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So, what is to be gained from not "exposing" people to things beyond what their parents consider "normal" or "moral"? What is to be lost through the expansion of knowledge and the breaking of senseless taboos?

I haven't posted in this thread before now, because the OP assumed I would merely be trying to justify my personal choices in life (FYI, I've spent more years biblically condemning myself than I have accepting how God made me). Not that I was too offended by that, either. As instructed, I'm not...

Now, on to my subject for this thread =) A worrying trend towards insularity seems to be further developing amongst people, with regards to the subject of homosexuality. "Us versus them" mentality. As uncontestable evidence, let us take this very forum; that avoids me having to post external...

Huzzah for dire monotony. Threads in this forum are so droll and predictable it's not even funny any more. Slander, politics, one non sequitur after another, hyperbole, propaganda, assumption, accusation, self-justification, emotion, dogma, slogans, disapprobation, stereotype, et al., all...

And so it begins to degenerate, once again, into the insipient premise that "it's all about sex". Trying to simplify and generalise that which is fundamentally complex and subjective. Equating emotional responses to mental reasoning. Would homosexuals take the hypothetical "straight pill"...

Guilty. For many years. The answer was a pretty clear "no" from the man upstairs. Once I started listening, life started to improve. Funny how He always seems to know best, eh?

So, from the horses' mouths, there is to be no debate on this issue of homosexuality in the Debates on Homosexuality forum, a man and a woman can be a same-sex couple, I will have to answer for my insanity (I thought insane people were usually deemed not culpable by our legal system?) and I...

There. The double standard. With the more "harmless"/mostly decided issue (in today's day and age) of women actually being human beings, you can accept question. But with the issue of sexuality, because of your world view, you cannot see or accept any arguments against your opinion. You flatly...

savedandhappy1: Firstly, I wasn't quoting you in the OP; I'm not sure if you got the impression that I did or not, but just to clarify. And do forgive me for being unclear, as it seems you have misinterpreted a number of my sentences. I don't quite see from your post how you explained my...

Posted in a thread discussing whether on not women should wear head coverings, on the basis of text in 1Corinthians11. I have not included the poster, to emphasise that this is not meant as a personal slight. Please do not take it that way, or attempt to make it out as one. There are other...

The experts didn't "go wrong" so much as "get influenced by the society they lived in". Much like the experts who thought slavery was good, or those who thought interracial couplings were of the devil. Or, if you do some reading into the background of Romans and its subsequent translations, the...

This thread makes for some bizarre reading. And the bit of that Government document that keeps getting quoted dates back to the early 80s... Maybe we should all just read comics instead. http://russellsteapot.com/comics/2007/Cain-offered-red-herring.html...

That section amused me quite a bit. Accusing the "opposite side" of taking verses out of context and reading into them meanings that aren't there...just before they do that very thing, using verses without any thought to context. Can anyone say "character assassination"? How about "hypocrisy"...

But what you're missing is that the "here and now" is neither irrelevant nor insignificant. So much of what Jesus taught was about how we live our lives to the fullest, enjoying them most, serving others and God both through and because of our joy in life. "Eternal life is knowing the Father and...

Forgive me if I presume wrong, but I think I know where timmeh is coming from. Personally, I am a highly critical and analytical character; if I believe (in) something, or have an opinion etc, I have to make sure I pull it to pieces and understand it, really know it first, in order to have any...

:eek: That is quite far from the first thing a kid needs to hear in such a situation. As for confirming that they should feel guilty about hurting their parents with something that isn't their fault....I'm not sure what to say to that. It is perfectly within your rights as a parent to restrict...

:amen: That was really well put. I quoted it, because I completely missed it the first few times round, and wonder if anyone did the same. If it were the case that there were an all-encompassing answer that always worked, then we wouldn't need the scriptures. The fact that we can't...

Well, technically, it is a tautology:[/FONT][/COLOR]play_w("T0061700") 1. a. Needless repetition of the same sense in different words; redundancy. b. An instance of such repetition. 2. Logic An empty or vacuous statement composed of simpler statements in a fashion that makes it logically true...

Κοινη, NLT, NIV, KJV, NKJV, The Message, Amplified, NASB. Generally. Some of these use "homosexual" in places, others "sodomites" etc/more vague terms, Greek bibles don't use the word for 'homosexual' as it is understood in today's English. These arguments have been...

I don't want comfort, sympathy or pity. So thank you for withholding it. I'd be wary of despising people, though. But don't you see? That was part of my initial point. We have two sides who each claim their teaching is right. Show me the fruits that prove one side right and the other wrong...