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  • I Ilion

    BoneSoft wrote:

    Exactly. I honestly have no idea why he keeps blathering about science not being about truth, when he's the only one that's tried to point out a correlation between the two.

    I keep "blathering" because you people don't really believe (nor probably even really understand) what you youselves are saying. Look at yourselves! Look at your reactions to the straigh-forward (and true) statement that "Science isn't about truth."

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    I'm having difficulty believing that you're this stupid. I mean, I've met idiots before, but you're on a whole different level. Your inanity is almost an artform.

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      On the other hand, what if being homo-phobic also is not a life style choice. My first innate reaction upon being made aware of the existence of homosexuality was instant revulsion. Does that mean I am genetically predisposed to be that way? If so, is the way I was born as acceptable in a secular world as homosexuality is in a chritian one? Or, do I need treatment?

      The only conspiracies that concern me are the ones I am completely unaware of. By the time I find out about it, its probably a done deal. Nothing in the entire universe is more useless than morality without authority. A morality free of hypocrisy is no morality at all. Freedom is not something you express with your genitals, it is something you express with your mind.

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      Tut, tut! You're not supposed to use reason around these folk! (It sets off a nasty alergic reaction)

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      • I Ilion

        I live in the real world. And in the real world, Christians (whether "real" [as M.F. might put it] or merely cultural) are most assuredly not on the fast track to becoming a minority. The European nations may be the fast track to becoming minorities within their own countries, but Christianity in the world-as-a-whole is growing. "Europeans" and "Christians" are two different groups. edit: Are you even aware that Christians in "Third World" nations are not only evangelizing their own nations but actually sending missionaries back to evangelize "post-Christian" Europe and North America? Do you even comprehend that *part* of the reason there is such a brouha in the "World-wide Anglican Communion" over the "gay issue" is because "Third World" Anglicans -- who take their Christianity seriously -- outnumber Episcopalians?

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        :laugh: :laugh: :laugh: :laugh: Will you be my science project? Troy D. Hailey - genius, or cretin? :laugh: :laugh: :laugh: :laugh:

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        • I Ilion

          Rob Graham wrote:

          I'd be more interested in a cure for Islam.

          It's called "Christianity" ... that's the only thing that's going to do it. [This, in itself, isn't proof that Christianity is true; but that's a different issue.] If the nations of Europe want to save themselves from Islam, they (as national societies) are going to have to sincerely re-convert to Christianity. I expect them to try Fascism, instead. Islam -- for all its barbarity and backwardness -- is at least something; whereas "secular humanisn" is a big nothing. And, it's impossible to beat something with nothing.

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          • I Ilion

            Tut, tut! You're not supposed to use reason around these folk! (It sets off a nasty alergic reaction)

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            • E Edmundisme

              Are you quiet certain that sexual orientation is a choice? I'm heterosexual, but I don't recall ever making that choice. At some point, I started to become very aware of women. They became tantalizing to me. I cannot fathom that you or I make choices about what we find attractive. Now, being gay isn't a lifestyle at all. Being heterosexual isn't a lifestyle. Marriage is a lifestyle. celibacy is a lifestyle. Keeping lovers is a lifestyle. Being gay is not tantamount to having a gay lifestyle. How you choose to live your life, according to or in spite of your tendencies is your lifestyle. I think the manner in which the Church has viewed and treated homosexuals is a disgrace. Why must it be a choice? I think I know the answer. We're afraid of the implication if it's not. If it's a choice, then it's their own fault. If it's not a choice, it must be God's fault! Let's examine this implication from the perspective of Christian doctrine. God created you. You are a sinner. And, according to sound Christian doctrine, this was not a choice of yours. You were born into it! Born into a state of sinfulness due to the original sin and subsequent fall of mankind. So here I find myself, as Paul did, doing what I don't want to do, and not doing the things I want to do! There is a conflict in my person. I want to keep things for myself, but I know I should give to others. I behave selfishly when I know I should be kind. I tell a lie when I know I should tell the truth. I desire men, when I know I shouldn't... Hold the phone! WE DRAW THE LINE AT SEXUAL ORIENTATION! Yes, you didn't choose to struggle with pride, honesty, selfishness, or lusting after those of the same gender, but homosexuality? By golly, that's your own choice you pervert! So we have a real problem with the idea that God created someone, and that someone is predisposed to being attracted to the same sex. But can the pot say to the potter, why did you make me this way? You are not good because you are not gay. Someone else is not bad because they are gay. According to the bible, no one is good - not one. All have sinned and fallen short of the glory of God. It is only by God's grace and mercy that I am able to obey and love him at all. That is Christianity; God, by his grace, sending Jesus to die in our place for all our sins, and we the saved, seeking to lovingly obey and seek him with no strings attached. As Paul said, What a wretched man I am! Who will rescue me from this body of death? Thanks be

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              Over-all, an excellent post.

