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RickJB
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Message 106 of 108 (335392)
07-26-2006 7:44 AM
Reply to: Message 101 by LinearAq
07-26-2006 6:35 AM


Re: Mind reading not necessary
linearAq writes:
No one cares what they think as long as they are not allowed to express it publicly. We could remove all the temples, mosques, and gay bars. We could make illegal any expression favorable to those anti-God ideas.
Perhaps we could even recruit ordinary citizens to help police this problem by teaching in our public schools techniques for recogizing the tell-tale signs of secret offenders.
Switch "mosques" for "churches" and you have Saudi Arabia.

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LinearAq
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From: Pocomoke City, MD
Joined: 11-03-2004


Message 107 of 108 (335396)
07-26-2006 7:59 AM
Reply to: Message 89 by Faith
07-25-2006 7:34 PM


Re: not religious?
Sorry, I forgot to address this point.
Faith writes:
But back to the other hand, this isn't a theocracy and Christians are supposed to be pilgrims and strangers in a strange land, citizens of another country, and the church always prospers under persecution.
That doesn't prevent Christians from decrying sin and this nation's complicity in it from the pulpit. Why are the Christian leaders strangely silent about this huge sin problem?
Whenever, I hear a Christian leader rail about the sin of homosexuality and the public's apathy about it, I almost always hear him/her say that the pulpits of America should preach against this sin and call for restrictions on homosexuals. Yet, no public Christian leader calls for restrictions on worshiping other gods.
What is the difference between the two?
Isn't worshiping other gods the bigger problem? If we were all required by law to worship Jesus, wouldn't this problem of homosexuality simply go away on its own?
Why are the Christians calling for a Constitutional ammendment to restrict marriage to their concept of it but not calling for an ammendment to restrict worship?
Doesn't this silence and lack of political activity imply complicity in this sin on the part of our Christian leaders?
There has to be something I don't understand here.
Edited by LinearAq, : Changed "Gods" to "gods" out of respect to the one true God

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happy_atheist
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Message 108 of 108 (335461)
07-26-2006 12:34 PM
Reply to: Message 95 by Alasdair
07-26-2006 2:54 AM


Alasdair writes:
I think what you mean that in the same sense, allowing people to be Hindu is a legal acknowledge, acceptance, blah blah blah of something immoral.
Hindus marrying doesn't go against Biblical morality. Homosexual marriage does. Hinduism does. Not people marrying who happen to be Hindus.
I certainly see your point. And yes, if Hindus got married using a Christian ceremony then it wouldn't be immoral. But Hindu marriages have Hindu content, with all the worshipping of other gods that that entails. That aspect of it is what I would expect to be considered immoral...
But changing the argument to include Hinduism in general certainly doesn't change anything. If that would makes things easier to discuss then I have no problem with that at all.
Edited by happy_atheist, : Wrote the wrong name in the quote...appologies

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