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Religion Thread: That's Me In the Corner...

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St. Clown said:
So, he was concerned with the true saving graces of his faith.
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Pretty much. As for that "working on Sunday was a sin" comment, at my old church, it wasn't a sin. It was understood that if you needed to work to put food on the table, you do that.

As for my aunt's comments last night: I'm "sinning," I "shouldn't DARE have relations with another man," "godless heathen," "I always knew you were different," and "the only family I have are my kids and grandkids." I chose to be the bigger person and simply not respond to that. Anything coming out of my mouth at that moment would have been something along the lines of "I award you no points, and may God have mercy on your soul."
 
ShirtlessBob said:
Pretty much. As for that "working on Sunday was a sin" comment, at my old church, it wasn't a sin. It was understood that if you needed to work to put food on the table, you do that.

As for my aunt's comments last night: I'm "sinning," I "shouldn't DARE have relations with another man," "godless heathen," "I always knew you were different," and "the only family I have are my kids and grandkids." I chose to be the bigger person and simply not respond to that. Anything coming out of my mouth at that moment would have been something along the lines of "I award you no points, and may God have mercy on your soul."
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Oh my. The, "no son of ours" nonsense. Sorry, Bob.
 
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ShirtlessBob said:
As for my aunt's comments last night: I'm "sinning," I "shouldn't DARE have relations with another man," "godless heathen," "I always knew you were different," and "the only family I have are my kids and grandkids." I chose to be the bigger person and simply not respond to that. Anything coming out of my mouth at that moment would have been something along the lines of "I award you no points, and may God have mercy on your soul."
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That's pretty bad but always bear in mind it's her loss. You're a good person and she's the one who's missing out.
 
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Kepler said:
That's pretty bad but always bear in mind it's her loss. You're a good person and she's the one who's missing out.
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I've discovered three camps of believers on this subject:

A: "We love you for who you are."

B: "You made a choice, but your choices don't affect me and I'm not going to lose my **** over that."

C: "You made a choice, and I will completely lose my ****. How dare you be different!"
 
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ShirtlessBob said:
Wasn't even that. Dad was particularly angry that he was going to miss wine and cracker time at church since he usually comes and supports.
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I was going with you weren't home to pamper him, meet his needs because distance running takes time. 30 wacks with a wet noodle for me.
 
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ShirtlessBob said:
I've discovered three camps of believers on this subject:

A: "We love you for who you are."

B: "You made a choice, but your choices don't affect me and I'm not going to lose my **** over that."

C: "You made a choice, and I will completely lose my ****. How dare you be different!"
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I would stick with B for a response to their response. Not in your space but have heard how my Aunties dealt with it. They were partners for 50 yrs. When same sex marriage became legal here one Auntie was all for coming out and making it legal. The other one was not. She was a very pragmatic soul- she felt it was no one's business what she did in the bedroom. Figured it wasn't worth revealing, dealing with possible rejection when her hetero friends didn't talk about what happened there and so she figured she wasn't going to either. They came out in her obit.

Part of me can understand that. I don't spend a lot of time dwelling on what people do with their genitalia in either same sex or hetero relationships- I don't spend much time thinking about what parts are under their clothes either- unless they happen to be hanging out in a precarious way. It would be weird to think of that every time I talked to someone.

Posing a thought to ponder- Could it be possible you are asking these people to think about things that they wouldn't normally consider thinking about in any person, never mind someone who is talking about something that is foreign to them? Most people try to empathize with the person they when they are working on understanding something. (ie- you tell a story about being afraid of going on a roller-coaster and the person imagines doing it and gets that to be 50ft up may be scary). If they are not used to thinking about gender identity or sex in anyone but themselves- or in a fair amount of people even in themselves- this may be very disturbing to them. If they believe in God is vengeful they may feel they are participating/ 'willfully' sinning by trying to envision the sin even if they don't do it. Some people are very, very fearful of what God if they don't try to stay 'pure in heart and mind'. Personally this is not the God I know but I have known people who were afraid to sneeze lest they sin and be sent to Hell!

I kind of feel sorry for these people- I can't imagine God their way and besides- what did Jesus die for if God is still ****ed all the time?
 
Kepler said:
More funny pranks from a loving, omniscient, and omnipotent God.
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Yeah, this is nothing new. The Beeb just happened to pick up the story this time.

I've driven through Colorado City, on the way to the Grand Canyon. Beautiful setting, for such a squat, miserable-looking little town. If you didn't know any better, you'd guess it was just another remote outpost in the western high desert.
 
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FadeToBlack&Gold said:
Yeah, this is nothing new. The Beeb just happened to pick up the story this time.

I've driven through Colorado City, on the way to the Grand Canyon. Beautiful setting, for such a squat, miserable-looking little town. If you didn't know any better, you'd guess it was just another remote outpost in the western high desert.
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Is that the town right on the CO/AZ border where Warren Jeffs ran his pedophilia church? They should just roll into every one of those cesspools and pull the kids out. They're all ripe for the Waco Treatment.
 
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Jordan Peterson was banned from youtube for "religious content." His lecture series is on the evolutionary meta-meaning of the old testament stories.... but his many and vocal enemies' unspoken complaint is about his ongoing feud with transgender activists in Toronto.
The ban is shocking if you've heard this guy, the lectures are fascinating. Peterson's interviews on Sam Harris and Joe Rogan's pods are the best podcasts I've heard in the past year.
 
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We've seen this before with "Fair Use" claims. Google is compelled to investigate when they get DMCA violation complaints, or a certain threshold of TOS abuse reports - I think the account just gets auto-flagged for review, like a credit card with charges that are out of the usual pattern. Unfortunately, the burden of proof is left on the account holder/content creator. As long as he's not advocating or inciting violence in his videos, or doxxing his enemies, he should be able to get reinstated.

Unfortunately, cases like this are just fuel for right-wing media to whine about left-wing bias and intolerance of Christianity and contrary opinions.
 
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