              Edmundisme wrote:

              Are you quiet certain that sexual orientation is a choice? I'm heterosexual, but I don't recall ever making that choice. At some point, I started to become very aware of women. They became tantalizing to me. I cannot fathom that you or I make choices about what we find attractive.

              But here (at the very beginning) we get into a bit of confusion ... some of it intentionally fostered by the "gay lobby." The particular confusion I have in mind at the moment is the common confusion around the terms "sexual orientation" and/or "sexual preference" (and the long-term attempt to decree "sexual preference" an invalid concept). Also, I have in mind the false dichotomy set up (often intentionally and disingenuously) by asking things like "Do you believe that homosexuality is *a* choice or is it biological?" (As, for instance, here[^]) The correct understanding is choices. It is a multiplicity of choices ... both of the individual person in reacting to his/her life-events and of other persons in presenting those life-events ... which is decisive in this person being "gay" and that person being "straight."

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                Colin Angus Mackay wrote:

                [nothing, really]

                You're not paying attention, Mr Mackay: either to what I said, or to the wider currents in historical reality to which I referred. Allow me to put it to you simply: "The future belongs to those who show up -- and anti-Christians, in general, are not showing up." You people are becoming so shrill of late because present reality is showing to be false the 200-year-old secularist prophesies that "religion" is going to die out. That, and the fact that the general populace are realizing that you "rationalists" are every bit as religious -- indeed, you people are akin to fideists -- as the most "fundie" of fundamentalists.

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                No, say something interesting!

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                • S soap brain

                  :zzz: You're boring everyone. :zzz:

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                  Then go away, Pinhead.

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                  • S Stan Shannon

                    Well, yeah, but than she's not taking on Christians and pretending shes waging some kind of campaign against evil like the rest of you guys do - she's taking on Islam, the real McCoy. Thats completely different. If you guys were doing that, I'd be right behind you all the way (although at a good distance).

                    The only conspiracies that concern me are the ones I am completely unaware of. By the time I find out about it, its probably a done deal. Nothing in the entire universe is more useless than morality without authority. A morality free of hypocrisy is no morality at all. Freedom is not something you express with your genitals, it is something you express with your mind.

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                    Stan Shannon wrote:

                    Well, yeah, but than she's not taking on Christians and pretending shes waging some kind of campaign against evil like the rest of you guys do - she's taking on Islam, the real McCoy. Thats completely different. If you guys were doing that, I'd be right behind you all the way (although at a good distance).

                    An amusing reply. However, it rather misses the point that she represents a counter-example to your claim that: "Secular Humanists are not exactly into that whole "courage" thing." More generally, I would be confident that in countries like Pakistan and Iran, it is the secularists who provide most of what opposition exists to Islamic extremism. All around the world, people tend to focus on what is in their own backyard, both because that is what they care about most and because that is generally where they can have the most impact.

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                    • I Ilion

                      Then go away, Pinhead.

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                      Stealing my insults is BORING! :zzz: :zzz: :zzz:

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                      • I Ilion

                        Over-all, an excellent post.

                        Edmundisme wrote:

                        Are you quiet certain that sexual orientation is a choice? I'm heterosexual, but I don't recall ever making that choice. At some point, I started to become very aware of women. They became tantalizing to me. I cannot fathom that you or I make choices about what we find attractive.

                        But here (at the very beginning) we get into a bit of confusion ... some of it intentionally fostered by the "gay lobby." The particular confusion I have in mind at the moment is the common confusion around the terms "sexual orientation" and/or "sexual preference" (and the long-term attempt to decree "sexual preference" an invalid concept). Also, I have in mind the false dichotomy set up (often intentionally and disingenuously) by asking things like "Do you believe that homosexuality is *a* choice or is it biological?" (As, for instance, here[^]) The correct understanding is choices. It is a multiplicity of choices ... both of the individual person in reacting to his/her life-events and of other persons in presenting those life-events ... which is decisive in this person being "gay" and that person being "straight."

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                        Boring. Tell a joke.

