JustDisGuy

Modern Christianity under the New Covenant has two laws. Love thy God, and Love thy Neighbor. From what I understand, most every major religion has some form of that second law, which essentially boils down to "Do unto others as you would have them do unto you." Sounds like an excellent world indeed.

Someone appeared to have misunderstood me, and implied that I was in favour of intolerance. Not at all. I try every day to live up the the two laws above, and don't draw the line at homosexuals. Where I do draw the line is in granting special interest groups (homosexuals, agnostics, whatever) sufficient authority to change the way in which our largely Christian population lives, in order to satisfy THEIR sense of propriety. In relation to the homosexual issue raised above, I believe that the traditional nuclear family is the underpinning of our society, and that unless steps are taken to protect and encourage that basic building block, we're pretty much done for. Of course, my religion tells me that I should be pleased, because if the end is near of course our reward is also near.

As for what went before not necessarily being better than what goes now, I will say only this. There are problems now, and there were problems then. One set of problems may or may not be worse than the other set. Here's what I know about that. When I was younger, we knew everyone in our neighborhood. We didn't lock our doors, our keys were in the ignition where they could be easily found and children respected their elders. Now, I know the names of some of my neighbors, we have double locked doors and an alarm system, we have a remote starter for the vehicle so that we can start it without having to leave the keys in it and the children on my block cuss better than any sailor, and as a matter of course. I happen to think our parents and their parents had it right, and we've gone and screwed things up by being too tolerant of deviants and special interest groups. Of course, there are shades of grey and nothing is black and white but being tolerant of someone's religion and granting homosexuals legal marital status are not the same thing at all.

LOL - what Truth is that? Seems to me that I've heard many scientific 'truths' over the years... but of course you are willing to take the most basic ones on faith. For example, you believe in the Evolution theory, correct? That man evolved from apes, which had previously evolved ultimately from microbes in some primordial soup, that got hit by lightning or something, right? Seems to me, you're taking that on faith my friend, unless you happen to be privy to the existence of a 'missing link'? Perhaps you can explain why Evolution seems to have suddenly halted, and we don't see apes and monkeys that are half-way to human wandering around today?

What about the one about how nothing can go faster than the speed of light? Fact is, there have been recent experiments that accelerated particles beyond the speed of light. Huh. So much for Truth, eh? Apparently, Science is just so much conjecture that one "believes" in until something better comes along. You may not like it, but Science is as much a faith-based religion as Christianity.

That whole diatribe is of course off-topic for the thread, and I must apologize for allowing myself to be Trolled. I think 'tolerance' of others and their beliefs is fine. I think that forcing the majority to accept deviance as a norm is not fine. The practice of the majority rule is what is called Democracy, and of course bears no resemblance whatsoever to our daily lives. That, I think, is also not fine.

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