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Originally posted by halfoldman
Well aren't theists break-aways from another church, and those churches splits from others until you get a Catholic Church with a Vatican state?
Originally posted by halfoldman
OK. My point is: if it wasn't for splits (what you term devil's work) your church wouldn't exist (you'd still be "Jewish", like the apostles). Your church is the result of devil's work (splits) in that case. The opposite of "devil's work" is thus by your logic "unification", or "re-unification". So let's unify all gay people around a state.
Originally posted by Doc Velocity
Originally posted by halfoldman
OK. My point is: if it wasn't for splits (what you term devil's work) your church wouldn't exist (you'd still be "Jewish", like the apostles). Your church is the result of devil's work (splits) in that case. The opposite of "devil's work" is thus by your logic "unification", or "re-unification". So let's unify all gay people around a state.
Well, yes, division is the devil's work. But the emergence of Christianity was based on one group of Jews accepting Jesus as the promised messiah. What we call Judaism today is the branch that doesn't accept Jesus as the messiah. So these are actually 2 distinctly different religions, not mere offshoots.
My church exists because of Jesus Christ's work, not the devil's.
But you're trying to change the subject. The fact is that most gays just want the freedom to get along in society without having to discuss homosexuality or heterosexuality every time they turn around. Face it, there's not that much homophobia in Western Civilization anymore. We have adapted pretty quickly.
However, there are those in the "gay community" who want (need) to keep homophobia alive in order to justify their own radical political agendas. Same thing with those who are keeping racism alive in the West — racism is basically dead in the West, but minority activists have to keep shouting RACISM! to justify their existence.
My point is, creating a new Gay Nation is running away from the larger problem, rather than addressing and resolving it.
— Doc Velocity
Well, then go back to the Catholic church (the only surviving original Western church) and stop splitting!
I'm no Jewish scholar, but to say that an older form of a religion relies on a later reformed off-shoot to define itself is illogical. Your tradition has spilt from them, just as Luther eventualy split from Catholicism.
The idea you now introduced (in antithesis to your earlier "gay friendly" none-judgement) is just as ridiculous. To see the blatant, even admissions of violence (knocking out teeth) dislike of gays see the post by andy 1033 "Why would the idea of a gay man frighten other males so much?". It's not all anti-gay, but the hatred becomes especially blatant in the last five or six pages. Sure, getting assaulted is a figment of our imagination. Do you ever read on the global situation of gay people, or do you assume your home-town is the only situation? Have you read how many men suspected of homosexuality have been murdered in Iraq this year?
Do you know that most democracies and republics exist today because they split (sometimes violently, like the USA) from Britain? How wicked of them.
Racism in the West must be controlled by law, or the sentiment evident all across the web would spill out into violent xenophobia.
[edit on 11/4/2009 by Doc Velocity]
Originally posted by chiron613
No. The "sin of Sodom" was inhospitality, not homosexuality.
Originally posted by HotSauce
reply to post by halfoldman
If we gave you your own nation, wouldnt you all die off since you cannot reproduce? Just asking?