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                        • I Ilion

                          Over-all, an excellent post.

                          Edmundisme wrote:

                          Are you quiet certain that sexual orientation is a choice? I'm heterosexual, but I don't recall ever making that choice. At some point, I started to become very aware of women. They became tantalizing to me. I cannot fathom that you or I make choices about what we find attractive.

                          But here (at the very beginning) we get into a bit of confusion ... some of it intentionally fostered by the "gay lobby." The particular confusion I have in mind at the moment is the common confusion around the terms "sexual orientation" and/or "sexual preference" (and the long-term attempt to decree "sexual preference" an invalid concept). Also, I have in mind the false dichotomy set up (often intentionally and disingenuously) by asking things like "Do you believe that homosexuality is *a* choice or is it biological?" (As, for instance, here[^]) The correct understanding is choices. It is a multiplicity of choices ... both of the individual person in reacting to his/her life-events and of other persons in presenting those life-events ... which is decisive in this person being "gay" and that person being "straight."

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                          • I Ilion

                            Over-all, an excellent post.

                            Edmundisme wrote:

                            Are you quiet certain that sexual orientation is a choice? I'm heterosexual, but I don't recall ever making that choice. At some point, I started to become very aware of women. They became tantalizing to me. I cannot fathom that you or I make choices about what we find attractive.

                            But here (at the very beginning) we get into a bit of confusion ... some of it intentionally fostered by the "gay lobby." The particular confusion I have in mind at the moment is the common confusion around the terms "sexual orientation" and/or "sexual preference" (and the long-term attempt to decree "sexual preference" an invalid concept). Also, I have in mind the false dichotomy set up (often intentionally and disingenuously) by asking things like "Do you believe that homosexuality is *a* choice or is it biological?" (As, for instance, here[^]) The correct understanding is choices. It is a multiplicity of choices ... both of the individual person in reacting to his/her life-events and of other persons in presenting those life-events ... which is decisive in this person being "gay" and that person being "straight."

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                            • I Ilion

                              Over-all, an excellent post.

                              Edmundisme wrote:

                              Are you quiet certain that sexual orientation is a choice? I'm heterosexual, but I don't recall ever making that choice. At some point, I started to become very aware of women. They became tantalizing to me. I cannot fathom that you or I make choices about what we find attractive.

                              But here (at the very beginning) we get into a bit of confusion ... some of it intentionally fostered by the "gay lobby." The particular confusion I have in mind at the moment is the common confusion around the terms "sexual orientation" and/or "sexual preference" (and the long-term attempt to decree "sexual preference" an invalid concept). Also, I have in mind the false dichotomy set up (often intentionally and disingenuously) by asking things like "Do you believe that homosexuality is *a* choice or is it biological?" (As, for instance, here[^]) The correct understanding is choices. It is a multiplicity of choices ... both of the individual person in reacting to his/her life-events and of other persons in presenting those life-events ... which is decisive in this person being "gay" and that person being "straight."

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                              • I Ilion

                                Over-all, an excellent post.

                                Edmundisme wrote:

                                Are you quiet certain that sexual orientation is a choice? I'm heterosexual, but I don't recall ever making that choice. At some point, I started to become very aware of women. They became tantalizing to me. I cannot fathom that you or I make choices about what we find attractive.

                                But here (at the very beginning) we get into a bit of confusion ... some of it intentionally fostered by the "gay lobby." The particular confusion I have in mind at the moment is the common confusion around the terms "sexual orientation" and/or "sexual preference" (and the long-term attempt to decree "sexual preference" an invalid concept). Also, I have in mind the false dichotomy set up (often intentionally and disingenuously) by asking things like "Do you believe that homosexuality is *a* choice or is it biological?" (As, for instance, here[^]) The correct understanding is choices. It is a multiplicity of choices ... both of the individual person in reacting to his/her life-events and of other persons in presenting those life-events ... which is decisive in this person being "gay" and that person being "straight."

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                                • I Ilion

                                  Over-all, an excellent post.

                                  Edmundisme wrote:

                                  Are you quiet certain that sexual orientation is a choice? I'm heterosexual, but I don't recall ever making that choice. At some point, I started to become very aware of women. They became tantalizing to me. I cannot fathom that you or I make choices about what we find attractive.

