No. My point would be similar to condemning Omar talking about how much of a threat Trump is, but ignoring all the Islamic based hate and murder.
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No. My point would be similar to condemning Omar talking about how much of a threat Trump is, but ignoring all the Islamic based hate and murder.
I agree with the arrogance of the church not allowing marriage being a huge contribution to their problems. But their arrogance seems to be status quo if you reference history.
Correction, I don't think it's illogical that god exists, I think the one you describe and the behavior of most of it's followers is illogical and constantly hypocritical.
Well bless your heart.... thank you for providing some reference to what I've been saying.
The Bible (Jesus himself) doesn't approve of divorce. Divorce causes multiple people to sin and impoverishes untold generations. If the Church took divorce too seriously, they'd lose 50% of their customers.
If they stay serious about the homos they only lose 4% of their customers. What should they do? The dullest pencil in the drawer can figure that out.
If they stay serious about the homos they only lose 4% of their customers. What should they do? The dullest pencil in the drawer can figure that out.
I’m part of a local church that doesn’t have any assets or take any donations. We believe tithing is a Judaic command that God does not expect of anyone who doesn’t practice Judaism, and isn’t even possible today (show me an Aaronic priest and I’ll consider tithing). So no “customers” here. Individually we give generously to each other and to people in need outside the church.
We also teach, as the Bible instructs, that divorce is never God’s desire, that it is only permissible in cases of unrepentant or habitual infidelity, and that even when it is permitted, it’s better to stay married. And someone who has divorced or been divorced impermissibly commits adultery if they remarry someone other than their spouse. Minor note of interest: 50% of people being divorced is a false statistic.
Y’all (especially @JD8) talk about the Church as if it’s all one big homogenous human institution that’s centrally controlled and all the problems ever seen in the Church throughout history apply to every church that gathers now. I can’t help that the Roman Catholic Church covers up child abuse. I’m not part of that organization and I don’t even believe they teach Christianity (even though there are many Catholics who are Christians). Child abuse is wrong and anyone who tries to cover it up is wrong. I can say that. What else do you expect me to do? It’s a cynical fantasy to think most Christians hold anything but disgust and condemnation for any kind of child abuse. And using that as an excuse for calling us hypocritical when we speak against other sin and its influence on society is, at best, intellectually dishonest.
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The other part of this is you don’t even need to be a Christian or believe that transgenderism is sin to see how embracing and encouraging transgenderism is harmful both to the individuals suffering from it and society at large, especially because of the insidious tactics being used to promote it.
Ethan, I have no desire to offend you personally and when I say "The" Church that pretty much means Mother Church The Church of Rome. There are plenty of good people in plenty of churches. There are country churches where nobody makes a dime. I've seen all this kind of stuff and people of faith should believe what they need to believe. I'm a pretty tolerant person in real life.
I make generalized statements about the clergy in general based upon what I've seen in general. Most people do that. This thread does that. The thread, I thought, was about LBGTQ and probably some other letters I don't know yet because I don't read the twitter. Most pedophilia has nothing to do with anybody's church. The point, addressed mostly to other people than you is that there is no link between pedophilia and "The Gay" The desire for Adults of the same sex does not transfer to the desire for children of either sex.
Most of those crimes are committed by straight people any way. It's kind of ridiculous for people to foresee the legalization of pedophilia, because it will always be wrong and it will fortunately always be illegal. The vast majority of people love kids, and kids have rights.
I don't know what your personal view of divorce is and don't particularly want to do. I'm completely in favor of legalized divorce, but as the Man said, it is a sin which also causes others to sin. It harms generations and a man is responsible for three generations. It arguably causes MORE societal harm than the reproductive dead end of Homoism. Arguably is what I'm saying arguably. I'm not flapping a big book at anybody. I'm just talking.
As for intellectual dishonesty, and hypocricy there's plenty of that going around and always has been.
I make generalized statements about the clergy in general based upon what I've seen in general. Most people do that. This thread does that. The thread, I thought, was about LBGTQ and probably some other letters I don't know yet because I don't read the twitter. Most pedophilia has nothing to do with anybody's church. The point, addressed mostly to other people than you is that there is no link between pedophilia and "The Gay" The desire for Adults of the same sex does not transfer to the desire for children of either sex.
Most of those crimes are committed by straight people any way. It's kind of ridiculous for people to foresee the legalization of pedophilia, because it will always be wrong and it will fortunately always be illegal. The vast majority of people love kids, and kids have rights.
I don't know what your personal view of divorce is and don't particularly want to do. I'm completely in favor of legalized divorce, but as the Man said, it is a sin which also causes others to sin. It harms generations and a man is responsible for three generations. It arguably causes MORE societal harm than the reproductive dead end of Homoism. Arguably is what I'm saying arguably. I'm not flapping a big book at anybody. I'm just talking.
As for intellectual dishonesty, and hypocricy there's plenty of that going around and always has been.
