of consenting adults, whereas you and whoever owns the face presumably aren't.
That's my view as well. Let the state manage the necessary legal aspects of a union, and let couples add a religious sacrament on top if they wish.
Which is in fact how it usually works in practice. The only problem is when people think that their religious (or non-religious) prejudices should dictate who can participate in the legal arrangement.
That is such semantic nonsense. Heterosexuals have the right to marry the person they romantically love. Homosexuals do not have that right in most of the United States.
I.e., "everyone has the right to do whatever I say they can do".
I believe homosexual acts are a sin
Biologists, OTOH, realize that it has something to do with the organization of your brain.
Do you think lefties are sinners? People used to try to make them use their right hands.
You're condemning people for what they are, not for some "vice" that they elected to adopt.
A friend of mines family got kicked out of their church because their new son had down syndrome or touched by the devil as the called it.
Hopefully they realize that they didn't lose anything.
This.
That always confounded me - why on earth would an earnest religious person turn away someone from their church, just because they were a sinner? Aren't non-christians the people you -want- to come to church? Afterall, Christ did lunch with sinners, and preached love and compassion. It's become clear to me that many christians (but not all) are not interested in saving souls, but only about their social club that lets them feel superior to people who are not Them - the other, the different, the outsider. It used to be the jews and gypsies until it became unpopular to ostracise them - now it's the gays and muslims.
What's even stranger is that they want to pass laws so that secular law enforcement will coerce everyone into observing their inhibitions. Like that would help anyone get to Heaven, according to their doctrine.
"Religious Right" is just a euphemism for "sex obsessed control freaks".
Why do some of the stars look like they've got holes in them?
Redactions.
Some of those "stars" are probably binaries.
Now if we could just get a 150,000 megapixel image of the daytime sky, we wouldn't have to go outside at all.
You go outside? In the daytime???
Tell me again about your "personal relationship" with the being that created all of that?
Sorry but what does size of the universe have to do with that? You seem to have a lack of self esteem
Hey, our species created the being that "created" all of that. We should have esteem++.
Unless we're not delusional.
In British English, a billion used to be equivalent to a million million (i.e. 1,000,000,000,000), while in American English it has always equated to a thousand million (i.e. 1,000,000,000). British English has now adopted the American figure, though, so that a billion equals a thousand million in both varieties of English.
I bet their billionaires didn't appreciate the downgrade.
I've always thought "quintillion" was a number people use when they can't understand how big a number is.
No, that's "gazillion".
Yeah but then you get people playing games like using megaseconds to measure a year.
I have some medicine whose dosage is "1000 mg".
(A year is very approximately 30*pi megaseconds, if you don't mind shitty approximations.)
Ah, I always wondered why people say "year round".
No one is going to take time to give you a basic high school education on the internet. Posting as AC because you don't want people to know you are a whackjob is more like it.
Probably trolling. Creationists don't usually feel a need to hide their identity, because they think *they're* the ones with sane views.
Is it Y.huali or Y.hulai ? The article has both spellings.
I had to look at the article's date, to make sure they weren't joking about U.hauli, I.foani, E.maili, A.bicidi, etc.
Why pay all the premiums when you can just sign up when you're diagnosed and get everything paid for.
Sometimes it costs a lot of money to get diagnosed. Sometimes you get whisked away to the hospital for an injury, and spend all the money before you're patched up enough to apply for insurance.
There may be some point to what you say, but it doesn't seem to be certain.