                                  But here (at the very beginning) we get into a bit of confusion ... some of it intentionally fostered by the "gay lobby." The particular confusion I have in mind at the moment is the common confusion around the terms "sexual orientation" and/or "sexual preference" (and the long-term attempt to decree "sexual preference" an invalid concept). Also, I have in mind the false dichotomy set up (often intentionally and disingenuously) by asking things like "Do you believe that homosexuality is *a* choice or is it biological?" (As, for instance, here[^]) The correct understanding is choices. It is a multiplicity of choices ... both of the individual person in reacting to his/her life-events and of other persons in presenting those life-events ... which is decisive in this person being "gay" and that person being "straight."

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                                  • I Ilion

                                    Over-all, an excellent post.

                                    Edmundisme wrote:

                                    Are you quiet certain that sexual orientation is a choice? I'm heterosexual, but I don't recall ever making that choice. At some point, I started to become very aware of women. They became tantalizing to me. I cannot fathom that you or I make choices about what we find attractive.

                                    But here (at the very beginning) we get into a bit of confusion ... some of it intentionally fostered by the "gay lobby." The particular confusion I have in mind at the moment is the common confusion around the terms "sexual orientation" and/or "sexual preference" (and the long-term attempt to decree "sexual preference" an invalid concept). Also, I have in mind the false dichotomy set up (often intentionally and disingenuously) by asking things like "Do you believe that homosexuality is *a* choice or is it biological?" (As, for instance, here[^]) The correct understanding is choices. It is a multiplicity of choices ... both of the individual person in reacting to his/her life-events and of other persons in presenting those life-events ... which is decisive in this person being "gay" and that person being "straight."

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                                    • I Ilion

                                      Over-all, an excellent post.

                                      Edmundisme wrote:

                                      Are you quiet certain that sexual orientation is a choice? I'm heterosexual, but I don't recall ever making that choice. At some point, I started to become very aware of women. They became tantalizing to me. I cannot fathom that you or I make choices about what we find attractive.

                                      But here (at the very beginning) we get into a bit of confusion ... some of it intentionally fostered by the "gay lobby." The particular confusion I have in mind at the moment is the common confusion around the terms "sexual orientation" and/or "sexual preference" (and the long-term attempt to decree "sexual preference" an invalid concept). Also, I have in mind the false dichotomy set up (often intentionally and disingenuously) by asking things like "Do you believe that homosexuality is *a* choice or is it biological?" (As, for instance, here[^]) The correct understanding is choices. It is a multiplicity of choices ... both of the individual person in reacting to his/her life-events and of other persons in presenting those life-events ... which is decisive in this person being "gay" and that person being "straight."

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                                        Over-all, an excellent post.

                                        Edmundisme wrote:

                                        Are you quiet certain that sexual orientation is a choice? I'm heterosexual, but I don't recall ever making that choice. At some point, I started to become very aware of women. They became tantalizing to me. I cannot fathom that you or I make choices about what we find attractive.

                                        But here (at the very beginning) we get into a bit of confusion ... some of it intentionally fostered by the "gay lobby." The particular confusion I have in mind at the moment is the common confusion around the terms "sexual orientation" and/or "sexual preference" (and the long-term attempt to decree "sexual preference" an invalid concept). Also, I have in mind the false dichotomy set up (often intentionally and disingenuously) by asking things like "Do you believe that homosexuality is *a* choice or is it biological?" (As, for instance, here[^]) The correct understanding is choices. It is a multiplicity of choices ... both of the individual person in reacting to his/her life-events and of other persons in presenting those life-events ... which is decisive in this person being "gay" and that person being "straight."

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                                          Over-all, an excellent post.

                                          Edmundisme wrote:

                                          Are you quiet certain that sexual orientation is a choice? I'm heterosexual, but I don't recall ever making that choice. At some point, I started to become very aware of women. They became tantalizing to me. I cannot fathom that you or I make choices about what we find attractive.

                                          But here (at the very beginning) we get into a bit of confusion ... some of it intentionally fostered by the "gay lobby." The particular confusion I have in mind at the moment is the common confusion around the terms "sexual orientation" and/or "sexual preference" (and the long-term attempt to decree "sexual preference" an invalid concept). Also, I have in mind the false dichotomy set up (often intentionally and disingenuously) by asking things like "Do you believe that homosexuality is *a* choice or is it biological?" (As, for instance, here[^]) The correct understanding is choices. It is a multiplicity of choices ... both of the individual person in reacting to his/her life-events and of other persons in presenting those life-events ... which is decisive in this person being "gay" and that person being "straight."

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